Friday, January 21, 2011

CWG: Sanjay Mohindroo moves court to surrender in graft case

CWG: Sanjay Mohindroo moves court to surrender in graft case

CWG: Sanjay Mohindroo moves court to surrender in graft case

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 06:09 PM PST

Commonwealth Games chief organizer Suresh Kalmadi slipped into deeper trouble with a former aide moving a city court to surrender in a graft case.

Tutor rapes minor for days, arrested

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST

A private high school teacher, who also used to tutor a minor girl, has been arrested on the charges of sexually exploiting the student for about a month.

Octroi abolition in Jalandhar Cantt gets nod

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:29 PM PST

Defence ministry has sent a letter to Jalandhar Cantonment Board, giving its nod to abolition of octroi in Jalandhar Cantonment area, while asking the Board to invite objections to the abolition, if any, in a month.This move would fulfill a long-pending demand of the area residents.

2 drug carriers held, contraband seized

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:27 PM PST

Exposing the lack of coordination between the police and health department, the supply of habit-forming drugs is continuing unabated in Punjab.

'Kitty party members brought to meet to show support'

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST

The 'tradition' of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) nominating office bearers, instead of holding elections, backfired in a meeting of Istri Akali Dal (women wing of SAD) when the party attempted to foist an allegedly unknown face to the post of new district president of the wing.

NRI family looted at gunpoint

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:24 PM PST

An NRI, who had landed at Delhi airport from Canada along with his family on Thursday late night, was looted in between Dhangar and Badopal villages of this district on Friday morning.

Amarinder turns the heat on CM over economic policies

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:23 PM PST

Addressing a gathering here, PPCC chief Amarinder Singh blasted the ruling combine saying that the CM had "mismanaged the economy of the state''.

Jat agitation heads for showdown

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:20 PM PST

The Jat agitation seems to be heading for a showdown as the situation remained fluid at the dharna spot on the railway tracks near Jind railway station on Friday after protesters rejected Haryana government's move for CBI probe into the Mirchpur caste violence.

Jeweller accused of murder held in Pune

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:19 PM PST

City police on Friday arrested a 28-year-old jeweller from Pune for murdering a Delhi-based gold and diamond trader in 2009.

SHO sent to police lines in gangrape case

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST

Four days after the orders of Punjab and Haryana High Court to initiate inquiry into the alleged gangrape of three women in police custody, the department concerned on Friday shifted accused SHO Sheetal Singh to police lines from Baldev Nagar police station here.

Two Tarn Taran villages to get Rs 1 lakh award for improving sex ratio

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:16 PM PST

Two panchayats of Bhagiari and Sarhali Khurd villages of Tarn Taran districts will be given awards of Rs 1 lakh each during a state-level function to be held at Nawanshahr on January 25 for improving the girl sex ratio in their villages.

Man kills daughter, flees

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:15 PM PST

Angry over the birth of a girl, a migrant from Uttar Pradesh killed his three-day-old daughter on Friday morning at his rented flat in Ajit Nagar area of Sangrur.

Man shoots wife after quarrel

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:14 PM PST

A man shot dead his wife after an altercation late on Thursday here in Onkar Nagar locality. The police said the deceased suspected the character of her husband and this led to the quarrel.

No account of `58.7L in NCC records

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:11 PM PST

A scam involving several lakh rupees has come to light at the district headquarters of National Cadet Corps in Patiala.

Verdict too lenient, say some lawyers

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST

Supreme Court's decision rejecting CBI's plea for death penalty to Dara Singh drew mixed reactions from the legal fraternity on Friday.

Dara Singh says his conscience is clear

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:59 PM PST

Far away in Keonjhar district jail, Dara Singh on Friday showed no visible reaction to the Supreme Court verdict upholding life imprisonment in the Staines murder case.

Lower crime rate merely a pointer to weak policing?

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:48 PM PST

Lies, damned lies and statistics. That would describe most parts of the official crime data of the country.

NAC seeks inclusion of SCs/STs in ambit of food security law

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:46 PM PST

National Advisory Council has asked the government to provide highest priority to the inclusion of SC/ST families among beneficiaries of the proposed food security legislation.

Govt: Law to decide on Chinese 'spies'

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:25 PM PST

India has told China that the law will take its course with its three nationals who were caught taking pictures of vital installations and carrying Indian PAN cards along the India-Nepal border.

'20 yrs hence, no one will remember Millennium Trilogy'

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:10 PM PST

There is one abiding irony of classic crime fiction: their writers are in as big a rush to retire/bump off their detectives as their manic followers are to read the next case.

'I re-write the past as if it lives today'

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:08 PM PST

"I believe in re-writing the past in such a way that it lives in the streets today" said Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

Kiran Desai, Pamuk pull out of Sri Lanka literature festival

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:02 PM PST

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and fellow writer Kiran Desai have pulled out of Sri Lanka's main literary festival following pressure from press freedom groups.

IIT council rejects fee-hike proposal

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:57 PM PST

The Council of the Indian Institutes of Technology - the top decision-making body for the institutions - has not agreed with the recommendation of the Anil Kakodkar committee for a big fee hike.

Snowfall forecast, carnival organizers go to Hadimba's shelter

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:28 PM PST

Concerned over the forecast of meteorological department, Manali winter carnival committee has arrived in temple's shelter to prevent snowfall and rain to ruin the biggest event of tourist resort.

Kangra ZP election postponed

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:26 PM PST

The election for the post of zila parishad chairman of Kangra district was postponed due to lack of quorum here on Friday.
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