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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Zardari cuts short Dubai visit, returns to Pak: Reports
Zardari back in Pakistan after his trip to Dubai
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NEW DELHI: ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to Pakistan from a trip to Dubai,
his spokesman said on Friday, as speculation swirled over whether he
would survive heightened tension between his civilian government and the
country's powerful...
India on vigil for new enemy from LoC: Poliovirus
An infant being administered polio vaccine drops. India has not recorded a single case of polio in 12 months — the longest ever.
NEW DELHI: India has not recorded a single case of polio in 12 months - the longest ever. However, the Indian strain of wild poliovirus imported by several other countries like Angola,...
Ind vs Aus: India lose Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid cheaply on Day 1
Ben
Hilfenhaus of Australia (right) celebrates after taking the wicket of
Virender Sehwag of India during the first day of the third Test at the
WACA in Perth. (Reuters Photo)
NEW DELHI: India suffered another blow when Australian paceman Peter
Siddle struck in his first over to remove Rahul Dravid on the first day...
India-Israel relations come out of Arab world shadow
Foreign
minister SM Krishna shakes hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres
during their meeting at the President's residence in Jerusalem on
January 9, 2011. (AP photo)
NEW DELHI: The India-Israel relationship is finally out of the closet. In three days in Israel and Palestine, foreign minister S M Krishna showed...
Supreme Court invokes harsher law for drunken hit-and-run
Alistair Pereira could have got more than a three-year sentence had the Maharashtra government appealed against the HC verdict.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday set the trend for stringent punishment to those causing road deaths due to drunk driving by holding that the Bombay high court was right in sending...
Green shoots? Industrial output up from negative to 5.9% in November
Although
economists said the growth in industrial production may not remain as
buoyant, the government was of the opinion that expansion in the fourth
quarter will be more.
NEW DELHI: The New Year seems to be bringing some cheer with the
emergence of some green shoots in the economy. Industrial production
rose by 5.9%,...
Batla House encounter genuine, no further probe: P Chidambaram
The
home minister said, “After looking into the matter, after I took over
as home minister, we came to the conclusion that the (Batla House)
encounter was a genuine encounter.”
NEW DELHI: Home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday firmly rejected Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's claim that the Batla House...
Apologise for offensive show, India tells BBC
India demands apology from BBC for offensive show
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LONDON: India has demanded an apology from the BBC over its presenter Jeremy Clarkson mocking Indian culture during a Christmas special programme while driving around the country, calling it a "breach" of agreement. Clarkson, one of the highest paid BBC...
CWG case: Arguments on charges from Feb 1
NEW DELHI: Arguments on framing of charges against sacked Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi
and others in a CWG-related corruption case will start from February 1,
a special CBI court said on Thursday while directing the defence to
finish scrutiny of documents by the end of this month. Special
CBI judge Talwant Singh decided on day-to-day proceedings in the case
from Friday and directed the...
Government unwilling to revise Bhopal tragedy toll
NEW DELHI: The government is not keen to change the classification of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy in its curative petition before the Supreme Court
and allow higher compensation for thousands or admit to a higher number
of fatalities, although it is ready to consider doubling the relief
demanded for the small number it currently accepts as dead and those
permanently scarred due to the lethal gas leak. The government...
Where should NRIs invest their gains from a weak rupee
The rupee was quoting at 44.8001 against the US dollar seven months
ago, and has depreciated 18.28% since then. A falling rupee is not the
best news for us, but it definitely is for exporters and NRI investors
who will receive more rupee funds on conversion. Given the current
scenario, NRIs have some good investment options to park their surplus
funds. Short term (6 months to 1 year)
Fixed income mutual funds:...
Govt faces Supreme Court ire over pendency
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court
on Thursday said pendency of 3 crore cases could not be effectively
dealt with unless the government created more courts and filled
vacancies because annual disposal of cases by trial courts, high courts
and the Supreme Court only matched the numbers filed every year, leaving
the backlog untouched. If a bench of Justices A K Ganguly and T
S Thakur questioned additional solicitor general Harin...
Govt finally clears umbrella anti-terror organization
The
NCTC will work as an “integral” part of the Intelligence Bureau, but
will be exclusively focused on counter-terrorism on the lines of
specialized anti-terror agencies in the US, the UK, Germany, France,
Israel, Russia, China and Japan.
NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday finally gave its approval to set up a 'specialized'...
Centre plans citizen's charter for every department
NEW DELHI: The 'aam aadmi' may soon receive services and grievance
redressal in specified timeframes, with the Centre initiating the
process to evolve citizen's charter for every Union government department despite the legislation concerned being stuck in political wrangling.
The cabinet secretariat is in discussions with Union ministries about
citizen's/client's charters to fix the services and the timeline in...
Date of birth battle not yet over: General VK Singh
NEW DELHI: The Army chief's defiant battle against the government to
get his "honour and integrity" restored is far from over. With General VK Singh
not ruling out resigning before his term, the senior-most serving
Lt-General Shankar Ghosh also seems to have thrown his hat into the
ring, muddying the succession battle further.
Gen Singh himself
was quite combative, albeit a little hurt by "reprehensible"...
Andaman police start probe into Jarawa video
NEW DELHI: With Andaman police
registering a case against unknown persons in connection with the video
of semi-naked Jarawa tribals being made to dance in return for food,
the Centre on Thursday said it had asked the Union Territory
administration to quickly apprehend the videographer and the tour
operator concerned and interrogate them.
Asked about the probe,
home minister P Chidambaram said, "Now we have got...
Pranab Mukherjee was aware of controversial 2G note, finmin officials tell JPC
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee
was aware of the contents of the controversial March 25, 2011 2G note
which suggested P Chidambaram could have prevented the scam by insisting
on auctions, a top ministry official told the Joint Parliamentary
Committee on telecom on Thursday.
Department of economic
affairs secretary R Gopalan agreed that the meaning of the noting "seen"
by the minister meant that Mukherjee...
BPL health scheme to be extended to more unorganized workers
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday reviewed the implementation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
(RSBY), the scheme launched five years ago to ensure health insurance
for families living below the poverty line, saying that it will be
extended to several segments of unorganized workers.
After a
meeting of the Union Cabinet, the government said that the scheme has
already been extended to some segments of unorganized...
Sikh wins turban case against France in UN
AMRITSAR:"The UN Human
Rights Commission (UNHRC) has asked France to submit a report by March
15 on measures it is planning to take against violation of religious
freedom of 76-year-old Ranjit Singh, who was asked to remove his turban
for an ID photo" informed Mejinderpal Kaur, legal director of Sikh NGO,
United Sikh on Thursday.
Following this observation of UNHRC, the Sikhs had won the turban case against France...
Censor posts or face China-like ban: Delhi high court to websites
NEW DELHI: Refusing to stay criminal proceedings against Google and Facebook, the Delhi high court on Thursday warned they may be "blocked" if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable contents from their webpages.
"Like China, we too can block such websites," Justice Suresh Kait remarked during the hearing when counsel for Google and Facebook harped on their global policy of non-interference even if...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Train collision in Jharkhand; 4 killed
Brahmaputra Express collides with a goods train, 4 dead
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SAHIBGANJ (Jharkhand): Four persons were killed and five others injured when the New Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail today collided with a goods train at Karonpuroto, about 25 km from here.
"A bogie of 14055 Brahmaputra Mail derailed and dashed against a
stationary...
FMCG tops MBA graduates wish list; Hindustan Unilever as most-preferred recruiter
The
fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector has emerged as the sector of
choice for business school graduates with Hindustan Unilever topping the
list as the preferred recruiter, according to a Nielsen survey.
KOLKATA: The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector has emerged as
the sector of choice for business school graduates...
Rahul Dravid rubbishes Australian media reports, says no rift in Team India
Indian
veteran batsman Rahul Dravid refuted Australia media reports that there
is any rift in the team and said spirit is high ahead of the third Test
at Perth. (AP Photo)
NEW DELHI: Indian veteran batsman Rahul Dravid refuted Australian media reports that there is any rift in the team and said spirit is high ahead of...
Navy officer drowns after training drill goes awry
In
a tragic case of harsh training drills going horribly wrong, a
frontline Indian warship’s captain is in the dock after a newly
commissioned officer drowned after being ordered to jump overboard into
the icy-cold waters of the Arabian Sea.
NEW DELHI: In a tragic case of harsh training drills going horribly
wrong,...
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