Saturday, July 30, 2011

Yeddyurappa sends resignation to Gadkari, to meet governor

Yeddyurappa sends resignation to Gadkari, to meet governor

Yeddyurappa sends resignation to Gadkari, to meet governor

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:19 PM PDT

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today sent his resignation to BJP President Nitin Gadkari and expressed his full support to the party.

Charity from mining co haunts BSY trust

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 06:03 PM PDT

There's an eerie silence at the Prerana Trust headed by Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, which runs an engineering college at Guddadanellikere on the outskirts of Shimoga.

Manali to emerge as historic village soon

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Efforts to present Manali town as a historic village has been stepped up by the government. Away from the charm of big cities, Manali has approved to reinvent itself in the form of a beautiful village.

WWF's programme to sensitize youth about value of forests launched

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:18 PM PDT

State director of WWF-India Vandana Thaplyal said, "2011 has been declared as the International Year of Forests by the UN with an aim to raise awareness towards conservation of forests and strengthen efforts for their sustainable management.

Congress protest continues to support aggrieved landowners

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:17 PM PDT

Continuing with its opposition to the forced land acquisition for power plant, Congress kept on protesting against repressing the voice of aggrieved landowners.

Nabha jail held guilty for custodial death of inmate

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:16 PM PDT

Authorities at maximum security jail, Nabha in Patiala were held guilty for the custodial death of a 23-year-old jail inmate Mandeep Singh.

Agitators lift blockade of railway track following acceptance of demands

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT

People, who were angry over Thursday's road accident that led to three persons losing their lives, lifted their blockade of the railway track after their demands were accepted.

Indian girl murdered for dowry in Surrey

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:13 PM PDT

The murder of young girl in Surrey has shocked entire town. The parents of deceased Ravinder Kaur stay in Dalima Vihar of the city and were expecting a visit from their daughter in coming months.

Mistakes in result on Kuruskshetra University's website vexes students

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:11 PM PDT

A technical error in the result of the BA part-I result that was uploaded on the University's website and came to light on Saturday created problems for thousands of students.

Stalin detained briefly, DMK leaders face the heat in land-grab cases

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT

The standoff between the government and the opposition DMK on issues such as land grabbing and the uniform school syllabus took an unpleasant turn on Saturday with the police arresting the party's Salem strongman Veerapandi S Arumugam and some other party functionaries, sparking off violence in parts of Tamil Nadu.

'Yeddyurappa will be sacked if he fails to quit'

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:04 PM PDT

The BJP, which in 2008 took pride in having installed its first government in south India, is now prepared to let it go rather than meet the "irrational demands" of chief minister BS Yeddyurappa.

HC's Kalmadi attitude draws Somnath flak

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:02 PM PDT

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday said the attitude of the Delhi high court over the plea of jailed MP Suresh Kalmadi to attend proceedings of Lok Sabha were "not conducive to strengthening of Parliamentary democracy".

Don't implement fatwas by force, says Darul Uloom

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Darul Uloom Deoband has said that fatwas issued by the seminary are meant for guidance and should not be enforced forcibly.

Ministers' discretionary powers face axe in war on graft: Pranab

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:33 PM PDT

In a radical blueprint to tackle corruption, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee disclosed on Saturday that a wide range of discretionary powers enjoyed by ministers at the Centre are being abolished.

Italian job: Info stolen from Moscow embassy

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:31 PM PDT

Sensitive defence information appears to have been stolen from the Indian embassy here by an Italian intelligence agency during the past two years, according to a media report.

Dismiss 26/11 case, ISI tells US court

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 02:29 PM PDT

Kevin Walsh, the lawyer, asked for the case to be thrown out warning of its negative consequences and potential to fuel violence and extremism, the New York Post reported.

Beggars turn bidders at property auction in Puducherry

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:59 PM PDT

Three beggars took officials and influential local bidders by surprise when they walked into the commune panchayat office at Thirunallar in Puducherry on Friday.

SBI will keep tabs on 'corrupt' rural agents

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:55 PM PDT

State Bank of India has asked its chief general managers to keep close tabs on the functioning of business correspondents, who accept deposits and process withdrawals for customers in poorly banked areas.

'Yoga guru' swindles European women

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:51 PM PDT

Two young European women got lured by the promise of becoming yoga gurus only to be taken for a royal ride for which they paid 1,450 euro each.

Panel proposes 50 knowledge hubs in 3 categories

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT

The blueprint for establishing 50 research parks - for promoting wealth creation through knowledge sector - in academic and research institutions in the country proposes to have three kinds of facilities based on different kinds of financial model.

NHAI project to fetch Rs 32,000cr premium

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:19 PM PDT

The government has got itself a Rs 32,000-crore bonanza from the award of the largest-ever highway contract.

US thinktank raises concerns over Pak nuke threat to India

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:58 PM PDT

A CRS report says that the growing asymmetry in Indo-Pak conventional military capabilities could lead Islamabad to lower the threshold for using N-weapons.

Reddys, their ilk reaped windfall in Bellary in 2008-09

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Karnataka chief minister BS Yeduyurappa can blame his downfall on the windfall reaped by mining companies owned by the Reddys.

MHA clean chit to J&K interlocutor on attending Ghulam Nabi Fai's summit

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT

MM Ansari's recent barb against fellow member Dileep Padgaonkar over the latter's participation in a seminar on invitation of the US-based Kashmiri separatist has not gone down well with the home ministry.

Pak using fake notes to fund terror, India to raise issue at global forum

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT

India will in October approach a global inter-governmental body - Financial Action Task Force - asking it to treat the issue of 'fake currency notes' as an instrument of 'terror funding'.
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