Chennai, Dec 2 (IANS) Banking transactions were hit in the five southern states and the union territories of Puducherry and Lakshadweep Tuesday with around 150,000 bank staff striking work demanding early conclusion of wage revision, said a union leader. “Around 150,000 employees struck work across the five southern states and Puducherry Tuesday demanding early wage […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) An organ donated is better than an organ consigned to flames or buried after death, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung said Tuesday while making a public appeal for a generous organ donation. Jung was speaking at the inauguration of one-day organ transplant conference in the capital where he launched e-reporting […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Aam Admi Party (AAP) would file a criminal case against the BJP for levelling baseless allegations against its source of funding, party chief Arvind Kejriwal said Tuesday “Media has widely covered arbitrary and baseless allegations by BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) against our funding. We are filing criminal defamation against […]
Guwahati, Dec 2 (IANS) A major students’ organisation in Assam Tuesday launched a state-wide protest opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement to go ahead with the land swap deal with Bangladesh. Addressing a rally of Bharatiya Janata Party workers here recently, Modi sought the consent of the people of Assam for the land swap deal, […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The government’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) for corporate frauds has probed 17 companies till date during the current fiscal, Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley said Tuesday. The SFIO investigated 20 companies in 2011-12 and 22 firms each in 2012-13 and 2013-14 for alleged corporate frauds, Jaitley told […]
Attorney General Brad Hazzard and Minister for Police and Emergency Services Stuart Ayres today welcomed a new report that shows a major decline in youth crime rates over the last decade. Figures released by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) today reveal the number of teenagers and young adults arrested for robbery, […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday expressed shock and deep anguish at the gruesome killing of CRPF personnel in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh and demanded that the government look at all aspects of the incident. She extended her condolences to the family of the “martyrs” and hoped that the injured […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) A bright sun made for a pleasant Monday in Delhi with the maximum temperature being recorded four notches above season’s average at 29 degrees Celsius. Similar weather conditions would prevail Tuesday. “Tuesday morning will be foggy, but sky will be remain clear during the day,” said an official of India […]
Kolkata, Dec 1 (IANS) Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung Monday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and discussed several issues including transfer of several department to the GTA – the GJM administered autonomous hill council. Gurung, the chief executive of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), called on Banerjee at the state secretariat where […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday asked the beleagured Indian cricket board president N. Srinivasan to show he was not in conflict of interest over the betting allegations against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, an official of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings that Srinivasan’s firm owns. Srinivasan, besides being the president of the […]