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Raed Jaser

Mike Faille/National PostRaed Jaser

Raed Jaser appears in court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in this artist's sketch. Jaser and Chehib Esseghaier were arrested and charged Monday in what the RCMP said was the first-known al-Qaida terror plot in Canada.

Raed Jaser, 35, arrested in Canada train terror plot, was earlier convicted of threatening death in 2001, receiving a sentence of two years’ probation and a $1,000 fine, but recently received — a pardon.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/23/toronto-terrorism-suspect-raed-jaser-had-2001-death-threat-conviction-pardoned/

Mr Jaser is understood to be a United Arab Emirates national of Palestinian origin, though his lawyer points out he is a permanent Canadian resident who has lived there 20 years. Mr Jaser reportedly worked as a customer service agent at a removal firm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22269639

Chiheb Esseghaier

Thought of Tunisian origin, he was studying at National Institute for Scientific Research near Montreal for a doctorate degree. He is one of the suspect in Canada train derailment plot and has said that charges against him were unfair and declined to be represented by a court appointed lawyer.

Al Qaeda Plot to derail Canadian Train

CBC.CA

Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman gives announces arrest of two suspects with links to Al Qaeda attempting to attack VIA train.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-canada-terror-attack-foiled-article-1.1324305#ixzz2RLoAt4R2

Charges against the two accused Esseghaier and Jaser are to conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of , at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.

Royal Canadian Mounted Force

A mounted force, colloquially call mounties, is a unique police force of the world which is national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body. it provides provides policing service to all of Canada Mounted means seated or serving on a horse back

Canada Train Plot

WIKIPEDIA

Canadian law enforcement officials announced Monday that they had stopped an al-Qaeda-linked plot to derail a New York-to-Toronto VIA passenger train, and have arrested two suspects in Montreal and Toronto.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-canada-terror-attack-foiled-article-1.1324305#ixzz2RLhkz8E2

Justice J.S. Verma

Justice J S Verma , former chief Justice of India,Chairman of National Human Rights Commission passed away at 80. He submitted recommendations on legal reforms to deal with sexual assaults within record 29 days, when he was appointed chairman of three member committee.

National Policy on Skill Development

National Policy on Skill Development (NPSD) approved by the Government has set a target of skilling 500 million persons by the year 2022. Ministry of Labour and Employment has been mandated to train 100 million

The road map for achieving the target of 100 million is as under:

1. The seating capacity of Government and Private ITIs will be increased at the rate of 8% annually by opening new ITIs and running second and third shifts.

2. 1500 new ITIs under PPP mode are proposed to be opened in XII Plan period.

3. The seating capacity under ATS is planned to be increased at the rate of 5% annually by increasing the coverage of industries.

4. 5000 Skill Development Centres (SDCs) are proposed to be set up in XII Plan (2012-2017) period in PPP mode. Thereafter, another 5000 SDCs will be set up.

5. Existing capacity of DGE&T institutes would be increased at the rate of 5% annually.

6. 1 million persons will be trained and tested every year under SDI scheme.

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