BJP chief whip spills it out: 70% of MPs oppose Women's Bill
ETRAY ING the anxiety among MPs on how the women's reservation Bill will play out in their constituen- cies, the BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha today claimed "at least 70 per cent of MPs" were against th |
Lalu, Mulayam drop no-trust move, LS
gears for Bill but Finance work priority
w ROTESTING the Rajya ti abha nod for the women's go servation Bill and the to rcible eviction of their colagues, members of the SP, bo JD and JD(U) disrupted fo |
'Bad influence': Pak board bansYousuf, Younis,fines Afridi andAkmal brothers
IN an unprecedented crackdown on indisci- pline in the national cricket team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today barred former captains Mohammad Yo usuf and Yo unis Khan from playing for the count |
At FS talks, Pak said call in Ministers next, India said no
BARELY two weeks after India and Pakistan sought to break the ice through Foreign Secretary- level talks, it now emerges that the two sides hardly made any headway in the conversation with almost no m |
Punish Gursewak: parents of toddler
arents of toddler ELBOURNE: Indian national ursewak Dhillon, held for the ath of three-year-old Gur an, said he accidentally ocked the boy down.Gur
an's parents sought harsh
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Kayani gives one-yr extension to ISI chief
xtension to ISI chief LAMABAD: ISI chief Lt Gen med Shuja Pasha has been anted a one-year extension of
anted a one-year extension o rvice by Pakistan Army Chief
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Koirala on ventilator, won't go to Delhi
KATHMANDU: Ailing Nepali Congress chief GP Koirala, who is on ventilator, has refused to go to Delhi for treatment de- spite the advice of doctors.
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Indian held for helping steal body of ex-Cyprus president from grave
A COURTin Cyprus remanded two men in custody on Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Ta ssos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its dis- co |
Judge Blog dares SC collegium: `your insensitivity shameful'
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NEW DELHI, MARCH 10 C ONTINUING his battle against the judiciary's shroud of secrecy, Karataka High Court Judge D V hylendra Kumar has slammed e collegium.It's a matter of |
CORRECTIONS CLARIFICATIONS
On page 2, in the report, `Right d Left come to the aid of Cen ', a line stated, "The Bill had the cking of all UPA constituents inus Trinamool Congress, the P , Left parties and other parties e |
Water row: India to
put facts before world
DAY S after Lashkar- e-To iba chief Hafiz Saeed accused India of waging a water war on Pak- istan, India says its planning to lay the facts before the inter- national community and call Islamabad's bl |
26/11 case: Judge query on `waging war'
THE 26/11 trial court asked on Wednesday if a non-In- dian (in this case Ajmal Kasab) could be charged with waging war against the nation under Section 121 of the In- dian Penal Code. As the prosec |
Got a call seeking
to influence me:
Bombay HC Judge
A judge announced in
the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that he had received a call from a former client seeking to influence the case he was hearing. Justice P B Majmudar, part of a Di- vision Be |
Tobacco products to carry warning of mouth cancer
ANEW pictorial warning depicting mouth cancer will now be displayed on tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry issued a notification on Tu esday, giving two months to tobacco manufacturers for |
Priest 'rapes,
kills' minor
Temple priest
rendra alias Kallu, 25, algedly raped and later angulated to death a ven-year-old girl at Shivraur area in Knapur Tuesday ght, police said on ednesday. He reportedly ok the minor girl |
SUKNA
SCANDAL
Tribunal refuses interim
relief to Lt Gen Rath
THE Armed Forces Tribunal
antinterimrelieftoLt Rath seeking a ay on the Sum- S ary of Evidence
oceedingsagainst m in the Rs 300-crore Sukna S nd scam case. TribunalchairmanJusticeA C Math |
RGION
Class 12 boys held for spraying Maya
poster with Holi colours, CM asks why
THE four school students ar- rested and detained here for allegedly discolouring a gov- ernment hoarding containing Mayawati's photo on Holi day were released on bail on Wednesday, hours before the Ut |
Khap panchayats: HC says DCs, SSPs to pay if law flouted
TO ENSURE that illegal ac- tions of "self-styled agencies" like khap panchayats in Haryana are controlled in fu- ture, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday said that if a Deputy Commis- sion |
Stampede: After
Digvijay rap, Maya
relief for victims
A DAY after the Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh criticised her for being insensitive towards the plight of the families of victims of Mangarh ashram tragedy, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister May |
Ammo explodes,
3 children killed
Schoolchildren
hil, Rahul and Chandan, all tween 10 and 12 years d, were killed when aban ned ammunition near an my firing range at Mataur Himachal Pradesh's Kana district exploded Tuesday ening, po |
Mother of arson
accused kills self
Savitri
Devi, mother of Jagdish, who as arrested on February 27 r alleged arson in the wake the violence following regration of a fresh case ainst Dera Sacha Saudha ief Guru Ram Raheem ngh, committ |
Hearing on Rathore's
plea next month
Additional
strict and Session Judge j Shekhar Attri Wednesday journed till April 15 the aring on the appeal of ex ryana DGP SP S Rathore ainst his six-month sennce in the Ruchika molesta n case a |
Principal arrested
for opening fire
Raj Kumar Ya
dav, Principal of Ram Dulary gher Secondary School in yam Nagar Nadona vilge in UP's Shrawasti disct was Wednesday arsted for firing from his enced revolver "to intimi te students", pol |
Channels seek money for achin ad, BMC unwilling
TWO months after getting Sachin Te ndulkar on camera to advise Mum- baikars on how to conserve water, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corpora- tion (BMC) is struggling to get the ad- vertisement released. |
The other casualty: No doctors at free children's hospital run by Indian govt
EXPRESS IN KABUL
THE deadly attack on the Indian do medical mission in Kabul last month has led to a development pit at has all the makings of another in agedy. A day after the attack, a |
FROM THE SOUTH
In five days,IIM-Bplacements conclude
PUTTING behind the slug- th h final placements of 2009 fe e Indian Institute of Man- th ement-Bangalore (IIM-B) p Tuesday announced the z nclusion of its final place- |
Retire or fight rganisational polls: Young tell seniors in Congress
THE young Tu rks in Congress party have raised a banner of revolt against the old war horses to ensure a better pie in the impending organisational reshuffle and Assembly elec- tions that's a year awa |
Nalini release: HC directs TN govt o submit report today
Rejecting the Tamil Nadu government's request for more
time, a Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday di- rected it to submit the Prison Advisory Board's report on the premature release |
Govt blamed as Andhra power crisis worsens
THE power crisis in Andhra Pradesh is set to worsen as the state government won't be able to buy power either from the central grids or private suppliers. The state missed its chance to book grid spac |
MNS says mobile ms complied
A day after MNS
ctivists allegedly attacked the utlets of Airtel and Aircel ellular companies, party offiials spearheading the agita on said the companies had ow complied and Marathi is eing used |
Manas reserve's
official injured
A forest official
as seriously injured in acci ental firing on Wednesday inide the Manas tiger reserve in ower Assam. The reserve's eputy ranger Fakhruddin hmed was injured when a ullet from the s |
Bail plea of Haldiram
owner rejected
The Calcutta High
urt on Wednesday rejected ail plea of the owner of diram Bhujiawala, Prabhu nkar Agarwal, who has n sentenced to life imprisment for conspiring and at pting to kill a tea stall |
Tripura: New police
stations near tracks
The Tripura gov
rnment has said it would set p five police stations and even outposts to provide ecurity to rail passengers in reas near tracks. "Though it is he responsibility of the ailway Ministry |
Nurse drugs elderly
woman; takes cash
A nurse, who looked
fter an 83-year-old ailing oman living alone in Kotayam district near here, alegedly used to drug her with leeping pills for nearly two ears and looted cash and gold rnaments |
Former IGP gets
extortion demand
Petrol depot own
rs, including a former Inspecor General of Police, have een getting extortion de ands of Rs 30 lakh each by a ilitant group in Meghalaya. he police said Garo National iberation A |
SPORTING ACTION
THE ZEAL with which Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan went about helping the women's hockey team took everybody by surprise. Finance Minister Raghavji doled out a substantial hike in the sports' Bu |
A FITTING REPLY?
THE DEPUTY Leader of the Opposition in the A sembly, Chaudhary Rakesh Singh, seems to pr ve got more than he bargained for. A ques- h n he raised in the Assembly's July session has |
COPS AND ROBBERS
A SENIOR police officer's attempt to test the M eparedness of his men ended on a not-so- a appy note for him. Without introducing him- p lf, he called up three constables on their |
SWEET SURPRISE
Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji has reason to hit back at the Opposition. When he resented his sixth consecutive Budget, the rial legislators accused him of increasing prices f several commo |
THE NAYSAYERS
Raise women's quota to 50%, don't cut into SC/ST reservation
ATISH CHANDRA ISRA, AHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY, TTAR PRADESH THE NATIONAL president of the BSP is a woman and the rty is i |
Scripting a flop story h g
ONCE the object of envy of its coun terpartselsewhereinthecountry,the t commercial film industry in Kerala has lately been keeping the audience engrossed in the drama unfolding be |
Countering the critics
THE Women's Reservation Bill, in its tumultuous life so far of nearly 14 years, has sparked off debates and reactions far beyond its limited scope to reserve one- third of all seats in the Lok Sabha a |
Nitish Kumar, ladies man
WHEN Bihar's chief minis ter Nitish Kumar an nounced his support for the Women's Reservation Bill, it shockedandangeredfellowMandal politicians -- his party chief Sharad Yadav, S |
THE MOURNING AFTER
THE latest issue of RSS mouthpiece Organiser has three-and-a-half pages devoted to the late Nanaji Deshmukh, with a box, picture and intro- duction on page one, which says: "Nanaji: the messiah of rur |
BHAGWAT'S LESSONS
HAGWAT'S LESSONS w HE Organiser has a full-page i em on RSS chief Mohan f hagwat's visit to Bhopal titled, a When Hindus become strong, t he nation will become |
RUDDERLESS FOREIGN
POLICY
THE Organiser has an editoral titled "The pressure is howing: the PM cannot take riticism" in its latest issue. It ays: "A successful foreign polcy requires a single source, ne clear voice speaking f |
Where the girls are
Tele SCOPE
IT'S Women's Day, so you switch on the TV set, eager to witness history being made. Yo u expect to watch the Women's Reservation Bill being passed in the Rajya Sabha. All you see are men kill Bill. |
Western aid agency attacked in Pak, 6 killed
SUSPECTED Islamist mili- tants attacked the office of a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday with bomb and gunfire, killing six members of staff, police and the agency said. Gunme |
Myanmar election law puts Suu Kyi party in bind
Myanmar's main Opposition
party will have to exclude its leader, deined Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, if wants to continue to operate and run in coming elections, under the terms of a w made publ |
Police confirm death of Bali bomber Dulmatin
A Southeast Asian militant
wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist tack in Indonesia's history has been led in a shootout with police at an Inter t cafe, the President confirmed on ednesday. Pres |
German Catholic sex abuse scandals draw link to Pope
Catholic authorities in Germany an
nounced two major abuse investigations I ednesday -- one into the renowned p oir once led by Pope Benedict XVI's other and another more general look |
Pak lawmakers refuse body scan at US airport
A TOUR of the US arranged by the State a partment to improve ties to Pakistani si islators ended in a public relations fi o after the group refused to submit to ci ra airport screening in |
Flutter in Twitter world: `Sarkozy, Bruni cheating on each other'
MORE than two years after their marriage, rumours are doing the rounds that President Nicolas Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni are both cheating on each other. While the 55-year-old President is |
SCIENCE
It's all in he eggshell: Elephant bird could return
SCIENTISTS have claimed that they can resurrect the giant ele- phant bird of Madagascar, the biggest bird that ever lived on the earth, using a new technique to ex- tract its DNA. According to the re- |
Jihad Jane' indicted in plot to murder Swedish cartoonist
A PENNSYLVA NIA woman who called her- self Jihad Jane was tied on Tu esday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks for his controversial cartoon. In an in- dictment un |
ECHOES OF TIBETAN UPRISING
SHOUTS OF FREE TIBET N KATHMANDU Hundreds of Tibetan exiles rotested on Wednesday, arking the 51st anniversary f the March 10, 1959, Ti etan uprising against Chi ese rule that led to a crack ow |
US playing Afghan game: Iran
TAKING aim at the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednes- day that it is the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported. A |
ZARDARI, KARZAI HOLD TALKS ON TERROR
Pakistan President Asif Ali
zadari and his visiting Afghan counterpart mid Karzai on Wednesday held wide-rang talks focussing on jointly fighting terror, strengthening bilateral ties and ways to res |
'Pak men were planning terror attack in UK'
Two Pakistani men were plan
ing a massive al-Qaeda terror attack on itain in the guise of chatting online about rls, an intelligence official told a UK court.e intelligence official was testifying |
Actor Corey Haim dies at 38 of drug overdos
Corey Haim, a Hollywood
teen star of the 1980s who became as faous for his struggles with substance use as his acting, died in Los Angeles of apparent drug overdose, police said on ednesday. He was |
China selects first women astronauts for space missions
China plans to launch its third
unmanned mission to the moon in 2013, en as it selected two women astronauts r the first time to take part in its future ace lab. "The two women astronauts, th aero-t |
IGI's runway can be used at night: HC
NINE months after restraining the authorities from operating Runway 29 of IGI Airport at night, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave them tempo- rary relief. The court permitted use of the runway ti |
MCD sealing `threat' pulls in Rs 100 cr in 2 months
THE Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) decision to begin sealing action against defaulters of conversion and parking charges has had a positive effect on the civic body's cash register. While m |
Shoe-thrower' journalist roughed up, sees threat to life
A journalist, who had
hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram on April 8 last year, alleged he was roughed up outside the L the Karkardooma court after the hearing in anti-Sikh riots cases aga |
Metro to Manesar on the cards
The Haryana
government proposes to extend e Metro to Manesar and also ovide a high-speed link to the dira Gandhi International Air rt, state Finance Minister ptain Ajay Singh Yadav an unced in his b |
Peruvians held, Interpol notices waiting
A DAY after three Peruvian nation- als were arrested for alleged thefts in five-star hotels, the police on Wednes- day said they would send Interpol no- tices to four nations the trio had vis- ited in |
Man held for colleague's murder
The Noida police
on Wednesday arrested a call ntre employee on charges of urdering his colleague. Police ficials said the victim, 23 ar-old Pooja Bhatia, went issing on March 1. Though r mother file |
In city hospital, brain pacemaker keeps Parkinson's at bay
FOR EIGHT long years, Ravish Rastogi d been an unwilling recluse in his home. i In the stranglehold of Parkinson's dis se, this former employee of the Steel Auority of India Limited was afraid he |
Rhythm and Bollywood
THE news of the Senegalese-American R&B star Akon recording a song for Anubhav Sinha's Ra.One has been doing the rounds for the past two days. On Wednesday, the singer confirmed it in the presence of |
Bone People
"THERE are three criteria to be- coming a Maori warrior - you have to be big looking, fierce looking and very, very good looking," says the young Maori Thomas Collins, with a spine-chilling stare. The |
Usual Suspect
ASlumdog Millionaire became a phenomen from Mumbai to Manhattan, British procer Paul Raphael chuckled to himself at his t me in Ipswich. He had just bought the rights t he screen adaptatio |
Signor Tunes
ENRICO Rava, probably the best-known Italian jazz trumpeter, "loves loud tunes". That explains the septuagenarian's denim-clad quintet unleashing a youthful urgency and excitement on the crowd at the |
rans-harbour link extended , funding revised
DELAYED over two decades, the Mum- bai Trans Harbour Link between Sewri and Nhava will now be built with 20 per cent funding from the Centre, 30 per cent from the state and 50 per cent raised through |
Commandos, judges assess stadiums
FORCE ONE, the state's first response squad for terrorist attacks, carried out its first major night alert exercise on Mon- day at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy Stadium, Navi Mumbai, venue of two IPL |
Evicted from National Park, many sold allotted tenements
A RECENT inspection of over 3,000 of the tenements allotted to those evicted from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park shows that original allottees occupy only 2,227. The others were illegally sold, lease |
Got a call seeking to influence me, says HC judge
A JUDGE announced in the Bom- bay High Court today that he had received a call from a former client seeking to influence the case he was hearing. Justice P B Majmudar, part of a division bench with |
WANKHEDE High Court judges to take a
Bombay High Court judges will visit the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday to inspect how it is being redeveloped, following a PIL by cit- izen Amit Maru challenging the use of railway land by the Mumbai Cr |
Assault on SC women: `probe into police inaction on'
THE state government on Wednesday informed the Bombay High Court that a de- partmental inquiry has been initiated against six police of- ficers, including a senior po- lice inspector, an assistant po- |
HC sets 3-month deadline for action on betting portals
HEARING a public interest litiga- tion (PIL) seeking a ban on Indian and foreign betting websites, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) that comes un |
Extortion bid: two in police net
MUMBAI: THE Park Site police on Tuesday arrested two men for allegedly posing as journalists and trying to extort money from Sandeep Kishore Dani, a Mulund- based packaged water com- pany owner. The a |
PIL against subsidy for foodgrain-based distilleries dismissed
THE Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) chal- lenging government subsidy to distilleries that manufac- ture foodgrain-based alcohol. Hearing the PIL filed by |
Civic panel opposes medicine
THE standing committee members of the Brihanmum- bai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday op- posed the civic administration's proposal to award the contract of supplying capsules and tablets to 1 |
Cut water price or face the music, Nitesh Rane tells private tankers
CONGRESS leader Narayan Rane's son Nitesh Rane, who runs Swabhiman, has threatened to stop private tankers from plying if they do not bring down water rates in a week. Rane has said tanker owners s |
With new facilities, JJ Hospital hopes to slash waiting list
A MEDICAL Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, a cath laboratory, a CT scanner and MRI machine were inaugurated by State Medical Education Minister Dr Vijay Ku- mar Gavit on Wednesday. Th |
1,000 coaches in 3 yrs, Rlys eyes world record
OVER 1,000 railway coaches manufactured in the last three years and almost all of them set to run on the city's railway tracks by the yearend - the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corpora- tion (MRVC) wants this ac |
The last dance
POOJA PILLAI B EFORE the curtains fell on the most recent edition of the Lakme Fashion Week, fashion atchers deserved a mega party. And and finale designer Suneet Varma en- |
High Note
IT'S official. Akon now wants to find a place in Bollywood. He's already taken a step towards it by recording a song for Anubhav Sinha's Ra.One, which has Shah Rukh Khan d Kareena Kapoor in lea |
She lives on
WORLD-renowned fashion in photographer Milton H fo Greene met Marilyn m nroe in 1953 when he was sent on p assignment by Look magazine to B otograph her. "Why, y |
RTI fee: District courts follow two rules
UTTER confusion prevails in the district courts over the fee charged for applications un- der the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The Public Information Of- ficer (PIO) designated with the court of |
JAZZY NIGHT
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PGI study identifies genes that lead to kidney failure
AN inter-departmental re- search at PGI has identified the genotype, which deter- mines the progression of kidney deterioration in chil- dren, leading to complete re- nal failure. The study, sponso |
Rathore's lawyer unwell, hearing adjourned again
HEARING on the appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore was ad- journed for the second time on Wednesday. The appeal was filed to en- hance |
Visually-impaired workers withdraw strike
THE 17 visually-challenged workers along with 14 other workers of Uma Precision Pri- vate Limited have withdrawn their hunger strike after the company agreed to discuss their reinstatement within a mo |
