Social activists have accused the Uttar Pradesh government of providing inadequate and slow relief to victims of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. Accusing official agencies of forcing the victims living in relief camps to sign undertakings in lieu of compensation, an umbrella grouping of NGOs said the government must realize its duties towards its […]
The Supreme Court Monday said it will open on Jan 17 the Justice (retd) N.M.Kasliwal report on the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections, which were embroiled in controversy after former IPL czar Lalit Modi entered the race for the president’s post. A bench of Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice M.Y.Eqbal rpt M.Y.Eqbal said they […]
Four policemen were injured Tuesday in a gunfight between security forces and separatist guerrillas in Kashmir’s Baramulla district, an official said. A senior police official told that security forces closed in on a house in Chankhan locality of Sopore town, 55 km from here, Tuesday morning following information about the presence of a group of […]
Breaking his silence on the Adarsh Society scam, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Monday dismissed allegations of corruption in the allotment of flats in the controversial building. “There have been no wrongdoings in the Adarsh case. The land belongs to Maharashtra government and it was not reserved for Kargil (war heroes),” he told media persons […]
The Delhi High Court Monday permitted the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to audit the revenue-sharing details of all the private telecom operators. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice V.K. Rao, however, said the CAG will not be allowed to venture into aspects like “faithfulness, wisdom and economy in expenditures”. […]
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh Monday expressed displeasure over the working of several ministers in the party’s government in Karnataka and cautioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah against landing the party in controversies by hasty decisions, party sources said. Digvijaya Singh, who is in charge of party’s Karnataka affairs, expressed these views at a meeting of the […]
Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan does not see international cricket returning to his country anytime soon. Khan feels the sport is suffering a lot since Pakistan became a no-go zone for international teams following the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Since the attack, Pakistan not only […]
A 30-year-old call centre employee was raped by her colleagues in her office in Haryana’s Gurgaon, police said. Acting on the complaint of the victim, who resides in a hostel in R.K. Puram area of south Delhi, Delhi Police registered a zero FIR Monday and later transferred the case to Gurgaon. The victim told the […]
Selling his house and shop and taking loans at heavy rates of interest rates to help a sex worker whom he loved and wanted to marry to pay her debts, a man saw red when she still refused to live with him and murdered her, police said Monday. Tannu Chawla, 27, and his friend, Yogesh, […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said he had written to Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung over shortage of staff in the Anti Corruption Branch. He said he would meet Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi over the matter. “There are 19 vacant positions at inspector level. We have asked LG to provide us inspectors. I will […]