6th July, 2014
- Bihar Finance Minister's grandson kidnapped
- SP leader expelled from party for garlanding Gadkari
- BJP flays Lalu's bid to revive Mandal politics
Patna: BJP today reacted angrily to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad''s bid to revive "Mandal politics" and align with JD(U) after next year''s assembly elections.
- Ex-B'desh minister to address Tripura Conclave
Agartala: Former Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will address the first-ever Tripura Conclave, a citizen initiative to promote regional integration with neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar and China.
- SP leader: Will donate eye for injured Moradabad DM
Lucknow: A Samajwadi Party leader has offered to donate his eye to the Moradabad district magistrate, who has sustained serious injury in his eye during recent violent protests in Kanth area of the district.
- Lalu demands quota in govt contracts for OBC
Vaishali (Bihar): Raking up the reservation issue, RJD President Lalu Prasad today demanded 60 per cent reservation in government contracts for people belonging to Extremely Backward Castes (EBC).
- Hooda announces separate SGPC in Haryana; draws flak
Chandigarh:Yielding to "demand of
Sikhs", Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced a separate
SGPC for his state, drawing flak from Amritsar-based SGPC and Akali Dal.
- Karuna's poser to Jaya on TN's plan on Mullaperiyar
Chennai: Strongly criticising his
arch rival Chief Minister Jayalalithaa over the Mullaperiyar issue, DMK
patriarch M Karunanidhi today demanded to know the state government''s
action plan on the dam row against the background of a review petition
in the Supreme Court by Kerala.
- TMC, BJP trade charges over slain college student
Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool
Congress and the BJP engaged in a blame game today over the gruesome
murder of a college student in North 24-Parganas district holding each
other responsible for the incident, even as one person was arrested and
remanded to seven-day police custody.
- Discoms trying to scuttle CAG audit: AAP
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
today alleged that the private power distribution companies were trying
to scuttle the audit of their accounts by the CAG and warned that the
party would protest any further rise in electricity tariff in the
national Capital.
- BJP leader promises brides from Bihar for Haryana youths
Chandigarh: In a bizarre promise
to youths of Haryana ahead of the assembly polls this year, BJP leader O
P Dhankar has said he will bring brides from Bihar for them if they are
unable to find a match in the state infamous for its skewed sex ratio.
- CD row; unfazed Kumaraswamy defends himself
Bangalore: Unfazed by the
controversy over an audio CD about him purportedly discussing about
cash-for- seat with the supporters of an MLC seat aspirant, JDS leader
and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today defended himself, saying
it had been blown out of proportion as if he had "committed a sin".
- British ministers to meet Modi
New Delhi: Bilateral trade and
economic relations will be high on the agenda when two top British
ministers will have meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their
counterparts separately on Tuesday.
- Dawood Ibrahim's sister dies of heart attack
Mumbai: Sister of fugitive
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim died at a private hospital in South Mumbai
today following a heart attack, police said.
- Katchatheevu issue has to be revisited by Centre: BJP
Chennai: Virtually endorsing the
ruling AIADMK''s demand for retrieval of Katchatheevu, BJP today said
the issue of Indian sovereignty over the islet, ceded to Sri Lanka by
India in 1974, has to be revisited.
- Moradabad violence: Home Ministry seeks report from UP govt
Hyderabad: Union Minister of
State for Home Kiren Rijiju today said that the Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) has sought a report from Uttar Pradesh government on the violence
which erupted in Moradabad district.
- Delhi BJP pays tribute to Syama Prasad Mookerjee
New Delhi: Delhi BJP today paid
tributes to Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee on his
birth anniversary and organised a number of seminars on his life and
work for the new generation of party workers.
- Rajasthan Cong to stage state-wide protest against price rise
New Delhi: Raising concerns about
spiralling food costs and overall price rise, Congress will hold a
state-wide protest in Rajasthan against the Centre as well as the
Vasundhra Raje government on July 9.
- 73-year-old murder convict dies in hospital
Kota (Raj) Jul 6 (PTI) A
73-year-old convict, undergoing life imprisonment in Kota Central Jail
for murder, died at a hospital here during treatment, a senior official
said today.
- 2,200 more Indians want to leave Iraq: MEA
New Delhi:About 2,200 Indians in
non conflict zone in southern Iraq have expressed their desire to leave
Iraq for home and they will be in India in the next 36 to 48 hours.
