Friday, December 31, 2010

5 Indians charged with using fake casino chips in Singapore

5 Indians charged with using fake casino chips in Singapore

5 Indians charged with using fake casino chips in Singapore

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:50 PM PST

A court in Singapore has framed charges against five Indians for allegedly using fake casino chips at a resort in the city state, local media reported on Saturday.

Climate to blame for cuppa losing cheer?

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:39 PM PST

Tea growers in northeastern India say climate change has hurt the country's tea crop, leading not just to a drop in production but also subtly altering the flavour of their brew.

Did not decline to meet Modi on Gujarat visit: V Ramakrishnan

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:18 PM PST

Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan sent this clarification with regard to a report in TOI that he refused to meet Gujarat CM Narendra Modi during his two-day visit to Vadodara.

Jairam revokes charges against forest service whistleblower

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:12 PM PST

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday revoked the fabricated chargesheet against Sanjiv Chaturvedi, bringing an end to the five years of harassment and victimization by the Haryana government of the young Indian Forest Service official.

What'll we do with all these engineers? PM's adviser

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:02 PM PST

A top science advisor to the Prime Minister on Friday made known his displeasure over the government's announcement that would substantially increase intake in engineering colleges at a time when he believes the number of admissions are already high.

Peace offering? BSY to meet governor once every fortnight

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:49 PM PST

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's effort to make peace with governor H R Bhardwaj on Friday seems to have worked, but the thorny Reddy issue seemed to remain a matter of contention.

SC must demonstrate will to correct itself

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:43 PM PST

This year saw a change in guard — Chief K G Justice Balakrishnan retired in May 2010 after a relatively long term spanning three-and-half years as compared to nine months of Chief Justice Verma, and less than two years of his immediate predecessors (except Justice Anand).

JPC or logjam, insists opposition

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:41 PM PST

The opposition on Friday stuck to its demand for a JPC into the 2G spectrum allocation issue as the meeting called by Speaker Meira Kumar with political parties over two days failed to extract any commitment to end blockade in the Budget session of Parliament.

Tata funds research exploring use of water as auto fuel

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:39 PM PST

India's top industrialist Ratan Tata has funded a research project in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to use hydrogen from water as an alternative fuel to drive cars, an eminent scientist said on Friday.

'Binayak Sen's patients will suffer'

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:36 PM PST

"The life term to Binayak will hamper health services to the poor tribals in Raipur," said Binayak's wife IIlena Sen. "The same thing had happened during his arrest in 2008," added his ageing mother, Anasua Sen.

Woman booked for abetting Himachal officer's suicide

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:35 PM PST

A Himachal Administrative Service officer allegedly committed suicide at his official residence in the city on Thursday.

Ulfa gen secy to be handed over to India

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST

Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia, currently in custody in Bangladesh, is likely to be handed over to India within the next couple of months.

Now, only Pak & China nationals need special permits to visit NE

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

Foreigners, excluding Pakistani and Chinese, visiting India on valid visa will not have to take special permit to travel to Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland from January 1 as government has scrapped the provision to boost tourism in these northeastern states, beginning New Year.

Govt moves to strip Bar council of education role

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:29 PM PST

The UPA government is keen to bring in a new legislation to set up a National Commission for Higher Legal Education and Research, which will take over the traditional role of Bar Council of India as the body to grant recognition to law colleges and specify the academic curriculum.

Chidambaram, Buddha locked in war of words

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:26 PM PST

Union home minister P Chidambaram has stated that the incidents of violence in the state are "alarming" and that is why he had mentioned that the figures point to "virtual collapse of law and order in parts of West Bengal".

Iranian filmmaker's arrest triggers protest in Gorakhpur

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:23 PM PST

A court verdict in Tehran has triggered protest among serious-cinema lovers in Gorakhpur. Last week renowned Iranian film director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail and banned from making movies for 20 years.

Nityananda video fabricated: Ranjitha

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:16 PM PST

Actress Ranjitha on Friday claimed she was not the woman in the sleazy video involving Swami Nityananda.

The foggy lingo of taxes on air tickets

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:40 PM PST

Ever wondered what fees like JN, WO, YQ and XT on your air ticket mean, and why, added to the base fare, they send your airfare streaking into stratosphere.

Cutomized DoB: Moms-to-be opting for New Year babies

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:32 PM PST

Move over superstition. Here comes customized birth dates. Or precisely, 1.1.11. Or — for that matter — 10.10.10. Indians in this part of the globe have got over the astrologers diktat to go in for attractive birth-dates for their bundle of joy.

Quiz Lalit Modi over video, law ministry tells I-T

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:25 PM PST

In a controversial response that may be perceived as taking the side of an accused, the ministry has also asked the I-T authorities not to insist on deportation of the former IPL commissioner from London, where he is currently holed up.

3,000 tourists stranded for 12 hrs near Manali

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST

It was definitely not a good New Year's eve for around 3,000 tourists traveling in 400 cars to Manali to ring in 2011.

CRPF rescues 39 from Jammu-Srinagar highway

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:14 PM PST

The CRPF on Thursday night rescued 39 people stranded near the Jawahar tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway which remained closed for the second day on Friday due to heavy snowfall.

On 2G, NDA has nothing to declare?

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:11 PM PST

If UPA 2 has sought to deflect the 2G heat towards NDA's handling of telecom policy, PMO's cupboards may prove to be pretty bare. The 1999-2004 record does not cast much light on events during the NDA tenure.

Rape accused BSP MLA sacked from party post

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:56 PM PST

A fortnight after Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi, the ruling party MLA from Naraini in Banda district, got a Dalit minor Neelu Nishad (name changed) jailed allegedly on a cooked up charge of theft, the BSP sacked him from the post of party coordinator on Friday.

For Congress, Joshi a Galahad who can save UPA the blushes

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:56 PM PST

At a recent meeting of the PAC, held under the shadow of a controversy over BJP veteran M M Joshi defying his party on a JPC on the 2G scam, the leader was at his solemn best.
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