Sunday, January 13, 2013

Women aping 'foreign culture' not good for India: BJP leader Babulal Gaur

Women aping 'foreign culture' not good for India: BJP leader Babulal Gaur

Women aping 'foreign culture' not good for India: BJP leader Babulal Gaur

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 08:17 PM PST

Babulal Gaur on Sunday said 'foreign culture' of women wearing jeans and T-shirts, drinking liquor and dancing with other men is not good for India.

Maha Kumbh Mela begins, 1.1 crore pilgrims may take dip today

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 08:10 PM PST

Mahakumbh, the world's biggest gathering of humanity, started today with 1.1 crore devotees expected to take the holy dip at Sangam on Makar Sankranti.

Declare Amritsar 'dry city', says Navjot Kaur Sidhu

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:50 PM PST

Chief parliamentary secretary Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Sunday demanded from chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to declare Amritsar as "dry city".

Bishnoi is a 'fukra', says Haryana speaker

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:46 PM PST

The speaker was addressing a news conference here after quashing disqualification petitions against five HJC MLAs, who had extended a crucial prop to the Hooda government in 2009.

Gurdaspur rape case: Six accused sent in police remand

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:45 PM PST

Six persons arrested for the rape of a mentally challenged woman have been sent in police remand while one accused is still on the run.

No case against khaps in Haryana: Cops

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:40 PM PST

Khap panchayats may be notorious for issuing diktats in cases of honour killings but not a single case has been registered against them anywhere in Haryana since 2001.

Himachal govt too mulls over probing illegal land deals

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:40 PM PST

As probing alleged "illegal" land deals of previous BJP government in Himachal Pradesh is high on the agenda of new Congress regime, the government is contemplating to appoint a new commission to probe the benami land deals of last five years.

Punjab vigilance bureau finally secures former DC's arrest warrant

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:38 PM PST

Over two months after registration of a fraud case against former Patiala deputy commissioner and nine others, including senior government officers, in multi-crore land scam, finally the vigilance bureau has secured arrest warrants from Patiala court.

Punjab assembly speaker rushes to Delhi for legal remedy

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:34 PM PST

Faced with a piquant situation of large-scale screening of an "expunged" video footage showing Punjab public relations minister Bikram Majithia hurl abuses at a Congress MLA, a rattled assembly speaker Charanjit Atwal on Friday rushed to Delhi to seek "remedial action".

Haryana speaker quashes 5 Cong legislators’ disqualification

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:31 PM PST

Five Haryana Janhit Congress MLAs, who had defected and joined the Congress immediately after the 2009 assembly elections, won a long legal battle when Vidhan Sabha speaker Kuldeep Sharma on Sunday dismissed all the disqualification petitions filed against them.

Kumbh gets bigger in size and logistics

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:21 PM PST

From the days of ancient Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang, who visited India in 629-645 AD to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Kumbh and Sangam have been synonymous with purity, serenity and spirituality.

Shallow Ganga greets devotees on Kumbh eve

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:15 PM PST

All arrangements seem to be in place for the Mahakumbh except for one problem — there isn't enough water in the Ganga for the mass ritual.

Lance Naik Hemraj Singh’s family continues hunger strike

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:12 PM PST

The condition of the mother and the widow of Lance Naik Hemraj Singh, killed along the LoC in J&K last week, worsened on the fourth day of their hunger strike to push the government to bring back the soldier's severed head.

Activists up in arms about Mumbai cop’s poem on Azad Maidan riot

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:54 PM PST

The poem, Azad Maidan, published in city police's bulletin, Sanwwad, has created a stir as it suggested that if the police killed the protesters there would have been no fear.

Sangam ready for confluence of faith, 1.1 crore pilgrims may take Kumbh dip today

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:06 PM PST

Mahakumbh, the world's biggest gathering of humanity, starts today with 1.1 crore devotees expected to take the holy dip at Sangam on Makar Sankranti.

Change in custody of kids after HC interim order upsets Norway

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

The Norway government isn't happy with the change of custody of the two children on the orders of the Calcutta high court and is reportedly keeping tabs on the issue.

Punjab aw and order situation deteriorating: Amarinder Singh

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:58 PM PST

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said that law and order situation in the state has deteriorated and President's rule can't be ruled out here.

Freed from jail, man rapes, murders 9-year-old girl

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:44 PM PST

A 32-year-old man, who had been acquitted last year by the high court of all charges in the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl at Sinnar in Nashik district in 2003, was arrested on Friday for allegedly committing a similar crime.

Hijacked Indian sailors' families SOS Pakistan activist

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:37 PM PST

After failing to get any help from the Centre, the families of 17 Indian crew members whose ship was hijacked by Somali pirates in March last year have sought help of a Pakistan-based NGO for their early release.

Passenger gang-raped, killed, hanged from a tree

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:27 PM PST

In a grim reminder of the horrific Delhi rape case, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district, was gang-raped, killed and her body hanged from a tree in a mango orchard.

Jammu and Kashmir woman sarpanch critical after attack

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:21 PM PST

At least 20 Kashmiri panchayat members resigned on Sunday a day after suspected terrorists shot at and critically wounded a 45-year-old woman panch at Hardshiva near north Kashmir's Sopore town.

Naxals torch 27 vehicles at Gadchiroli road construction site

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:14 PM PST

The Naxals sounded a wake-up call for Gadchiroli cops on Sunday afternoon by torching 27 vehicles at a road construction site near Lekha (Menda) village on Godalvahi-Dhanora road, some 6km from the state highway connecting Gadchiroli and Rajnandgaon.

Have government schemes failed Muslims?

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:14 PM PST

A report authored by Abusaleh Sharif, member secretary of the Sachar committee and the man widely regarded as being the main author of that committee's report, indicates that not much has changed.

Urban poor to be identified on vulnerabilities

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:06 PM PST

The urban poor will now be identified on the basis of social, economic and occupational vulnerabilities as the housing and poverty alleviation ministry has decided to junk the Planning Commission's income benchmark.

India stopped Pakistan from raising bilateral issues in UNSC

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:04 PM PST

As India steps down from the UNSC after two years, South Block can take satisfaction from the fact that in the past two years, no bilateral issue by Pakistan saw the light of day.
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