Thursday, July 26, 2012

Customs department’s golden jubilee observed

Customs department’s golden jubilee observed

Customs department’s golden jubilee observed

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:23 PM PDT

A postage stamp and a coffee table book were released on Thursday to commemorate the golden jubilee of the Customs department.

Hazare congratulates Pranab even as team attacks ministers

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:20 PM PDT

Activist Anna Hazare set the tone for Day 2 of the agitation on Thursday by congratulating President Pranab Mukherjee, hitting a discordant note with his fellow colleagues who had targeted him the previous day.

Nigeria asked to punish killers of two Indian traders

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:19 PM PDT

ndia on Thursday asked Nigeria to swiftly bring to book the perpetrators behind the brutal murder of two Indian traders.

Highways ministry ropes in plan panel to build Delhi-Jaipur expressway

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:16 PM PDT

Highways ministry has decided to rope in Gajendra Haldea, advisor to deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, to construct the Rs 12,000 crore Delhi-Jaipur expressway

Better ties with SP govt, says Congress chief

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:14 PM PDT

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday hinted that development initiatives would now be implemented with greater speed, owing to more comfortable relationship with the incumbent government.

Ailing Central Research Institute stops yellow fever vaccine production

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:11 PM PDT

The only institute in the country which has been producing yellow fever vaccines for decades has stopped making the drug.

District administration directed to protect Hond Chillar carnage site in Rewari

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:57 PM PDT

The carnage site was discovered by a Sikh body, All India Sikh Students Federation last year, about 27 years after the incident took place.

Rewari farmers call off stir after accord with govt

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:52 PM PDT

Villagers opposing land acquisition had on Sunday clashed with police, torched several vehicles and blocked Delhi-Jaipur national highway.

Angry Sangrur villagers lockout power sub station

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:50 PM PDT

The grid, though supplies power to more than half a dozen villages but the residents of four villages were getting erratic power supply.

No end to Punjab's power woes as 3 projects to be delayed

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:49 PM PDT

There seems no end to Punjab's power woes with the three major thermal power projects being planned in the state being caught in various problems.

Woman, son held for fake visa racket

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:47 PM PDT

A woman and her son were arrested by the Jalandhar commissionerate police for duping people of Rs 60 lakh by stamping fake visas on their passports.

Ex-Haryana minister summoned in cheating case

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:46 PM PDT

A local court has summoned Haryana's former co-operative and archeology minister Meena Mandal and three of her family members for cheating a woman resident of Jundala village in Karnal district.

Protests continue for second day over Kashmiri youth’s killing

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT

Hundreds of people on Thursday blocked roads and fought pitched battles with security forces for the second day in north Kashmir's Bandipora district to protest a 21-year-old youth killing in army soldiers' firing two days earlier.

Woman alleges mistreatment, husband commits suicide

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:32 PM PDT

A man slit his throat in police station here on Thursday, where his wife had come to lodge a complaint against him.

Bribe offer by smuggler's kin shows cops 'help' drug trade

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:31 PM PDT

Arrest of the relative of a drug trafficker on Wednesday for offering Rs 3 lakh bribe to a SHO to facilitate his nephew's bail has opened a can of worms, pointing to a nexus between Punjab police and drug runners.

Union minister unhappy with Andhra governor for not stopping bauxite mining on tribal land

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:19 PM PDT

Union minister Kishore Chandra Deo has criticized the Andhra Pradesh governor for inaction on his request to stop bauxite mining in Vishakhapatnam.

3 out-of-turn promotions for excellence in sports: Govt

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:03 PM PDT

A maximum of three out of turn promotions will be given to a sportsperson in entire service career. Whereas, the number of out of turn promotions allowed to a coach will be capped at two with a gap of four years.

BJP announces stir to highlight drought-stricken farmers’ plight

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:59 PM PDT

Accusing the Centre of being "insensitive" to the plight of farmers suffering due to drought-like conditions across the country, Opposition BJP on Thursday announced a nationwide stir from August 3 to 8.

Rains may elude northwest till August

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:56 PM PDT

Cloudy skies but little rain seems to be the fate of Delhi and much of northwestern India as the Met's predictions for rain since July 21 have failed to materialize and the scenario does not look encouraging till the end of July.

Reduce defence budget, fund toilets: Jairam Ramesh

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Just the cost of a single Rafale fighter could make 1,000 village panchayats "free from open-defecation'', said Ramesh.

No space for democracy in CPM: Expelled youth leader

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:39 PM PDT

The CPM leadership is arbitrary, non-transparent in decision-making and intolerant to criticism from its rank and file, alleged expelled youth leader Prasenjit Bose.

CWG scam: I had no financial powers, Bhanot tells court

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:35 PM PDT

Former CWG Organizing Committee secretary general Lalit Bhanot on Thursday told a special CBI court that no financial power was accorded to him and his work was only to coordinate with others during the 2010 mega sporting event.

CBI likely to quiz ex-BEML chief again

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT

CBI will again send its team to the defence PSU BEML's office in Bangalore next week to further probe the Tatra scam, and the agency is also likely to question former BEML chief V R S Natarajan another time.

2G scam: Trial against Essar, Loop promoters begins

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT

A special CBI court on Thursday commenced the trial against Essar Teleholdings Ltd and Loop Telecom, accused in a case flowing out of the probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Assam riots: Muslim MPs seek central intervention, say have no faith in Gogoi

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:09 PM PDT

A group of Muslim MPs, led by Congress leader K Rahman Khan, on Thursday demanded central intervention to end the ongoing ethnic clashes in lower Assam.
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