Tuesday, March 1, 2011

No differences with Pranab, says Chidambaram

No differences with Pranab, says Chidambaram

No differences with Pranab, says Chidambaram

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:49 PM PST

Home minister P Chidambaram has denied that there are differences between him and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

SGPC meets PC to seek justice for Hondh Chillar victims

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:20 PM PST

A six-member delegation of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) led by president Avtar Singh Makkar met home minister P Chidambram in Delhi on Tuesday to urge him to bring the perpetrators of Hond Chillar pogrom of Sikhs to book.

2,700 permits to be issued to pvt bus operators by next month

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PST

A total of 2,700 permits will be issued to private bus operators by next month under the new transport policy.

20 peacocks found dead in Hoshiarpur

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:18 PM PST

In a suspected case of poisoning, 20 peacocks were on Tuesday found dead in the fields of a village in the district, a wildlife official said.

Convert Rewari land into agricultural zone: FM

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:16 PM PST

A week after Haryana chief minister defended the state`s land acquisition policy, finance minister Ajay Singh Yadav on Tuesday reiterated his anti-acquisition demand saying the entire chunk of land in Dharuhera in Rewari should be converted into an agricultural zone.

Special kids counted a day after enumeration ends

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST

The special children at the only Residential Special School for the learning disabled, being run by the State Red Cross at Maqsoodan were enumerated on Tuesday, a day after the counting round ended, after the Punjab Disability Rights Group took up the matter with the authorities.

Convicts on death row not to be kept in solitary confinement: HC

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:13 PM PST

From now convicts facing death penalty and confined in various jails of Punjab, Haryana and UT, Chandigarh, will not be kept in solitary confinement.

New head of CII Amritsar Zone

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:11 PM PST

Suneet Kochhar and Kamal Dalmia have been elected as the new chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the CII Amritsar Zonal Council, for the year 2011-12 informed a CII press release on Tuesday.

HC spells respite for HJC defector MLAs

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:09 PM PST

In an important development, which could be termed as major respite for the five defector MLAs of Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), who had joined the ruling Congress soon after assembly elections, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed the carrying out of the orders of single bench of the high court that had directed the Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker to take a decision within four months on the appeal seeking disqualification of these MLAs from house.

Diagnostic centre raided, 2 arrested

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:07 PM PST

District health department along with police on Tuesday raided a medical lab and diagnostic centre and arrested its owner for allegedly carrying out sex determination tests.

Crackdown on land mafia; 9 held

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:06 PM PST

Cracking down on land mafia in Rohtak, police have arrested nine members of a gang that was involved in land grabbing cases.

'I was asked to confess at gunpoint'

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:05 PM PST

Terror of Punjab police`s torture is writ large on the face of Wasil Khan, 42, from Bihar as he narrates the spine-chilling brutal tactics, which were used allegedly by the Punjab Police to make him confess to being a Pakistani spy seven years back.

Family challenges man`s claim of being 'alive', call him 'impersonator'

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:04 PM PST

He was deemed dead for 15 long years before a court declared to be "alive". However, even after winning a 9-year-long legal battle to prove himself "alive", the claims of a retired warrant officer of IAF - seconded by a lower court - have been refused by his family, which still deems him "dead".

Gang involved in looting Pak traders busted, 4 held

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:02 PM PST

A gang of robbers, involved in looting three Pakistani businessmen two weeks ago, has been busted, with the arrest of four of its members on Monday evening.

India repatriates 20 Pak prisoners

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:01 PM PST

After having spent nearly four years in jail, Pakistani national Abdul Harnaz, 28, has realized that it is the politicians who support terrorists and create differences between the two nations, and not the common man.

India repatriates 20 Pak prisoners

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:01 PM PST

After having spent nearly four years in jail, Pakistani national Abdul Harnaz, 28, has realized that it is the politicians who support terrorists and create differences between the two nations, and not the common man.

Water, sewerage charges: Concession for defaulters

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PST

The Punjab government has given a concession to the public that if the defaulters of water bills and sewerage charges pay up within a month, they will not be charged arrears.

Fresh ultimatum from Somali pirates

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PST

Somali pirates who had hijacked MV Suez, a ship of Red Sea Navigation, in the Gulf of Aden have given five days` ultimatum for the life of six Indians and four Pakistani if they didn`t get a ransom amount of $ 2.3 million, said United Nations expert advisor on human rights Ansar Burney, who claims to be in touch with the pirates for the release of hostages.

Residents protest acquittal of woman, paramour in murder case

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:56 PM PST

The acquittal of a woman and one of her paramours by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who had allegedly killed her two children and had been awarded death sentence by a lower court created a furore in Moga on Monday.

Ramoowalia demands action against cheat NRI groom

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:54 PM PST

Concerned over no efforts being made to arrest a cheat groom, having duped a Mansa girl in the name of getting her to Canada after marriage, former union minister and Lok Bhalai Party chief Balwant Singh Ramoowalia on Tuesday sat on dharna at the district administrative complex.

Girlfriend charged with murder of Sikh TV chief in London

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:52 PM PST

A teenage girl has been charged with the murder of her wealthy Indian-origin TV executive boyfriend in a suspected love triangle in London.

Low interest may give big farmers re-lending power

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:50 PM PST

With agriculture credit now available at virtually 4% interest rate per annum, big farmers may avail the enhanced credit of around one lakh crore in the budget to re-lend it to the poor peasants and labourers at higher rates.

Elders outraged at Haryana's 'reservation' of jobs for males

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PST

Days after a TOI report highlighted the fact that Haryana has 67% "reservation" for males, the issue caused turmoil in the Rajya Sabha, with members expressing anguish over the "faulty" implementation of reservation policy.

Listen to organs talk: PGI's anatomy centre

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PST

What happens to your lungs when cigarettes become like "a friend" to you? How does your liver cope with too much of alcohol?

Karuna likely to contest from a rural seat

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PST

Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi is likely to contest from his birth place, Tiruvarur, in the coming assembly elections instead of Chepauk in Chennai, DMK sources said.
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