Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the city government has decided to scrap the five additional points to be given to children of parents who come under the inter-state transfer category in nursery admissions. Advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for Jung, informed Justice Manmohan that a survey was carried out in […]
The government has for the first time invited bids for the auction of captive coal blocks, the coal ministry said Wednesday. “The government has initiated auction of coal blocks by inviting applications for the first time for allocating coal blocks through competitive bidding for specified end-uses,” the ministry said here in a statement. It will […]
The CPI-M Wednesday expelled veteran leader and former West Bengal minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah for “serious anti-party activities” and “belittling the party’s image in public”. A nonchalant Mollah said he was waiting for the decision. The decision to show the door to the popular peasant leader, who has been a legislator for 42 years without […]
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) Wednesday said that if the contract manufacturing agreement between itself and Suzuki Motor Gujarat expires and in case not extended by mutual consent, the assets of the Gujarat subsidiary would be transferred to MSIL at a fair value to be determined by independent valuation. MSIL clarified in a statement that […]
The city Wednesday reverberated with slogans of “Jai Telangana” as TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao arrived from Delhi to a hero’s welcome by his supporters celebrating the formation of Telangana state. Thousands of Telangana Rashra Samithi (TRS) activists poured out into the streets to welcome Rao with slogans, dances, display of Telangana culture, bursting of […]
Trade across the Line of Control (LoC) between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad which resumed Wednesday after 40 days hit another roadblock when 22 trucks from India came back without unloading their goods, officials said. Traders from India said they were forced to recall their trucks without unloading goods at Chakote near Muzaffarabad, over uncalled for security […]
A 19-year-old fashion designing student was raped by her uncle here, police said Wednesday. The incident took place at the Gymkhana Club in central Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area Feb 13. According to the police complaint lodged Feb 19, the student said her uncle Sandeep Kohli, who lives in Lucknow and is a professional photographer, came to […]
India and Russia Wednesday agreed to conclude at an early date the general framework agreement on reactors 3 and 4 of the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, official sources said. The “general agreement” concerning the reactors was reached during the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission meeting chaired by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Russian […]
The Congress Wednesday urged the Election Commission to ban opinion polls till the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections. In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath, secretary of the party’s legal and human rights department K.C. Mittal demanded registration of a case into the alleged manipulation of opinion polls. He urged the poll […]
RJD chief Lalu Prasad said Wednesday that not aligning with the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections was a “mistake” and Nitish Kumar was not a factor in Bihar. “Not aligning with the Congress (in the last Lok Sabha) elections was a mistake,” Lalu Prasad said in the “Ghoshnapatra” programme telecast by ABP news […]