- TDP failed to fulfil electoral promises: AP Cong leader
Vijayawada: Senior Congress
leader and former minister Devineni Rajasekhar Nehru today said the TDP
government has betrayed the people of Andhra Pradesh.
- Nitish meets CPI leaders
New Delhi: JD(U) leader and
former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today met senior CPI leaders
here and both the parties decided to work together at the national and
state levels.
- Gujjars file petition against 10 institutions of J&K
Jammu: An organisation
representing Gujjar and Bakerwal tribes has filed a petition before the
National Commission for Schedule Tribes in New Delhi against 10
institutions of Jammu and Kashmir accusing them of violating
Constitutional guarantees by denying reservation to members of the
tribes in recruitment and promotions.
- Sachin Pilot accuses Modi of 'double-speak'
New Delhi: Accusing Prime
Minister Narendra Modi of double-speak on the issue of food inflation
and price rise, the Congress today said the PM and the party spoke in a
different voice when they were in opposition.
- UP govt committed against corruption: Minister
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh
government is committed to take strict action against people involved in
corruption, state minister Ahmad Hasan said today.
- Firing outside house of Israelis in Vasant Vihar
New Delhi: Unidentified car-borne
persons today fired outside a house in Vasant Vihar area where several
Israelis, some of them working with Israel Embassy, have been living.
- Police to launch women helpline in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: In order to curb crime
against women and provide them immediate help in case of emergency,
Ghaziabad police has decided to launch a 24-hour women helpline - 1090 -
in the district.
- 4 killed, 6 injured in lightning strike in C'garh
Korba: Four persons, including a
minor, were killed and six others injured when they were struck by
lightning in Chhattisgarh''s Janjgir-Champa district, police said today.
- Constables' assault case: Accused MLA surfaces
Bangalore: probe Bangalore, Jul 6
(PTI) Surfacing few days after he was reported absconding, a ruling
Congress MLA who is facing a criminal case for allegedly assaulting two
constables in a brawl at a bar, today maintained that he was not dodging
the police and is ready to face probe into the incident.
- "Clean up of Yamuna a part of Ganga rejuvenation"
Mathura: Union Water Resource
Minister Uma Bharti has said the River Ganga rejuvenation programme
would not be successful without cleaning up of river Yamuna.
- 'Good governance, popular Modi led to BJP victory'
New Delhi: Rajnath New Delhi, Jul
6 (PTI) Giving credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and "good
governance" in BJP-ruled states for the party''''''''s electoral victory
in the Lok Sabha elections, party president Rajnath Singh today said
the kind of faith people reposed on it could not have been possible
otherwise.
- Chandrababu condoles death of Telugu workers in TN
Hyderabad: Condoling the death of
Telugu workers in a wall collapse in Tamil Nadu''s Tiruvallur district
today, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked a senior
official to go to the spot and help the victims.
- New Odisha DGP takes charge, sets priorities
Bhubaneswar: Aiming at winning
people''s confidence, Odisha''s new Director General of Police Sanjeev
Marik today said besides tackling naxal menace, police would endeavour
to redress public grievances in a time-bound manner through a special
cell.
- DMRC to conduct training prog on ballastless tracks
New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation will be organising a training programme on ballastless
tracks for professionals of urban rail-based systems in the country
along with those from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Worry for India as Chinese signals hold sway in NE
New Delhi: A top Union Home
Ministry official was in for a surprise on a trip to the remote areas of
Arunachal Pradesh when he could not use his mobile phone as it picked
up signals only of Chinese telecom firms on the other side of the
border.
- Audio CD row; CM rubbishes Kumaraswamy defence
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah today hit out at JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, who
is caught in a row over an audio CD allegedly discussing about money to
be paid to his party MLAs by an aspirant for MLC seat, saying he could
not defend himself claiming other parties were also indulging in
corruption.
- Modi pays tribute to Syama Prasad Mookerjee
New Delhi: Prime Minister paid
tributes to Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his
birth anniversary, saying his contribution to the nation is
"invaluable".
- Speaker to decide on LoP issue: Naidu
Hyderabad: Observing that the
issue of giving Leader of Opposition (LoP) status is before the Lok
Sabha Speaker, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said everyone must
abide by the presiding officer''s decision.