3 arrested for possessing rare tortoises
THE city police arrested three persons and seized two rare species of tortoise. Faraskhana police station officials said that after a tip- off on Tuesday , a police team led by Sharmila Sutar recov |
Movies made by first-batch students to be screened
IN its golden jubilee year celebrations, starting March 20, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is planning to screen the movies made by its first-batch students. Pankaj Rag, director, FT |
District court lawyers on strike today
DISTRICT court lawyers in the Cap- ital will observe a day-long strike on Thursday in protest of "rising corrup- tion" in the judiciary. The lawyers will also meet top politicians including UPA chairp |
HC notice to MCD, govt
The Delhi High Court issued notice to the
unicipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Delhi governent and the police on Wednesday on the petition filed the mother of a man who died after his car fell into |
Demolition drive in Govindpuri
The Building department of the Municipal
Corporation of Delhi's Central Zone demolished four properties in Govindpuri on Wednesday as part of its on- going demolition drive against encroachment and u |
Man changes name to get US visa, held
A MAN'S wish to meet his ex-wife landed him in jail af- ter he allegedly used fake identity to procure a visa to travel to the United States of America. The police said Hardeep Singh's wife went to |
OUND TOWN
hops to remain open 24x7
URGAON: Retail outlets across Haryana can now reain open round the clock and seven days a week but ith certain rules. Officials said it is mandatory for per ns availing th |
Rs 3 lakh snatched from woman
Unidentified assailants snatched Rs 3 lakh
from a woman, who had reportedly come to Delhi for a kidney operation. The incident was reported from Green Park, South Delhi, on Wednesday afternoon. P |
Fire in slum cluster
Eight hutments were gutted in a minor fire
in a slum cluster in East Delhi on Wednesday evening, fire brigade officials said. The incident was reported from Indira Camp slums in Kalyanpuri. No one wa |
Munirka flyover inaugurated
The much-awaited flyover at the Nelson
Mandela and Vivekanand Marg crossings, expected to improve traffic flow to the Indira Gandhi International Airport from South Delhi, was inaugurated by Chief Mi |
ay of hope for DANICS officers
c HE Delhi Assembly, which d eets on March 15 for the budget t ssion, is likely to pass an impor- t nt motion to remove stagnation P the cadres of Delhi, Andaman U ic |
Functional English paper ambiguous, say students
STUDENTS of Class XII, who ap- peared for the Functional English exam today, said two questions in the paper were not according to the pat- tern of the Central Board of School Education (CBSE). Stu |
ver 3,000 avail pension from both govt, civic body
N internal investigation by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has revealed that out of the total number of per- sons entitled to receive pension from the civic agency, 3,300 people have been co |
`Godman' links in sex racket under probe
SHIV Murat Dwivedi, alias Sant Swami Bhimanandji Maharaj Chitrakootwale, 39, arrested from South Delhi for al- legedly running a prostitution racket, is re- ported to have links with other agents. |
Court, witness can't wait for busy lawyers'
ASSING a verdict that would pr ing cheer to the witnesses to ked to wait because the co wyers of the opposite parties ca ere busy with matters in her courts, Delhi Hi |
Cop dies as bike hits colleague's
policeman died
died after his motorcycle collided with the two-wheeler of his colleague on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as Dharamveer, a resident of Jind district. Dharamveer was |
Week after launch, low-floor bus breaks down
JUST a week after the much-hyped low- floor buses hit city roads, one broke down on Madhya Marg today. Passengers who were left stranded had to search for other modes of conveyance, while traffic w |
Traffic marshals to aid policing in Panchkula
IN line with Chandigarh, Panchkula roads would soon have traffic marshals helping police officials at various checkpoints and spreading awareness about traffic rules. The Panchkula police recently |
From April 1, UT will only accept online tenders
FROM April 1, all the tenders worth more than Rs 10 lakh would only be accepted online. With the launch of the e-tendering project by the Chandigarh Administration on Wednesday, the facility has been |
Hallomajra death: autopsy
says man died of asphyxia
The post mortem of the
unidentified man, who was found hanging in the forest area near Hallo Majra under mysterious circumstances on Monday, has revealed that the man died of asphyxia due to hanging |
Class XII Board English
examination cancelled
: The Haryana School Education
Board has cancelled the English Core exami- nation of senior secondary second semester of evening shift as it was leaked. It will now be conducted on March 30. Board se |
Admissions to nursery opens
in govt schools
: The education department
has opened admissions to nursery and pre- nursery classes in all model schools. The ad- mission forms will be available at all the schools, free of cost. Thirty per cent se |
AFT rejects family pension to first wife of late Navy commander
THE Chandigarh Bench of r rmed Forces Tribunal (AFT) c day declined an appeal for N ant of family pension to a w oman after the death of her b sband, |
Railway superintendent gets two years for graft
ta There is no denial of the fact ra
fro pa r posted at the railway station. tio e was required to function pa onestly and needed to keep su rvision over h |
Bio-medical waste plant: UT admits to lack of expertise, asks PGI to frame tender policy
frame tender policy ra la I has been asked to consider th election procedure for invit- b Expression of Interest c OI) for the installation of a mmo |
Bad roads, lack of parking space plague Industrial Area
THE roads in Industrial Area, se I, are in dire need of rer. Potholed roads and delay he process of recarpetting some of the problems in trialists are complaining ut. Those who have facto in the a |
CITU to hold Maha Mazdoor rally on March 21, Buddha to attend
THE Centre of Indian Trade nions (CITU) will organise a aha Mazdoor' rally at Comde Harkishan Singh Surjit aidan in Chandigarh on arch 21. It will be addressed West Bengal Chief Minister uddhade |
Civic body to hire drivers, clean city at night
MARCH 10
THE Municipal Corpora on has decided to introuce the concept of night weeping using mechanised weeping machines. For this, the city would be ivided into three zones -ectors north of Mad |
Special handsfree instrument designed to help people perform pranayama
With changing lifestyles and busy schedules, people have become prone to many serious diseases. Keeping this in mind, yoga teacher Satnam Singh claims, he thought of devising a special instrument to p |
Trinamool Congress members seek 15 per cent reservation for underprivileged students in schools
Demanding that all pri te schools reserve 15 per cent seats r students from the Economically eaker Section (EWS), members of the namool Congress Committee held a otest at the Rally Ground in Sector |
Ranjit Bajaj case: Police leave for UP to recover weapon
While a six-member police team has left for Uttar Pradesh along with alkhan Singh, the gunman of Ranjit Bajaj, another team led by Chandimandir Stan House Officer (SHO) Inspector Jangsher has left fo |
Tax receipts to be computerised at Mohali transport office
After being authorised to issue registration certificates of vehicles and dring licences, the District Transport Officer (DTO) in Mohali would soon be giving out mputerised tax receipts. Disclosing t |
PU to have two more regional centres in Punjab
The Panjab University (PU) is all set to add two more regional centres the existing four. One will come up at Muktsar while the other one is yet to be fi lised. Recently, the Punjab Government had al |
SD College don gets Rs 9.61-lakh UGC research grant
Dr M L Verma, associate professor, Department of Physics, GGDSD llege, Sector 32-C, Chandigarh, has been granted a major research project entitled ielectric studies of chalcogenide glasses for elect |
290 donate blood at Rayat college
Over 290 students came together at the fifth blood donation camp organised Rayat Technology Centre of Excellence at its Railmajra campus on Wednesday. The mp was inaugurated by Balachaur SDM Pradee |
Congress MLA alleges bias by Mohali officials
Congress MLA from Kharar Balbir Sidhu raised the issue of `official neect' in the Punjab Assembly during the budget session on Monday. The opposition gislator accused Mohali officials of `bias'. Raisi |
Passing of Women's Reservation Bill hailed
All India Congress Committee member Lakhwinder Kaur Garcha hailed the ssing of Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha. In a statement, Garcha along ith senior Congress leader and municipal counc |
4 yrs into inception, vet varsity
advertises post of registrar
ALMOST four years after Guru Angad Dev Veteri- nary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) was carved out of PAU, the university for the first time will appoint a full-time regis- trar by March-end |
Four injured in boiler blast
Four labourers working in the Omax Steel received injuries
have been identified as Rakesh, Mangal, Manoj and Narayan. As per DSP Bal- raj Singh, Rajesh has been brought to the Christian Medical Colle |
No tainted MC official will work on current postings: HC
IN A significant develop- ment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered that till the time inquiries pending against the officers of the Munici- pal Corporation (MC) of Ludhiana are not de- cide |
One booked for damaging state bus
The Kochar Market police have booked one person for
The Kochar Market police have booked one person for damaging state-run bus. This incident occurred at 3 pm near the city bus stand. SHO Balbir Sing |
Murder accused in police custody till Mar 13
Gurvinder Singh who had allegedly killed the beloved
of his daughter Parbhdeep Singh has been sent to police custody till March 13. Dugri SHO Amandeep Singh said, "Gurvinder Singh has told us about |
MC seeks Rs 1.96-cr tax from Flamez Mall
The house tax branch of the MC has a pasted a notice
outside Flamez Mall warning the mall owner to pay Rs 1.95 crore outstanding house tax within a week or the mall would be closed. The huge tax i |
Encroachments removed from Akalgarh Market
A team of Tehbazari branch today removed temporary
counters outside shops in Akalgarh market. Kartar Singh Patna, one of the shopkeepers in this market, had filed a writ petition in the high court an |
Sewerage treatment plants: much ado about nothing
DESPITE Rs 84 crore hav- ing been spent on various projects involving sewerage treatment plants (STPs), the problem of pollution in Bud- dha Nallah remains unre- solved. Effluents, cow dung and many o |
Rs 8 cr to clean sewer lines of city
Despite a ban being imposed on the throwing
of industrial effluents directly into MC sewer lines and in- structions being issued to dairy owners to not dispose cattle dung, nothing seems to be brough |
Police get civic body to pull down illegal structures near German Bakery
IT took the city police a good three weeks to get the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to raze ille- gal structures on North Main Road, adjacent to the German Bakery at Koregaon Park. Police commis |
Additional chief secretary to assess rehabilitation of project-affected
ADDITIONAL Chief Secretary M Ramesh Kumar who is in charge of relief and rehabilitation will hold a meeting with revenue officers on March 13 in the city to assess all set- tlement issues. "When th |
ITM cloud seeding drive from July
AS the country saw drought- like situation in most regions and recorded 22 per cent less than normal rainfall last year, city-based Indian Insti- tute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the India Me |
Rickshaw drivers demand fare hike
FOLLOWING the recent hike in fuel prices, the au- torickshaw unions have started demanding an in- crease in fares. This, they say, is necessary because not only have the price of fuels gone up but |
Student, born blind, earns PhD under guidance of mentor who lost sight at 14
IN what could be an in- teresting achievement, Sanjay Jain, a visually- impaired lecturer with the Indian Law Society's Law College, recently received a doctorate degree, which he pursued under the gu |
National conference on stem cell technology
THE DEPARTMENT of biotechnology, Modern Col- lege of Arts, Science and Commerce, Shivajinagar will host a national conference on stem cell technology from March 13-15. The Stem Cell Technology is a |
Night-cricket tourney from March 11
SYMBIOSIS International University (SIU), Pune will soon organise a cricket tour- nament billed as the Super9 - Night Cricket Tournament at its campus in Lavale. Thirty teams have already confirmed |
Light showers in city
SOMEparts of the city witnessed light showers on Wednesday. In- dia Meteorological Department officers said that these were pre- monsoon showers and it did not lower the temperature which was hovering |
Experts offer tips on management
THE HIRABEN Nanavati Institute of Management and Research for Women (HNIMRW) recently organ- ised a national seminar on 'Convergence of manage- ment practices' . A panel dis- cussion on 'the changing |
Pawar visits 100-year-old Kirloskarvadi
KIRLOSKARVADI, the flagship plant of Kirloskar Brothers, completed 100 years on Wednesday. To mark the occasion, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, along with other in- dustrialists, joined Sanj |
IBM experts lend a helping hand to city institutes
WHEN the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy for Devel- opment Administration (YASHADA) that runs courses for elected represen- tatives and government offi- cers decided to venture into distance learning, they |
New Mphasis command and control centre
MPHASIS launched its Global Command and Control Centre (GCCC) in Pune on Wednesday. The GCCC expands MphasiS' infrastructure out- sourcing capability and will extend services to customers in India and |
Under-12 cricket: Angel school champions
THE PSAA inter-school Un- der 12 cricket tournament fi- nal was played at Azam Cam- pus Ground last week. The Angel High School (Loni Kalbhor) versus Bishop School, Camp match saw an interesting battl |
Nod for new business
AN INTERNATIONAL business and exhibition cen- tre is slated to come up at sec- tor 5 and 8 at Moshi, accord- ing to a proposal tabled by Suhas Divse, CEO, Pimpri- Chinchwad New Town De- velopment Auth |
The rural life
IT'S not about spending a happy weekend at a farm but completing a total exodus from the ur- t ban jungle and landing up in the middle of a bu- t lic world. A million questions immed |
A definitive step forward...
T UESDAY'S passage of the 18th Consti- l tutional Amendment Bill in the Rajya c Sabha that gives statutory reservation q r women in one third of the seats in Parlia- g ent and Sta |
Indian held for helping steal body of ex-Cyprus president
A COURT in Cyprus remanded two men in custody on Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of for- mer Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its disco |
26/11 case: Judge query on Waging War
The 26/11 trial court asked on Wednesday if a non-In- dian (in this case Ajmal Kasab) could be charged with waging war against the nation under Sec- tion 121 of the Indian Penal Code. As the prosec |
At FS talks, Pak said call in Ministers next, India said no
BARELY two weeks after India and Pakistan sought to break the ice through Foreign Secre- tary-level talks, it now emerges that the two sides hardly made any headway in the conversa- tion with almost n |
Tobacco products to carry warning of mouth cancer
A NEW pictorial warning depicting mouth cancer will now be displayed on tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry issued a notification on Tuesday, giving two months to tobacco manufacturers for |
Water row: India to put facts before world
w: India to put fac
W DELHI: Days after Lashkar-e-Toiba chief ar z Saeed accused India of waging a water re on Pakistan, India says its planning to lay In facts before the internationa |
Uttar Pradesh
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Stampede: three ashram officials held for negligence
THE Pratapgarh po- p T lice arrested three t persons from the m hakti Dham ashram of Krialu Maharaj in connection u ith the March 4 stampede. ( They were identified as Hi- g nyamay Ch |
Maya announces compensation
A day after All India Congress Committee general secrery Digvijay Singh criticised Chief Minister Mayawati for being in nsitive about the plight of the victims of Mangarh ashram tragedy, e CM announce |
Quick TAKES utin lands today, orshkov pact
Russian Prime
inister Vladimir Putin will ar e in New Delhi Thursday on a o-day visit during which the o sides are likely to conclude e agreement on aircraft car r Admiral Gorshkov and sign
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Kayani keeps ISI chief
for one more year
ISI chief Lt Gen
ed Shuja Pasha has been anted a one-year extension of rvice by Pakistan Army Chief
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Judge Blog dares SC collegium: 'your insensitivity shameful'
CONTINUING his battle against the judiciary's shroud of secrecy, Kar- nataka High Court Judge D V Shylendra Kumar has slammed the collegium. It's a matter of concern and "even shame for the members |
IIM-A placement drive concludes; banking, consulting firms dominate
THE placement process at the Indian stitute of Management�Ahmed- p ad (IIM-A) came to an end today, a th banking and consulting firms f minating the drive by offering 27 d d 29 pe |
Class 12 boys held for spraying Maya poster with Holi colours, CM asks why
THE four school students ar- rested and detained here for al- legedly discolouring a govern- ment hoarding containing Mayawati's photo on Holi day were released on bail today, hours before the Uttar P |
Lalu, Mulayam drop no-trust move, oily says Bill likely in LS by Tuesday
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`Bad influence': Pak board bans Yousuf, Younis, fines Afridi and Akmal brothers
IN an unprecedented crackdown on indisci- pline in the national cricket team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from playing for the country |
STATE OF ART
WHEN the hammer comes down at the Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction on March 23 in New ork out of 92 lots on sale, 19 will belong to |
Google Warming
IN consideration of the fact that of I the 70 million-odd Internet users in India, only 17 per cent look rough the Net reading or typing in nglish, search engine Google has en making constant e |
Oscar Bites
h to Hindi, thus we hope to reach VENas critics rave over dictor Kathryn Bigelow's sixcademy Award winning film, a he Hurt Locker, about the life f soldiers fighting the Iraq fi ar, movie b |
Tobacco products to carry warning of mouth cancer
A NEW pictorial warning depicting mouth cancer will now be displayed on tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry issued a notification on Tuesday, giving two months to tobacco manufacturers for |
Indian `stole' body of ex-Cyprus president
A COURT in Cyprus remanded two men in custody on Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Pa- padopoulos, holding it for ran- som for three months until its dis |
Buddha calls for tapping Green energy
Chief Minister Buddhadeb attacharjee on Wednesday essed on the use of alternative urces of energy for meeting power quirement in industries as well as useholds. At the inauguration of lar photovolt |
Bus runs over boy
A class IX student e as crushed under a bus at J N b ukherjee Road in Howrah on h ednesday. t nky Valmiki was going to her hool with her brother on a bi- i |
Bail plea of Haldiram owner rejected
ected
The Calcutta HC on u ednesday rejected a bail plea d the owner of Haldiram Bhujiwala, Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, u ho has been sentenced to life prisonment for conspiring and |
Life term for two HuJi militants
A DELHI court on Wednesday sentenced a Bangladeshi national and his Kashmiri associate belonging to the banned militant organisation Harkat-Ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) to life imprisonment for possessin |
Got a call seeking o influence me:
y HC Judge
Aannounced in i e Bombay High Court on ednesday that he had received a ll from a former client seeking to luence the case he was hearing. stice P B Majmudar, part of a Di ion B |
26/11 case: Judge query on 'waging war'
THE 26/11 trial court asked on Wednesday if a non-In- dian (in this case Ajmal Kasab) could be charged with waging war against the nation under Section 121 of the In- dian Penal Code. As the prosec |
84 riots: Court gives Sajjan Kumar bail
CONGRESS leader Sajjan Ku- mar, who has been chargesheeted along with others for his alleged role in the anti-Sikh riots cases, on Wednes- day appeared before a Delhi Court which granted him bail in t |
At FS talks, Pak said call in Ministers next, India said no
ARELY two weeks after India nd Pakistan sought to break the e through Foreign Secretary-level lks, it now emerges that the two des hardly made any headway in e conversation with almost no eeting gr |
Tobacco products to carry warning of mouth cancer
A NEW pictorial warning depicting mouth cancer will now be displayed on tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry issued a notification on Tuesday, giving two months to tobacco manufacturers for |
Water row: India to put facts before world P
AYS after Lashkar- e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed accused India of waging a water war on Pak- istan, India says its planning to lay the facts before the inter- national community and call Islamabad's bluff |
Putin lands tonight,Gorshkov okayed for $2.3 billion
A day ahead of the two-day visit to India by Russian PM Vladimir Putin, the Cabinet Committee on Security approved the final price of $2.3 billion for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.
