Tuesday, January 1, 2013

NHAI slams GMR for termination notice for biggest highway project

NHAI slams GMR for termination notice for biggest highway project


NHAI slams GMR for termination notice for biggest highway project

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 05:49 PM PST

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has hit back at infrastructure major GMR on its termination notice for the country's biggest highway project worth at least Rs 6,000 crore.


Geetika suicide is a minor case: Haryana minister

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:50 PM PST

Haryana's minister of state for public relations and cultural affairs Shiv Charan Lal Sharma is under fire for describing Geetika Sharma as his former colleague Gopal Kanda's "mere servant".


Five journalists killed in India in 2012

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:50 PM PST

Five journalists were killed and 38 assaulted, harassed or threatened across the country in 2012, says the annual report on free speech violations by Free Speech Hub of the media watch website, Hoot.org.


Haryana khaps make U-turn, say hang rapists

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:50 PM PST

The khaps were criticized by some women's groups for suggesting that capital punishment for rapists was not the solution. They said it was an attempt to shield rapists in Haryana.

New police team to handle sexual assaults in Punjab

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:16 PM PST

Rattled by a rush of rapes in the state, the Punjab Police have now scrambled to form a batch of specialized investigation teams to deal with sexual assaults on women.

New cops' team to handle sexual assaults in Punjab

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:16 PM PST

Rattled by a rush of rapes in the state, the Punjab Police have now scrambled to form a batch of specialized investigation teams to deal with sexual assaults on women.


Punjab trips on Aadhar, misses direct cash transfer deadline

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:13 PM PST

Punjab could not meet the deadline set by the Union government for launch of the country's most ambitious project of transferring money directly in the beneficiaries' accounts.


What probe? Ashok Khemka asks from Haryana chief secretary

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:08 PM PST

Expressing surprise over the constitution of a probe panel to inquire into his orders, Haryana's whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka has sought the relevant file notings.


Shrinking winter makes heavy woollens disappear in Himachal

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 03:06 PM PST

Monkey caps, heavy coats made of sheep wools and knee-high boots -- all those things that symbolize server cold are this year missing from mid-hills of Himachal, with minimum winter temperature showing some increase in last two decades.


Cold kills 9 as mercury dips across north India

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:53 PM PST

The cold wave intensified across north India and killed nine more people in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, pushing the death toll from it this season to around 110.


Pak sending fake currency via drug smugglers: NIA

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:51 PM PST

Pakistan is using drug smugglers to push fake currency into India, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said in a recent chargesheet filed against three narcotics smugglers in a court in Mohali, Punjab.


Haryana minister faces flak for comment on Kanda case

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:46 PM PST

Haryana's minister of state for public relations and cultural affairs Shiv Charan Lal Sharma is under fire for describing Geetika Sharma as his former colleague Gopal Kanda's "mere servant".


Haryana khaps' u-turn on death for rapists

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:42 PM PST

The khaps were criticized by some women's groups for suggesting that capital punishment for rapists was not the solution. They said it was an attempt to shield rapists in Haryana.


She wanted to serve her village, says Delhi gang-rape victim's father

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:39 PM PST

The 23-year-old who lost her life after being raped and brutalized had dreamt of committing herself to saving people and caring for the sick, her father said on Tuesday after her distraught family consigned her ashes to the Ganges.


Minor raped in sirsa

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:37 PM PST

A court in Sirsa, Haryana, remanded a youth in judicial custody on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a minor girl.


Minor raped in Sonipat

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:36 PM PST

A taxi driver has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Sonipat, Haryana.


Uttarakhand enforces ban on gutka and other tobacco products

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:34 PM PST

Uttarakhand government on Tuesday said they will implement and strictly enforce a blanket ban on manufacture, stock, sale and use of all tobacco products including gutka and pan masala.


Quran does not encourage polygamy: Court

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:29 PM PST

The Holy Quran permits a Muslim man to marry more than one woman at a time but does not encourage such behaviour, a trial court has observed.


Marigolds triumph over opium in former Maoist hotbed

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:21 PM PST

Once a Maoist stronghold where even the police dreaded to tread, Chatra is now spreading the fragrance of marigold across Jharkhand.


Shashi Tharoor bats for making public identity of Delhi gang-rape victim, sparks row

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:55 PM PST

Union minister Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday dived in to what appears to be a growing clamour for making public the identity of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim by suggesting that the anti-rape law be named after her if the girl's parents consented.


Tourism ministry to set up multi-lingual helpline

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:52 PM PST

Tourism ministry will set up a multi-lingual helpline to provide tourism-related information and local assistance to foreign travelers.


CPM bars Anisur Rehman from public meetings

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:50 PM PST

CPM leader Anisur Rehman was on Tuesday shown the red card by the party for a filthy foul against chief minister Mamata Banerjee and barred from addressing public meetings.


Revealing staff of judges' would affect their functioning: SC

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:50 PM PST

The Supreme Court has refused to reveal identities of officers working with Chief Justice of India and other judges saying it would affect the functioning of judges with whom they have been attached besides being an invasion of their privacy.


Fast-tracked trial in Delhi gang-rape case may end in a month

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:44 PM PST

The fast-track trial in the Delhi's brutal gang-rape case which sparked a nationwide outrage, could be completed within a month given the "pithy unimpeachable nature of evidence" collected, feels the investigating team of the Delhi Police.


Adhocism slur on key security-related appointments

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 01:43 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.


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