Left Front, Congress walk out over farmer suicides

Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The opposition Left Front and Congress on Tuesday staged a walkout from the West Bengal assembly protesting the speaker’s refusal to allow discussion on farmers’ suicides in the state. The opposition lawmakers raised the issue of suicides by potato farmers, but Speaker Biman Banerjee refused to allow any discussion. Congress legislators […]

HC irked at no-show of Delhi government in hearings

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the city government for panelled lawyers not appearing in court during numerous hearings and also took a dig at the locking of the office of an IAS officer at the Delhi Secretariat. Amid the tussle over appointment of bureaucrats between Lt. Governor […]

Tata Power profits up to Rs.168 crore in 2014-15

Tata Power profits up to Rs.168 crore in 2014-15

Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Driven by favourable impact of forex in and tariff orders, integrated power company Tata Power on Tuesday said it consolidated net profit in 2014-15 rose to Rs.168 crore against a loss of Rs.260 crore incurred in 2013-14. The net revenue, in the review period, however, fell by just over four percent […]

Rajnath assures fair probe into man’s killing by police

Rajnath assures fair probe into man’s killing by police

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday assured the family of Manoj Vashishth of a fair probe into his killing by a team of Delhi Police Special Cell. Vashishth was shot in central Delhi’s Rajendra Place area on Saturday. Vashishth’s family members, including his wife Priyanka, met Rajnath Singh at his residence here on Monday, demanding […]

Even in her coma, Aruna triggered changes in euthanasia law

Even in her coma, Aruna triggered changes in euthanasia law

One moment of murderous lust by a hospital contract sweeper consigned a young woman looking forward to her impending marriage to over four decades of a vegetative half-life. But Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug’s plight attracted attentive devotion of her sister nurses, touched millions of Indians and led to the apex court’s intervention to change the country’s […]