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Koirala on ventilator, won't go to Delhi
Ailing Nepali Congress chief GP Koirala, who is on ventilator, has refused to go to Delhi for treatment de- spite the advice of doctors.
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SAJJAN KUMAR SURFACES
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Punish Gursewak: parents of toddler
arents of toddler ELBOURNE: Indian national ursewak Dhillon, held for the ath of three-year-old Gur an, said he accidentally ocked the boy down.Gur an's parents sought harsh
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Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S KISTAN VS ANADA (3.35 PM) OR POSITIONS 11,12) ERMANY VS NGLAND (6.05 PM) RST SEMI-FINAL) ETHERLANDS VS USTRALIA (8.35 PM) ECOND SEMI-FINAL)
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judge Blog dares SC collegium: `your insensitivity shameful'
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ONTINUING his battle against the judiciary's shroud of secrecy, Kar- nataka High Court Judge D V Shylendra Kumar has slammed the collegium. It's a matter of concern and "even shame for the members |
BJP chief whip spills it out: 70% of MPs oppose Women's Bill
ETRAYING the anxiety among MPs on how the women's reservation Bill will play out in their constituen- cies, the BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha today claimed "at least 70 per cent of MPs" were against the |
Lalu, Mulayam drop no-trust move, LS gears for Bill but Finance work priority
PROTESTING the Rajya Sabha nod for the women's reservation Bill and the forcible eviction of their col- leagues, members of the SP, RJD and JD(U) disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha today but Mulayam S |
Soren ready, joins Bengal ops against Naxals
THE police forces of Jharkhand and West Bengal along with the central paramilitary forces have launched a joint offensive against Maoist rebels in the bordering districts of the two states. The joint |
At FS talks, Pak said call in Ministers next, India said no
BARELY two weeks after India and Pakistan sought to break the ice through Foreign Secretary- level talks, it now emerges that the two sides hardly made any headway in the conversation with almost no m |
Bad influence': Pak board bans Yousuf, Younis, fines Afridi and Akmal brothers
IN an unprecedented crackdown on in- discipline in the national cricket team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from playing for the country |
Autorickshaw riders are magazine's target readers
THE next time you get bored while travelling in an autorickshaw, you can pick up a copy of Meter Down magazine from a shelf behind the drivers seat for time pass. Meter Down is being brought out by |
Kalam calls for national campaign to eradicate terror
JUST as they came together determinedly and got the Women's Bill passed in Ra- jya Sabha, all political parties should unite to fight against the curse of terrorism, said former President A P J Abdul |
Women's Bill: Muslim groups push for sub-quota
NCOURAGED by Mulayam Singh Ya- dav and Lalu Prasad and buoyed by Mamata Banerjee's surprise turn- about, prominent Muslim groups have begun an exer- cise to galvanise political support for the sub-quo |
Marshals in RS leaves ripples in LS
THE Lok Sabha on Wednes- day witnessed a huge uproar over the use of marshals to evict seven Rajya Sabha mem- bers, leading to adjournment of the House for the day. In the Rajya Sabha, Samajwadi Party |
Congress gives credit to Sonia, thanks media
The Congress on
ednesday sought to give credit to ongress president Sonia Gandhi r the passage of the Women's eservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha d thanked the media for project- t g this. "We |
inisters asked to t with MLAs to O
The Left Front gov
ernment has asked its ministers to sit with the MLAs, discuss problems of the people and take speedy decisions. "The ministers will sit with the MLAs and leaders of respective d |
One dead as crude bomb explodes in Chayanavi
ONE PERSON died and another was injured when a crude bomb exploded at Chayanavi in the outskirts of Salt Lake today. In the morning one of the bombs kept at a shanty ex- ploded and two persons were |
ipak's parents `not interested' in meeting him
THE parents of top Maoist leader Venkateshwar Reddy alias Telugu Dipak, who is currently in West Bengal police custody, have not shown any interest in meet- ing their son who has not vis- ited the fam |
Bangladesh shows interest in Bengal madrasa system
Sattar to visit Dhaka in April
AFTER Pakistan and e urkey, neighbouring u angladesh has expressed t e desire to emulate the ex- t mple of West Bengal in b odernising and upgrading s madrasa |
Lalu, Mulayam drop no-trust move, LS
PROTESTING the Rajya Sabha nod for the women's reservation Bill and the forcible eviction of their col- leagues, members of the SP, RJD and JD(U) disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha today but Mulayam S |
Bad influence': ak board bans ousuf, Younis, ines Afridi and kmal brothers
IN an unprecedented crackdown on indisci- pline in the national cricket team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from playing for the country |
Punish Gursewak:
parents of toddler
Indian national
Gursewak Dhillon, held for the death of three-year-old Gur- shan, said he accidentally knocked the boy down.Gur- shan's parents sought harsh punishment for Gursewak.
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BJP chief whip spills it out: 70% of MPs oppose Women's Bill
ETRAYING the anxiety among MPs on how the women's reservation Bill will play out in their constituen- cies, the BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha today claimed "at least 70 per cent of MPs" were against the |
Day after Maya promised
action, Cong presents list
A DAY after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati announced action against those involved in corruption in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Congress presen |
Principal fails UP Board exam; assaults student, opens fire in air
CHAOS prevailed at the morning session of the Uttar Pradesh Board exams at a centre in Gilola, Shravasti, when its principal assaulted a student and later fired in the air with his licenced revolver. |
Judge Blog dares SC collegium: 'your insensitivity shameful'
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ONTINUING his battle against the judiciary's shroud of secrecy, Kar- nataka High Court Judge D V Shylendra Kumar has slammed the collegium. It's a matter of concern and "even shame for the members |
utin lands tonight, orshkov okayed
A day ahead of
the two-day visit to India by Russian PM Vladimir Putin, the Cabinet Committee on Security approved the final price of $2.3 billion for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.
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Kayani gives one-yr
extension to ISI chief
ISI chief Lt Gen
med Shuja Pasha has been anted a one-year extension of
anted a one-year extension o rvice by Pakistan Army Chief
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Koirala on ventilator,
won't go to Delhi
Ailing Nepali
Congress chief GP Koirala, who is on ventilator, has refused to go to Delhi for treatment de- spite the advice of doctors.
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Hockey world cup 2010
T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S PAKISTAN VS CANADA (3.35 PM) (FOR POSITIONS 11,12) GERMANY VS ENGLAND (6.05 PM) (FIRST SEMI-FINAL) NETHERLANDS VS AUSTRALIA (8.35 PM) (SECOND SEMI-FINAL)
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Govt clears deals before Putin visit
TWO days before Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit, the government has cleared crucial de fence contracts that will be inked during the visit. The deals will be signed late |
Judges accountability Bill before Cabinet today
THE Union Cabinet on Thursday will take up for ap- proval the draft Judicial Standards and Accountabil- ity Bill, aimed at addressing complaints of corruption, ir- regularities or misbehaviour against |
Orissa MLAs seek castration, death for `rapist teachers'
The Orissa As
- sembly on Wednesday witnessed uproarious scenes over the grow- ing incidents of sexual exploita- tion of tribal girls in government residential schools, with several members demanding |
Statues: Plea in SC seeks derecognition of parties
The Supreme
Court will on March 22 hear a plea to derecognise all major politicalpartiesforusingpublic money to "arbitrarily immor- talize" their leaders through installation of their statues and |
Subsidy burden: Govt looks at 80 pc hike in APL prices
NEW DELHI,
THE government is looking at a proposal to reduce food subsidy to above poverty line (APL) households by sub- stantially hiking the prices of wheat and rice distributed to them under the |
SC reserves judgment in Lalu assets case
ADVOCATE Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday hoped the Centre would not "change its mind" and restart prosecution against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in a corruption case. In a day-long hearing before a Speci |
Godhra paan shops double up as drug distribution centres, sell malaria medicine
EVEN as 10 to 15 Malaria cases have been reported from Godhra in the last two months, medicines are being distributed in the affected ar- eas through shops. According to the district health authori |
Gujarat
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Contaminated mid-day meal: State govt orders inquiry
The state government
has ordered a departmental inquiry into an incident pertaining to over 100 students falling sick after consuming mid-day meal at Chorimala Primary School in the tribal- dominated |
GCCI forged ignatures: Court summons eight ndustry captains
THE Metropolitan Court to- day issued summons to some of the top industrialists of the state to remain present in court as witness in a forgery case filed against the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and I |
Herstory
RAJYA SABHA PASSES WOMEN'S RESERVATION BILL
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Right and Left come to the aid of Centre
" FOURTEEN years after it was first intro- o duced, the Bill securing a third of the a seats for women in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies was passed by the Rajya Sabha to- ru day, marking |
Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
ERMANY beat EW ZEALAND 5-2 OREA beat NETHERLANDS 2-1 RGENTINA beat ANADA 4-2 KOREA FALL ONE GOAL HORT OF A BERTH IN AST FOUR GERMANY THROUGH, WITTHAUS LOOKS FOR
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Thrown out of House, not much support at home either
iT is not certain that the seven unruly Ps marshalled out of the Rajya Sabha oday for trying to block the women's eservation Bill would have found sym athy even from the women who are losest to them |
Lalu, Mulayam don't give up, plan no-trust
wh mo NGRY with the Congress for ignoring wr heir objections and having its way on su he passage of the women's reservation ill in Rajya Sabha, the SP an |
First step is a giant leap but long haul ahead
NEW DELHI, MARCH 9 HE historic passage of the omen's Bill in the Rajya Sabha he first step in what could be ong journey. "It depends on political will.e entire process can be com ted in a few |
Not much support at home either
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MNS activists vandalise mobile shops, Raj says don't force Hindi on us
A DAY after the Supreme Court asked Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray to desist from mak- ing provocative speeches targeting north Indians, members of his outfit vandalised two outl |
Remove 'Bombay' from
name of college: RamNaik
The BJP on Tuesday said it would
launch an agitation within 24 hours if the word 'Bombay' was not changed to 'Mumbai' for the government run-veterinary college at Goregaon. "The college administrat |
Chhattisgarh govt, Opposition resolve to declare assets
TAKING a cue from BJP- ruled Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tu esday an- nounced his intention to make public details of the assets owned by him, his ministers and his part |
K'taka: Cow slaughter Bill tabled again
The BJP govern
ment in Karnataka on Tuesday w -introduced in the Assembly a t l banning cow slaughter in n e state amid protests from the c position Congress. The Pre- c ntion of Sla |
Applications for H1-B visas from April 1
The US will
12 art accepting applications for of 1B visas, most sought after He Indians, from April 1 for the out ar 2011. In a statement, the sta Citizenship and Immigration the rvi |
Curfew reimposed in Bareilly localities
Curfew has
been reimposed in four locali s of the town in the wake of sh tension following the arst of a prominent Sunni cleric connection with communal shes, official sources said T re on Tu |
Haryana Speaker revokes suspension
Haryana As
sembly Speaker H S Chatha on K esday revoked the suspension Opposition members, a day o ter they were suspended for tr e remainder of the ongoing m dget session for unruly b |
Madras HC refuses to postpone IPL
Considering a peti
tion seeking to reschedule the o ird season of Indian Premier te ague 20-20 cricket tourna- g ent in view of the Class 10 d Plus Two board examina- n ns, a Division Bench |
Maya govt recalls 'derogatory' book
Taking a strong ex
ception to what it said derogary comments made on leading liticians in a book titled I ehru-Gandhi family secular ya I rnshankar", the Uttar Pradesh e vernmen |
`Frustrated', aide of a top Orissa Naxal surrenders
THE anti-Maoist operation in Orissa received a major boost on esday after a close associate of top Maoist leader Sabyasachi nda surrendered before the police in Keonjhar district. SureshSundhiali |
C asab statement G t annot be used: b
In a signif
get nt ruling that could affect the gen al of seven suspects charged Ge th involvement in the Mumbai na acks in Pakistan, a bench of the sur hore High Court on Tuesday |
In final 26/11 arguments, Nikam points to Pak Army
THE 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was "Pakistan-spon- sored terrorism" - it was ex- ecuted by Lashkar-e-To iba (LeT) at the behest of Pak- istan, said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam while opening |
Rajasthan allocates 50% budget to power
CHIEF Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tu esday boosted the state's power sector in his budget for 2010-11, dedicat- ing more than half the bud- getary provision for power generation and transmission. Gehl |
At Paris meet, Pak seeks parity with India to be `n-powered'
IN A bid to seek parity with Tu ndia by demanding similar pl xemptions that New Delhi po ot through the Indo-US nu- of lear deal, Pakistan has asked cr he comity of nations for help pr |
Unsettling politics
FORalongtime,anylegisla- r tion which claimed to be pro-women, no matter t how stupid and harmful in t bstance, sailed through Parlia- f ent because an |
PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY - View from the LEFT
ice in succession under the bill's NSTRUCTIONS FROM MERICA AVING taken a stand that ew Delhi's decision to resume lks with Pakistan came under S pressure, the CPI now feels at the UPA government |
The storytelling of war
o v T WO war movies, The Hurt c Locker and The Messenger, m received multiple nominations for the Academy Awards a |
ChineseTAKEAWAY
TIBET ANNIVERSARIES th La IN a week of tragic Tibet an- ba niversaries -- the Dalai Lama's failed 1959 uprising and flight to du Indi |
'Khatami not barred from leaving Iran'
A close ally of Mo- hammad Khatami denied a re- port by the semi-official Fars news agency on Tuesday that the reformist former president had been barred from leaving Iran. "No, it is not correct. |
Centuries-old shipwrecks discovered
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks, some well-preved, have been found in the Baltic sea by a gas company build an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany, edish experts said on Tuesday. The oldes |
Bali bombing mastermind may be dead
NTI-TERROR police hunting a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings killed three suspects near Jakarta on Tu esday, the police said. Offi- cials said they believed a militant behind Indonesia's worst ter |
Kidnapped UK boy is safe, says Pak
A five-year-old British
boy kidnapped in Pakistan nearly a week ago is alive and the po- lice are making progress in the investigation, a police official said Tuesday. Sahil Saeed, of Pak- istani o |
Fonseka allowed to speak to daughters
Sri Lanka's deined ex-army chief Sarath Fonka has suspended his fast unto ath after the military allowed m to speak to his daughters.nseka (59), detained at the aval Headquarters following s arres |
Ohio: Employee kills co-worker, self
Ohio State Univer- sity says a 51-year-old employee suspected of shooting two co- workers, one fatally, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The other employee injured in the shooting on cam |
LIFESTYLE
After cancer, why women remove the healthy breast too
FOR decades, advocates have fought to protect women from disfiguring breast cancer surgery, arguing that it was just as ef- fective to remove only the cancerous tissue rather than the whole breast.
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19 arrested for trespassing Oscars
Nineteen people were arrested by Los Angeles Po- lice on suspicion of trespassing at Kodak Theatre during the Acad- emy Awards ceremony. Officials said, the arrested include two men who jumped a barri |
Israel, Syria speak of n-energy plans
Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to de- velop nuclear energy. Both coun- tries laid out their hopes at a con- ference on civilian nuclear energy at the Organisation for Economic Co |
Israel wants direct alks with Palestine
ISRAEL has asked United Nations Secretary-General Chief Ban Ki- moon to persuade Palestinians to en- gage in "direct dialogue" with it so that the peace talks can be resumed. "Israel would like to |
Irish police arrest seven over plot to kill cartoonist
IRISH police arrested seven people on Tu esday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over an offensive depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. The police said they had detain |
India, Brazil face threats from al-Qaeda: CIA
THE CIA on Tu esday warned India and Brazil that they face "emerging threats" from the al-Qaeda and Ta liban, though the terrorist outfits are "on the run" due to extreme pressure exerted on them in A |
REVIEW FROM THE REAL HURT LOCKERS
M O V I E A N D M Y T H
JOB PROFILE: Soldiers explain they are not all like the film's arrogant, adrenaline-junkie hero, played by actor Je- remy Renner. Speaking about the hero, Tech Sgt Jeremy Phillips, a team leader in Ir |
5,000 Idol worshippers, and chaos
HIVANGI Saxena, a Class XII stu- dent of SSC Convent School in Noida, felt the heat rising as the day wore on and the line outside the venue grew longer at the audition for the Indian Idol TV show on |
THE CAPITAL STORY
DELHI HAS BECOME RICHER (2007-08 PER CAPITA INCOME UP BY RS 8,452 VER 2006-07 FIGURES)... THIRSTIER (DRANK 50 GALLONS OF WATER IN '08-09 , AGAINST 48 GALLONS IN '07-08). |
Lower courts can't judge child custody battle for NRIs, rules High Court
SETTING a precedent for cus- w y battles fought by couples h ng abroad, the Delhi High ci urt has ruled that a court in p lhi had no jurisdiction to en- to ain any such p |
Mahajan gets his passport to honeymoon, but with court rider
ACCORDING relief to Rahul Maha- jan and his wife Dimpy Ganguly, a city court on Tuesday released Mahajan's passport till the end of this month. The couple, who got married on re- ality TV show last |
MCD prescribes Rs 2,000-cr medicity for North Delhi
TRAUMA centre, three colleges and a 1,000-bed super-spe- cialty hospital are part of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) plans to up- grade Rajan Babu Tuberculosis (RBTB) Hospital in Kingsway C |
GAMES 2010: 207 DAYS TO GO
Rs 40-cr hot air balloon idea too hot to handle?
