Thursday, November 29, 2012

Gujarat polls: Anti-Modi cop Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt to contest against Narendra Modi

Gujarat polls: Anti-Modi cop Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt to contest against Narendra Modi

Gujarat polls: Anti-Modi cop Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt to contest against Narendra Modi

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:57 PM PST

The Congress party will field IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.

TOI Social Impact Awards 2012: Picking the true changemakers

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:49 PM PST

From a cascade of applications from all corners of the country, a rainbow of organizations emerged after the first round of shortlisting for the TOI Social Impact Awards 2012.

India, Australia join hands with Indonesia to counter China

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:02 PM PST

India, Indonesia and Australia will form the first "troika" to confer on the Indian Ocean, a first step towards a trilateral grouping in Asia.

BJP calls paper a ‘whitewash’, seeks SIT probe into projects

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:15 PM PST

The state BJP on Thursday hit out at the government, saying the white paper on the irrigation scam was a "whitewash".

‘Ajit Pawar’s return just a matter of time’

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:13 PM PST

Calls for Ajit Pawar's comeback started emerging from within the NCP ranks even before the white paper on the irrigation scam was presented before the cabinet on Thursday evening.

Only criminal probe can unravel scam in irrigation projects

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:10 PM PST

Rules were blatantly flouted, project estimates illegally revised and permissions brazenly granted without adequate precautions and mandatory clearances.

Only criminal probe can unravel scam in irrigation projects

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:10 PM PST

Rules were blatantly flouted, project estimates illegally revised and permissions brazenly granted without adequate precautions and mandatory clearances.

If investigation is held, govt will fall: Source

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:01 PM PST

The white paper on irrigation has not named ministers and bureaucrats, as expected. A source said that if a judicial inquiry was held, the government would fall.

Fighting for free speech: 'Law needs overhaul, not cosmetic job'

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:22 PM PST

Cyber experts cautiously welcomed guidelines to regulate registration of offences under section 66-A of the Information Technology Act, saying they were at best "cosmetic action".

Day after Facebook row, teen flees Palghar home

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:08 PM PST

Sunil Vishwakarma, the Palghar teen who was on Wednesday accused of posting obscene comments against MNS chief Raj Thackeray, has moved to his uncle's home to escape the media attention.

Fighting for free speech: 'Net has own rules for expression'

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:03 PM PST

The twin Palghar incidents of social media posts that got three youngsters into trouble, however point to dangers lurking online, say cyber experts.

CPM accuses Congress of allowing disruption in Parliament

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:36 PM PST

The CPM on Thursday accused the Congress of allowing disruption of both Houses of Parliament so that it could marshal the numbers in case of a vote on FDI in multi-brand retail.

BSF focuses on 32 border posts to curb Bangladeshi infiltration

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:32 PM PST

In the light of continuing lower Assam conflict that has been blamed by certain quarters on illegal migration from Bangladesh, the Border Security Force has improved vigil on the Indo-Bangla border and identified 32 areas from where maximum illegal migration takes place.

BJP complains to Election Commission against cash transfer scheme

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:31 PM PST

The opposition BJP on Thursday complained to the Election Commission that the announcement of direct cash transfer scheme was a violation of the model code of conduct in view of the assembly elections in Gujarat next month.

BJP attacks PMO for giving clean chit to Vadra

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:29 PM PST

Opposition BJP on Thursday hit out at the Prime Minister's Office for giving a "clean chit" to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra in the land deals with realty major DLF in Haryana and sought to know how it arrived at this conclusion without conducting any probe.

Security agencies brush aside Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jandullah’s threats

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:25 PM PST

Indian security establishment is neither worried nor perturbed by the threatening statements of impending attacks in India made by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Jandullah group.

Ponty Chadha case: Namdhari booked for murder

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:25 PM PST

Crime branch sources told TOI that their investigations point to the possibility of Chadha being cornered and killed by Namdhari and his gunman Sachin Tyagi.

Namdhari booked for murder

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:25 PM PST

On a day when Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, sacked chief of Uttarakhand's minorities commission, was booked for the murder of businessman Hardeep Chadha, crime branch sources told TOI that their investigations point to the possibility of Chadha being cornered and killed by Namdhari and his gunman Sachin Tyagi.

SP sees promotion quota as tool to counter law and order woes

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:23 PM PST

Samajwadi Party reckons it has found in "promotion quota" a strong issue to neutralize the drop in the party's goodwill on law and order front in Uttar Pradesh.

PIL petitioner moves from laws of physics to cyber laws

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:21 PM PST

Shreya Singhal graduated in physics with astrophysics from University of Bristol in July but on coming back to India, found the strong maternal link to the legal profession irresistible.

Brief sketch of PIL petitioner Shreya Singhal

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 03:21 PM PST

Shreya Singhal graduated in physics with astrophysics from University of Bristol in July but on coming back to India, found the strong maternal link to the legal profession irresistible.

White paper on irrigation a dud, Maharashtra skirts corruption

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 12:44 PM PST

The much-awaited white paper on irrigation, which was placed before the state cabinet on Thursday, has turned out to be a dud.

With gas going out of reach, Himachal heads back to the woods

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 12:40 PM PST

The average person trying to cope with the severe Himachal winter in the face of great economic odds is definitely headed back to the woods. Steep rise in gas prices, uncertain kerosene supply and power scarcity have forced residents to go back to the age old dependence on forests.

Taming factionalism a herculean task for Congress

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PST

As the two factions of Congress leaders in Himachal Pradesh have waged the battle of supremacy eyeing chief ministerial berth, taming factionalism has become a herculean task for Congress high command.

Committee to probe Haryana Public Service Commission prelims dispute

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PST

The HPSC agreed before the Punjab and Haryana high court to constitute an expert committee to look into the dispute pertaining to wrong questions of the preliminary examination of the Haryana Civil Service (Executive).
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