Friday, December 28, 2012

Srinagar-Jammu National Highway closed due to heavy snowfall

Srinagar-Jammu National Highway closed due to heavy snowfall

Srinagar-Jammu National Highway closed due to heavy snowfall

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:32 PM PST

Heavy snowfall around Jawahar Tunnel on Saturday forced the closure of Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the only road link between Kashmir and rest of the country.

President calls gang-rape victim a brave daughter of India

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:26 PM PST

"She was a brave and courageous girl who fought till the very last minute for her dignity and her life. She is a true hero and symbolises the best in Indian youth and women," the President said.

Delhi gang rape victim dies: Cerebral edema or swelling of the brain proved fatal

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:33 PM PST

A swollen brain finally got better of the fighting spirit of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim as she succumbed to her injuries at a Singapore hospital today.

Brave heart gang rape victim wanted to live

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:04 PM PST

"I want to live," the girl had told her brother and mother when they first met her on December 19, three days after she was brutally gang-raped and assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi.

Braveheart gang rape victim wanted to live

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:04 PM PST

"I want to live," the girl had told her brother and mother when they first met her on December 19, three days after she was brutally gang-raped and assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi.

Delhi gang-rape victim's body to be brought back today

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:01 PM PST

The body of the Delhi gang-rape victim, who died in a Singapore hospital, will be flown to India by a special chartered aircraft on Saturday afternoon.

Short-tenure appointments to top security posts raise eyebrows

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 05:24 PM PST

A flurry of senior postings in paramilitary, intelligence and home ministry have raised more than a few eyebrows as appointments to key jobs fail to keep in view the need to provide incumbents at least a year in their assignments.

Inquiry panel seeks info from public

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:54 PM PST

The commission of inquiry constituted under Justice (retired) Usha Mehra to review responses to the December 16 gang rape and suggest measures to improve safety and security of women in Delhi has requested the public to provide information about the incident by January 10.

Sonia seeks speedy punishment for rape accused

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:43 PM PST

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday sought speedy punishment for the perpetrators of the brutal Munirka gang rape that has left the young victim fighting an uphill battle for life.

C-form mandatory even for non-commercial homes

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:40 PM PST

Befriending foreign nationals and offering them one-night accommodations in houses can put owners in trouble as Himachal Police is keeping a close watch over people to check if they are filling the C-form, a registration form for foreigners, to collect information about guest from abroad.

Minor bureaucratic reshuffle

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:39 PM PST

The new government's ministers are still waiting for allocation of portfolios, but a minor bureaucratic shake up, of seven

Government panel to set poverty mark for rural schemes

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:36 PM PST

The Centre has set up an expert committee to determine the poverty mark to identify beneficiaries of rural development ministry's programmes.

Jaya warns PM against setting up of NCTC through back door

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:25 PM PST

A day after walking out of the NDC meet accusing the Centre of treating CMs as "school children", Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa on Friday cautioned PM Manmohan Singh against setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) through back door.

TRS unimpressed with one-month deadline

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 04:19 PM PST

Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's announcement of a one-month timeframe for the government to decide on statehood for Telangana failed to impress the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which expressed "disappointment" with the all-party meeting.

Obscenity row hits M S University again, artist says sorry

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:58 PM PST

An obscenity row broke out at M S University's faculty of fine arts on Friday after saffron groups strongly objected to a Jammu artist's paintings which they said depicted Lord Shiva in bad light and hurt religious sentiments.

Praful Patel hails Narendra Modi, taunts Congress

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:57 PM PST

The NCP seems to be continuing with its unstated policy of not letting go of any occasion of needling its senior partner at the Centre as well as in the state.

Lack of positive gesture rules out Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Pak trip soon

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:48 PM PST

Govt on Friday made it clear that there was no positive development in the neighbouring country that merited a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Centre won’t encroach upon states' rights on water, PM says

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:38 PM PST

NWRC on Friday approved the new National Water Policy in its meeting here after Manmohan Singh assured states that the Centre did not intend to encroach upon the constitutional rights or to centralize the regulation over water resources.

Trial run on India’s longest railway tunnel

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:09 PM PST

A day after angry villagers in south Kashmir's Anantnag blocked the trial run of a train through India's longest 11.21-km tunnel linking Qazigund to Banihal demanding halts at Hillad village in Qazigund, the railways carried out the first test run on Friday.

Women suffer big in India's state vs rebels war

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:44 PM PST

Soni Sori, a tribal teacher in a government school in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, was arrested in October last year on charges of being a courier between the Maoists and Essar Group which has mining interests in the region.

Lethal force? There are gentler, Next-Gen ways of crowd control

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:40 PM PST

Two incidents this week reinforced the image of the police being inept at crowd control in India.

In UP, cold claims 15 lives in a day, toll touches 55

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:33 PM PST

The cold snap killed 15 more people across Uttar Pradesh on Friday, taking the toll from it across north India this season to at least 55.

Kochi mosque official prays for Ajmal Kasab’s soul, gets the boot

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:24 PM PST

The managing committee of a Jama'at mosque here has initiated disciplinary action against its khatib (preacher leading Friday prayers) for allegedly praying for salvation of the soul of Ajmal Kasab two days after the terrorist was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Central Jail.

NDC puts women and children at the centre of development

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:22 PM PST

History was made at the National Development Council meeting on Thursday. For the first time, gender became the cross cutting theme in the statements of all chief ministers.

Delhi gang rape victim dies in Singapore hospital

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 02:07 PM PST

The 23-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus nearly a fortnight ago, died at a hospital in Singapore today. | Special
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