A RS 40-CRORE plan by the organising committee to create a spectacle in air during the Common- wealth Games opening ceremony has come for criticism from the Games Federation chief. The Games commit |
SC: probe delay in filling up acant posts in schools
THE Supreme Court on Tues y directed the Delhi Chief cretary to inquire into the de in filling up 200 vacant posts r principals in government hools in the national capital. Criticising the governm |
Civic body 'experiments' with air purifier
TO ensure cleaner air in Connaught Place, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has tied up with an Italian company, Systemlife, to install air purifiers in the area. The first unit was placed at |
Reinstall ACs, don't hike licence ee: Palika shopowners to NDMC
THE prospect of facing the approaching Delhi summer has left shopkeepers at Pa- lika Bazaar sweating, literally. The market, with its 400 shops, has been taken up by the New Delhi Municipal Council (N |
New
streetlight
system to
save energy
IN its bid to save more energy, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) launched a re- mote-controlled street-lighting switch system on Tuesday. The system will work according to the time of the sunr |
Improved facilities at Games Village
site offer better deal for workers
WORK on the Commonwealth Games Vil e, to house players from participating untries during the October 3-14 event, is war footing to meet its April deadline. arly 4,000 labourers, living in the ca |
10th graders to miss out on proficiency test
CLASS X students taking the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) ex- aminations this year will miss out on the proficiency test even though grades have already replaced marks. The option will be m |
Look-out notice for 'godman'
The police issued a look-out notice
against the self-proclaimed godman of Ghaziabad, noop Kumar Sahai -- accused of abducting his 28 ar-old cousin, Priyanka on February 15. "We suspect at he might le |
Nanda lawyer apologises to SC
Noted criminal lawyer R K Anand, held
ilty of attempting to influence the course of justice in e infamous BMW hit-and-run case, has tendered his incere, unqualified and unconditional apology" to th |
DU recruitment drive
The Delhi University on Tuesday called the
ird recruitment drive by its Central Placement Cell an verwhelming success". The drive was held on March 6, and 9, and 60 students were offered jobs by thr |
Water supply to be hit
Water supply will be affected on Wednes
evening and Thursday morning in Moti Bagh, RK Pu Sarojini Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Emy area, Diplomatic Enclave, SP Marg, IB Complex adjoining areas |
Sarojini Nagar house burgled, set on fire
DESPITE several arrests made in connection with cases of as ilants setting the houses on fire after the burglary, another ch incident was reported from Sarojini Nagar, South Delhi.According to the |
Staff hired for Udyog Vihar to address ecurity, parking woes
OVER the past month, a marked improvement seems to have been achieved in terms of security management and parking for vehicles in Udyog Vihar's Phase I to V. The Haryana State Indus- trial and Infr |
27 Tibetan protesters detained near Chinese Embassy
C WENTY-SEVEN Ti- T tans, including five omen, were detained af- b
way into the Chinese Em- bassy in the high-security Chanakyapuri area on Tuesday. The police said the Ti- betans were h |
Two die as car crashes into tree
Two men died after
he car they were travelling in crashed nto a tree in Kanjhawala, Outer elhi, around 9.30 am on Tuesday. The police said the duo was return g home after meeting their friend in |
Jashn-e-Khusrau: Sufi fest brings isitors to ignored monument
THE ongoing ten-day cultural festival, Jashn-e-Khusrau, comes with an added objective this year - to bring the lesser- known monuments of the Capital to the fore as performance venues. Against the |
NUMBER GAME
Statistics say Delhiites are earning more, buying more cars and drinking more. These are the figures revealed in the handbook of the year 2009 compiled by the Directorate of Economics and
|
pokesmen for women's rights: men take up cudgel for gender equality
WHILE women have usually been the front-runners in advocating equality of the sexes, this is a group with a difference. On International Women's Day, a team of men from Karnataka, Rajasthan and Tam |
3 Peru nationals held for theft in five-star hotels
THREE Peru nationals were arrested on Tuesday r allegedly stealing articles at five-star hotels in the apital. The three --two men and a woman --were arrested ter the Tughlaq Road police received c |
Rs 3.5 lakh looted
Two employees of Hydel Corporation in
Ghaziabad were robbed of Rs 3.5 lakh by two motorcye-borne robbers on Tuesday. S S Singhal, an assistant ith the Hydel Corporation and his colleague Jai Prakash |
Man found hanging
An unidentified man was found hanging
from a tree in a park near Nirmana Dhin flyover in Vasant har, South Delhi, on Tuesday morning. The police said ey received a call about the incident at 7 am fro |
Girl run over by train
An 18-year-old girl was run over by a train
Tilak Bridge around 2.30 pm on Tuesday. According to e police, the victim, identified as Saloni Bhalla, was lking on the phone while walking along the tr |
STATE OF
ART
WHEN the hammer comes down at the Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction on March 23 in New York out of 92 lots on sale, 19 will belong to renowned Indian artist FN Souza. "He is a |
Oscar Bites
EVEN as critics rave over director Kathryn Bigelow's six- Academy Award winning film, The Hurt Locker, about the life of soldiers fighting the Iraq war, movie buffs in Delhi have several weeks' wait a |
Business of Art
ONE would think that CEOs would be too busy with weighty matters like quarterly re- sults and shareholder satisfaction to have time for anything else. Probably they were, for when the founder of Shini |
Flair & quare
Where's the arty tonight?
AS Lakme's fashion week loses in Mumbai, I'm not he only one wondering what he purpose of the entire exercise is. The shows are two ong and boring hours apart, he clothes, mostly, are pseudo boho |
Pak behind 26/11, Kasab's `Major saab' is Army officer: prosecution
THE 26/11 attack was "Pak- istan sponsored terror- ism", executed by the LeT at the behest of Pakistan, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said Tuesday while opening his fi- nal arguments in the s |
Don't impose Hindi, Raj says as party turns four
MNS chief Raj Thackeray today stressed that is party, which turned four, would not give up s Marathi agenda. Hindi should not be forced upon the peole, he said at a foundation day programme. It |
After Marathi demand, attack on Airtel and Aircel outlets
ARCH 9 TWO Airtel outlets and one of Aircel were attacked on Tuesday, their glass doors and windows smashed with stones and hockey sticks, apparently because they had ignored warnings from the MNS to |
MC won't pay, channels won't show Sachin ad
TWO months after getting Sachin Tendulkar on cam- era to advise Mumbaikars how they can conserve wa- ter, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is struggling to get the adver- tisement released. T |
Pavement dwellers hit by footpath makeover
MAJORITY of the 25,000 pavement dwellers, who would be shifted as part of the state gov- ernment's drive to upgrade Mumbai's footpaths, face the threat of being declared ineligi- ble for alternative a |
Kurla rape ase: family ays Sheikh
FAMILY of the prime suspect in the Kurla rape and murder case has accused the police of falsely implicating him in the case "as they were under pres- sure to make an arrest". On Tuesday, Mohammed A |
Denied surgery in US, patient inally gets solace in city hospital
A 71-year-old man, who had advanced Parkinson's disease, has finally managed to get med- ical assistance in India.He had been denied surgery in the US. He can reportedly perform daily chores on his |
HC: Justice Patel's appointment right
THE Bombay High Court on Tuesday declined a petition chal- lenging the appointment of Justice J N Patel as a high court judge. The Division bench of Justice D K Deshmukh and Justice A R Joshi held |
Biomimicry reduces adverse impacts on environment: expert
THINK of a city where buildings and structures do not shed rainwater into drains but collect it to use during dry spell; roofs that do not reflect sunlight but capture and transform it to power for us |
4 godowns gutted in Ghatkopar fire
FOUR godowns were gutted and five others partially damaged in a major fire that broke out in Narayan Nagar, Ghatkopar (west), on Tues- day afternoon. No injury or casualty was reported. The fire th |
Curtain Call
BIDYAWATI Phukan said it best when she picked up an award for best director for her t ssamese play Guti Phulor Gamusa at e Fifth Mahindra Excellence in heatre Awards (META) held on un |
CRASH AND BORE
HOUGHTS of suicide at a fashion week? This may be a strange idea to entertain in your head while in the midst of the glamorous circus that is the LFW. But we all have our strange obsessions. Kallol Da |
Flair and square
Where's the party tonight?
A S Lakme's fashion week t closes in Mumbai, I'm not t the only one wondering n hat the purpose of the entire s ercise is. The shows are |
Chandigarh's non-AC taxi: A four-wheeler but not a car
THE much-awaited non-air- conditioned taxis will soon hit the city roads. But they will look different. The only operator in the city is going to launch Tata Magic - a four-wheeler but not a car - und |
fter attack, Rathore back in court today
THE hearing on the appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to en- hance the six-month sentence awarded to former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case will resume |
City air is cleaner than it used to be
COMPARED to previous years, Chandigarh residents breathe fresher. Air quality in the Union Territory has improved considerably over the last few years, a survey has revealed. The level of major pol |
This time, protestors park at a distance to escape cop fury
ON Friday, when protesting members of the Haryana Janhit Congress proved a bit too unruly for the Chandi- garh Police personnel, they vent their fury on the cars and buses the demonstrators had travel |
VRS no ground
for rejecting
pension, says
defence tribunal
THE Chandigarh bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) decided a disability pension case in favour of a retired sube- dar on Tuesday. The case had earlier been rejected by a lower court and the Punja |
Graduates,
postgraduates
in race to
become
firemen
TERM it the lure of a govern- ment job or increasing unem- ployment but among thou- sands of applicants for the posts of firemen in the Munic- ipal Corporation, a large num- ber are graduates and post |
Fitness test to be
videographed
The Municipal Corporation will videograph the physical fit- ness test. Additional Commis- sioner P K Sharma says this will ensure transparency in the process. The candidates will not be able to claim |
CTU loses Rs 13 per km
on each new low-floor bus
LOCALS may be happy with the introduction of the 20 new low-floor buses to the fleet of the Chandigarh Transport Un- dertaking (CTU) last week, but officials are getting sleep- less nights over the lo |
New and improved P'kula
admn website launched
There is
some reason to cheer for resi- dents of Panchkula as the new district administration website provides all information at the click of a mouse, including forms for various schemes and servic |
Chandigarh is a potential
cinematic tourism destination'
AS PART of the International Women's Day celebrations, panchayat members and 20 girls from Kaimbwala village, along with the faculty and stu- dents of Institute of Technol- ogy and Future management T |
Contract workers' records: Zagade promises action against errant officials
THE State Information Commissioner (SIC) recently passed an order that the commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will be held responsible if the departments of the civic body fail to ma |
39 illegal structures demolished in drive
THE PUNE Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday demol- ished 39 illegal structures covering a total space of 6,000 square feet in Hadapsar. The civic administration had served notices to the illega |
Civic body cannot use Nehru Stadium: Club of Maharashtra
THE PUNE Municipal Corporation (PMC) pro- posal to use Nehru stadium and Ganesh Kala Krida Manch has been objected to by the Club of Maharashtra saying that the matter is pending in the court. The |
PCMC honours women employees
SEVERAL social organisa- tions, political parties and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation took the lead in honouring outstanding women on International Women's Day. Blood dona- tion, medical ch |
Animation entrance exam on April 17
DSK GLOBAL'S DSK Sup info- com International campus has announced April 17 as the date for its nationwide entrance exam in the field of animation, video game de- sign and industrial design. "DSK Su |
Study grant
THE AMERICAN Hospitality Academy is offering financial assistance to deserving students seeking admission to the academy. Based on the assessment of the AHA World Campus Committee on Grants, a Global |
MPCB to study pollution near Khadki rly station
FOLLOWING the objections raised by residents around Khadki railway station housing the cement godown, the Maharashtra Pollu- tion Control Board (MPCB) on Tuesday installed a device oppo- site the rail |
Need energy-efficient buildings, government to mend DC rules: minister
THE State Government has proposed to amend the de- velopment control rules for energy efficiency in building sector, said Ganesh Naik, Minister for State Excise and Non-Conventional Energy on Tuesday. |
Traders expect sugar prices to fall further
ON Tuesday, sugar was selling at Rs 31.75 per kg. This was a slight hike over Monday when it was selling at Rs 30 per kg. This is be- cause on Monday, the Maharash- tra State Cooperative Sugar Fac- to |
CA student held for cheating
CHATUSHRUNGI police on Monday arrested Shahjan Khurshid Khan (29), a resident of Bibwewadi-Kondhwa Road on charges of cheating and forgery. A stu- dent of chartered accountancy he was do- ing his arti |
Denied surgery in US, patient finally gets solace in Mumbai hospital
A 71-year-old man, who had ad- vanced Parkinson's disease, has finally managed to get medical assistance in India.He had been denied surgery in the US. He can reportedly perform daily chores on his |
Biomimicry reduces adverse impacts on
THINK of a city where buildings and structures do not shed rainter into drains but collect it to use during dry spell; roofs that do t reflect sunlight but capture and transform it to power for use ho |
HC: Justice Patel's appointment right
THE Bombay High Court on Tuesday de- clined a petition challenging the appointment of Justice J N Patel as a high court judge. The Division bench of Justice D K Desh- mukh and Justice A R Joshi hel |
Summer special
CONSIDERING the approaching summer ations, the Central Railway has announced umber of summer special trains from Pune. e trains une-Ahmedabad special: every Thursday beeen April 1 and June 24; t |
Labour law association elections on Friday
THE elections to the Labour Law Practitioners' Associa- tion (LLPA), Pune, will be held on Friday. These are the 47th annual elections of the LLPA-Pune for the post of president, vice president, secre |
City youth shines at Desert Storm Rally
RALLY driver Sanjay Takale of Pune was crowned the new champion of the 8th Desert Storm Rally 2010 af- ter clocking 47 minutes and 59 seconds. He defeated Ashish Budhia of Ranchi who finished with |
Vascon projects
? TWO projects constructed by Vascon Engineers have recently won awards for excellence V- Tech, Nashik's first IT-commercial complex has won Building of the Year 2009 award from Builders Association o |
ward for Rohan
? ROHAN Builders from Pune has bagged two 'Best Practice Awards' at this year's CNBC AWAAZ CRISIL Credai Real Es- tate Honours. The honours were bestowed on Rohan Builders for 'Highest Con- sumer Prot |
With UN help, IPL to go green
THE Indian Premier League (IPL) will go green from this year. Through a partnership with the United Nations Environment Pro- gramme (UNEP), the IPL will help bring awareness about environment issues a |
Brembo Group launches 'Bybre'
BREMBO Group, manu- facturers of brake discs for automotive vehicles, un- veiled its new brand 'Bybre' in India for braking systems of motorcycles and scooters under 600 cc. The Italian-en- gineered ' |
Workshop on research
supervision at PCCOE
A ONE-DAY workshop sponsored by the University of Pune on 'Research super- vision' was organised at the department of business ad- ministration in Pimpri- Chinchwad College of Engi- neering (PCCOE ) f |
Fund for public health scheme may now go to civic staff
MARCH 9 Sc D ESPITE elaborate public health A insurance plans of the Pune Mu- ic nicipal Corporation this year, a Se opping Rs 2.67 crore ha |
Youth dies in mishap, army officer booked after relatives put pressure
Col Umakant Tiwari and his wife were also injured in the accident.
A YOUTH injured in a road accident on Mon- day died on Tuesday morning, leading to protests from relatives and friends who refused |
2 of Pune among 5 held for burglary at Hema Malini's bungalow
MARCH 9 v fr HE burglary at film star ema Malini's bungalow in n umbai has a Pune link. N mong the five arrested, all w them natives of Nepal, in |
Varsity seeks cop security for exams
MARCH 9 HE University of Pune (UoP) has ritten to the City Police Commisoner and SPs of Pune, Ahmednagar nd Nashik districts requesting police elp if principals and supervisors of ny college affiliate |
MLC seat: Vandana Chavan set to be elected unopposed
MARCH 9 s N ATIONALIST Con- B gress Party (NCP) a city unit president c andana Chavan is all set to S e elected unopposed to the s ate |
Govt schools in a fix over Central grant
UNDER the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan AMSA), all the government high schools and senior secondary hools have been issued a grant of Rs 65,000 but school authori s are finding it difficult to |
GADVASU UP IN ARMS
Protest over appointment of former don as librarian
THE teachers of Guru Angad a T Dev Veterinary and Animal Sci- h ences University (GADVASU) is up in arms against the decision of p versity administratio |
PSEB engineer held for graft
The Vigilance Bureau
has nabbed a junior engineer posted of the Punjab State Electricity Board Jagraon and ineman Amrit Pal for demand ng Rs 20,000 bribe from one Baljeet Singh Kaonke. Gurcharan S |
6 thieves nabbed, 15 cars recovered
The police got a major success after it busted a gang
of car thieves and recovered nearly 15 cars. Addressing a press nference, SP City-1 Harsh Kumar Bansal and SP (D) Harinderjeet gh said the gang |
'2,424 police recruitment forms sold'
: In the ongoing sale of forms for recruitment in the po
licehave sold almost 2,424 forms date. In a press statement released here, Commissioner Ishwar gh said that a special cell had been formed |
National fest held at GNIMT
The Indian Society for Technical Education chapter of
Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology (GNIMT), odel Town, Ludhiana, organised a fest which featured national el students' competitio |
OBC holds agriculture credit camp
The Oriental Bank of commerce organised an agricul
ture credit camp at Jagraon. T Y Prabhu, Chairman and managing ector of the bank distributed more than 700 loan approval lets aggregating Rs 64 cror |
State employees hold meeting
at Mini Secretariat
Punjab State Ministerial Services Union today held its
state-level convention at Mini Secretariat under the presidentship Darshan Singh Bajaj. Addressing the convention, Bajaj said, e demand from th |
Blood donation camp held at DMCH
The Management of Hotel Majestic Park Plaza organ
ised a blood donation camp with the support of Dayanand Medical llege and Hospital on the occasion of Women's Day. 52 volun rs donated blood. Jaspal |
The big
Madhuri Bhaduri painter
to express nd it is diffiult to put a mit to this eedom.he expres ons of an rtiste are eflections of he society
and it goes ithout saying that a disturbed artiste ill |
Raving beauty
EXPRESS FEATURES SERVICE " ti I want to begin from where I had stopped, reinstating pow erful roles like the ones in Satta d Shool instead |
Flair and square
Where's the party tonight?
