New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday expressed strong displeasure at the government’s inaction on its order to the environment ministry to get tested samples of “contaminated” water in a green forest area in Tughlakabad due to which birds are allegedly dying. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI on a plea complaining that former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala has started campaigning for the upcoming state elections without the court’s consent and misused the bail granted by it. Chautala has been out on bail after being sentenced to […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Tihar jail authorities Wednesday submitted a medical report of ex-parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh’s wife Jagriti Singh, accused in a case of maid torture, which says that she is having gall stones and has only one kidney. Jagriti’s counsel P.K. Dubey, while seeking interim bail, had told the court that she was suffering […]
Chandigarh, Oct 1 (IANS) Border Security Force (BSF) troopers recovered five kg of heroin following a gunfight with smugglers from the Pakistan side in Punjab’s Ferozepur sector, BSF officials said Wednesday. “Border Security Force personnel have successfully seized five packets of contraband Heroin and one mobile phone and three Pakistani SIM cards today (Wednesday) in the […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Dozens of municipal workers Wednesday were busy sprucing up Valmiki Colony, a settlement of poor, once-outcast Dalits where Mahatma Gandhi once dwelt, and now home to 300 families, mostly sweepers and others involved in menial cleaning jobs. They painted signages where none existed, as also electric poles which had few lights, […]
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) The Reserve Bank (RBI) is without bias either way about raising or cutting interest rates, while further policy will be contingent on relevant data coming in, Governor Raghuram Rajan said Wednesday. “Our policy stance today is reasonable and we see no reason to alter it today based on the information we have. […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Security was tightened in Valmiki Colony in central Delhi and nearby areas Wednesday on the eve of the launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Delhi Police and other security agencies are keeping a strict vigil in Valmiki Colony and nearby areas prior to the much-anticipated […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Swatchh Bharat mission Thursday aimed at creating a ‘Clean India’ in the next five years. Modi would symbolically wield a broom Oct 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and reach out to all Indians to make cleanliness a mass movement. Preparations are being […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call during his election campaign for “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”, a citizens group in New Delhi has drawn up a list of 100 laws that should be deleted from the statue books. The Centre for Civil Society, the Macro Finance group at National Institute of […]
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Washington for his summit with US President Barack Obama. He is set to have his first meeting with Obama later Monday evening at a private dinner in the Blue Room of the White House.