Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Jalandhar industry team, CM discuss Kala Sanghia pollution

Jalandhar industry team, CM discuss Kala Sanghia pollution

Jalandhar industry team, CM discuss Kala Sanghia pollution

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:36 PM PDT

A delegation of Jalandhar industry led by BJP leaders met chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to discuss the issue of pollution in Kala Sanghia drain and administration`s special campaign against polluting industry.

Cong, SAD in war of words

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:35 PM PDT

Continuing with their war of words, Congress and SAD attacked each other in Amritsar on Wednesday.

Red tapism costs Rs 35 lakh to Haryana exchequer

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:33 PM PDT

Due to red tapism, the Haryana government has lost more than Rs 35 lakh in a case of land acquisition for new police lines in Panipat.

Old-time friends recall time spent with Ashok Gehlot

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:32 PM PDT

Old-time friends like former Union minister Balram Jakhar, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and former Union minister R K Dhawan recalled their association with former chief minister Bhajan Lal during a special prayer session organized by Bishnois at Sector 15 here on Wednesday afternoon.

None of 20 students under copying cloud clear IIT-JEE

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:29 PM PDT

None of the 20 students, some of whom had allegedly indulged in cheating at Giani Zail Singh Engineering College in Bathinda, have cleared the IIT-JEE examination.

Cooks in schools get less than govt-prescribed minimum wages

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:27 PM PDT

While the Punjab government has fixed Rs 130 per day as minimum wages in Punjab, its own education department has been violating the directions by paying just Rs 31 per day to cooks, who prepare mid-day meals in thousands of schools across Punjab.

Baba Ramdev to make his assets public today

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:48 PM PDT

With questions being raised over his huge assets, Baba Ramdev will make public on Thursday, his personal financial details and also the assets of firms and trusts associated with him.

No leave without pay for contractual Punjab govt school teachers

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT

After many warnings and even threat to sack them failed in reining the foreign-crazy regular teachers in the government schools of Punjab, the education department has now decided not to take the same risk with teachers being hired on contract basis and disallowed Ex-India Leave for the new recruits.

Salman, Kareena to shoot where Saif had a tiff with media

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:12 PM PDT

Actors Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor will be busy the next three days shooting for their upcoming movie Bodyguard at the city railway station.

Baba Ramdev to make his finances public today: Aide

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:05 PM PDT

With questions being raised over his huge assets, Baba Ramdev will make public on Thursday, his personal financial details and also the assets of firms and trusts associated with him.

At least 20 dead as speeding truck runs over sleeping pilgrims in Gujarat

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT

The incident took place on Dolka-Bagodra highway where a number of people on their way to pilgrimage were sleeping on the roadside.

Need to amend laws on corruption: SC

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:19 PM PDT

Amid growing demand of the civil society for a strong anti-graft law and confiscation of black money, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) to root out corruption.

10 get death for honour killing

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:11 PM PDT

A special court in Etah on Wednesday handed death sentence to 10 of the 14 accused in a 2008 honour killing case. One of the accused was let off due to insufficient evidence while another was awarded one-year imprisonment.

Sopore: Most dangerous place in J&K

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:55 PM PDT

Afzal Khan`s house in Sopore is accessible only from a footpath through the local graveyard, a path he took everyday for 30 years to run his store next to the local mosque. On Tuesday, he was buried in the same graveyard by his son and family.

Govt sets up another panel to recover tax dues

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:37 PM PDT

With expanding support base for anti-corruption crusaders, a nervous government on Wednesday announced setting up of yet another high-level committee in the finance ministry to recover tax arrears.

Ramlila crackdown unites the two Indias

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:36 PM PDT

The police action at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday morning emerged as the best adhesive in bringing together the suave city dweller and the rustic villager together to speak in one voice against corruption.

Small saving may fetch you returns as high as 8.2%

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:29 PM PDT

The government is likely to raise returns on small savings schemes such as PPF over the next two-three months with sharpest rise of up to 70 basis points likely in post office deposits.

CBI files case against MTNL in CWG scam

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:26 PM PDT

The agency also conducted raids on Wednesday on several MTNL and Organizing Committee (OC) officials in various parts of the country, including Delhi, Noida, Jaipur and Patna.

Top netas against transparency: Antony

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT

Amid the ongoing anti-corruption satyagrahas and andolans for more accountability in government functioning, the UPA government`s "Mr Clean", A K Antony, broke his silence on Wednesday to proclaim that the "transparency revolution" now underway in India was simply unstoppable.

Low-cost laptops set to roll out after 6 years

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Six years after it was conceived, the first lot of 10,000 laptops – the HRD ministry calls it low-cost access-cum-computing device — would be delivered to IIT-Rajasthan in late June.

Regulator in offing for imposition of anti-tobacco law

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Despite a ban on smoking in public places, people are frequently seen puffing away in restaurants, hotels and theatres.

Ramlila eviction casts a shadow on govt's decision-making process

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT

It will be a while before eddies set off by the midnight raid on Baba Ramdev's protest calm down with the Centre's decision to use force and the subsequent bad blood with both the yoga guru and the Anna Hazare group raising questions over the government's political reflexes.

BJP has last laugh as public echoes its issues

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Opposition BJP slammed the government's attempt to tag civil society activists — led by Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev — with RSS or the party, but is happy that issues raised by it are catching on with the masses.

PM might sign land accord with Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:43 PM PDT

Efforts are underway to finalise a land boundary agreement and a river water-sharing agreement between Bangladesh and India by the time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Dhaka later this year.

Congress fumes over Jallianwala remark

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:41 PM PDT

Congress slammed Anna Hazare for echoing BJP veteran L K Advani in comparing police action at Ramlila Maidan with General Dyer's Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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