Thursday, April 5, 2012

Red violence kills twice more than in J&K, Northeast

Red violence kills twice more than in J&K, Northeast


Red violence kills twice more than in J&K, Northeast

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:57 PM PDT

Maoist violence continues to dominate internal security concerns in India, with more than double the deaths than those reported from Jammu & Kashmir and northeastern states collectively during 2008-2011.


Christian hymns with Punjabi touch

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:09 PM PDT

Roti tu Zindagi di Yashu Khawa de Aabe Hyaat naal tu saanu Pyal de... is not any Punjabi number but the traditional Christian hymn with a Punjabi touch.


Non-coastal Punjab tops country's fish output

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:07 PM PDT

If the succulent Amritsari fish has swum miles from the winding cobbled lanes of the old border town in Punjab to Delhi and Mumbai's swish parties, the secret lies in Punjab topping the country's fish output.


First swine flu case detected this year in Himachal Pradesh

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:06 PM PDT

Swine flu surveillance officer Omesh Bharti said, "The patient from Mandi with high fever and chest infection was kept under surveillance in the isolation ward at IGMC&H for two days." .


Urban India seeks rustic charm on rural holidays

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:05 PM PDT

Pradeep Singh is at ease as he lounges on a charpai, a makeshift rope bed, smoking a hookah in the courtyard of his ancestral house.


Notice to information public officer, first appellate authority

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:03 PM PDT

The commission also directed the SPIO and the first appellate authority-cum-under secretary to file their reply to the points raised by the complainant by April 18.


2,471 new cancer cases in Himachal

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:03 PM PDT

Himachal Pradesh is witnessing rise in number of cancer patients.While the state has 23,241 cancer patients during last financial year alone, 2,471 new cases have been registered.


National film heritage mission to store popular movies

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:01 PM PDT

The NFDC plans to launch a National Film Heritage Mission in order to conserve superhit movies of the past 100 years of Indian cinema.


Cash-at-judge's door case: Nirmal Yadav moves Supreme Court

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT

Former judge of Punjab and Haryana high court Nirmal Yadav has approached the Supreme Court seeking quashing of proceedings against her in the 2008 cash-at-bag case.


Cheating on the rise in Haryana board exams

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:58 PM PDT

With the cases of use of unfair means rising 20% this year, it seems helping students appearing in the Haryana school board examinations is like a duty for their kin and teachers.


Land row: Haryana minister, MP bat for farmers

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:54 PM PDT

The hands of residents of five villages protesting against acquisition of their land for a residential project were strengthened on Thursday after 51 villages of Rewari district decided to back their struggle.


No need for new private varsities, Congress to government

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:51 PM PDT

The tabling of bills on private universities in the assembly on Thursday invited a barrage of criticism from the opposition benches.


Student falls off three-wheeler, dies

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:48 PM PDT

A 10-year-old school student died in Moonak town on Thursday when he fell from a moving autorickshaw.Harpal Singh studied in Class IV at Navdeep Public School.


Row over fiber sheet use in Golden Temple

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:47 PM PDT

The work on covering of the causeway from Darshani Deori to sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple with fiber sheets is almost complete but the controversy it has triggered is still raging.


In Punjab, underground water boring banned in 18 blocks

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:45 PM PDT

Eighteen blocks of Punjab - the land of 5 rivers - have been notified by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) banning any new bores for drawing underground water.


VIP treatment to Bibi: Probe begins

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:43 PM PDT

IG (prisons) Jagit Singh started enquiry on Wednesday night into the allegations of VIP treatment extended to former minister Bibi Jagir Kaur in Kapurthala jail.


Digital edge: Plug tax leaks, end illegal nexus and improve service

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Cable TV Amendment Act will make it a must to move over to new transmission medium, helping all stakeholders.


Named by CAG, Deshmukh in opposition's line of fire

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:09 PM PDT

The opposition trained guns at Vilasrao Deshmukh following his crticism by the Supreme Court and land allotment to Subhash Ghai and a yet-to-be-tabled CAG report naming him in several murky land deals in Mumbai.


Exiled Tibetans three times more prone to TB than Indians

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:45 PM PDT

The Union health ministry says Tibetans in exile have one of the highest rates of TB in the world.


Government plans tax on vacant land to check hoarding

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:42 PM PDT

The government is considering a 'vacant land tax' to check largescale hoarding of land and to generate resources to revamp crumbling urban infrastructure.


Defence ministry likely to respond to House panel on daily’s 'alarmist' report

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:39 PM PDT

The defence ministry is likely to provide a detailed response to the parliamentary committee on defence on a newspaper's report about allegedly unauthorized troop movement.


Rajya Sabha has no information on businessmen members’ conflict of interest

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:35 PM PDT

It has been found that membership of committees is used by MPs to either promote their interests or block those of rivals.


CRPF presses spy drones into battle with Maoists

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:33 PM PDT

CRPF has finally started using 'spy' drones to pick up ground conversation signals and images of Naxal movement during anti-Naxal operations in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh.


More killed in Maoist violence than in J&K, northeast

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

Maoist violence caused more than double the deaths than those reported from Jammu & Kashmir and northeastern states collectively during 2008-2011.


India-UK joint bid to map malaria, Japanese encephalitis-prone areas

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:25 PM PDT

British and Indians scientists have joined hands to predict areas of the country that face the maximum risk of malaria and Japanese encephalitis outbreaks.


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