National News Leads - July 7, 2014

July 7, 2014

• Nearly 2,200 more Indians expected to return from Iraq: MEA(Click to read)

About 2,200 Indians in nonconflict zone in southern Iraq have expressed their desire to leave the for home and they will be in India in the next 36 to 48 hours even as 200 others reached New Delhi early on Sunday morning.

• Budget Session of Parliament starts today; Rail Budget to be presented tomorrow and General Budget on Thursday.(Click to read)

The session will begin on July 7 and conclude on August 14. Price rise, rail fair hike, women safety and communal harmony are the major issues likely to dominate the Budget Session.

• Maharashtra Govt invokes Essential Services Maintenance Act, against striking medical officers(Click to read)

The medicos, staging protest under banner of Maharashtra Association of Gazetted Medical Officers, are demanding for higher pays, permanent status to Ayurveda and dental health officers and fixed duty hours.

• Goa witnesses record 12.5 % rise in domestic tourist(Click to read)

    Panaji: Goa''s tourism industry has recorded its all-time high 12.5 per cent growth in domestic tourist arrivals last year, a senior official said here today.

• Oppn slams govt in Rajya Sabha  on price rise(Click to read)

    New Delhi: Slamming govt for spurt in prices of essential commodities during its 45-day rule, Oppn Cong took potshots at PM riding to power on promise of controlling inflation.

• Tapas Pal hospitalised

    Kolkata: Under fire for making controversial ''shoot and rape'' comments, Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal might not show up in the ongoing Parliament budget session as he has been hospitalised following ''high blood pressure''.

•     Formesr J&K CM in the list of PDP candidates

    Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and former J&K bank Chairman Haseeb A Drabu are in the list of 11 candidates released by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the forthcoming assembly elections in the state.

•     TN to honour personnel who toiled in collapse rescue operation

    Chennai: Tamil Nadu government will honour tomorrow personnel involved in the rescue operations at the site of the 11-storey under construction building which collapsed at Suburban Porur recently in which 61 lives were lost.

•     Javadekar, Sitharaman take oath in RS

    New Delhi: Union ministers Prakash Javedkar and Nirmla Sitharaman and senior JD-U leader Sharad Yadav and NCP''''s Praful Patel took oath as members of Rajya Sabha.

•     Goa was a learning experience for me: Wanchoo

    Panaji: Describing his tenure in Goa as a "learning experience", outgoing Governor B V Wanchoo has said that the coastal state would always hold a special place in his heart.

•     Sumangal group MD arrested for money laundering

    Kolkata: The managing director of Sumangal Group, Subrata Adhikari, was arrested on the charge of money laundering from a guest house in Mumbai, police said today.

•     Dulhera gangrape: Proceedings against 2 accused

    Muzaffarnagar: Attachment proceedings have been initiated against two absconding accused in connection with the Dulhera gangrape case.

•     Humid conditions prevail in national capital

    New Delhi: Humid conditions prevailed in the national Capital today even as the minimum temperature settled at 26.8 degrees Celsius, one notch below normal.

•     Guj: Domestic violence  up, conviction rate down

    Ahmedabad: The number of domestic violence cases in Gujarat rose by 1154 to 7812 in 2013 with the conviction rate of just 2.30 per cent which is far below the national average in this category, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

•     Jaya writes to PM seeks restoration of Katchatheevu

    Chennai: Describing 1974 and 1976 Indo-Lanka agreements ceding Katchatheevu to that country as 'ill-advised,' TN govt has said the matter cannot be treated as settled issue.

•     22- year woman gangraped in Muzaffarnagar

    Muzaffarnagar: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by 3 youths in Harsoli village. The woman had gone to collect water from a handpump when the youths picked her.