Sunday, July 24, 2011

Natarajan's elevation spells trouble for Cong in PAC

Natarajan's elevation spells trouble for Cong in PAC


Natarajan's elevation spells trouble for Cong in PAC

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Jayanthi Natarajan's resignation from the Public Accounts Committee following her ministerial elevation could spell trouble for Congress in the key parliamentary panel where numbers are stacked too fine for its comfort.


India condemns Norway violence

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 04:43 PM PDT

India on Sunday strongly condemned the violence in Norway describing the attacks in Oslo and Utoya island as senseless acts of violence.


BJP calls Vastanvi's removal a setback

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 04:42 PM PDT

BJP described the removal of Darul Uloom vice-Chancellor Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi as a setback for all secular forces saying that he had been victimised for speaking the truth.


Where has the evidence gone? Ask kin

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:05 PM PDT

Apprehending that steps are afoot to 'convert' the murder of Kampopura village ex-sarpanch Karam Singh into a 'suicide' case, his kin are desperately asking where has all the damning evidence gone.


Week-long Minjar fair inaugurated

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:02 PM PDT

The international Minjar fair of Chamba got off to a colourful start on Sunday. Local MLA Bal Krishan Chauhan inaugurated the fair by hoisting the "Minjar flag" amid singing of "Kunjari Malhaar" (seasonal folk songs of this alpine region), at Chowgan in Chamba.


Dalai Lama condoles Norway terror deaths

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Tibetan leader Dalai Lama has offered condolences to the victims of Norway violence. For the same he wrote a letter to Prime Minister of Norway, H E Jens Stoltenberg on July 23, 2011.


Ambulance workers take photos of birth, arrested

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Employees of ambulance service 108 in Kullu have been arrested for taking and circulating photographs of a delivery case that took place inside the ambulance on Saturday, police said.


Landslides at Rohtang: People look towards gods

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:58 PM PDT

Harassed by continuous landslides at Rahni Nullah below Rohtang pass, residents of Lahaul-Spiti and Kullu held prayers here on Sunday.


Son dies after woman poisons children

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:56 PM PDT

A married woman administered poison to her two-year-old son and six-year-old daughter, before consuming the poison herself.


Ashes stolen, cops begin probe

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:54 PM PDT

Police on Sunday initiated an inquiry into a queer case of stolen ashes from the cremation ground of Muradpur village in Yamunanagar district.


8 Punjab villages to have 24-hour water supply

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:53 PM PDT

Santosh Kaur of Paprala village has stopped storing drinking water in endless containers, which she did routinely fearing that the essential commodity might go out of stock any time.


Kiranjit case: Pardon decision still pending

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Even after five months of Supreme Court bench referring back to Punjab governor for reconsideration, there has been no decision yet in the case of pardon to three activists.


Parking contractors fleece customers; MC ‘unaware’

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:49 PM PDT

As you leave your car at a parking space on a road side, a person deployed there is quick to hand out a Rs 20-receipt as charge for the service.


Act or face action: Farmers warn govts

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT

Seeing no concrete effort being made by the Punjab and Haryana governments to solve the dispute pertaining to construction of around 4km stretch of wall across the Hansi-Butana canal by Haryana government, farmers of the border villages two states have decided to take matters into hand.


Iron mafia attacks excise team in Punjab

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT

A special team of Punjab excise and taxation department was attacked near Samana on Sunday when they tried to conduct checks on three trucks of the iron mafia. The officials saved their lives by fleeing in their vehicle.


Sonia had ticked me off for calling Chidambaram intellectually arrogant: Digvijay

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:32 PM PDT

Amid speculation about how he got away with serious comments on issues and colleagues, Congress leader Digvijay Singh revealed that party chief Sonia Gandhi had ticked him off for his comments on home minister P Chidambaram and he had to apologize to the minister.


Voluntarily report on hard landing: Air India

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT

National carrier Air India has finally learnt some lessons from the Mangalore crash. The airline recently asked pilots to voluntarily report hard landings so that engineering action could be taken on the aircraft body for safety while assuring them that they wouldn't be punished for not gently gliding down.


Lack of planning mars UP's emergency medical transport service project

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:25 PM PDT

The UP government's much-publicized medical transport services launched on Wednesday under the National Rural Health Mission may not take off as per the projections.


1,000 bank accounts to siphon off UP med funds

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT

A maze of bank accounts opened to handle NRHM funds in UP created a transaction structure so complex that it became relatively simple to siphon off thousands of crores of central funds meant for rural health uplift.


Vastanvi to focus on Rs100cr college

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:21 PM PDT

Within hours of his removal as vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom, Deoband, Maulana Gulam Mohammad Vastanvi flew abroad to raise funds for his educational institutes, especially a Rs 100-crore medical college at Badnapur village of Jalna district in Maharashtra.


BJP brass mulls easing Yeddyurappa out

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:17 PM PDT

While embattled Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa spewed defiance, indicating he was not going to go easily, the tide seems to be turning against him with BJP brass carefully weighing the possibility of the crisis bringing down its government in the southern state.


Probity in public life: BSY must not hang on after indictment

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:16 PM PDT

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa must quit office. The longer he holds on to the post after being indicted by Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde for his role in the mining scam, the more he will push the "probity in public life' principle towards the edge.


Khap leaders oppose film on honour killing

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:13 PM PDT

The movie 'Khap - a story of honour killing', based on Haryana's notorious caste panchayats, has invited wrath of the village bodies.


BJP lesser evil than Congress for Muslims: Mulayam

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:13 PM PDT

With the election campaign for Uttar Pradesh sounded, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday dubbed Congress as a bigger evil for minorities than BJP, betraying concern that he saw the 'secular rival' as a threat to his Muslim votebase and raising possibility of disturbances in the upcoming Parliament session.


Man files 550 RTIs for 'missing' wife

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Ramshankar Saroj, 39, is not the run-of-the-mill Right to Information activist. The autorickshaw driver has filed around 550 RTIs in a little over three years. That works out to around one RTI every two days.


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