The Himanchal Pradesh’s Shimla and Manali – prominent tourist places – Saturday woke up to a blanket of fresh snow. Tourist spots near Shimla, such as honeymooners’ paradise Kufri, Fagu and Narkanda also experienced overnight snowfall, an official of the meteorological department here told IANS. Likewise, the Solang ski slopes, 13 km uphill from Manali, […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers are holding a ‘janata darbar’ at the secretariat here Saturday to address the public grievances. The one-and-a-half-hour session began at 9.30 a.m. and will continue till 11.30 a.m. The chief minister said his entire cabinet will sit outside the Delhi Secretariat every week Saturday and “hear grievances […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday laid the foundation stone for the new Rs.425-crore national hadron beam facility (NHBF) and a cancer care centre for women and children at the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital (TMCH) here. The facility, part of radiation therapy to treat cancer, will be funded by the centre through the department of atomic […]
The Supreme Court Friday declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the government to regulate the prices of onions, potatoes and other seasonal vegetables. “Stop eating onions for two months, prices will come down to Rs.15 per kg,” said a bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice J. Chelameswar adding: “Now […]
A court here Friday asked the Special Cell of Delhi Police to appear before it to furnish details on a plea of Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda. The court was hearing Tunda’s petition seeking court’s direction to the police to furnish details of the remaining pending cases against him. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said declaration of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls will be as per a “new process” which will take into account the “voice of the people” and work with a formal structure. “For the first time, we are working on a deadline, getting voices of people into the party […]
The government Friday notified the domestic natural gas pricing formula for all natural gas produced in the country. The Domestic Natural Gas Pricing Guidelines, 2014 notified by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas will apply to all natural gas produced domestically, irrespective of the source, whether conventional, shale or coal-bed methane (CBM). The ministry […]
A whopping four crore customers acquired new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) domestic gas connections in the past four years, increasing the customer base from 10.6 crore to 14.7 crore. This represents a 39 percent increase in growth with around one crore new LPG consumers added each year, an official spokesperson said Friday. It is expected […]
The face-off over diplomat Devyani Khobragade is not the first time India and the US have had tensions over such an issue. In 1981, India had refused to accept a US diplomat because of his “intelligence connections” and in retaliation, the US barred an Indian diplomat from coming to Washington. In September 1981, India had […]
After receiving over 23,000 calls on its anti-corruption helpline within two days of its launch, the Delhi government Friday said it would begin a ‘large-scale’ drive to nab corrupt officials from Monday. “Till 10 p.m. Thursday, 11,829 calls were received. Today (Friday) till an hour ago, 11,353 calls have come. In the last 36 hours, […]