Saturday, June 2, 2012

Work for 'peace of mind', Dalai Lama tells students

Work for 'peace of mind', Dalai Lama tells students

Work for 'peace of mind', Dalai Lama tells students

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:59 PM PDT

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who is nowadays teaching Buddhism to students, at the Tibetan Children Village School in McLeodganj has asked adolescents to stand together to protect their identity.

Construction on Priyanka Vadra's dream house starts anew

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:53 PM PDT

After being razed to the ground in August last year, construction of Priyanka Vadra's dream house in high security Chharabra area of Shimla has started again.

Drug worth Rs 200 crore recovered from non-resident Indians

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:51 PM PDT

Busting a NRI-led gang of drug smugglers with international connections, police recovered synthetic drug Methamphetamine and its raw material of worth Rs 200 crore in the international market.

Punjab pushes growth backward: Statistics

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:48 PM PDT

Pompous claims of the SAD BJP government regarding Punjab's growth rate, in the election year, have fallen flat with the release of data available with the ministry of statistics.

Industrial Training Institute students forced to work as labourers, principal orders probe

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:46 PM PDT

In a shocking incident, students of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) here were found working as laborers in an under-construction house of a teacher.

Air India pilot’s son expelled for midair stunt

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:18 PM PDT

An Air India commander's son got his student pilot licence (SPL) cancelled by the Rae Bareli-based Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udaan Academy and will be expelled from the institute for flying his trainer aircraft extremely low to click pictures.

Finally, Italian naval guards out of jail on bail

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 04:04 PM PDT

Two Italian marines arrested in connection with the February 15 high-sea killing of two Indian fishermen were released on bail on Saturday.

Lokayukta jails Karnataka MLA Y Sampangi for bribe

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 03:57 PM PDT

For the first time in Karnataka, the special Lokayukta court on Saturday sent a sitting MLA to jail on charge of accepting a bribe.

Now, RSS mouthpiece cautions 'intolerant' Narendra Modi

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 03:14 PM PDT

A column in RSS' Panchjanya has cautioned the Gujarat CM against coming off as an intolerant leader who had trouble taking his colleagues along.

NRHM scam: CBI raids former BSP minister's homes, lodges new FIR

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Raids began at former health minister Anant Misra's (Antu) Lucknow home in Gomti Nagar and Civil Lines residence in Kanpur at 6 in the morning and continued till late in the evening.

‘Korean Wave’ takes Indian kids in its sway

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:56 PM PDT

The Korean Wave, a term that was coined in mid-1999 and refers to spread of popular Korean culture comprising music, movies and drama, is slowly making its presence felt in India.

Mamata Banerjee unhappy with petrol price rollback, says it with flowers

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:52 PM PDT

West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee expressed unhappiness over the partial rollback of petrol price and demanded a full rollback.

3 Indians bag Hermes prize for innovation

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:46 PM PDT

India's decade of innovation has won the Hermes Award for the "best humanistic policy of innovation".

Priyanka rebuilds house in the hills

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:45 PM PDT

The construction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's dream house in the Chharabra village of Himachal Pradesh, about 12km from, has started again again.

Tehri dam activist sent to AIIMS against will

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT

The Uttarakhand police forcibly admitted 79-year-old environmentalist GD Aggarwal to AIIMS in Delhi.

Sense of insecurity forced Ruchika Girhotra's family to give up

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:37 PM PDT

The security cover provided to Ruchika Girhotra's family as it faced intimidation during its campaign for justice was removed three months before a local court accepted closure report on two cases against the former cop SPS Rathore.

Ranvir Sena founder Brahmeshwar Singh cremated amid violence and arson

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:33 PM PDT

The violence that rocked Ara after the sensational killing of Ranvir Sena founder Brahmeshwar Singh alias Brahmeshwar Mukhiya on Friday shifted to the state capital on Saturday when his body was brought to the Bans Ghat here for cremation.

Out of hope, Ruchika Girhotra’s kin rest case against SPS Rathore

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:25 PM PDT

Ruchika's father, Subash Girhotra, said the family presented a lot of material related to these cases — attempt to murder and forgery — but the CBI "seemed to be adamant on closure".

NIA close to filing maiden case against Maoist chief Ganpathy

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:22 PM PDT

The National Investigation Agency could soon file its maiden case against elusive CPI (Maoist) chief Muppalla Lakshman Rao alias Ganpathy.

Coalgate: Manmohan Singh took no action on repeated missives by BJP MP

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT

According to the MP, while the PM himself regularly acknowledged his letters, the govt took no action on the "irregularities" regarding allocation of coal blocks.

Army conducting inquiry into MI havildar’s 'bid' to pass on security information

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 01:55 PM PDT

The Army is holding a court of inquiry into the alleged effort by a Military Intelligence (MI) havildar to pass on secrets to contacts in West Asia.

CBI gets Jaganmohan Reddy for five days

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Effectively closing the door for YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to campaign for bypolls slated to be held on June 12, the AP High Court on Saturday gave his custody to the CBI for 5 days beginning Sunday.

36 % of Maharashtra’s prisoners are Muslims

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Based on interviews with 339 Muslim inmates in 15 prisons, the TISS report unfortunately does not address the oft-raised question of alleged discrimination against Muslim offenders at the time of registering the case.

Petrol price down Rs 2 a litre, another Re 0.92 cut next week

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 12:15 PM PDT

The announcement comes two days after the May 31 nationwide strike observed by the opposition to protest against the steepest-ever hike in petrol price.

Myanmar asks northeast rebels to leave by June 10

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 12:01 PM PDT

With the Myanmar government asking the northeast rebels camping in its country to leave by June 10, the Assam Rifles, guarding the porous international boundary along the hill tracks in Manipur, is on a state of high alert.
Posted by Harshad at 9:01 PM

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