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  • NAC headed by Sonia won’t go into Lokpal Bill

    National Advisory Council – NAC – will not go into the Lokpal Bill. The NAC led by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi- on Wednesday said that its Working Group on Transparency, Accountancy and Governance will not be dealing with the subject for the present to avoid duplicity. In a press release issued in New Delhi, the […]

    Rajni Abbi becomes new Mayor of Delhi

    BJP nominee and Delhi University law professor Rajni Abbi was on Wednesday elected the Mayor of Delhi defeating her rival Savita Sharma of Congress by 88 votes. 49-year-old Abbi, a first-time councillor from Mukherjee Nagar ward, got 170 votes while Sharma secured 82 votes in the election held at a special meeting of the Municipal […]

    Health condition of Sri Satya Saibaba critical

    Health condition of Sri Satya Saibaba continues to be critical. The spiritual leader has been under treatment since 28th of last month for multi-organ dis-function at Satya Sai Institute of Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi. In the latest health bulletin released on Wednesday, the hospital director Dr A N Safaya said his liver condition and intermittent […]

    Govt ready for Pvt participation in internal security: Pillai

    Breaking the shackles of the past, the government on Wednesday said it is ready to accept participation of private players in internal security area but asked them to spend at least 5-7 per cent of their profits in R&D to get cutting edge technology. Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said the Home Ministry has […]

    Congress-Trinamool combine will free WB from misrule: Sonia

    Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that West Bengal has been taken on a road of destruction under the 34-year Left Front rule and assured that the Congress-Trinamool alliance is determined to free the state from this “misrule”. “Thousands of crores of rupees have been given to the state for development and progress, but […]

    Bail pleas of five corporate executives in 2G scam dismissed

    A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail pleas of five corporate executives, who were named as accused by the CBI in the 2G spectrum allocation scam but were not arrested. “All the bail applications have been rejected,” Special CBI Judge O P Saini said. With the rejection of their bail pleas, they were likely […]

    ED seeks MHA help to probe Hasan Ali’s links with terrorists

    Stepping up its probe into the dealings of suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan, the Enforcement Directorate has approached the Home Ministry to find out if he has any links with terror outfits. In a letter to the Home Ministry, the ED has conveyed that it was absolutely necessary to look into various aspects of […]

    Govt. cannot unilaterally alter service conditions of employees: SC

    The Supreme Court has ruled that the Government cannot unilaterally alter the service conditions of employees as it would be violative of the Constitution. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan said in a judgement that an order passed by authorities against an employee terminating the services will not be binding if […]

    DGCA orders an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter

    The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA, has ordered an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials in New Delhi said a high level team of DGCA officers led by Director General E K Bharat Bhushan will visit the accident site today. Seventeen people were killed and six seriously […]

    Stage all set for launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

    The stage is all set for the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C16, from Sriharikota at 10.12 am today. Three satellites including India’s latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, an Indo-Russian satellite called Youthsat and a micro-satellite named X-Sat from the Nangyang Technological University of Singapore will be put into an 822 km polar […]