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  • Army, Police called in to control violence at Jaipur Army recruitment rally

    Rajasthan : In Rajasthan, army and police have been called to control the situation after unruly youth resorted to violence this morning at Govindgarh town in Jaipur district. The incident occurred after some rejected candidates for recruitment in territorial army resorted to stone pelting and damaged railway infrastructure including signals and gates at railway crossings. […]

    Court to pass order on summoning Army Chief in defamation case

    New Delhi : A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Friday its order on summoning Army Chief General V K Singh and four others on a criminal defamation complaint filed by former Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh. Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja had on 14th May reserved the order after hearing the arguments on behalf of Tejinder […]

    RS horse trading allegations: CBI raids premises of 15 MLAs

    New Delhi : The CBI on Friday conducted raids at the premises of 15 Jharkhand MLAs as part of its investigation into the allegations of horse trading that led to countermanding of the 30th March Rajya Sabha polls. In the early morning raids, 36 teams swooped down upon the residences of MLAs of Ranchi, Jamshedpur, […]

    Women to get share in hubby’s property in case of divorce: Govt

    New Delhi : Amid the opposition demand to make divorce more women-friendly, the government approved fresh amendments in a bill pending in Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in husband’s immovable residential property. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, took up new amendments […]

    Report on Land Acqu Bill tabled in Parl

    New Delhi : A Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted its recommendation report on much-awaited Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill with suggestions for tough norms that would make it very difficult to acquire land for industry before the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The norms for land acquisition will be more stringent if government accepts recommendations of […]

    Odisha, Posco agree to set up 8 mtpa steel plant‎

    Odisha : The Odisha government and Posco-India on Wednesday agreed to set up an 8 mtpa greenfield steel plant near Paradip, downsizing the earlier plan of establishing a 12 mtpa facility. This was stated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Posco-India CMD YW Yoon after a marathon 90-minute discussion over the future of the proposed mega […]

    Parliament approves Appropriation Bill & Finance Bill for 2012

    New Delhi : Parliament has approved the Appropriation Bill and the Finance Bill for 2012 with the Rajya Sabha returning them on Wednesday. The Lok Sabha had passed them last week. Replying to the discussion in the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hinted that the government will take certain austerity measures to ensure fiscal […]

    Amendments to reservation act for Central Educational Institutions approved

    New Delhi : The parliament gave its seal of approval to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill 2012 as the Lok Sabha passed it on Wednesday. The Rajya sabha had passed the Bill earlier. The amendments will allow the Central educational institutions to implement the 27 per cent quota for the OBCs […]

    Over 1,450 corruption cases registered by CBI in past 3 yrs: Govt

    New Delhi : The CBI has registered over 1,450 cases of alleged corruption in the last three years and had disposed of 1,366 cases under the PC Act between 2010 and March 2012, the Government said. “So fas as CBI is concerned, during the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 (till March 31, 2012), it has […]

    HC seeks Nupur’s counter to CBI’s reply to her bail plea

    New Delhi : The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday asked dentist Nupur Talwar, being tried along with her husband Rajesh in the twin murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj, to reply to the CBI’s response to her bail plea. A bench of Justice A K Tripathi asked counsel Amit Srivastava for […]