Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Pitroda stumped, Rahul to the rescue

Pitroda stumped, Rahul to the rescue

Pitroda stumped, Rahul to the rescue

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:57 PM PDT

It was a role-reversal Sam Pitroda, India's telecommunication czar and close associate of Rajiv Gandhi, was probably not prepared for.

Sisters halt MP's car, narrate their woes

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:55 PM PDT

On a tour of his parliamentary constituency, Rahul Gandhi's vehicle was stopped on Wednesday by two girls who came all the way from Lucknow to narrate their woes to the Congress leader.

Judge sets record, 148 cases decided in a day

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:45 PM PDT

It's only recently when a civil judge in Guntur scored a Nelson, deciding 111 cases in one day. Now a civil judge in Haryana has bettered the Guntur judge's record and created a new benchmark.

LS lost 45 hours, RS 35 to frequent disruptions

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:37 PM PDT

The just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament lost significant amount of time due to disruptions but both the Houses compensated the loss to a certain extent by sitting late and also extending the session by two days.

No Chinese troops in PoK: Pak envoy

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Rejecting as "fabricated" reports of presence of up to 11,000 Chinese troops in PoK's Gilgit-Baltistan area, Pakistan's envoy here has claimed that only a "humanitarian team" from China was in the region to assist the flood victims.

HC raps 2 rail board members for 'sabotaging' train project in Valley

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:20 PM PDT

Setting a new benchmark for participatory governance, the Delhi HC rapped two railway board members for "preventing" their minister Mamata Banerjee from considering rival viewpoints on how to salvage the eight-year-old project of linking Kashmir valley to the rest of the country.

Workers run riot on Vedanta premises

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:13 PM PDT

Trouble continues to plague Vedanta Aluminium Limited's (VAL) project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.

Forest officials mute spectators

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:12 PM PDT

When the NC Saxena committee report on Vedanta project in Kalahandi district was placed before the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), it expressed surprise over the move to mine Niyamgiri hills.

'Armed camps exist in Bengal'

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:10 PM PDT

The Centre said it had information about the existence of several armed camps in the state and cadres of these camps roaming around with weapons and hoped that the state government would take necessary action to rein them in.

'Withdrawing bill a tactical retreat'

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

A day after HRD minister Kapil Sibal was forced to defer a key bill on education tribunals in Rajya Sabha, govt managers vehemently fended off the charge that poor floor coordination was a reason for UPA-2 losing face dramatically in the House.

APL need to get subsidized food too?

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:59 PM PDT

The SC commissioners and the UPA government don't seem to see eye to eye on anything in the food case except one — continuation of the public distribution of cards to those living above the poverty line (APL).

Now, malware bugs users on CAT site

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:56 PM PDT

Common Admission Test 2010 aspirants received a scare when they visited the official site www.catiim.in on Wednesday night as they found the portal hosting malware files.

A few 'missing' Emergency files found, says NAI

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Some documents and records pertaining to the proclamation of Emergency in 1975, which were earlier said to be missing, have suddenly resurfaced.

Stone-pelting mob attacks J&K police vehicle, 17 hurt

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:47 PM PDT

At least 17 policemen were injured when a stone-pelting mob attacked their vehicle in curfew-bound Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Wednesday.

Now, an educational reality show for kids

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:41 PM PDT

In perhaps a first of its kind attempt, the department's technology arm it@school has announced holding of a 75-episode reality show on its education TV channel VICTERS.
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