Vivek Dhand, a 1981-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was Wednesday appointed the new chief secretary of Chhattisgarh. He will succeed Sunil Kumar, who is retiring Friday. Dhand, who originally belongs to Chhattisgarh, is known to be an efficient administrator. Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday formally cleared his appointment as the next chief secretary.
A manager of a colliery of the Western Coalfields Ltd. was arrested for bribery, the CBI said Wednesday. “The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a manager (Mines), Rajur/Bhandewada Colliery (Maharashtra), Western Coalfields Ltd., for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.10,000 from the complainant,” a CBI statement said. Western Coalfields Ltd. is one of […]
India and Saudi Arabia Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation for greater exchange of information and training. The agreement was signed on the first day of the three-day visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who arrived here Wednesday afternoon. Hours after his arrival, the crown prince met […]
The Congress Wednesday received a jolt in Seemandhra, with former minister T.G. Venkatesh announcing that he was joining the Telugu Desam Party. Venkatesh was a minister in the cabinet of Kiran Kumar Reddy, who resigned last week to protest the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. After consulting his supporters, Venkatesh said he would join the TDP. […]
Welcoming his expulsion from the CPI-M, veteran party leader and long-time West Bengal legislator Abdur Rezzak Mollah Wednesday said he was waiting for it. “It’s most welcome, I have been waiting for it,” Mollah told IANS. The decision to expel Mollah for “serious anti-party activities” was taken at a meeting of the Communist Party of […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave for Myanmar Monday to take part in the third BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) summit that will focus on increasing connectivity and establishing an architecture of subregional economic cooperation. The prime minister will also hold bilateral meetings with the prime ministers of Bangladesh […]
New Delhi, Feb 25 The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, will arrive here Wednesday on a three-day official visit, during which the two countries will sign an agreement on defence and on cooperation in hydrocarbons and security. Crown Prince Salman’s is the highest level political visit from the kingdom after […]
Delhi will see The Trinamool Congress fight for all seven seats in the coming Lok Sabha polls, party national general secretary Mukul Roy said here Monday.Social activist Anna Hazare and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee will address a joint rally next month in Delhi.The rally could be held at the Ram Leela ground, added Roy. He […]
Najeeb Jung, Delhi Lt. Governor, has defended his decision to cancel the “management quota” in the criteria for nursery school admissions, and told the Delhi High Court that “commercialisation of education” cannot be allowed. His response came on a petition by the Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools against the December 2013 guidelines for […]
An Indian American scientist on Monday said that the application of computers in biology or computational biology was progressing well in India due to its increasing resource of students in the IT field.Computational biology involves application of computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioural, and social systems. “India is advancing well in computational […]