AS Lakme's fashion week closes in Mumbai, I'm not the only one ondering what the purpose of the entire exercise is. The shows are o long and boring hours apart, the clothes, mostly, are pseudo oho, |
Musical ensemble
Musical ensemble Music makes a better person- said Plato and followed Prinses En semble, which will be performing during the musical programme or anised by The Poona Music Society at Mazda Ha |
Way to go
Way to go alil Bhatt known for his Satvik Veena is nominated for Canada's topmost music honur the Juno Award for his international music album Slide to Freedom-2 in Best World usic Album category.The |
Arty treat
rty treat O mark the eve of the International Women's Day, an exhibition by Deepa Nath, a Hyderbad based artist was held at Amanora Park City. The show was hosted by Arnavaz Dama a and inaugurated by |
Purple Hues
OR all those who are lovers of the old world of classic rock, Retro Legendary Act, (RLA) a group of musicians who have come together to form the band, will be paying a tribute to the rock band, eep P |
Prize distribution function
held at GC-46
: The Post-Graduate Government
College, Sector 46, on Tuesday organised its 28th
nnual prize distribution function on its premises. dviser to the UT Administrator, Pradip Mehra as the chief gu |
Biker hit by bus dies
: A motorcyclist, Shakeel Mohammad, of
Jhanjeri village near here was crushed under the wheels of a speeding bus on the Mohali-Landran- Fatehgarh Sahib Road near Majatri village in Mo- hali, the poli |
PILE-UP
IN POLICE STATION
PART 3
Police stations smack of narcotic
drugs worth crores of rupees
BESIDES 1,200 odd vehicles and over a lakh liquor bottles that occupy the police stations premises, malkhanas of differ- ent police stations in the city are full of huge quantities of contraband of na |
Railway superintendent convicted for graft
A FORMER superintendent f the Chandigarh railway sta- c on was convicted in a corrup- c on case on Tuesday. The CBI t pecial Court of Darshan R ingh convicted Station Super- 3 tendent Ra |
LAND
ROW
Shopowners allege revenue officials
hand-in-glove with property dealer
MEMBERS of the Chaura Bazaar Association and own- ers of 97 showroom plots as- sembled in the market oppo- site Bristol Hotel in Zirakpur on Tuesday and protested against officials of the Rev- enue de |
Man duped
of Rs 41 lakh
by Delhi
resident
THE Economic Offences Wing of the Chandigarh Po- lice has booked a Delhi trader for duping a city resi- dent from whom he had al- legedly taken Rs 41 lakh on the pretext of providing his two sons admi |
BOSTON
FRACAS
PU probe
panel awaits
inputs from
Harvard
University
WITH the committee formed by the Panjab Uni- versity authorities still inquir- ing into the Boston issue, there is no headway into the case. The committee formed was required to submit its re- port by |
30 million couples in India suffer from infertility'
INFERTILITY expert and Vice- President of the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction, Dr Hrishikesh Pai, has revealed that the problem of male infertility is on the rise in the country. "Rough est |
PU practical examination
dates postponed
The practical examinations
scheduled for March 10 and 11, 2010, (Wednes- day and Thursday) at Panjab University have been postponed. The new dates for same will be announced later and would be avail |
Placement drive held at
Chandigarh Group of Colleges
Mobera Systems, a software develop
- ment and contract R&D company, shortlisted 15 students during a placement drive at Chandigarh Group of Colleges in Gharuan village on Tuesday. The company, whi |
Seminar on job scenario held
at Kalka college
A seminar on
'Job opportunities in management courses' was organised at the Aruna Asaf Ali Government PG College in Kalka on Tuesday. Students were given tips on facing interviews and were even provi |
City lawyers attend international
conference against death penalty
: Two city-based human rights
lawyers Navkiran Singh and Tejinder Singh Sudan participated in the international conference '4th World Congress Against Death Penalty' held at Geneva in Switzerland rec |
Memorial lecture held at PU
The Department of Economics
, Panjab University, organised the 'Brij Narain Memorial Lecture' which was delivered by Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Board of Governors, Indian Council for Rese |
Workshop held at college
: The Department of Microbiology
and Biotechnology of GGDSD College, Chandi- garh, with the sponsorship of the Union Depart- ment of Biotechnology organized a two-week workshop on "From Petri Plate t |
Punjabi writer, singer felicitated
International Women's Day was cele
brated at the Jasdev Singh Sandhu Group of In- stitutes, where noted Punjabi writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana was conferred the Jasdev Kaur Sandhu Lifetime Achievement Awar |
PU professor bereaved
: D B Arora, father of Professor
Nishtha Jaswal, a faculty member at Panjab Uni- versity passed away after a prolonged illness on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment at PGI for the last two months w |
Jasdev Sandhu College
wins youth fest
The first Zonal Youth
Festival of colleges of education was hosted by Jasdev Singh Sandhu College of Education, Kauli, Patiala. The festival was organised by the Association of Self Financed Colleges |
Swami's Malaysia
centre ceases
work
KUALA LUMPUR: A religious
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Lalu, Mulayam don't give up, plan no-trust
ANGRY with the Congress for ignoring their objections and having its way on the passage of the women's reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha, the SP and RJD to- day moved to carry out their threat of withdr |
Right and Left come to the aid of Centre
FOURTEEN years after it was first intro- o duced, the Bill securing a third of the a seats for women in Lok Sabha and state ssemblies was passed by the Rajya Sabha to- ru y, marking a water |
Thrown out of House, not much support at home either
IT is not certain that the seven unruly MPs marshalled out of the Rajya Sabha today for trying to block the women's reservation Bill would have found sym- pathy even from the women who are closest to |
First step is
a giant leap
but long
haul ahead
NEW DELHI
THE historic passage of the Women's Bill in the Rajya Sabha is the first step in what could be a long journey. "It depends on political will. The entire process can be com- plet |
Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
a. PTI ERMANY beat EW ZEALAND 5-2 OREA beat NETHERLANDS 2-1 RGENTINA beat ANADA 4-2 KOREA FALL ONE GOAL HORT OF A BERTH IN AST FOUR GERMANY THROUGH, WITTHAUS LOOKS FOR |
swami's Malaysia entre ceases work
A religious
centre here which promotes the teachings of tainted Indian spiritual guru Swami Parama- hamsa Nithyananda, who is al- legedly involved in a sex scan- dal, has ceased its operations. |
'OUR SON IS NO
KILLER, HE ONLY
ACTED IN PANIC'
THE PARENTS of Gursewak hillon, arrested for the eath of Baby Gurshan, said heir son told them the tod ler collapsed after being hit ccidentally by a door he
pened to enter th n Melbourne. PAG
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Herstory
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'OUR SON IS NO KILLER, HE ONLY ACTED IN PANIC
Gursewak with wife HE PARENTS of Gursewak hillon, arrested for the eath of Baby Gurshan, said heir son told them the tod ler collapsed after being hit ccidentally by a door he pened to enter thei |
Governor airs security fears, lauds joint forces
Governor M K arayanan today expressed con rns over the security environent in the state but said the int operation by the Centralate forces in the western part of e state has achieved some suc ss as a |
Thrown out of House, not much support at home either
IT is not certain that the seven unruly MPs marshalled out of the Rajya Sabha today for trying to block the women's reservation Bill would have found sym- pathy even from the women who are closest to |
Lalu, Mulayam don't give up, plan no-trust
ANGRY with the Congress for ignoring their objections and having its way on the passage of the women's reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha, the SP and RJD to- day moved to carry out their threat of withdr |
Right and Left come to the aid of Centre
FOURTEEN years after it was first intro- duced, the Bill securing a third of the seats for women in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies was passed by the Rajya Sabha to- day, marking a watershed in India's |
Mamata bstains from vote after lunch with the Yadavs, PA plate full
IN A development that stumped the government, its key con- stituent Trinamool Congress on Tuesday abstained from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on the directive of party chi |
MELODY MANTRA
ELODY is one note at a time, while harmony can be three notes spaced out comfortably. The definition comes from musicologist, archivist and ex- ponent of Hindustani classical music Satyasheel Deshp |
BIZ Connect
TORIES of fruitful associations can be attributed to networking of the orkut or facebook kind. But there is no proof to confirm the en- trepreneurial potential of this web so- cializing. Web portal |
Movie on the Move
PROMOTION of her forthcom- pr g film, the Subhash Ghai produc- tin on 'Right Ya Wrong' brought Eesha oppikar to Lucknow. It was the oc- sc sion of International Women's Day in nd win |
Trust Indian security: Freeman
? Olympic gold-medallist sprinter Cathy Free- man asked her fellow Australian athletes to trust the security arrangements made by the Indian government and travel to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games i |
Sport
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Pak want to host Davis tie
? The Pakistan Tennis federation will challenge any move by the ITF to shift the country's Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group 2 home tie against NZ scheduled from July 9 to 12. New Zealand's ten- nis offici |
More support for Tiger
? Support continued to pour in for Tiger Woods with six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker saying that the golfer is now facing the biggest challenge in his life - that of making a comeback. "He (T |
What's in store for Schumi?
ALTHOUGH Formula One has been galvanised by Michael Schumacher's return, he 41-year-old driver's comeback ould turn out to be far trickier han imagined as he faces one of he most competitive fiel |
Kashyap, Sridhar
knocked out
ANUP Sridhar and P Kashyap lost tamely on the opening day of qualifiers at the All England badminton Super Series to mark a poor first day for In- dian shuttlers in Birmingham. Kashyap, ranked 30, |
South Zone triumph
SOUTH Zone (Customs, Chen- nai) defeated West Zone (Income Tax, Pune) by 3-0 in the volleyball fi- nal of the 42nd CRSB All India Sports Meet being organised at SAI Sub-Centre, Lucknow.
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Balwinder shines as Shahbad Academy win hockey final
FORWARD Balwinder Kaur blasted four goals as her team- Shahbad Academy, Haryana out- classed Haryana XI 4-3 in the fi- nal of the 23rd All India Invitation Prize Money Women's Hockey Tournament which |
R A J Y A S A B H A P A S S E S W O M E N ' S R E S E R V AT I O N B I L L
Herstory
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'OUR SON IS NO
KILLER, HE ONLY
ACTED IN PANIC
THE PARENTS of Gursewak
Dhillon, arrested for the
death of Baby Gurshan, said
their son told them the toddler
collapsed after being hit
accidentally by a door he
opened to enter their house
i |
Governor airs
security fears, lauds
joint forces
Governor M K
Narayanan today expressed concerns
over the security environment
in the state but said the
joint operation by the Centralstate
forces in the western part of
the state has achieved s |
Thrown out of House, not much support at home either
IT is not certain that the seven unruly MPs marshalled out of the Rajya Sabha today for trying to block the women's reservation Bill would have found sym- pathy even from the women who are closest to |
Lalu, Mulayam don't
give up, plan no-trust
ANGRY with the Congress for ignoring their objections and having its way on the passage of the women's reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha, the SP and RJD to- day moved to carry out their threat of withdr |
Mamata
abstains from
vote after
lunch with
the Yadavs,
UPA plate full
IN A development that stumped the government, its key con- stituent Trinamool Congress on Tuesday abstained from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on the directive of party chi |
Hi-tech security at
Writers' soon
In view of looming
reat, the state government is so htening security arrange- th ents at the Writers' Buildings b installing gadgets like scan- m rs, video cameras, jammers |
Jairam: We stand by
Copenhagen Accord
MORE than a month after the end of the initial January 31 deadline, India has finally de- cided to formally associate it- self with the Copenhagen Ac- cord, a political statement that was the only out |
Women's Bill: First step is a giant
leap but long haul lies ahead
THE historic passage of the Women's Bill in the Rajya Sabha is the first step in what could be a long journey. "It depends on political will. The entire process can be completed in a few months if |
MNS activists vandalise mobile shops,
Raj says don't force Hindi on us
A DAY after the Supreme Court asked Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray to desist from mak- ing provocative speeches targeting north Indians, members of his outfit vandalised two outl |
Remove 'Bombay' from
name of college: Ram Naik
The BJP on Tuesday said it would
launch an agitation within 24 hours if the word 'Bombay' was not changed to 'Mumbai' for the government run-veterinary college at Goregaon. "The college administrati |
Curtain CALL
BIDYAWATI Phukan said it best when she picked up an award for best director for her Assamese play Guti Phulor Gamusa at the Fifth Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) held on Sunday at the Taj |
BOOKS & APPLES
XPRESS FEATURES SERVICE olkata's first Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender GBT) literary festival, Blue ple Festival, ogranised by ATHII (a city-based NGO) s graced by the presence of rsonal |
Nirupam dons Nayachar salesman role on campus
A SEMINAR organised by the students' wing of CPM, Students' Federation of India (SFI), at Rajabazar Science College in Kolkata became the perfect setting for the Left Font government to garner support |
Now or never, says Sonia; and party falls in line
It WAS Sonia Gandhi's decisive "now or never" stand, underlined at Mon- s night's core group meet- S that eventually paved the P for the passage of the s men's Reservation Bill i |
Anti-Naxal ops: 'Govt ready to take criticism'
ASSERTING that the government is ready to ke criticism for its anti-Naxal offensive, ome Secretary G K Pillai on Tuesday said o ose who advocate the cause of Maoists ould have the courage to cal |
3 hours, 3 adjournments later, 7 MPs evicted from House
THE Rajya Sabha on Tuesday wit- nessed high drama and unprece- dented scenes as seven MPs were marshaled out of the House and sus- pended for the remainder of the on- going Budget session for their un |
HS students can now get heir answers re-evaluated
THE West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Examina- tion has completed the process to allow re-examina- tion of answer scripts of stu- dents - a first time initiative in the history of the council. < |
Action plan on Governor's recommendations
KOLKATA, MARCH 9 AFTER Governor M K Narayanan sent a list of recommendations on upgradation of the Eastern Frontier Rifles' headquarters at Salua in West Midnapore district, the state government has a |
Rethink plan to tax PF, NSC withdrawals: PM to Finance
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Finance Ministry to re- view the proposal in the draft Direct Ta x Code to bring long-term savings instruments - such as Provident Fund and National Savings |
Interrogation cell ombed in Lahore,
At least 13 peo- ple were killed and over 80 injured when a bomber drove an explosives-filled car into a building where terrorist suspects are inter- rogated in Lahore. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pak- is |
M F Husain surrenders Idian passport
Painter M F Husain, ho was granted Qatari citinship recently, has surren red his Indian passport to
reported.
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SC contests HC order
on CJI-under-RTI
The Supreme urt on Monday filed an ap al before itself, challenging e Delhi High Court order that e office of the Chief Justice of
dia came und
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Hockey World Cup 2010
7 AIN beat GLAND 2-0 STRALIA beat KISTAN 2-1 DIA drew UTH AFRICA 3-3 T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S GERMANY VS NEW ZEALAND (4.35 PM) NETHERLANDS VS KOREA (6.35 PM) ARGENTINA VS CANADA (8.35 PM) INDIA CO |
22-year-olddiesas30,000stampedeforcopjobsinMumbai
PAGE1 ANCHOR
AMONG the more than 90,000 who lined up on Monday for a recruitent drive for 3,586 Mumbai olice constabulary posts was amesh Ambre. Within min es of the gates opening at the alina Poli |
MP govt admits: 71 kids died daily
since 2005, crores returned unspent
ADMITTING to the highest infant mortality rate in the country, Madhya Pradesh today said that 130,233 children died in the state before attaining the age of five between 2005 and 2009. During the s |
Poison all dogs, barks alerting securitymen: Bengal Maoists
CONVINCED that the barking of dogs was alerting securitymen about their movements at night, Maoists have directed people in villages of the Jhargram-Lalgarh belt not to keep dogs as pets and poison th |
BIGELOWMAKESHISTORY, HURT LOCKER WINS BIG
THEBESTPICTURE: THE HURTLOCKERDIRECTOR: KATHRYNBIGELOW (THE HURT LOCKER) ACTOR: JEFF BRIDGES (CRAZY HEART) ACTRESS: SANDRA BULLOCK (THE BLIND SIDE)
the centenary of International Women's |
India, US iron out key differences over reprocessing
INDIA and US have bridged key differences towards final- ising a pact on the arrange- ments and procedures for re- processing US-origin spent fuel. The text, sources said, was almost sealed at expert- |
Women's Bill manhandled, Dr sent for
THE Women's Bill ensuring 33 per cent quota in the House, presented by the rul- ing party as an idea "whose time has come," was stonewalled by the usual suspects today. Nine adjournments later - fi |
Husain surrenders passport
LEGENDARYpainter M F Husain, who was recently granted citizenship by Qatar, has surrendered his Indian passport to the Indian em- bassy in Doha, Gulf Times re- ported Monday. Husain, who was living in |
Baby Gurshan may have got injured unintentionally'
THE Indian toddler, whose body was found in Melbourne suburbs four days ago, may have been injured in an acci- dent before he was put in a car boot and dumped by the part- time taxi driver who has bee |
Scarlett case:
Charges
framed against
two locals
A Goa court on
onday framed charges gainsttwolocalsforgravesexal assault and destroying evi- s ence in the sensational Scar- s tt Eden Keeling death case c eported in the state in 2008. |
Jesus picture
row: Red corner
notice against
publisher soon
Meghalaya po
- lice will soon issue a red cor- ner notice across the country for Skyline publisher Indra Mohan Jha, who went into hiding after his firm published a picture of Jesus Christ hold- ing a |
Good news soon on
ULFA issue: Minister
THINGS are moving in the right direction and people will soon get to hear some "good news" on the ULFA issue, the Assam government informed the state Assembly here on Monday. State Forest Minis- ter R |
Warrant against
Black Widow chief
The Assam govern
- ment has issued a warrant of ar- rest against Niranjan Hojai, com- mander-in-chief of the outlawed Dima Halam Daoga or DHD(J), popularly known as Black Widow, after he went "missin |
Bhutan may withdraw
travel advisory on Assam
HE Bhutan government is likely to withdraw advisory issued in 2003 barring its citizens om travel to Assam. Revealing this on Mon y,DashoTseringWangda,BhutaneseConsul eneral based in Kolkata, said B |
UPSTAGED ON HOME TURF
EVER SINCE Raj Thackeray broke away from the Shiv Sena to form Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, he has been leaving no stone unturned to score a point over his bete noire Uddhav Thackeray. The cousins have |
THE MAHAJAN DEATH MYSTERY
ABOUT FOUR YEARS ago, BJP's posterboy Pramod Mahajan's murder by his brother Pravin had created a sensation and the rumour mill was agog with speculation of all kinds. Last year, Pravin wrote a boo |
Misguided comparisons can do more harm than good
N A broader way, all advertis ing is comparative. One rou tinely comes across advertise- i ents with claims such as "finest class", "world famous", "Pre- f rred Card" or "Car of the Year" |
A short-term actic to gain consumer attention
ON FRIDAY night we saw M Rin throwing the chal- A lenger gauntlet smack on th he face of Tide. One can only c magine the chaos that would have le nsued for t |
NCP'S CATCH-22
AFTER ITS debacle in the Lok Sabha elections (and the subsequent Assembly polls) that si- lenced the boisterous NCP leaders who were projecting Sharad Pawar as the prime minister- ial candidate, the p |
CATCHING THEM YOUNG
WITH ELECTIONS to the Brihanmumbai Mu- nicipal Corporation (BMC) due next year, politi- cal parties have started vying with one another to attract young voters. While the Congress has planned hillstat |
Brands pull out all the stops in ad wars
THE consumer being the king and all decisions being taken in con- sumer interest is the cause most businesses claim to espouse. It is not surprising, therefore, that Rin and Tide, the two most reno |
Little movies that could
THE big story of the 82nd Academy Awards wasn't just about the small, practically un- seen The Hurt Locker besting Avatar, perhaps the most-seen movie in motion picture history. It was also equally |
Obama's trans-Atlantic disconnect
PRESIDENT Obama learns with interest that Europe now has a phone number. He's told that, responding at last to Henry Kissinger's famous jibe, the European Union has appointed a President named Herman |
A hard trudge to democacy
m p HERE is another ballot, go " te again and let him take S ur picture," Nabil al-Jan- e i, the Iraqi charg� d'affaires q Beirut, said while ha |
The FIFTH METRO LETTER FROM BANGALORE
An IIT of its own?
