Rajeev Kher will be the new commerce secretary. Kher, a 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently special secretary in the commerce department. He will replace S.R. Rao, who retires Jan 31. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) Wednesday approved Kher’s new appointment.
Former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar Wednesday filed a defamation case in the Delhi High Court against a law intern who has accused him of sexual harassment and demanded damages from a section of the media which reported the allegation. Justice Manmohan Singh reserved the order for Thursday morning after hearing the parties. “Till then […]
Condemning the rape of a 51-year-old Danish woman near the New Delhi railway station, ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stressed the need for fast-track courts, and for bringing Delhi Police under the purview of the state government. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he met Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on the matter. “We both felt […]
The Congress has “clearly failed” to communicate with the people about its achievements, the party’s key advisor Sam Pitroda said Wednesday. “The Congress party clearly has failed to communicate with the people on its achievements. For eight years, we gave over eight percent average economic growth, transformed education… it was not an easy job, certainly […]
The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would hear Jan 20 a plea by two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen allegedly mistaking them for pirates, on the delay in their trial. The trial by a special court was otherwise to conclude in one year. The apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, […]
The draft of the much-touted Jan Lokpal bill, which the Delhi government announced it will introduce in the first week of February, will be ready by Friday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Wednesday. “The chief secretary has told me that he will submit the draft Thursday or Friday”, Kejriwal told reporters. Earlier, Chief Secretary S.K. […]
In a bid to ease tensions after a bitter month long diplomatic row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat, US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns hosted Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar for a “productive lunch meeting.” At Tuesday’s meeting at the State Department, Burns and Jaishankar “affirmed the importance of the US-India strategic […]
At least three people were killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede at a fair in Bihar’s Banka district, police said Wednesday. A local police official has been suspended and a probe ordered into the incident. “Preliminary inquiry suggests that the stampede was caused after either a clash between two groups or rumours […]
A section of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family Tuesday hit out at the West Bengal government for carrying out renovation work unilaterally at the family’s ancestral home in South 24 Parganas district’s Kodalia. “Extensive changes including destruction of the boundary wall have been carried out, as discovered by family members who visited (the house) on […]
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will officially inaugurate an additional one million sq. ft. of space at the Technopark Phase III here Wednesday, making it the country’s largest such IT facility with a built-up area of 7.2 million sq.ft. The new twin-tower campus, developed in 92 acres of land has been named Ganga and Yamuna. […]