Lucknow, Sep 4 – In a role reversal, two prisoners took into ‘custody’ two drunk constables who were escorting them for a court hearing and took them to a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, officials said Friday. The unlikely incident took place Thursday near a local court in this town, some 300 km [...]
Mumbai/New Delhi/Beijing, Sep 3 – Asking China to show sensitivity to its concerns, India Friday conveyed its ‘serious concerns’ over the reported presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and rejected Beijing’s labeling of Jammu and Kashmir as ‘India-controlled Kashmir.’ ‘I hope the Chinese government will have respect for our sensitivities in Jammu and Kashmir,’ [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – A mere 40 percent of the electorate turned out Friday for the elections to the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), officials said. The turnout defied the election office’s expectation of a substantial turnout as the number of ‘freshers’ had increased this year. Altogether 41 students are in fray for the [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – The authorities in Haryana’s Pachkula district Friday rejected the plea of disgraced former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore for parole to supervise the harvesting of crops at his agricultural land near here. A meeting of district authorities decided to recommend to the Chandigarh administration that Rathore should not be granted parole [...]
New Delhi, Sept 3 – Shahsi Tharoor may have lost his ministerial job, but he has not fallen out of favor with the prime minister. Gursharan Kaur, Manmohan Singh’s spouse, was among those who came to wish Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar good luck on their marriage, the third for both, at a power-packed [...]
Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 – Three more people, including two children, died of swine flu in Orissa Friday, taking the total deaths due to the H1N1 influenza in the state to 22 in the past two months, officials said. The latest fatalities include a 61-year-old man, a four-year-old girl and an one-year-old boy, an official of [...]
Gandhinagar, Sep 3 – The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected the plea of Rubabuddin Sheikh, brother of staged shootout victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh, to be a party to the hearing of former minister Amit Shah’s bail plea. Rejecting the plea, Justice Akil Kureshi confirmed the order of the lower court. Earlier Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday expressed ‘great concern’ over China terming Jammu and Kashmir ‘Indian-controlled Kashmir’. ‘Jammu and Kahsmir is an inalienable part of India. We have noted with great concern the comments made by China,’ Krishna told media persons after a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on external [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Factfile on Delhi Metro: * Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was set up in 1995, construction started in 1998 and the first section opened in 2002. * The total length of the Metro is 138 km, there are 16 sections and 117 stations. * The longest lines are Dwarka Sector [...]
Kolkata, Sep 3 – Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji, leader of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), has called a 48-hour shutdown from Sep 13 in eight states demanding a probe into what he alleged was a ‘cold blooded murder’ of party colleague Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad by Andhra Pradesh Police. The shutdown will be [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the best. All roads seemed to lead to the India Habitat [...]
Bangalore, Sep 3 – Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the company said late Friday. ‘By leveraging our industry expertise with Oracle’s Siebel customer relationship management (CRM) applications, we will help streamline [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Delhi Metro’s Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link, which connects the city’s north with its satellite town of Gurgaon in Haryana, was a huge hit among the public Friday with over 32,000 footfalls within a few hours of its opening. According to a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) spokesperson, about 32,000 people [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – The Supreme Court has stayed an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) verdict directing the central government to treat all the commissioned officers of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) on par with the regular army. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M.Lodha passed the order on a petition [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Close on the heels of killing abducted policeman Lucas Tete in Bihar, Maoist militants Friday hacked to death a police constable in the midst of a weekly market in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar region. The brutal murder took place in Katekalyan area in Dantewada district, over 420 km south of state capital [...]
Lucknow, Sep 3 – A teenaged Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district Friday immolated herself after police refused to register her complaint of rape against a youth of her village, officials said. The 15-year-old set herself ablaze in her house in Parauli village in Kanpur, some 80 km from Lucknow. The girl’s family alleged [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party’s bad governance. ‘Poor people are becoming poorer and the rich are becoming richer during the Congress regime as it has adopted a wrong economic policy and [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – The government Friday gave in-principle approval to the Rs.100 crore Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project aimed at encouraging research on religion. ‘The National Implementation Committee in a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has approved in principle Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project worth Rs.100 crore,’ an official statement said. [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi family. ‘I congratulate Sonia Gandhi for getting re-elected the Congress chief for a record fourth time but she [...]
Gandhinagar, Sep 3 – The Gujarat High Court Friday issued notice to the CBI on the anticipatory bail plea of Yashpal Chudasama, a close aide of former minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shoutout case. Ajay Patel, another aide of the former minister, has also filed for anticipatory bail but the [...]
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