B ANGALORE ap pears set for a scorcher of a summer. It is only earlyMarchandtemperatures arealreadyhoveringinthelow 30s. Kicking up the mercury a tad higher is the d |
Afghan President to host April peace conference
ace conference
Karzai said on Monday that an action an to reintegrate low- to mid-level in rgent fighters into society and nego te with the Taliban's top echelon will crafted next month at a peace |
CEO sorry for comparing Michelle with chimp
A CEO of a Tennessee firm
hs publicly apologised after he came der fire for sending an offensive ail, comparing Michelle Obama to eeta, a chimp in Tarzan movies. Walt ker, the CEO of Tennessee |
omen's day observed in
Residents of restive Swat
valley in northwest Pakistan on Mon y celebrated International Women's y after a break of three years followg the eviction of Taliban fighters from e region. Rights activ |
Fonseka to continue fast, says wife
Sri Lanka's former Army
chief Gen Sarath Fonseka, currently un r military custody, has decided to ntinue his fast despite being proded a telephone to speak to his ughters. Daily Mirror quoted Fonka |
Israel okays new West Bank settler homes
Israel has given the
green light for the building of 112 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank despite a partial moratorium on such construction, a minister said on Monday. The e |
Interpol joins search or Dubai killers
Interpol has joined the Dubai
task force investigating the murder of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and has issued a further 16 so-called `Red Notices' to assist in arrests, the global police |
QUAKE HITS TURKEY AT LEAST 51 KILLED
SIX VILLAGES DESTROYED 50 An earthquake with magnitude 6.0 hit Th eastern Turkey on Monday destroying six lag villages in Elazig Province and killing at tha east 51 and in |
US-born Qaeda man held in Pak
AN AMERICAN member of al-Qaeda was picked up in a raid in Karachi, Pak- istani officials said on Monday, but re- versed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network's US-born spokes |
As Iraq counts votes, Maliki takes lead
EARLY estimates from a range of Iraqi parties on Monday predicted a coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minis- ter Nouri al-Maliki would take the lead in the parliamentary election, though official results w |
Goody leaves �3 mn to sons, Tweed gets nothing
Tragic reality TV star Jade Goody has left
her �3 million fortune to her two sons, while her i dower Jack Tweed hasn't been left a penny in b will. The Big Brother star, who died at 27 |
Susan Boyle shifting from Scotland to London
Singing sensation Susan Boyle is mov
ing from her native Scotland to London after record sses insisted that she move to a safer area after ople tried to sneak into her house. The 48-year singer's |
HEALTH/MEDICINE
AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
THE virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awak- ening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way to- ward better treatments for the dis |
Ethnic violence in Nigeria kills 500
OFFICIALS and human rights groups in Nigeria said on Mon- day that 500 people had died in weekend ethnic violence near the central city of Jos. A government spokesman said on Sunday that the dead numb |
Blast in Lahore kills 13, Pak blames India
APA KISTANI Ta liban suicide bomber rammed his explo- sive-laden car into a building where police interrogated high-value terrorist suspects here, killing 13 people and injuring 80. The blast occur |
India, US iron out key differences
ubsequently by way of in- St roducing language accept- ti able to both sides, the other in ssue was that of the termination clause. This appears to o have been more tricky ag han expe |
30,000 stampede for cop jobs
from a physical disability and Ramesh wanted to enroll in the force as he felt a government job would ensure stability." Village youth chipped in on Monday to help the family hire a vehicle to come to |
Poison all dogs: Bengal Maoists
r people." G "Under the cover of night, r armed squads move m rough villages, close to the sa mps of security forces. But C r position is compromised A barking strays an |
Women's Bill manhandled
d consensus." N Asked about today's dis- th ptions, she said: "I am not p sappointed...(these are) h ething problems...It may pr ke time but I am confi nt that the Bill wil |
2010 Family gets Naxals' call: Duley will walk free
HE family of abducted headmaster Ranjit Duley had a reason to be happy on Monday as it re- ceived a call from Maoists in the evening that Duley will be released. The family criticised the role of the |
Pillai writes to chief secys, seeks cop strength in Maoist-hit areas s
Suspected Maoists have abducted a security per- sonnel posted with the Defence Research and Development Or- ganisation (DRDO) unit in Bastar from Gorli area in Dantewada district in South Bastar regio |
DRDO employee abducted by suspected Naxals
Suspected Maoists
Have abducted a security per h onnel posted with the Defence esearch and Development Or- t anisation (DRDO) unit in Bastar om Gorli a |
Pawar, SP pay condolences to Nanaji
UNION Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday joined the BJP and the wider Sangh Parivar in paying glowing tributes to RSS leader Nanaji Desh- mukh who passed away recently. At a remembrance |
SC warns Raj on provocative speeches
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday gave Maha- rashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray a word of caution to desist from making provocative speeches targeting North Indians. "This (filin |
awyer barred rom courts for
AHMEDABAD: The Bar Council of Gujarat on Monday sus- pended advocate Rajesh H Ru- parelia from practising in any court for three years after a woman complained that he was sending her "vulgar and obje |
Deemed varsities contest HRD power to derecognise
FACING the axe for not meet- ing the "standards of quality education", several of the 44 blacklisted deemed-to-be insti- tutions on Monday contested before the Supreme Court the authority of the HRD M |
CAT: Prometric blames virus, `no software flaw'
PROMETRIC, the agency that conducted the com- puter-based Common Ad- mission Te st (CAT) 2009, confirmed on Monday that it was a virus attack that crip- pled 13 per cent of the 637 centres over the fi |
rissa Oppn boycotts
overnor's address D HUBANESWAR: Opposition d ongress on Monday boycotted issa Governor M C Bhandare's dress to the Assembly and re a copy of his speech. Bhan re was reques |
f eet on March 18 to t
GUWAHATI: A meeting be- tween Union Home Ministry, As- sam government and All Assam Students Union (AASU) to re- view progress of implementa- tion of the Assam Accord would be held in New Delhi on Mar |
NEW DELHI I TUESDAY I MARCH 9 I 2010 Buddha govt capitulates on Land Bill
c T HE West Bengal gov- c ernmentonMondayde- ju cided to withdraw the m andReformsAmendmentBill o 06, making it evident that la hief Minister Buddh |
N THE SUPREME COURT
SCchallengesHCorder
onRTI, says against
judicial independence
THE Supreme Court on Monday, for the first time in history, filed an appeal before itself against a Delhi High Court judgment declaring the Chief Justice of India as a "public authority" and bring- in |
Lt Gen to file plea against
Former Mili
- tary Secretary and so far the seniormost officer of the In- dian Army indicted for Court Martial proceedings, Lieu- tenant General Avadesh Prakash is all set to approach the Supreme Cou |
ead with his address. c w irupati idols, prasad p c
HYDERABAD: The governing body of the Tirumala temple at Tirupati is planning to present a golden idol of Lord Venkateswara and prasad to US President Barack Obama. "The organisers of 'Kalyanotsavam' ( |
After 40 cases, high-flying, fast-riding chain snatcher gang held in city
THREE members of a chain snatcher gang, who would often travel to other cities by air to loot peo- ple, were arrested by the Anti-Extor- tion Cell of the Crime Branch from Rohini, North Delhi. The |
Minimum wages hiked by 33 per cent
E Delhi Cabinet on Monday proved the increase of minium wages by 33 per cent. The w wages will be effective m February 1. Minimum ages in Delhi remains the ghest in the country. With the ke, minimu |
Nod to nine new legal services authorities
THE Cabinet also gave a nod to nine new district legal services authorities for each district of the city. Earlier, there was only one such body functioning at the Rohini courts complex. The author |
Gang of burglars held
THE Greater Noida police ar- rested a gang of five men late on Sunday night for alleged in- volvement in five burglary cases in Gautam Budh Nagar and nearby districts. The five accused were iden- t |
Delhi's 3-D map ready, govt depts to begin use from April 1
AFTER working for over a year to pre- pare detailed map of Delhi using 3-D imaging, the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure project is now ready for implementation. Over 330 applications have b |
Earth Hour: less is better for eco cause, says Delhi govt
ON March 27, Delhi will join 91 other untries in switching off their lights for b arth Hour at 8.30 pm sharp across p e globe. c Last year, the Ca |
With rising power costs, city may see tariff hike
WHILE there has been no C p ke in the power tariffs in the y since 2004-2005, that g ght be set to change soon. A p ries of f |
No to tree-felling
Residents of Siri Fort and Anand Lok, along with Kamala Nehru College stu- dents gathered on Tuesday to protest against tree-felling in the area to widen August Kranti Marg for the Common- wealth Game |
Govt looks at own funds for green projects in Capital
WITH the Centre slashing funds allocated to the Delhi government by about Rs 1,200 crore this year, the govern- ment is now eyeing the Air Ambience Fund, created by the government three years ago, to |
The Curious Case of the
Multiplying Detectives
N 1929 British crime writer Ronald Knox codiefied a set of 10 commandments, a decalogue for all crime writers. The rules included that no Chinamen should feature in the plot, only one hidden passage o |
The Queen's Gambit
AN epic queen has brought to- gether some uber-talented women. Artist Anjolie Ela Menon, singer Shubha Mudgal, designer Ritu Kumar and actor Shivani Wazir Pasrich have come together for a play on Drau |
Beyond Boundaries
ONE of the most enduring memories of di- rector Chandra Prakash Dwivedi's movie Pin- jar, based on the Amrita Pritam masterpiece, was the moving clarity with which the lyrics, Sita ko dekhe sara gaon, |
Cop facing graft charges gets witness kidnapped, court orders probe
TAKING serious note of a case where a cop facing cor- ruption charges allegedly got the prime witness kid- napped and threatened, the Bombay High Court on Monday asked the state to take serious action |
3 in police net or cyber fraud
ACTING on a tip-off, the Borivali police have arrested three persons, including a woman, who had allegedly cheated several people of lakhs of rupees by sending e-mails about winning online lotteries. |
Proposed Thane flyover likely to clash with monorail route
HE Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation's (MSRDC) proposed flyover at Kapurbavdi junction in Thane is likely to clash with the second corri- dor of monorail on the Thane-Bhi- wandi-Kalyan ro |
BEST bus runs over college student in Malad
A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD college student was allegedly run over by a BEST bus in Malad on Monday morning, the police said. The driver of the bus, Ajinkya Malwe, has been arrested on charges of causing |
On Women's Day, HC asks civic body to reinstate dismissed woman staffer
THE Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Brihanmum- bai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to reinstate a woman whose service had been terminated as she got married to another man after her husband, a fo |
Pay hike: women health workers all off strike after BMC assurance
AS MANY AS 3,000 women community health workers (CHW), who were to strike work from Monday citing inadequate salary, have called it off after Municipal Commissioner Swadheen Ksha- triya assured them t |
Robbery at Hema Malini's home: cops arrest 5
ACTING on a tip off, the Crime Branch unit 11 ar- rested 5 persons on Monday morning from near Dahisar area for allegedly planning to commit robbery. During interrogation, the officers discovered t |
Caste assault n woman under HC scanner
WHILE hearing the case of an alleged caste based-assault on a woman and her daugh- ters, the Bombay High Court on Monday called for the offi- cer in-charge of the probe. Mangal Jadhav, 43, of Kopar |
No compulsory Punjabi in schools: CBSE
THE Central Board of Sec- ondary Education (CBSE) has refused to accept the Punjab government's de- mand to make Punjabi lan- guage compulsory up to Class X in schools in Chandigarh and Punjab. The |
Man's body found anging from tree
A man was
CHANDIGARH: A man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the forest area near Hallomajra village on Monday evening. The body of the unidentified man, reportedly in his late twe |
Chief guest rails at DAV students at Women's Day event
THE remix generation got an earful from Punjab Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla at a function held to mark the Interna- tional Women's Day on Monday. A song and dance pro- gramme preceded by a fa |
Multiplexes to air IPL frenzy live on big screens
KEEPING pace with the p enzy generated by the In- d an Premier League, mul- W plexes in the city are ofring the excitement live 1 n the big screen. t |
Road accident halts Gandhian couple's peace message on cycle
WITH a message of peace and non-violence, a couple started from Madurai, Tamil Nadu on November 23, 2009. After covering 4,000 kilome- ters and traversing through nine states on a cycle, the cou- p |
Noida MLA in judicial custody for fraud
SHIKHOABAD MLA Ashok Yadav, accused in a fraud case re- lated to land allotment, was sent to 14 days judicial custody by the Addi- tional Session Judge-III of Noida court on Monday. The FIR against th |
Two Class XII tudents held or snatching
TWO Class XII students were arrested on Sat- urday for their alleged involvement in cases of snatching. The police said Dipankar Dass, 21 and Kapil Chauhan, 19, who are appearing for their Board ex |
Biker killed
A 30-year-old man was killed by a speeding Innova car in Southwest Delhi on Mon- day. The incident occurred at 9 am in Dwarka's Sector 18, the police said. The deceased Praveen and his friend Krishna |
Man found dead
An unidentified man was found dead in North Delhi on Monday. The police said the man was a victim of a hit-and-run incident in Civil Lines area on Sunday night.
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Man found dead in car
A 35-year-old
GHAZIABAD: A 35-year-old man was found dead in an Alto car in Moradnagar on Monday morning. Anand Pal was work- ing as a driver for a lawyer Munesh Tyagi who is a resident of Moradnagar |
Man dies in accident
A 23-year-old man
was killed, while another sus- tained injuries after their three- wheeler crashed into a station- ary truck in Okhla at 6.30 am on Monday. The police identified the deceased as Rah |
Sadar Bazar slum fire: 1 dead, 4 hurt
A 32-YEAR-MAN died and four others were injured after hundreds of shanties caught fire in Sadar Bazar, North Delhi, on Monday morning. According to the police, they received a call about the fire a |
Drug peddler escapes from police custody
A 20-YEAR-OLD alleged drug peddler gave his police escort a slip, after he stepped out with the policeman on the pretext of an- swering nature's call. The accused, Arif Kasim, was taken for interro |
HC rejects Dwivedi's plea for
transfer of case to Crime Branch
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea by self-proclaimed godman Shiv Murat Dwivedi, ac- cused of running a prostitution racket, that the case against him be transferred to the Cri |
Dwivedi was planning to contest next Lok Sabha elections: police
THE Saket police on Monday took self- proclaimed godman Shiv Murat Dwivedi once again to his ashrams in Khanpur and R K Puram to investigate and assess his properties. Under the provisions of the Maha |
Snatcher held
A 30-year-old
man, Aslam Khan, allegedly in- volved in more than 50 cases of snatching was arrested from near Bhagirathi Water Treatment Plant. The police also arrested a jeweller, Vijay Gupta, alleg |
Robbers arrested
Three alleged rob- bers were arrested on Sunday with Rs 3lakh in cash and two mobile phones. The accused have been identified as Ali Mahmood Khan, Nasim and Subhash and they were ar- rested from Nangl |
Funds for cow shelter
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Monday released a sum of Rs 3.15 crore as grant-in-aid for five cow shel- ters in the city. Chairperson of the MCD Standing Committee Ram Kishan Singhal disburse |
Threats likely from airports entrance, security tightened
NEW DELHI, MARCH 8 cr HE Central Industrial Security orce (CISF) is increasing the secu- fe ty at the city-side of the Delhi air- C ort as the security agencie |
5,000 CISF personnel to watch over Games
,000 CISF personnel to ITH A LITTLE over six months remain- cess g before the Commonwealth Games prev egin; the Central Industrial Security the rce (CISF) is ready with security de- a |
Weekend variety
IF the gods were less favourable and we could attend just one show at the LFW, we would unhesitatingly pick c the Gen Next. Young designers aren't cynics, unlike a der ones--they still b |
Business of Art
ONE would think that CEOs fr would be too busy with weighty matters like quarterly results and C reholder satisfaction to have time for in ything else. Probably they were |
Cops clueless as DJJS holds Women's Day function in city
THE Ludhiana police seem to have learnt little from the Decem- ber 5 fiasco last year, when Sikh protestors clashed with the police, leading to the death of one person and leaving over a dozen injured |
RTI activist alleges scam in road project
AN NRI activist, Kartar Singh Khaira, has alleged scam in the construction of a stretch of a Ludhiana-Ferozepur road between Jagraon bridge and Sidhwan Canal (RD 0 to 4755 metre) and demanded a high- |
74,118 deaths occur due to cervical cancer annually'
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) celebrated International
Women's Day at the IMA House on Monday by unching a campaign against cancer. The program was attended 250 doctors. IMA chief Dr Narotam |
Dr Deepak Kapur is director of UBS, Ludhiana
Dr Deepak Kapur, professor of strategic management
has been appointed as the new director of University Business School, Ludhiana. He is also the honorary Director of Panjab University Regional Centr |
Sahir Ludhianvi's birth anniversary celebrated
The students of SCD Government College for Boys
celebrated the birth anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi on the col- lege campus on Monday. Jasbir Kaur Makkar, college principal along with lecturers cut t |
Women's Day celebrations at college
NSS unit of Devki Devi Jain Memorial College for
Women organised a lecture on the occasion of the International Women's Day under the guidance of Surinder Dua, officiating principal. The lecture was |
Seeking investment: Rhine-Westphalia pins hope on Pune
f T HE North Rhine-West- t phalia (NRW), dubbed the p economic powerhouse of p ermany, is zeroing in on Pune 1 c to attract investment. Industry s ajors like Tata |
Support groups make life easier for women living with HIV
IT's not easy being a woman living with HIV. But as the world cele- brated International Women's Day on Monday, several HIV pos- itive women have been declaring their status and a strong network of ov |
On Women's Day, differently abled
women show they can soar high
SRIDEVI BARIGIDAD was stricken by polio when she was three. Her world, till last week, was limited to a narrow lane in front of her residence that led to the Shiv- arkar College in Hadapsar where she |
uilder withdraws claim on Army's Lohegaon land
A BUILDER who had moved the Bombay High Court staking claim on Army land at Lohegaon on Mon- day withdrew his petition. The Army has long since maintained that land sharks are out to get the 69-acr |
UoP: V-C
busy at IIT,
may miss
budget meet
cu T HE new vice-chancellor It of the University of m Pune R K Shevgaonkar, ch ting prior commitments at be T-Mumbai, has made it clear h e would not be able to take th harge b |
'Provide ration cards to Christian priests'
IN a memorandum submitted to Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, the city Christian community has urged the government to provide ration cards to priests and sisters. "In Pune there are many Chri |
Now, Lokmanya Hospital nurses to be trained in Sweden
FOUR nurses from Lok- manya Hospital, Nigdi will soon get an opportunity to up- grade their schools as per es- tablished international norms. This would be possible as the Lokmanya Medical Founda- |
2 arrested for extortion bid
THE ANTI-EXTORTION wing of the city police have ar- rested two persons for threat- ening a city-based builder. The police arrested him after the builder lodged a complaint with the police stating unid |
After robbery, thief shoots at two near Urse
AN UNIDENTIFIED thief shot at two people and seriously injured one, when the duo were returning from work at a company in Urse, on the outskirts of Pim- pri-Chinchwad at around 12.30 on Satur- day nig |
Traders press for abolition of octroi
MARCH 8 T the statewide meeting oranised by the Poona Merhants' Chamber (PMC) on unday, traders reiterated heir long-pending demand of bolishing the octroi from the tate and also appealed to the tat |
State Congress leader proposes new uniform price policy for wheat
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHARASTRA Pradesh Con- gress Commit- tee spokesper- son Kanhaiyalal Gidwani has proposed an uniform policy of making wheat available at a Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 1,150 |
UPA policies to blame or rise in sugar prices'
