Kolkata, June 30 – The State Bank of India (SBI) Staff Association in West Bengal Wednesday called a two-day strike from July 5, which would affect operations in around 800 branches and 3,000 ATMs. The strike has been called to protest the transfer orders and show cause notices issued to three staffers. ‘Around 15,000 members [...]
Kolkata, June 30 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday filed a chargesheet against 12 people, including a former director general of ordnance factories, for alleged criminal conspiracy and corruption. The CBI had arrested Sudipta Ghosh, the then director general of ordnance factories and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board, last year for entering [...]
Jerusalem, June 30 – Israeli police arrested Wednesday a Palestinian lawmaker of the radical Islamist Hamas movement who lives in East Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported. Mohammed Abu Tir, born in East Jerusalem, was arrested after he apparently ignored Israeli orders to leave the city, the radio station said. Israel has banned any activity by Hamas, [...]
New Delhi, June 30 – With the Commonwealth Games drawing near, civic authorities in the capital are Thursday set to launch a sanitation drive, which would include disinfecting railway stations, bus stops and major markets. ‘This special awareness programme on cleanliness will be carried on from July 1 to July 15. The MCD (Municipal Corporation [...]
London, June 30 – Pop singer Katy Perry revealed that she decided to collaborate with hip-hop star Snoop Dogg for her new album after reading about him on Wikipedia website. ‘I was Wikipedia-ing all the original West Coast people and I was thinking to myself, who is still relevant, who is like the best, cherry [...]
Algier, June 30 – Suspected Islamist militants have killed 11 Algerian border guards in an apparent revenge attack near the country’s border with Mali, news reports said Wednesday. The Algerian internet news site Tout Sur Algerie reported that the border guards were ambushed in the province of Tamanrasset. A day earlier security forces had reportedly [...]
London, June 30 – British actor Robert Pattinson, who shot to fame playing Edward Cullen in the vampire franchise ‘Twilight’, wants to start his own religion. ‘I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion,’ femalefirst.co.uk qouted Pattinson as saying. Pattinson thinks of one major benefit to having followers [...]
New Delhi, June 30 – India seems to find favour with Americans and Britons, as they accounted for the maximum of nearly 5.1 million tourists to this country. According to sources in the tourism ministry, about 803,021 Americans visited India in 2009, while 748,765 Britishers came here. But the tourist number was higher in 2008 [...]
Chandigarh, June 30 – A meeting of the five Sikh high priests is likely to be convened by the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh religion, to discuss whether the 1984 anti-Sikh riots should be designated a genocide. Akal Takht Jathedar (head) Gurbhachan Singh said here Wednesday that he will convene an [...]
New Delhi, Jun 30 – An Enforcement Directorate employee was found hanging in his office Wednesday, police said. The body of 50-year-old Santosh Kumar Verma, an upper divisional clerk, was found in his office on Akbar Road by colleagues at around 10.30 a.m., police said. The deceased hailed from Rajasthan. No suicide note was found, [...]
New Delhi, June 30 – Lakshman, the brother of Lord Rama in the epic Ramayana, was crowned the real hero of the tale in a contemporary reprise by Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily at the launch of the English translation of his book ‘Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam’ Wednesday. ‘Lakshman was responsible for driving [...]
Lucknow, June 30 – A criminal case has been registered against 15 Uttar Pradesh policemen for faking a gun battle in 2006, officials said Wednesday. The case was registered late Wednesday at Gomti Nagar police station here by the CB-CID (Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department) officials probing the case. ‘Suresh Ganga Pasi, a resident of Unnao [...]
New Delhi, June 30 – The government has formed a four-member committee to consider and make recommendations on the impact of plans to divert 660.749 hectare of forest land for bauxite mining in Orissa’s Kalahandi and Rayagada districts, a statement said Wednesday. The committee has been formed with immediate effect and will submit its findings [...]
Bhopal, June 30 – Madhya Pradesh’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government Wednesday decided to set up a judicial commission to inquire into the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, with the focus on probing the release on bail of Warren Anderson, the then chief of Union Carbide. ‘A retired high court judge is to be appointed for [...]
Panaji, June 30 – A senior bureaucrat who has been booked for graft was suspended late Wednesday. The police, however, have not arrested the joint secretary-level officer. Registrar of Companies P.K. Patidar, who was also in-charge of the animal husbandry department, was arrested Tuesday after he was caught red-handed receiving a bribe of Rs.15,000. Police [...]
Los Angeles, June 30 – The British model-actress Elizabeth Hurley was terrified as her businessman husband Arun Nayar burned his hand while trying to light a bonfire. Nayar was preparing to light a bonfire at their countryside farm in south-west England last year, when a kerosene blast singed Nayar’s hair and burned his hand, reports [...]
Mumbai, June 30 – India is finally getting its very own music awards. The Indian Music Academy (IMA) has joined hands with Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd to create awards that will be a celebration of all music genres. At an event that had panelists like Shivkumar Sharma, Jagjit Singh and Salim and Sulaiman Merchant among [...]
New Delhi, June 30 – The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday sealed seven country villas in the capital for violating building norms. ‘The Nazafgarh Zone of MCD sealed the farmhouses (country villas) in Mundka area for violation of Delhi Municipal Corporation Act or building by-laws by holding marriages or social functions without permission of [...]
Abu Dhabi, June 30 (IANS/WAM) One person was arrested here Wednesday for duping people of 102 million dirhams ($28 million) in the name of a non-existent investment firm. The 28-year-old man lured at least 325 people to invest in a firm in the name of a dead person, said Deputy Director of Police Operations Brigadier [...]
Kolkata, June 30 – Five Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leaders were Wednesday remanded to 12 days’ police custody by a court here. The quintet, including a state committee member of the guerrilla outfit, were arrested from South 24 Parganas district Tuesday and produced at the Alipore Court Wednesday by the Criminal Investigation Department of [...]
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