Mangalore crash: Kerala High Court stays Rs. 75 lakh compensation to victims' kin!

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NDTV Correspondent / Updated: August 25, 2011 15:32 IST.

Thiruvananthapuram:  In a setback for families of victims of last year's Mangalore air crash, a division bench of the Kerala High Court today overruled a single judge bench order asking air India to pay Rs. 75 lakh as minimum compensation to families of victims.

Last month, the single judge bench had ruled that Air India is liable to pay 'no fault liability' of Rs. 75 lakh to each of the victims as laid down in the Montreal convention to which India is a signatory.

One hundred fifty eight people had died in the air crash on May 22 last year.

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Rescuers sue Ohio woman saved from flaming vehicle!

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MARION, Ohio (AP) -- Two Ohio men honored as heroes for their actions after a 2009 car crash are now suing the woman they rescued from a burning vehicle.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the suit filed in central Ohio's Marion County by David Kelley and Mark Kincaid claims Theresa Tanner was at fault and that saving her left the men with disabling injuries. They're each seeking upwards of $25,000 in damages.

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PLANE-CRASH: Air India to pay Rs.75 Lakh to Mangalore crash victims!

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Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: July 20, 2011 13:51 IST.

Kochi:  The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year.

The direction was made by Justice P.R. Ramachandran Menon following a petition by the family of Mohammed Rafi, who died in the May 18 crash. The court directed Air India to pay the interim compensation in a month's time.

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US judge awards $4.6mn payout for botched circumcision!

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• July 19, 2011 
• AFP 
• Los Angeles / DC.

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• A US judge on Monday approved a $4.6 million compensation payment for a boy who had the end of his penis removed in a botched circumcision shortly after birth.
  The boy, who is now eight, underwent the operation when he was week-old baby in January 2003 at the Maternity Centre of Vermont in Los Angeles, and still needs counselling to deal with the trauma, court papers said.
  Surgeon Anthony Pickett used a clamp for the routine operation to remove the boy's foreskin, but mistakenly cut off the top of the penis due to the faulty design of a clamp used during the procedure.

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ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT: Forest clearance no license for forcible land acquisition: Jairam!

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Villagers block government officials from inspecting the site of a steel plant proposed by South Korea's POSCO Kujanga block of the Jagatsinghpur district on Saturday - Special Correspondent.

Amid protests by locals against land acquisition for Posco’s steel plant in Orissa’s Govindpur village, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday asked the state government not to use environmental clearance for the project as a “license for forcible acquisition of land“.

“The Posco steel-cum-power-cum-port project in Odisha was given environment and forest clearance by the Ministry of Environment and Forests after a great deal of thought and a careful balancing of various factors.

“However, I hope that the state government will not use this clearance as a license for forcible acquisition of land,” Mr. Ramesh said in a statement.

He said the “intent” and “purpose” of the environmental clearance was not to allow forcible acquisition of land.

“I have often said that environment and forest clearance process should not be used to fight other battles that have to do with important issues like land acquisition, compensation and livelihoods...I appeal to the Odisha government to ensure that land is acquired only through peaceful and law-governed means,” the Union Minister said.

Mr. Ramesh,

This is your response to the ongoing forceful land acquisition by the State government of Orissa, for and on behalf of POSCO Steel & Power project!

Hope your final stand on Nagarjuna Construction Company's proposed 1320 MW thermal power plant, where the Congress government is sending security forces to help N.C.C. to acquire 1500 Acres of wetland that has water throughout the year, including 1000 acres of  Beela wetland, threatening the livelihood of three lakh people and rich biodiversity that this supports, would go by your above spirit.

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WORKPLACE HARASSMENT: US$95m in largest sex harassment payout!

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• June 11, 2011 
• ANI 
• London / D.C..

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• A woman, who was hit on the head by her boss’ penis, has been awarded $95 million as compensation in a sexual harassment case against her former employers, and it is believed to be the highest payout ever in America.
  Ashley Alford, who is in her mid 20s, won the award from her former employers, Aaron’s of St Louis, after a manager in the furniture and electrical store allegedly attacked her in a stockroom.
  Prosecutors alleged Richard Moore, who is still awaiting trial, would pinch Alford and make inappropriate comments before the 2006 attack.
  While this would be paid by her former employers, Aaron’s of St Louis, the crazy-man would have to do time of long-periods in a US Federal penitentiary. 

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