MPCC spokesperson Kanhiyalal Gidwani on Monday blamed the UPA government's wrong policies for the rise in sugar prices. With the government being forced to make changes in policy decisions, he said th |
Be aware of your rights, know rules made for you: civic body tells its women staff
THE Pune Municipal Cor ration on Monday held awareness campaign for women staff. The camp as aimed at educating em on their rights and alth care.Guiding the women staff, MC assistant me |
Women's groups come together to celebrate their day, press for their rights
ON International Women's Day, dr everal womens' groups came to- w ether. Some celebrated the occa- tio ion by organising plays, others le arched to the collectorate to put sin |
Pune's headcount: census to kick off rom May 1
THE National Housing Census and National Population Register drive in Pune district will begin on May 1. This is the seventh population census to be under- taken by 2011. Pune district is expected |
67-year-old attacked with hilli powder, obbed of
THREE unidentified per- sons threw chilli powder at a 67-year-old man on Aundh Road and robbed him of Rs 1.97 lakh. The incident took place around 2.30 pm on Monday. Dinesh Devdas Rajdev, a residen |
Transport utility officials on field catch erring ommuters, drivers
OLLOWING last week's directions, the offials of Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Maamandal Limited (PMPML), in the last two ays fined almost 170 passengers travelling ithout tickets and collected Rs 8,500 in |
PBA to demand separate ar-rooms for men, women
THE Pune Bar Association (PBA) will demand a separate bar room for men and women in the new family court building coming up at Shivaji- nagar. The canteens in the court premises are in a bad shape and |
10-yr-old files plaint gainst father for not
A 10-year-old boy has filed a complaint under Domestic Violence (DV) Act in the Ju- dicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC)-Pune against his fa- ther for not paying his school fees. Mohit's (name chan |
Dak Adalat on March 25
WITH an aim to address the grievances related to the postal department, the postal department is holding two Dak Adalats - on March 25 and 30. The complaints relat- ing to post office in respect of ad |
Gujarat
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Smarter TVs to redefine entertainment in future: Expert
TELEVISION in the future may be a creen mounted on your wall that you Q an control with a hand-held device, lie ith multiple windows showing every- ev hing from cricket to news to music |
Lion census: Gujarat Day
functions may affect schedule
THE state Forest depart- ment plans to prepone the census of Asiatic lions as 450 beat guards and foresters to be involved in the activity will be given the additional work during the Gujarat Day cele |
'The entrepreneur in Gujaratis
keeps IT companies at bay'
THE entrepreneurship drive of young Gujaratis has a negative side, too. Many Information Technology companies avoid hiring them as they believe that Gujarati employees would soon set up their own unit |
Four held in
fake stamp
paper scam
A two-year sen-
tence for being involved in the multi-crore Abdul Karim Telgi fake stamp paper scam did not dissuade Jagadish Rajgoud from selling fake stamp paper. The Criminal Investigation Dep |
Women's Bill manhandled, Dr sent for
THE Women's Bill ensuring 33 per cent quota in the House, presented by the rul- ing party as an idea "whose time has come," was stonewalled by the usual suspects today. Nine adjournments later - fi |
Rethink plan
to tax PF, NSC
withdrawals:
PM to Finance
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Finance Ministry to re- view the proposal in the draft Direct Tax Code to bring long-term savings instruments - such as Provident Fund and National Savings |
BIGELOW MAKES HISTORY, HURT LOCKER WINS BIG
HE BEST ICTURE: HE HURT OCKER IRECTOR: ATHRYN IGELOW HE HURT LOCKER) CTOR: EFF BRIDGES RAZY HEART) CTRESS: ANDRA ULLOCK
WELL, THE TIME HAS COME -- Screen legend Barbra Streisand, announcing |
oison all dogs, barks alerting securitymen: Bengal Maoists
CONVINCED that the barking of dogs was alerting securitymen about their movements at night, Maoists have directed people in villages of the Jhargram-Lalgarh belt not to keep dogs as pets and poison th |
MP govt admits: 71 kids died daily since 2005, crores returned unspent
ADMITTING to the highest infant mortality rate in the country, Madhya Pradesh today said that 130,233 children died in the state before attaining the age of five between 2005 and 2009. During the s |
India, US iron out
key differences
over reprocessing
INDIA and US have bridged key differences towards final- ising a pact on the arrange- ments and procedures for re- processing US-origin spent fuel. The text, sources said, was almost sealed at expert- |
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2-year-old dies as 30,000 stampede for cop jobs in Mumbai
AMONG the more than A 90,000 who lined up on Monday for a recruitent drive for 3,586 Mumbai olice constabulary posts was amesh Ambre. Within min es of the gates opening at the alina Poli |
Interrogation cell
bombed in Lahore,
Pak blames India
At least 13 peo
were killed and over 80 ured when a bomber ove an explosives-filled r into a building where rorist suspects are intergated in Lahore. e Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakan claimed responsibili |
M F Husain surrenders
Indian passport
Painter M F Husain,
ho was granted Qatari citinship recently, has surren red his Indian passport to
e mission i
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Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
AIN beat GLAND 2-0 STRALIA beat KISTAN 2-1 DIA drew UTH AFRICA 3-3 T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S GERMANY VS NEW ZEALAND (4.35 PM) NETHERLANDS VS KOREA (6.35 PM) ARGENTINA VS CANADA (8.35 PM) INDIA COAC |
`Funds for poor patients used in renovation of govt hospitals'
FORMER Congress Legislature Party leader Arjun Modhwadia has demanded inquiry into the working of Rogi Kalyan Samiti, which has been put in place in all Government hospitals for welfare of poor patien |
Cartoons add muscle to movement against mosquito menace
ARTISTS at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Maharaja Sayaji- rao University (MSU) have added a dash of colour-one that tickles your funny bone- to the ongoing agitation to curb the mosquito menace in the c |
Ban on media entry in hospitals lifted
THE state government has lifted the ban on the entry of journalists in gov- ernment hospitals with immediate effect following mediapersons stay- ing away from the Press gallery in the state Assembly f |
Govt to meet power emand of farmers,
THE STATE government is committed to provide power to farmers irrespective of its high cost, said Minister of State for Energy Saurabh Patel in the state Assembly while reply- ing to issues raised by |
Board exams: Copying cases pile up over the years
HERE are nearly 2,000 ases-- that involve adopon of unfair means in exminations -- pending with e Gujarat Secondary and igher Secondary Educaon Board (GSHSEB). The verage time required to olve one s |
Good news soon on ULFA issue: Minister
THINGS are moving in the right direction and people will soon get to hear some "good news" on the ULFA issue, the Assam govern- ment informed the state As- sembly here on Monday. State Forest Minis |
Tendulkar Marg? Vadodara civic body unaware of city sporting legends
EVEN as a Vadodara council- lor has proposed to name the stretch between Uma Cross- ing and NH 8 after cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar, the Estate committee said a road is named after an individ- ual |
Widening of roads linking Ahmedabad, Vadodara to cost over Rs 10,000 crore
THE drive on Ahmedabad- Vadodara stretch of NH-8, as also on Ahmedabad-Pitol seg- ment of NH-59 connecting Ahmedabad to Indore in Madhya Pradesh, is set to be- come more comfortable. According to t |
Inquiry says school selectively expelled Ruchika
THE school of Ruchika Girhotra, the 14-year-old molested by a former Haryana top cop in 1990, never imposed a penalty on her for non-payment of fees before her expulsion. "There is nothing on recor |
No time to examine ad
with ex-PAF chief: DAVP
THE Directorate of
Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) has sought to wash its hands of a controversial ad fea- turing an ex-Pakistan Airforce chief by saying the ad was given to it by the mini |
Exam fever: 17-yr-old girl ends life
A 17-year-old girl, appearing for the SSC examination
committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train on Monday afternoon due to fear of failing in the examination. Jemini Barot had left hom |
Poison all dogs: Bengal Maoists
our people." G "Under the cover of night, our armed squads move m hrough villages, close to the sa camps of security forces. But C our position is compromised A by b |
Women's Bill manhandled
and consensus." Asked about today's dis- ruptions, she said: "I am not disappointed...(these are) teething problems...It may take time but I am confi- dent that the Bill will eventually go through. In |
DRDO employee bducted by
Suspected Maoists
have abducted a security per- t onnel posted with the Defence h esearch and Development Or anisation (DRDO) unit in Bastar |
Reprocessing: India, US ron out key differences
INDIA and US have bridged key differences to- wards finalising a pact on the arrangements and proce- dures for reprocessing US- origin spent fuel. The text, sources said, was almost sealed at expert-l |
After four days in Maoist captivity, a Bengal headmaster walks free s
ADUCTED headmaster njit Duley was released by S oists late at Monday night.is on his way to Lalgarh es ted by mediapersons. f he familyhad criticised the c e of the joint forces |
awar, SP pay condolences to Nanaji
UNION Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday joined the BJP and the wider Sangh Parivar in paying glowing tributes to RSS leader Nanaji Desh- mukh who passed away recently. At a remembrance |
U SC warns Raj P th on provocative tr m
The Supreme
Court on Monday gave Maha- rashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray a word of caution to desist from making provocative speeches targeting North Indians. "This (filing of crim |
Women's Bill? BSP a one-woman show
Assembly elections, it won over the leaders of others par- ties and fielded them in several constituencies. In fact, the number of turncoats fielded by the BSP in the Lok Sabha elec- tions was perhaps |
30,000 stampede for cop jobs
from a physical disability and Ramesh wanted to enroll in the force as he felt a government job would ensure stability." Village youth chipped in on Monday to help the family hire a vehicle to come to |
A DIFFERENT STAGE
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Three Nigerians among five rrested for credit card fraud
M VE persons, including three Nigerian ba tionals, have been arrested for their al- De ed involvement in a credit card fraud th ounting to Rs 24 lakh. The accused are to ter Orenabi Olunwa |
axis threaten definite strike
The West Bengal
LKATA: The West Bengal th vernment today turned in wn a demand for increasing M es of taxis, triggering W otests from owners who eatened to cal |
On a `revolutionary' day, RS at its worst
THE timing couldn't have been better to set the ball rolling for Women's Reserva- tion Bill - with a woman seen as the real power behind the government, another leading the Opposition, a third presid- |
JP, Left accuse Govt of `cold feet'
to e HEBJP and the Left on Monday slammed the h nion government for "developing cold feet" g the Women's Reservation Bill, with t |
CM's Muslim reservation promise stuck at start
MONTH has passed since Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhat- tacharjee announced that the state government would pro- vide for a reservation of 10 per cent in government jobs for Muslim OBCs and that a commi |
COSTUME DRAMA
N 1980, actor Simi Grewal, a close friend of costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, came to her workshop and said, "Listen carefully, a foreign film director is com- ing to India to make a film on Mahatma Ga |
CITY CONNECT
its serpentine lanes and its rows of sari shops add a different dimension to Kolkata? In fact, is there a Marwari Kolkata at all? No, claims Kolkata-based photographer, Leena Kejriwal. She in- sists t |
IN THE
DRIVER'S SEAT
TARUN Rawat's first exhibition is at an in- teractive mixed media show at the new Mercedes showroom in Gurgaon. His next pit stop, however, is at Delhi's Habi- tat Centre where his solo exhibition wil |
Ye Olde Blighty
DANNY Boyle might have become a household name in India after his Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, but he isn't the only flag-bearer of British cinema. A two- week-long film festival, Blighty With Love, |
Questions set by CBSE repeated, Class IX students hunt for papers at other schools
WITH the annual examinations on, many Class IX students from several city schools are these days busy collecting question papers from schools in the same area. The CBSE is setting up question paper |
Govt mulls
on-spot fine
for polybags
WITH the drive against plastic bags turning out to be all noise and no impact, the Delhi gov- ernment is working on an amendment to the Delhi Act on Plastic Bags to give it more teeth. The governme |
After wedding on TV, court to decide Rahul passport to honeymoon today
AT the Patiala House Court on Monday, Rahul Mahajan held his newly married wife Dimpy Ganguly's hand as his lawyer and the additional public prosecutor argued on his application to get back his passpo |
The Mahajan case: drugs, bail and plea for passport
NEW DELHI, MARCH 8 w c AHUL Mahajan, who is awaitg the court's decision on his p ea to return his passport, was tr argesheeted in August 2006 by e |
Civic Centre to be named after Jan Sangh founder
PUTTING aside all arguments of Opposition Congress in the Mu- nicipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and even a recent recom- mendation from Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Tejendra Khanna on naming the new Civic C |
AROUND TOWN
Rs 1.7 crore fine for
violating lease terms,
rules High Court
Court
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday imposed a penalty of Rs 1.7 crore on the occupants of a property for vio- lating lease conditions. The property in Golf Links was leased out to Savitr |
Life lived king-size: Delhi is India's safest, most `livable', says study
THE Capital has emerged as the best city in India to live in. According to the latest "liv- ability index", the host city to the Commonwealth Games has received top ratings not only in education an |
50 cr: state defines limit for coastal zone schemes it wants to clear
PROMOTERS of infrastruc- ture projects, government as well as private, up to Rs 50 crore may soon be saved the trouble of seeking Central en- vironmental clearance, if a move by the state government i |
IT first: top hotels must wait for CISF
IVE-STAR hotels that want CISF pro- tection will have to wait; they figure too low on the government's priority list. An amendment to the CISF Act enables the force's deployment in the private sect |
Tighter security at airport gate
THE CISF is increasing security on the city side of all sensitive airports, including Mumbai, to thwart possible attacks. They fear terrorists might attempt a "straight hijacking" during peak hours us |
Road project push draws a blank from Ramesh
A MEETING between Public Works Department (public undertakings) Minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar and Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, where the former pushed for environmental clearance to road pr |
NEWSLINE ANCHOR
Cop says won't oppose party worker's bail plea, HC says shocking
THE High Court on Monday pulled up a police officer who had decided not to contest, in a lower court, a bail plea by an NCP worker accused in a case involving the alleged distribu- tion of fake ration |
HIV-positive women earn a living, respect
UNTIL three months ago, operating a photocopy ma- chine was unimaginable for Savitri, 37. Today she can load papers, change cartridges, and calculate the number of blank A4 or A3 size papers required |
Police make a beginning but still have miles to go
MUMBAI'S first women se- nior police inspectors and po- lice drivers may have taken up their new assignments but the force has a long way to go. Barely 7 per cent of its current workforce comprises |
9-year-old's
murder: cops
arrest prime
suspect
ADAY after the body of a 9-year-old girl from slums in Kurla was found on the terrace of a police quarters building, the police arrested Mohammed Ajmeri Niyaz Sheikh, the prime suspect, from Dharavi o |
1,528 new summer trains by CR
CENTRAL RAILWAY
will be running 1,528 summer specials between April and July creating a record in the Indian Railways. S Mudgerikar, Chief Public Relation officer, CR, said, "These trains will inclu |
Railway ticket on murdered man leads cops to suspects
A RAILWAY ticket coupon found on the decomposed body of one Mohammad Shaikh helped police nab the accused. The Malwani police recently ar- rested the victim's cousin Tanveer Sayyad, his wife Tabass |
Akon in city, lends voice to SRK's Ra.1
AMERICAN singer Akon arrived in the city on Monday morning to record a song for Shah Rukh Khan's next film Ra.1. Akon was whisked away from the airport to a studio where he recorded a song for comp |
Basketball: City girl leads U-14 team to victory
CITY girl Ketki Parasnis led the Maharashtra women's under 14 team to victory in the 55th Under-14 National School Basketball Championship held in Warana, Kolhapur, recently. In the final, Maharas |
Senior league: win for MCA Red
MCA Red defeated Sangli DCA on the basis of a superior first innings lead in the Senior Super League Cricket Tournament organised by the Maharashtra Cricket Association at the DY Patil Ground on Monda |
IT cricket: HSBC defeat Sungard
HSBC defeated Sungard by 17 runs in the Inter-IT cricket Championship organised by S1 at the Poona Club Cricket Ground on Sunday. HSBC won the toss and elected to bat. They put up a total of 181 ru |
Students shine at ASM cultural fest
ISIGNIA 2010', a three-day cultural competition, was organised on the campus of Adarsha Shikshan Mandali (ASM) here recently. The programme began with a street play competition on the theme `Say N |
Civic body wants women SHGs to stitch school uniforms
THE Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is planning to rope in women self-help groups for getting uniforms stitched for its schools. In a proposal tabled before the standing committee, the civic admi |
RPI members meet civic ward officer, reiterate demands
RESIDENTS of Khadki and members of the Republican Party of India (RPI) met the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) ward officer in Aundh to highlight their demand of completing various incomplete project |
Passport guidance camp for Haj pilgrims
A PASSPORT guidance camp for Haj pilgrims was organised at Azam Campus on Saturday. Mohamad Owesi, chief executive officer, Haj Comitee of India, was the chief guest at the camp inauguration ceremony, |
The Cricket Trap
WITH each season of Indian Pre- mier League (IPL), it has been expanding beyond the boys and their game bit more. This time, the organisers have gone out of their way to make sure that you can catch t |
FATAL Attractions
WHILE he might be bet ter known for giving the Hindi film industry a new dose of surrealistic horror films, which have been a refreshing breakaway from the unkempt horror films of the 80s and 90s, the |
Women's day out
THE women's reservation bill may as well take some more time to come into effect, but that cannot deter women from proving themselves. And making it a perfect event of sorts on the occasion of World's |
Mane Stay
IT is possible to get a complete style makeover with a hair cut in as less as five minutes" says internationally acclaimed hairstylist Javed Habib, speaking about his passion for giving de |
UT police on defensive over `action' at HJC rally
TWO days after an imbroglio left them in the dock for their action at a rally of the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), the UT police have decided to tread the path cautiously. The cops had report- edly t |
Bishnoi demands judicial probe into clash
ALLEGING that police action during the Haryana Janhit Con- gress (HJC) rally three days ago was at the behest of the Central and Haryana government, as many as 11 party supporters along with HJC chief |
Residents return empty-handed from mutation darbar
Hundreds of citizens from the Sadar area of Ambala Cantonment,
AMBALA: Hundreds of citizens from the Sadar area of Ambala Cantonment, who attended the Open Mutation Darbar chaired by deputy commissi |
Rs 1.5 crore cash or developed sites, offers GMADA
TAKE Rs 1.5 crore cash or developed sites as envisaged in the Land Pooling Scheme (LPS), the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has offered to the landowners of seven villages in Mohali |
Road stretch opposite badminton stadium tells a tale of despair
A STRETCH of road in Sector 42 is in a state of neglect for over a year now. Dotted by potholes, the stretch -opposite Badminton Stadium-- is a commuter's nightmare with pebbles scat
tered all over i |
Five months after rape, student lodges complaint
OVER five months after the alleged inci- dent, a girl student of a private profes- sional college in Kharar on Monday accused six persons, including her college mates and a friend, of raping her repea |
HAFIZ SAEED RAILS AGAIN, SEEKS PAK `FORCE' AGAINST INDIA
LASHKAR FOUNDER Hafiz Saeed (standing before microphone) told a large rally in Lahore Sunday that India had "imposed war on Pakistan" by constructing "illegal dams", and that should India's "water ter |
MCOCA slapped on godman Dwivedi
The stringent
MCOCA was invoked against `godman' Shiv Murat Dwivedi, arrested on charges of running a multi-crore sex
racket.
