New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday asked Delhi Police to install CCTV cameras inside police stations and sought a list of “dark spots” considered dangerous for women. In a letter from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office to Delhi Police Commissioner B. S. Bassi, complaints regarding non-accessibility of beat constables and non-registration […]
Hyderabad, April 10 (IANS) The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) urged the National Commission for Backward Classes to include of 14 socially and educationally backward castes of Muslims in the central list of other backward classes for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The party made a representation to the commission on Friday, the last day […]
Patna, April 10 (IANS) Union minister of state for human resources development Upendra Kushwaha on Friday said the central government is planning to revive Vikramshila University, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning in Bihar, on the lines of Nalanda University. “My ministry is working on revival of Vikramshila University on lines of the revived Nalanda […]
Several people, including policemen, were injured in Assam on Friday when a group of people clashed with security forces while protesting over the alleged failure of the police to act against army men accused of rape. The incident took place in Karbi Anglong district’s Dokmoka village after a group of army personnel allegedly raped a […]
The Indian government has more or less decided to scrap the medium-multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA) selection process in favour of direct purchase of 63 Rafale aircraft from France in a government-to-government deal, says India Strategic magazine. Authoritative sources told the journal that a MoU would be formally signed in Paris during the summit meeting […]
The Supreme Court Friday ruled that no private hospital will turn back or refuse medical treatment to acid attack victims as it would be open to the state governments concerned to take action against such hospitals. The social justice bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit issued the warning as they […]
A Rajasthan Royals cricketer was approached a month ago for fixing 2015 Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, the team said on Friday. The Royals reaction comes in after the Indian Express reported on Friday that the Mumbai-based Royals player was approached by his Ranji Trophy teammate “with an offer of money if he followed a […]
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the prime accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed 166 lives, was released from a jail in Pakistan on Friday, a day after a court suspended his detention. Lakhvi was released overnight from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi without any announcement by the jail authorities or the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD), the […]
A delegation of Muslim leaders on Thursday met Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to demand probe into the killings of five undertrials by police. The delegation of United Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella grouping of Muslims organisations, urged him to order the probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or by a sitting […]
If former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is to be believed, 1,117 schools in Himachal Pradesh have only one teacher each. Indeed, schools outnumber teachers in some parts of the state. But that has not prevented Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh from going on a spree of opening new schools and colleges. In just over two […]