Monday, April 23, 2012

Chhattisgarh collector's abduction: Prashant Bhushan refuses to mediate

Chhattisgarh collector's abduction: Prashant Bhushan refuses to mediate

Chhattisgarh collector's abduction: Prashant Bhushan refuses to mediate

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Supreme Court lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday appealed to Maoists to free abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon.

Chhattisgarh collector's abduction: Prashant Bhushan refuses to mediate

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Supreme Court lawyer and Team Anna memebr Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday appealed to Maoists to free abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon.

Karnataka farmer hangs self, protests erupt

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:24 PM PDT

A sugarcane farmer Shekar hanged himself on Saturday as his produce, to be shipped to a sugar factory in Nanjangud, was withering away in the summer heat.

Don’t vote for Congress, Maharashtra farmer says in suicide note

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:23 PM PDT

A farmer who committed suicide in Yavatmal district has left behind a note in which he purportedly asked people not to vote for the Congress and NCP as the ruling alliance partners don't "care" about farmers.

Sajjan, cops part of terrifying conspiracy: CBI

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:57 PM PDT

The CBI on Monday told a trial court that Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and Delhi police were involved in a conspiracy of "terrifying proportions" during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the agency had statements of witnesses to back its claim.

2 students kidnap, kill 14-year-old boy

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:19 PM PDT

Haryana police on Monday arrested two undergraduate students for kidnapping a 14-year-old boy for ransom and then killing him.

Tarn Taran gatka team breaks Guinness record

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:18 PM PDT

A gatka team from this small town has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records with its feat of breaking 59 coconuts in a minute.

Punjab makes law to check canal water theft more punitive

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:17 PM PDT

The Punjab cabinet on Monday made the laws regarding water theft from canals far more stringent than they are now.It also decided to make recruitment to Punjab Civil Services and allied services mandatory every year.

PCS exam results hanging fire even after 6 months

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:16 PM PDT

PPSC started the recruitment process in December 2009, nine years after last PCS direct recruitment of 2001.But it postponed prelims and main exams many times.

Amritsar youth form group, protest cruelty to children in Uganda

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:15 PM PDT

Mahir said the group aimed at strengthening 'Stop Koney' movement and bring awareness against the gruesome cruelty and killing of children in Uganda by Koney's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Edited 'Conman' at rubble site

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:15 PM PDT

Amid the big tragedy of at least 23 poor workers in the blanket manufacturing unit of Shital Vij and somber atmosphere at the site, a conman tried to project himself as a worker's kin.

Vij hospitalized after police remand ends

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:14 PM PDT

Just after his police remand ended and court ordered to send industrialist Shital Vij in judicial custody, he complained of chest pain and was hospitalized in the civil hospital.

Benami land deals by Tibetans illegal: Report

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:12 PM PDT

The report categorically mentions that the status of Tibetans continues to be that of refugees having no right to purchase land in Himachal.

Russian embassy accuses HP govt of uncivilized behaviour

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:11 PM PDT

Claiming that Alena has made many irregularities in the trust and Russian nationals cannot be members of any trust in India, Himachal government has sent a one month notice to Alena to leave the post.

Haryana paid top lawyer's clerk Rs 1L for one 'appearance'

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:10 PM PDT

The government, which has been billed up to a maximum of Rs 1.65 lakh for one appearance by the clerk of one of the top lawyers, has a battery of over 200 law officers, headed by an advocate general.

Leaked CPL exam: CBI to conduct searches

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:58 PM PDT

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to carry out more searches this week in connection with the alleged leakage of question papers for commercial pilot's licence (CPL) examination conducted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in March.

CBI believes Raja aide committed suicide, to file closure report

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT

A year after it took over the probe into the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of jailed telecom minister A Raja, the Central Bureau of Investigation is poised to file a 'closure report' in the case.

CBI team to visit Malaysia, Singapore for 2G probe

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:56 PM PDT

Central Bureau of Investigation teams will leave for Malaysia and Singapore later this week to hold talks with authorities there about the agency's request seeking details about a company embroiled in the 2G spectrum controversy during Dayanidhi Maran's tenure as telecom minister.

Italy moves SC for release of 2 marines

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:54 PM PDT

The Italian government on Monday moved the Supreme Court of India seeking release of two marines, arrested by Kerala Police for allegedly killing two fishermen while guarding merchant vessel Enrica Lexie, on the ground that their detention breached sovereign immunity.

TMC holds Congress’s numbers in presidential poll

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:51 PM PDT

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is indispensible to UPA's bid to safely negotiate the looming presidential election in June as Trinamool's 47,890 electoral votes, or 4% of the electoral college, can tilt the balance in almost any political permutation.

SC refuses to stay release of Cypriote Ship that sank INS Vindhyagiri

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:49 PM PDT

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay a Bombay High Court order permitting a Cyprus merchant vessel MW Nordlake, which allegedly rammed into and sank a Rs 1,058-crore Indian Navy Ship, to leave Indian shores after furnishing a bank guarantee of Rs 46.87 crore.

Centre plans flexifund rural schemes

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:47 PM PDT

The government is thinking of letting the states cherry pick the central schemes for rural welfare, a step back from centralized decision-making that it hopes could help quell the accusations that Centre was weakening the federal structure.

US naval chief's visit to strengthen Indo-US defence ties

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:41 PM PDT

India and the US on Monday discussed ways to further strengthen their already expansive bilateral defence, in the backdrop of their Malabar naval combat exercise being successfully held in the Bay of Bengal earlier this month.

35 Congressmen in Uttarakhand expelled

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Factionalism within the Uttarakhand Congress came out sharply on Monday when its four-member state disciplinary committee expelled 35 leaders and served showcause notices to 100 others for anti-party activities.

I-T dept races to finish Baba Rmadev probe

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:38 PM PDT

Fresh trouble seems to be brewing for Baba Ramdev just when he is preparing to revive his agitation against the government, with the income tax authorities working hard to finish investigation of his assets and business transactions.
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