Jammu, Dec 18 (IANS) As many as 478 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct have been received by the Election Commission since the beginning of the five-phase Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, a poll panel official said. Also 92 incidents of violence relating to the poll campaign were reported from different parts […]
Beijing, Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) The inhabitants of Shufangya, a village in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, have been collecting signatures on a petition to expel an eight-year-old boy from the village because he is infected with the HIV virus. The official newspaper Global Times reported Thursday that more than 200 people, including the boy’s own grandfather, […]
Kolkata, Dec 18 (IANS) Nearly three months after Jadavpur University erupted in protests over a police crackdown on agitating students, yet another showdown looms large with many students set to boycott the convocation even though West Bengal Governor and university chancellor K.N. Tripathi has warned against it. The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) along with […]
NSW Treasurer Andrew Constance has today released the Half-Yearly Review, which has forecast a Budget surplus of $272 million in 2014-15 – a $555 million improvement on the Budget-time forecast. Across the forward estimates, a surplus of $402 million is now forecast in 2015-16, a surplus of $1.096 billion in 2016-17 and a surplus of […]
Dubai, Dec 17 (IANS) Leading woman shuttler Saina Nehwal beat reigning Asian Games champion Shixian Wang of China 21-17, 21-18 to win the first match of Group A of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Superseries Finals Wednesday. Displaying vintage form, the Indian World No.4 prevailed over World No.2 Shixian in 58 minutes at the Hamdan […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Aurangzeb Road in Lutyen’s Delhi, the address of the city’s many billionaires, will not be renamed, parliament was told Wednesday. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) had recently demanded that Aurangzeb Road be named after Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur. Guru Teg Bahadur was executed by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The […]
Gurgaon, Dec 17 (IANS) People were evacuated from a Delhi Metro station and two markets in posh areas of Gurgaon Wednesday afternoon after police received bomb threat calls, officials said. The threats, however, turned out to be hoaxes. Train services were affected for over two-and-a-half hours – from around 3.30 p.m. till 6 p.m. – […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Highly classified information about the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has been made available to the public, the central government informed parliament Wednesday. Files relating to the Justice Khosla and the Justice M.K. Mukherjee commissions have been sent by the ministry of home affairs to the National Archives Oct […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The defence ministry Wednesday cleared procurement proposals worth around Rs.4,500 crore, ministry sources said. The proposals were cleared by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar-headed Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the apex decision-making body in the ministry. The proposals include one for acquiring four survey vessels for the navy worth Rs.2,324 crore. The […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Wednesday passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014, after Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley told the house that some of the original provisions were only posing hurdles to doing business in the country. “The object of these amendments is solely to ease the process of doing business in […]