Thursday, August 23, 2012

UP officers to be fined for streetlights during the day

UP officers to be fined for streetlights during the day


UP officers to be fined for streetlights during the day

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:56 AM PDT

Mamata Banerjee opposes foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail, other sectors

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:50 AM PDT

The Trinamool Congress today strongly opposed allowing FDI in key sectors like retail, insurance and aviation arguing that it would be harmful for the people of the country.


Twitter agrees to block six 'fake' PM accounts

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:28 AM PDT

Twitter agrees to block six 'fake' PM accounts

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:28 AM PDT

1993 Mumbai blasts: Sanjay Dutt's conviction should be upheld, CBI tells Supreme Court

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:40 AM PDT

The Central Bureau of Investigation wants the Supreme Court to uphold actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. The investigating agency conveyed this to the top court today durin...


Herbal oil ads: Govinda tells FDA he was unaware of laws

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:06 AM PDT

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had filed 67 complaints at police stations across the state under various sections of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable advertisements) Act...


Cop who gave Raj Thackeray a yellow rose asked to rest

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:48 PM PDT

Every rose has its thorn. Police naik Pramod Tawde learnt this the hard way yesterday. The cop - who climbed the podium and gifted Raj Thackeray a yellow rose on Tuesday in front of an applauding crow...


Coal controversy: Attack, don't be defensive, said Sonia Gandhi to MPs

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:37 PM PDT

After a cacophonous BJP paralysed Parliament for the third day in a row, demanding the Prime Minister's resignation over what is being called "Coal-gate", Congress president Sonia Gandhi sent out a to...


Dear Mr Azmi, this cheque will bounce

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:24 PM PDT

Find Bangladeshis, get Rs 2 crore. That was Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Asim Azmi's singular challenge to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray yesterday. While blaming 'illegal imm...


Coal block allocation: Protest at PM, Gadkari homes, says Kejriwal

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:02 PM PDT

Alleging that Congress and BJP were hand-in-glove on the coal block allocation issue, erstwhile Team Anna has announced gherao of the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief Nitin Ga...


Four new hydropower projects for Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Four hydropower projects with a combined capacity of 3,400 KW will be set up in Uttar Pradesh in three years, the state government has said. An empowered committee headed by Infrastructure & Industria...

Gujarat riots were state sponsored, Assam clashes were not: Tarun Gogoi

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:48 PM PDT

Tarun Gogoi, the beleaguered Chief Minister of Assam, has taken umbrage at comparisons being made between the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ethnic clashes that have rocked his state in the last month;...


India's nuclear safety report warns of Fukushima-like disaster

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:38 PM PDT

The national auditor's report on India's nuclear safety has raised concerns over a weak regulatory body. In its report on the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board's (AERB) performance audit, the Comptroller...


Assam MLA arrested for alleged role in ethnic violence; supporters stop trains, traffic

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:14 PM PDT

A state legislator in Assam has been detained by the police for his alleged role in the recent ethnic clashes in the state that have left over 70 people dead in the last one month.


Coal controversy: All-party meeting to discuss parliament paralysis

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:01 PM PDT

Coal controversy: For the third day in row, Parliament was paralysed after a cacophonous chorus by the BJP demanding the Prime Minister's resignation for allegedly allowing private firms to gain thous...


Veerappa Moily questions credibility of CAG report

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:01 PM PDT

Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said that CAG reports on power and coal have been done without proper study and that they will precipitate policy paralysis in the government.


India-US relationship retreated under Obama: Romney aide

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:38 PM PDT

The strategic partnership between India and the United States has "retreated" under the current Obama Administration as compared to the momentum built during the Bush-era, Republican White House hopef...


Balkrishna, aide of Baba Ramdev, booked in money laundering case; may be arrested

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:26 AM PDT

Amid mounting trouble for yoga guru Baba Ramdev, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today registered a money laundering case against his close aide Balkrishna even as the agency is all set to close in o...


Prithviraj Chavan not in favour of transferring Mumbai top cop: Sources

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:07 AM PDT

With Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik under attack from some quarters, including the ruling ally NCP, for what they say is the mishandling of the protest at Azad Maidan on August 11, sources ha...


Blog: Riots, rumors and mass exodus

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:07 AM PDT

The spurt of killings which began in Bodoland autonomous region of Assam in North-East India and spread to many regions of the country, has been dubbed as India's biggest-ever internal displacement so...


Indian at Warren Buffet's charitable trust guilty of theft

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:55 AM PDT

An Indian man who worked for billionaire Warren Buffet's charitable foundation has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from the organization and could face up to 20 years in prison.


Sonia Gandhi beats Michelle Obama on list of most powerful women

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:18 AM PDT

Forbes magazine ranked German Chancellor Angela Merkel the most powerful woman in the world for the second year in a row in the annual list dominated by politicians, businesswomen and media figures.


Coal-gate: CBI to submit report on alleged corruption by Sept 1

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing possible corruption in the sale of coal concessions to private companies, it said today, as the affair dubbed "Coal-gate" caused uproar in Parliame...


Ratan Tata asks for govt report on how Radia tapes were leaked

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT

After warning from government, Twitter promises cooperation: 10 facts

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:23 AM PDT

Micro-blogging site Twitter has promised to cooperate with the government after the Prime Minister's Office complained to it about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official a...


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