Shimla, Nov 20 (IANS) The eight-day winter session of the Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly will begin Dec 5 in Dharamsala town, an official said Thursday. The session with seven sittings will end Dec 12, a government spokesperson told IANS. This time, the number of sittings has been increased as the last session was adjourned sine […]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) Thursday deplored the police action on media persons who were covering the arrest of controversial sect leader Rampal in Haryana. “The way in which media persons were targeted and beaten up calls for strict action against the authorities who gave the order for police […]
Shimla, Nov 20 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday directed the deputy commissioner of Shimla and the tehsildar (recovery) to file a fresh status report, indicating the process initiated by them for the recovery of house tax from the defaulters. A division bench of Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice D.C. Chaudhary directed […]
Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) The Indian stock market regulator Wednesday approved the new regulations governing insider trading which includes widening the term ‘insider’, strengthening the term ‘unpublished price sensitive information’, and prohibiting communication of unpublished data besides other aspects, the SEBI said. The market regulator also revised its share delisting regulations. In a statement issued […]
Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) China’s Yunnan province has formally invited West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for a visit to foster sister city relations between Kunming and Kolkata, an official said Wednesday. Kunming is the capital of Yunnan province while Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. According to Wang Xuefeng, […]
Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) In a major setback to former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the Bombay High Court Wednesday rejected a CBI plea to drop his name from the list of accused in the Adarsh Society scam case. Justice M.L. Tahiliyani gave the rulling on the revision application of the Central Bureau of Investigation […]
Dubai, Nov 19 (IANS) An Indian man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been sentenced to one year in jail for molesting a seven-year-old British girl on the pretext of giving her tissues, media reported. The 25-year-old man, who is a cook, tricked the British girl to go with him to the toilet of […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Each of the AAP’s 110,000 volunteers has been told to reach out to 25 households ahead of Delhi’s assembly elections, to highlight the achievements of its 49-day rule in the capital. The Aam Aadmi Party would also use its Delhi Dialogue Programme to interact with various sections of the society, […]
Panaji, Nov 19 (IANS) The Goa government Wednesday invoked the Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) even as an association of lifeguards at the state’s beaches threatened to go on strike from Friday. The invocation of ESMA renders any strike by lifeguards illegal on the beaches and inland waterways where lifeguard services are provided by the […]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Haryana government over the Munak canal water sharing dispute. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul sought a response from the Haryana resident commissioner in Delhi. The court noted that over 80 MGD of water is being […]