Sunday, September 9, 2012

Row over UGC secretary’s appointment continues

Row over UGC secretary’s appointment continues

Row over UGC secretary’s appointment continues

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 08:37 PM PDT

Appointment of secretary in the University Grants Commission (UGC) has turned into a full-fledged battle with the HRD ministry, with a section of UGC on one side and a few members and aggrieved candidates on the other.

Beas eats up parts of Mandi-Manali highway; NHAI sits watching

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:51 PM PDT

After every heavy rainfall on the mountains, the flooded Beas flows over the highway at Raison and Thalout as the road is almost at the same level as the river at these places.

Scuffles between Cong workers at marriage function

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:50 PM PDT

A scuffle took placed between two factions of Congress workers at a marriage function in the presence of Congress MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee in Shahkot on Sunday.

Cooks protest move to privatize school midday meal scheme

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:41 PM PDT

Denouncing the Punjab government proposal to hand over the midday meal scheme to contractors in schools coming under the purview of eight municipal corporations, the midday meal cooks plan to take to streets in protest.

Ex-naib tehsildar booked for land fraud

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:38 PM PDT

There is more trouble for Gurinder Singh Walia, former naib tehsildar (NT) of Patiala. After being indicted by former Patiala divisional commissioner in a Rs 200-crore land scam, Patiala vigilance bureau (VB) booked him in another land fraud case on Sunday.

Govt makes it harder for doctors to stay on in US

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 05:06 PM PDT

In the past three years, 3,000 medical students have gone abroad and stayed there. India has one doctor per 2,000 people; the US has one for 469.

Thackeray for Sushma as NDA’s PM candidate

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:57 PM PDT

Bal Thackeray, chief of BJP's oldest ally Shiv Sena, has endorsed Sushma Swaraj as the NDA's prime ministerial candidate, reigniting the divisive leadership issue within the main opposition party.

Thackerays are Biharis, should quit Mumbai: Lalu

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:44 PM PDT

RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday asked Shiv Sena leader Balasaheb Thackeray, his son Uddhav and nephew and MNS chief Raj Thackeray to leave Maharashtra immediately as they, being Biharis, are themselves infiltrators.

JPL profits not due to cheap coal: Jindal

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:32 PM PDT

Congress MP Naveen Jindal, who is chairman and MD of Jindal Steel & Power, on Sunday said JSPL's subsidiary Jindal Power Limited (JPL) was highly profitable not due to allocation of cheap coal but because of many other reasons.

Krishna points to LeT chief’s free run in Pak

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT

Foreign minister S M Krishna used his visit to Pakistan to drive home an anti-terrorism message with the opposition just as he did with the federal government, pointedly referring to 26/11 main accused Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed's presence in Punjab during his meeting with chief minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday.

Pakistan press misreads Krishna

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:13 PM PDT

Pakistani newspapers misread foreign minister S M Krishna's verbal volleys on the India-Pakistan peace process to draw the inference that India is willing to drop its "hard line" position on 26/11 and move on with its relations with Islamabad.

PSLV-C21 fires Isro to historic

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:05 PM PDT

India's space odyssey crossed a historic landmark when a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) put two foreign satellites in orbit on Sunday in the Indian Space Research Organization's 100th mission.

Seven years on, KG basin gas story runs out of steam

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:04 PM PDT

In 2005, while addressing students at IIM-Ahmedabad, Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani compared India's east coast to the Gulf of Mexico.

Paradrop training along LAC to check China

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:59 PM PDT

India is quietly practising airdrops of paratroopers in high-altitude areas near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to bolster operational readiness. The combat drills are a part of the overall plan to strategically counter China's massive build-up of military infrastructure all along the unresolved border.

Displaced Pakistanis to get Indian citizenship

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:56 PM PDT

Hope has been rekindled in thousands of Pakistanis displaced from their country, who are now living in the state, after the centre's decision to grant Indian citizenship to those living here for 7 years.

171 more Pak Hindus arrive in Jodhpur

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:54 PM PDT

In a huge exodus of Hindu families from Pakistan into India, 171 people arrived in Jodhpur by Thar Express on Sunday. The group comprises men and women in all age groups and they have been temporarily accommodated in a temple's precincts until proper arrangements can be made.

A visionary who fathered the Amul baby

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:37 PM PDT

The Syrian Christian who could not speak Gujarati found it difficult to find a paying guest accommodation when he first reached the city of his destiny, Anand.

Kurien was the maker of modern Gujarat: Ela Bhatt

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Amul in colloquial Gujarati means "priceless". And that is what Verghese Kurien was and will remain for the people of Gujarat and India. He was the maker of modern Gujarat.

Don’t delay larger role for Rahul: Akhilesh Yadav

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT

At a time when major changes are on the cards in the Congress and the UPA government, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said the party should not delay giving a larger role to Rahul Gandhi.

‘Illiteracy behind rising Muslim count in Assam’

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi blamed the growth of Muslim population in the state on high birth rate among the community, dismissing suggestions that illegal migration from Bangladesh had skewed the demography of the state.

Start apolitical stir: Volunteers to Anna

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:55 PM PDT

The rift among former Team Anna members spread to the ranks on Sunday with several India Against Corruption (IAC) members and volunteers publicly disassociating themselves from the Arvind Kejriwal-led initiative to form a political party.

Are netas living up to oath of upholding India’s integrity?

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT

If physical features or language of an Indian becomes the reason for directing suspicious looks or violence against her/him, then the country must urgently take steps to prevent the ugly head of regionalism and linguistic parochialism making fresh attempts to tear national integrity apart.

CPM seeks probe into PMO role in coal block allocations

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT

The CPM on Sunday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was "in the dock for the policies and decisions which have led to high-level corruption in the coal block allocations" and demanded a probe that would also look into the role of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

How India's Milkman shaped Karnataka's dairy sector

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

He once feared Karnataka would beat Gujarat and emerge as India's no 1 in the cooperative dairy sector.He even hoped it would.

Hurriyat not interested in dialogue with Centre: Geelani

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today said the amalgam is not interested in entering a "meaningless" dialogue process with the Centre.
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