Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) In a major setback to former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the Bombay High Court Wednesday rejected a CBI plea to drop his name from the list of accused in the Adarsh Society scam case. Justice M.L. Tahiliyani gave the rulling on the revision application of the Central Bureau of Investigation […]
Baghdad, Nov 19 (IANS/EFE) At least five people were killed and 11 others wounded Wednesday in a car bomb suicide attack in Erbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, security sources told Efe news agency. The attack targeted Erbil’s municipal government headquarters, which had been spared until now despite the offensive that […]
Dubai, Nov 19 (IANS) An Indian man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been sentenced to one year in jail for molesting a seven-year-old British girl on the pretext of giving her tissues, media reported. The 25-year-old man, who is a cook, tricked the British girl to go with him to the toilet of […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Each of the AAP’s 110,000 volunteers has been told to reach out to 25 households ahead of Delhi’s assembly elections, to highlight the achievements of its 49-day rule in the capital. The Aam Aadmi Party would also use its Delhi Dialogue Programme to interact with various sections of the society, […]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 19 (IANS) The winter session of the Odisha assembly starting Thursday is all set to be a stormy affair with the opposition parties – the Congress and the BJP – planning to put the treasury benches on the mat by raising the multi-crore chit fund and mining scams, while the ruling party has […]
Panaji, Nov 19 (IANS) The Goa government Wednesday invoked the Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) even as an association of lifeguards at the state’s beaches threatened to go on strike from Friday. The invocation of ESMA renders any strike by lifeguards illegal on the beaches and inland waterways where lifeguard services are provided by the […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Haryana government over the Munak canal water sharing dispute. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul sought a response from the Haryana resident commissioner in Delhi. The court noted that over 80 MGD of water is being […]
Patna, Nov 19 (IANS) JD-U president Sharad Yadav Wednesday said moves were on to unite all constituents of the “Janata Parivar” to form a major political party to take on the Narendra Modi government. “Work has begun and we are hopeful of a positive result,” the Janata Dal-United leader told the media here. “Something may […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) CBI Director Ranjit Sinha Wednesday told the Supreme Court that he never overruled the opinion of any subordinate officer who investigated the allegation of quid pro quo against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran in the Maxis-Aircel deal but instead referred the matter to the attorney general for his opinion. “I […]
Jammu, Nov 19 (IANS) The Indian Army Wednesday facilitated the return to Jammu and Kashmir of a teenager who strayed across the Line of Control (LoC) into Pakistan. Military spokesman Colonel Manish Mehta told IANS here that the army facilitated the return of Manzar Hussain, a 13-year-old resident of Saria village, who had been missing […]