- Girl raped by three youths in Muzaffarngar
Muzaffarnagar: A 23-year-old girl
was allegedly gangraped and threatened by three youths at Balwakheri
village under Charthawal police station in the district, following which
the accused were arrested, police said today.
- Two bodies found in Jaipur
Jaipur: Bodies of two unidentified persons were recovered from separate locations in the district, police said today.
- Student bitten by teacher
Sheikhpura (Bihar): A class II
student was bitten on several parts of his body by a teacher in his
hostel room at a public boarding school here.
- 11 killed in wall collapse; two arrested
Chennai: Eleven people, including
a child and four women, were killed today when a 20-foot-high compound
wall adjacent to their huts collapsed in Tiruvallur district in Tamil
Nadu even as Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa ordered an SIT probe into the
Porur building crash that claimed 61 lives.
- Border pillars missing on Nepal, Bhutan borders
New Delhi: More than 2,700 border
pillars along India''s open border with Nepal have either gone
"missing" or are "damaged", setting alarm bells ringing in the internal
security establishment of the country.
- AP gas tragedy: GAIL appoints EIL to check pipelne
Hyderabad: In the wake of Nagaram
gas pipeline fire-explosion last month in which 21 persons were killed,
the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has appointed Engineers India
(EIL) to check the health of its pipeline network of 870 kms from KG
Basin on East Coast.
- 'Politics of hatred' dangerous for society: Azam
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Cabinet
Minister Mohd Azam Khan today alleged that BJP was indulging in
"politics of hatred" and termed the sort of politics as "dangerous for
the country and the society".
- 'Rape victims' name by Shinde was not unlawful'
New Delhi: Mentioning names of
minor rape victims of Bhandara in Parliament by then Home Minister
Sushil Shinde resulted from "heavy work load" of ministry officials.
- Woman killed, 6 injured in road accident
Bundi (Raj): A 35-year-old woman
was today killed and six others, including five of her family, were
injured when a car in which they were travelling overturned on
Kota?Jaipur National Highway in Talera area here.
- Cong leader seeks action against dissident Tripathi
Bhopal: Senior Congress leader
Ajay Singh has said that he will not attend the Madhya Pradesh Assembly
session unless the party takes action against MLA Narayan Tripathi, who
left Congress to join the BJP just before the Lok Sabha elections.
- Maha min condemns Swami for anti-Sai stand
Shirdi: Maha Agri Min
Radhakrishna Patil termed Swami Swaroopanand''s statement as
''unfortunate'' in which he asked devotees to desist from worshipping
Sai Baba of Shirdi.
- Ganga cleaning not a Hindutva project: Ramesh
New Delhi: Cong leader Jairam
Ramesh accused NDA govt of turning the programme to clean Ganga as a
"Hindutva project" by attempting to polarise politics
- Travel cos bat for FDI in rlys, tax relief on jet fuel
New Delhi: Lowering of taxes on
jet fuel, hotels and holiday packages are among the top demands of the
travel industry, which has asked the government to initiate bold
measures like FDI in Railways to promote tourism and travel in a big
way.
- NDMC draws up plan for rooftop power generation
New Delhi: In line with its
project to earn the tag of ''solar city'' for the New Delhi area of the
national capital, NDMC has now drawn up a detailed plan for rooftop
solar energy generation.
- CWC revises its cycle of monitoring rivers
New Delhi: With monsoon playing
truant in the last few years, Central Water Commission (CWC) has revised
its ''Flood Preparedness Period'' during which they monitor water level
of inter-state rivers on an hourly basis to provide timely warning to
districts.
- 10th batch of 2,160 devotees leave for Amarnath
- Dedicated channel for farmers soon: Govt
- Innovators at Rashtrapati Bhavan look at road ahead
- No NHAI funds if Kerala develops NH stretches at 30 m: Gadkari
- Home Min red flags FDI in sensitive areas of railways
New Delhi: The Home Ministry has
raised objections in allowing foreign direct investment in highly-
sensitive areas of the Railways sector, saying such a move may
compromise security of the country''s largest transportation network.
- Sharat Chander appointed information officer in PMO
New Delhi: Sharat Chander of the
Indian Information Service (IIS) has been appointed as Information
Officer in Prime Minister''s Office (PMO).
- Rail Budget to propose X-ray system to detect faults
