Saturday, August 18, 2012

Sirsa remains calm as Kanda surrenders

Sirsa remains calm as Kanda surrenders

Sirsa remains calm as Kanda surrenders

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 07:03 PM PDT

It was business as usual in former minister of state for home Gopal Kanda's hometown Sirsa after his surrender at Delhi on Saturday morning.

‘Pakistani Hindus to stage dharna outside PM house if citizenship not given’

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 06:57 PM PDT

All India Shiv Sena president Surinder Billa, who has been pursuing the cases of Hindus migrated from Pakistan and leading their demonstration demanding Indian citizenship, has threatened that Pak Hindus would stage a dharna outside the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh if the government failed to give them citizenship.

Another family arrives from Pak, wants to stay in India

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 06:52 PM PDT

The arrival of Pakistani Hindu 'pilgrims' continued on Saturday as another family crossed the border, openly expressing their intention of not going back.

CPM seeks action against people involved in Coalgate

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 06:38 PM PDT

CPM on Saturday reacted to CAG reports on Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP) and on implementation of public-private-partnership for the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport stating it has "shocked the nation."

Ahir wants coal block allocations cancelled

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 06:37 PM PDT

BJP MP Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, who had been at the forefront of a campaign against indiscriminate allocation of coal blocks, has demanded immediate cancellation of all allocations. "Only 0.1% of the coal has been extracted, so we can recover the revenue almost fully, unlike in 2G case," Ahir said.

43 ministries ignore PM’s anti-graft measures

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 06:07 PM PDT

Majority of the central ministries, including home, defence, railway, coal, power and civil aviation, have failed to respond to the initiative of the Prime Minister's Office and the ministry of personnel on strengthening their vigilance mechanism as recommended by a group of ministers on corruption.

9 death penalties wrongly imposed: Ex-judges to President

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:50 PM PDT

The miscarriage of justice has prompted 14 retired judges of SC and HCs across the country to appeal to President to turn 9 death penalties into life sentence.

Cut in eligible ‘benami’ kin list to hit aam admi

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:47 PM PDT

The Parliamentary standing committee, in its report on The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Bill, 2011, tabled recently, has sought to prune the definition of relatives in whose name benami property can be held.

PM: Rising expectations give rise to negativism

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:46 PM PDT

At a time when the country is facing a slowdown, its corporate czars are lambasting the government over policy paralysis and corruption charges are flying fast and thick. Reacting to such criticism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the excessive pessimism and negativism stems from a "revolution of rising expectations".

Get poll ready, BJP tells its CMs

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:37 PM PDT

With two of the party-ruled states — Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh — preparing for assembly polls this year, the BJP leadership on Saturday asked all its CMs to get into election mode since the party is apprehending that the parliamentary elections will be held earlier than 2014.

Determination of infiltrators faces strong resistance from minorities

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:25 PM PDT

A primer on the continuing ethnic conflict between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers in western Assam.

CBI to give 1L reward for information on Assam riots

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:24 PM PDT

The CBI on Saturday announced a cash reward of up to Rs 1 lakh to anyone who could provide credible information which could lead to the identification or arrest of those behind the Assam violence.

‘UPA deaf & dumb on plight of Pak Hindus’

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:21 PM PDT

After BJP raised the issue in Parliament — accusing the ruling UPA of being "obsessed" with minorities — RSS has now charged the government with failing to take action on the plight of Pakistani Hindus.

Temporarily ban social networking sites: JD(U)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 05:13 PM PDT

JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Saturday came out with a demand for a temporary ban on social networking sites, claiming that it will help check rumour mongering that is leading to exodus of people from the northeast.

Heroin worth 35 crore seized at international border

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:46 PM PDT

The Border Security Force (BSF) claimed to have seized 7 kg of heroin and fake Indian currency of Rs 5.73 lakh from the International Border near Jagdish border outpost under Ferozepur sector on late Friday night. The seized contraband is valued at Rs 35 crore in the international market.

Wrong number call rings social boycott of 50 dalit families

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:41 PM PDT

A dalit boy dialling a cellphone number by mistake has snowballed into a major row and resulted in 50 dalit families of Sadarpur village facing a social boycott.

Won’t pull out from govt: Mamata to Antony

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Defence minister A K Antony could not dent West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's opposition to the entry of FDI in multi-brand retail or forward trading during their meeting at the state secretariat on Saturday.

‘SC has limited role in interfering with government policy’

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT

This Supreme Court judgment would be music for the Union government, which is fighting a tough legal battle through the Presidential Reference to retain executive's discretion in choosing methods for allocation of scarce natural resources.

329 injured, 7 critical in ‘Gotmar Mela’

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT

As many as 329 people were injured, seven of them seriously, on Saturday during the traditional 'Gotmar Mela'—a stone war between two neighbouring villages—at Pandurna in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh.

Suzuki chief to hold talks with Modi next week

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:23 PM PDT

The labour troubles at Maruti's Manesar plant and new expansion in Gujarat is expected to top Suzuki chief Osamu Suzuki's agenda when he visits India next week.

India and Russia going to sign biggest-ever defence deal worth $ 35 billion

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 03:21 PM PDT

India and Russia are all set to ink the full and final design or R&D phase contract for the 5th Gen fighter by this year-end or early-2013.

Supreme Court Amarnath ruling runs into protest

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 02:27 PM PDT

The Supreme Court had issued directions to build infrastructure on the Amarnath route after taking cognizance of 100 deaths during the pilgrimage to the shrine this year.

CAG reports: Fight will now shift to PAC

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

The battle lines between the Congress and the opposition are drawn in Parliament's public accounts committee (PAC), with the panel expected to include the three latest reports of the comptroller and auditor general, which have stung the government, in its agenda for the year.

Videos doctored in Pakistan sparked NE exodus: Government

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT

'Technical investigation has established that a bulk of the incendiary images was first uploaded on blogs in Pakistan,' disclosed Union home secretary R K Singh.

Bhutan mulls opening diplomatic relations with China

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:01 AM PDT

As the only country in India's immediate neighbourhood which does not have official ties with China, Bhutan is in a special spot where India is concerned.
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