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India out of Davis Cup World Group
India were ousted
from the Davis Cup World Group after Somdev Devvarman
lost to Mikhail Youzhny
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AS IRAQ VOTES, BLASTS KILL 38
A WAVE OF ATTACKS struck Baghdad and other cities, killing at least 38 as Iraqis voted Sunday to elect a new parliament. NO TURNOUT estimates were available when polls closed at 5 pm, but observers |
Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
ARGENTINA beat NEW ZEALAND 1-0 KOREA beat CANADA 9-2 GERMANY drew NETHERLANDS 2-2 T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S ENGLAND VS SPAIN (4.35 PM) AUSTRALIA VS PAKISTAN (6.35 PM) INDIA VS SOU |
Women's Bill: Text same, but different context promises smooth passage
THE story of the journey of the Women's Reservation Bill cannot be told through its political math. With the Bill set to come up for consideration in the Rajya Sabha tomorrow, the political calculator |
Maoist bosses feel the heat, seek new hideouts in urban jungles
MAOISTS trying to shield their top brass from rapidly intensi fying government operations in their jungle bases have instructed cadres and sympathizers to identify hideouts in |
CJI advocates `due regard' for victim's wish to marry her rapist
CHIEF Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan today said that "due regard" should be given to the wishes of a rape victim if she chooses to marry the rapist or have the baby conceived as a result of t |
Indian man charged in death of Baby urshan
A 23-YEAR-OLD Indian man was today arrested and charged in the death of the Indian toddler whose body was found dumped in a Melbourne suburb three days ago. Dhillon Gurse- wak, a part-time taxi
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EXPRESS IN KABUL
Hunting Kabul attackers, Afghan cops stumble upon illegal Indian residents
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IN an unexpected fallout of last week's suicide attack in Kabul, the Afghan police have caught nearly 60
Indians who were in the country on fake visas after being lured by the |
India rubbishes Qureshi claim, says Saeed discussed on Feb 25
INDIA on Sunday ex- pressed "surprise" over Pakistan's claim that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the 26/11 masterminds, was not taken up during For- eign Secretary-level talks and said New |
`Daughter' Preity's cameo in Amrohi property drama
THOUGH producer Shandar Amrohi may see a "spiritual daughter" in Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, her "involve- ment" in the property dispute that has sprung within the fam- ily is right now limited to h |
Manipur AG hurt as minister's gun goes off accidentally
MANIPUR Advocate Gen- eral Nongmeikappam Koteshwar was wounded when the licensed gun of a minister travelling with him went off accidentally, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh said on Sunday. The Advocate |
Lawyers JAC calls for boycott of court work
Telangana
Lawyers Joint Action Committee (JAC) has given a call to boycott all court proceedings in Telangana region on Monday to protest the "attack" on its members allegedly by TDP activists.
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Multiple Mamata tracks
THE discovery of some embarrassing mistakes in her recent Rail Budget speech is learnt to have earned several officials the ire of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. In her speech, Mamata announce |
Ministers breathe fire,
babus feel heat
WHILE the sparring between Agricul ture Minister Sharad Pawar and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh over the Bt brinjal issue may have been temMinister's porarily put to rest owing to the Prime |
Lalu and `Teen Deviyan'
AHEAD of the government's move to get the Women's Reservation Bill passed, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was heard telling Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj that "Teen Deviyan (three ladies)" were |
Honeymooning in Keny
KENYA has become the new honey moon destination for newly wed members of the UPA, if the grapevine is to be believed. Minister of State for Petroleum Jitin Prasada, who married former TV anchor Ne |
Daddy long-reach
AFTER having wrangled party tickets in the last Assembly elections, MLA wards of prominent Congress leaders belonging to Maharashtra are now eyeing ministerial berths. Five posts are vacant and C |
Clipping Jadhav's wings
AIR India CMD Arvind Jadhav seems to have run into rough times at the Civil Aviation Ministry, including with minister Praful Patel. He is said to have irked everyone with his "go-alone ap pr |
Pawar on new course
HAVING got past the bumpy ride over price rise in Parliament, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has moved on to other things. Krishi Bhavan officials, who had to take time out on Holi to go throu |
Captain's special guests
W HILE guests most and newspaper represen atives noticed the presence of Pakistani ournalist Aroosa Alam at the launch of ormer Punjab chief
minister Amar |
Spawned by Hobsbawm
PRAKASH Karat has denied talking about the CPM's bleak prospects in polls in Bengal during a telephone interview to renowned Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. However, some comrades are wondering |
A House call
A NUMBER of Congress leaders, in cluding some ministers, had planned to skip Parliament on Friday and go out of Delhi for the weekend as nothing significant was scheduled. However, party floor man |
A tall Telangana mail order
A MONTH after the Justice Srikrishna Committee was set up to look into the Telangana issue, the office of former home ecretary Vinod Duggal, the convenor of he panel, is flooded with mail from |
Najma vs Ahluwalia, Naidu saves the day
THE daily meeting of Rajya Sabha floor leaders on Friday witnessed the curious scene of two senior BJP members -Najma Heptullah and S S Ahluwalia -- arguing over time allocation. Heptullah wanted |
PC finds new entry key
WITH the biometric attendance sys tem having failed to read his fingerprints a few times, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has now started marking attendance in North Block by swiping his card |
Cross stars at Shastri Bhawan
THE Copyright Act amendments have the film community worked up. So much so that Bollywood personalities can often be seen in the corridors of Shastri Bhawan, walking up to the C Wing third floo |
SSB manning border with Nepal gets police powers under CrPC
THE Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards the Indo-Nepal border, has been given powers of the po- lice and other investigating agencies under the CrPC. The force has been autho- rised to initiate |
BSY UNDER FIRE: BUDGET LACKS SUBSTANCE
OPPOSITION PARTIES have been united in dismissing Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's second full budget as lacking in substance. The Congress leader of the opposition Siddaramaiah, a former finance mini |
FIRE TRAGEDY: A WAKE-UP CALL FOR ALL COMPANIES
THE FIRE TRAGEDY in Bangalore on February 23 at the Carlton Towers that claimed nine lives has served as a wake-up call for fire awareness in the city. The first major fire tragedy in the city since t |
KRISHNA TURNS DOWN UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION
FOREIGN MINISTER S M Krishna on a recent visit to Bangalore was asked a "mischievous" question by a journalist. He was asked for comments on how he was connected to Swami Nityananda, who is caught |
NEW PREVENTION OF COW SLAUGHTER BILL
WHEN THE ASSEMBLY convened after lunch break one sleepy afternoon last week, the Speaker sprang a surprise when he announced that the BJP government had decided to withdraw its pet Prevention of Cow S |
Boston blot on PU
ONE of India's oldest univer sities, which boasts of being PrimeMinisterManmohan Singh's alma mater, Panjab University is today struggling against an assault on its reputation abr |
Why wives of MP babus make good insurance agents
MILIND GHATWAI
THE recent Income-Tax raids that led to the suspension of an IAS couple and a few officials have brought to the fore a fact that wives of government officialsmakeverygoodinsurance age |
Swamis and Scandals
SWAMI PARAMHANSA NITYANAND: The founder of the Nityanand mission, whichclaimstohave1,000branches across 33 countries, has been untraceable since certain Tamil TV channels recently aired a video whicha |
Soon in Kerala, a dowry-free village
AS THE Rajya Sabha looks set to cre ting history as it takes up the women's quota Bill for voting on Monday, a Muslim-dominated village panchayat n Kerala would launch an exclusive website for dowry- |
Manipur rebel group asks non-locals to leave by May 31
IN WHATcan be seen as the beginning of a renewed threat to non-Manipuris working or settled in the state, the outlawed Revolution- ary People's Front (RPF) has asked all those who came to Manipur afte |
N-liability Bill not just for US, must for us too: France
EVEN as international nuclear power pro- ducers keenly watch the fate of the Civil Nu- clear Liability Bill in India, as many as 62 countries eager to launch or expand their nuclear energy programmes |
Jharkhand Jaguar jawan kills self
A 25-year-oldsecu
rity personnel of the Jharkhand Jaguar allegedl committed suicide on Sunay by shooting himsel while on duty at Rania area here. "Manish Chan dra Pandey of the Jharkhand Jaguar force |
Delhi, not Mumbai
S OMEBODY has been paying attention. Even as informed opinion around the world following the financial crisis comes to the agreement that the most important, as well as the most urgent, |
Turn the page
REPORTS suggest that the Supreme Court is prepar- ing to appeal the January 12 decision of the Delhi high court placing the office of the Chief Justice of India within the ambit of the Right to Inform |
Cast in doubt
POLITICS has broken out in Iraq," said US Vice Presi dent Joe Biden, describing his expectation that clashing sects would channel their grievances into the electoral process. However, muc |
Arms and the agency
HE UN recommends a police/ population ratio of 1:450. This is a figure that floats around and can be traced back to a 2002 UN report on public sector management. Cross- country data on size of police |
No short cuts to equality
IT is ironic that the Samajwadi Party, the Janata Dal (United) and the RSP, which were at the forefront of the campaign for quotas for OBCs, are now the ones most vehemently opposed to the Women's Res |
Majoritarian power play
PRESIDENT Obama didn't use the "R-word," but he effectively called on Democrats on Wednesday to use the reconciliation process to pass a comprehensive healthcare reform bill that Republicans ve- hemen |
On shaky ground
Getting land records in place will have a dramatic impact on our economy and society. Why is it still pending?
RATAN TATA'S observation that land is the least reformed sector in India has not |
Dream no small dreams
THE thing I love most about America is that there's always somebody who doesn't get the word - somebody who doesn't un- derstand that in a Great Re- cession you're supposed to hunker down, downsize an |
A privilege to serve
ON this special day - March 8 - that marks 100 years of the international women's strug- gle for justice and fair play, the Indian Parlia- ment is poised to cross an important mile- stone by passing t |
explained Counter coup
What was the provocation? The coup suspicion is grounded in an article published in Taraf, a fiercely anti-military publication. While the military has admitted that a meeting was held, it never |
Be ready to capture power, Prachanda tells Maoist fighters
IN remarks that place the Maoist commitment to the peace and democratic process in severe doubt, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPM-M) chief Prachanda has said that combatants should r |
Cleric wants end to US `occupation'
ANTI-AMERICAN Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, speaking at a rare news con- ference in Te hran, has urged Iraqis to take part in Sun- day's election to help pave the way for Iraq's "libera- tion" from US |
Pak probes Taliban role in UK boy's kidnapping
POLICE are investigating the possible involvement of the Ta liban in the kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy of Pakistani origin who was kid- napped while visiting relatives in Punjab province. |
Theron hooks up with Jeremy Renner
Hollywood beauty
Charlize Theron has found love again and the lucky guy is Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner. The pair have been spotted to- gether many times recently and also plan to attend the post- |
Bullock wins worst actress Razzie
Hollywood star San
- dra Bullock has won the Golden Raspberry Award (Razzie) for the Worst Actress of 2009 for her role in All About Steve. The 45-year-old actress, who is in the run for an Oscar thi |
TECHNOLOGY
China's Netizens take justice in their own hands
HE short video made its way around China's web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard- print blouse, |
Clashes kill more than 100 in Nigeria
Nigeria's Acting President
on Sunday ordered security forces to hunt down those be- hind clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers which killed more than 100 peo- ple in the centre of |
Barred from using phone, Fonseka fasts
: Former Sri Lankan
army chief Sarath Fonseka fac
ing detention under treason charges, now at a naval facility on
Sunday went on a hunger strike for not being allowed to speak to his daughters on |
Monument at LTTE head's death site
The Sri Lankan
Army is erecting a monument where LTTE chief V Prabhakaran was killed near the Nandikadal lagoon in Mullaittivu district to depict its final victory over the Tamil Tigers last year. " |
15 Oxford students suspended
: Fifteen students of
Oxford University have been suspended for sending sexist emails grading and assessing fe- male undergraduate students, and drawing up a secret 'list of fitties'. The male stude |
Ex-UN official gets jail for child porn
: A former UN offi
- cial Jose Ortega-Osona, 42, has received 2-1/2 years in prison for possessing thousands of child pornography pictures and over hundred tapes. One pic- ture described as "horrific |
Monument at LTTE head's death site
The Sri Lankan
Army is erecting a monument where LTTE chief V Prabhakaran was killed near the Nandikadal lagoon in Mullaittivu district to depict its final victory over the Tamil Tigers last year. " |
Iran begins cruise missile production
: Iran announced on
Sunday that it has started a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country's already imposing arsenal. Gen Ahm |
Makeover complete for Yusuf Zai Market
FAMOUS for its eating joints like the Kake Da Hotel and Hyderabadi Biryani House, the Yusuf Zai Mar- ket on Connaught Place Outer Cir- cle is ready to unveil its new look. The sheet covering the ne |
For new grading system, CBSE plans training workshops for teachers
TO train teachers and create awareness regarding the new Con- tinuous and Comprehensive Evalu- ation (CCE) scheme, the CBSE is planning to organise an intensive training workshop for teachers. The |
Mob fires at activists for intercepting trucks of animals
MEMBERS of animal welfare group People For Animals (PFA) alleged they were attacked and fired at by a mob late on Friday night for intercepting several trucks full of animals that were be- ing taken f |
Theatre director to stage shows at Red Fort, Quli Khan tomb
THE Indian Tourism Develop- ment Corporation (ITDC) has roped in renowned theatre direc- tor Aamir Raza Husain to stage shows at Red Fort and Quli Khan tomb in Mehrauli during the Com- monwealth Games |
Bigger, better Metro station to handle rush
THE Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will make special arrangements at the under-construction Metro station at the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium to cope with the rush during the Common- wealth Gam |
Transfer of hospital to private party: High Court seeks govt response
The Delhi High
Court has issued a notice to the state government on a petition seeking direction to restrain it from handing over the Janakpuri Super-specialty Hospital to a private party. A Divisio |
New, smaller vehicles for door-to-door garbage collection
AFTER its segregated door- to-door garbage collection pi- lot project met success in the Capital, the Municipal Corpo- ration of Delhi (MCD) has de- cided to take the project a step further. Beside |
Fire at bank in Chandni Chowk
A fire broke out in the
NEW DELHI: A fire broke out in the strong room of a bank in Central Delhi early on Sunday, in which some office records were lost. According to the po- lice, the blaze was re |
DELHI underground
Ostrich act The Public Works Department of the Delhi government has found no fault with the steel sprouts around the AIIMS flyover. But Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit seems quite perturbed by the neg- |
MBA student kills self
A 23-year-old MBA student al- legedly committed suicide in his rented accommodation in the Badarpur Extension area on Sat- urday afternoon. The deceased, Mukhender Ku- mar, was a final-year student |
Robbery case cracked, 4 held
WITH the arrest of four persons, the South Delhi police on Sunday claimed to have cracked a robbery case in which nearly Rs 40 lakh were stolen from a factory in Ghitorni vil- lage, Vasant Kunj. Th |
To prevent seepage, Govt mulls plastic lining for Naraina lake
MONTHS after the High Court called for the revival of water bodies based on a public interest litigation (PIL), the Delhi gov- ernment in a meeting on Thurs- day approved a Rs 5-crore plan for restori |
Two boys die after falling in drains
TWO days after four children died by drowning in an uncovered ditch, two 12-year-old boys drowned in separate incidents in Outer Delhi on Sunday. The police said no case was registered in either of |
Goods worth Rs 10 lakh robbed from factory
Twelve masked men
broke into a battery making factory in Hapur late on Saturday night and made away with batteries worth Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 lakh in cash. The police said the robbers had scaled the |
Six arrested for metal factory thefts
Six persons, including a
NEW DELHI: Six persons, including a father-son duo, were arrested in the Capital on Thursday for their alleged involvement in a series of robberies at metal factories and go |
Nitish Katara: Ghaziabad SSP to file report
A Delhi court has asked
the Ghaziabad SSP to file a report on the plea of Ajay Katara, a witness in Ni- tish Katara murder case, that he was being threatened and harassed at the behest of powerful U |
Bike-borne robbers loot Rs 10 lakh
FOUR bike-borne assailants snatched a bag containing Rs 10 lakh from the manager of a money exchange agency in Karol Bagh, Central Delhi, around 10.30 pm on Saturday. According to the pol |
Rs 9 lakh snatched in Sarai Rohilla
Unidentified robbers
snatched nearly Rs 9 lakh from a person in Sarai Rohilla on Saturday. According to the police, the incident occurred around 5.30 pm when Ra- jiv Nayar, who works in a factory |
Hue Hunt
THE online art enterprise Fuschia Tree held a talent hunt called Fuschia Futures for young, happening artists across the country, with 10 lucky winners spotted at the end of the search. The winning |
FAB FORAY
MAD HATTER: Mumbai-based designer Shilpa Chavan is known for her maverick style that translates into demonic headgears. After simultane- ously shocking and fascinating the Mumbai audience with her mam |
Blueprint for an Art Vault
IN 1950, when SH Raza was packing his bags to study art at the Ecole Na- tionale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he took with him the letters written to him by fellow artists. A young, nos- talgic Raza kept |
The Zen Masters
TWO years ago, Delhi-based filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin set out to chronicle a year in the life of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader in exile, and the result was The Sun Behind the Clouds: |
More luxury homes than city needs: analysts
TILL two years ago, Darabsha Lane with its dozen tenanted low- rises stood out on Napean Sea Road, otherwise always the ad- dress of the well-heeled. Today, most of the middle-class resi- dents have b |
FIT FOR A KING
Inside the Maharaja Express, India's newest luxury train. ? Inaugural run, with 88 pas- sengers, on Saturday evening from CST to Delhi. Will reach March 13; stops at Vadodara, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bik |
Child found murdered on police quarters terrace
THE body of a nine-year-old girl was found on the terrace of a police quarters building in Kurla East on Sunday morning. "Prima facie, it appears the girl was raped and killed. We are awaiting the |
Mahajan takes plunge Rakhi didn't, channel sees future in TV weddings
RAHUL Mahajan, 35, chose Dimpy Ganguly, 21, as his bride and theirs became the first wedding in India to be telecast live. His predecessor on Swayamvar on NDTV Imagine, Rakhi Sawant, had shied away |
From death's doorstep to victory against super filly
BANGALORE'S Becket had defied death just seven months ago, risen and fought for the In- dian Derby honours with Mumbai super-filly Jacqueline, but lost in the last few strides. On Sunday, he turned th |
`Daughter' Zinta's guest role in Amrohi property drama
FILMMAKER Shandar Amrohi may see a "spiritual daughter" in actor Preity Zinta but her "involvement" in the property dispute that has sprung within the family is now limited to her tweets and "moral su |
IN DRIVER'S SEAT
THE Mumbai Police Commissionerate will be the first in the state to recruit women drivers. Out of 100-odd applications, 10 were selected by the Motor Training Department to drive station house vehicle |
Repairs, water crisis to hurt BMC pools this summer
THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will not open all the six civic swimming pools to public this summer. Though Mayor Shraddha Jadhav demanded that all the pools be opened, wa- ter shortage and re |
Cabbies resist change in colour of city taxis
THE transport department's decision to change the colour of cabs in the city has not gone down well with drivers. Mumbai Taximen's Union is planning to write to the officials requesting them to retain |
Man robbed of Rs 4 lakh on foot overbridge
THE police are on the lookout for two unidentified men who assaulted and robbed a 42-year-old on a foot overbridge near the Cotton Green railway station on Saturday night. According to Suresh Surana, |
Number of RPF men held for graft on rise, Central Railway red faced
THE rising number of Railway Protec- tion Force personnel, posted with Cen- tral Railway, on the CBI radar is becom- ing a major cause for concern and embarrassment for the RPF. Between 2005 and 20 |
Vet thrashed, colleagues demand law similar to one passed for doctors
A DAY after a veterinary staffer was allegedly beaten up by a mob, the city veteri- nary doctors asserted that the state government should provide them pro- tection under the newly- formulated ordinan |
IPL matches from March 13, cops finalise security plans
WITH the third season of In- dian Premier League (IPL) set to open its Mumbai chap- ter on March 13, the Mumbai Police have worked out elabo- rate security arrangements for the seven matches to be pla |
Govt plans yearlong celebrations to mark state's golden jubilee
THE Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra Economic Development Council (MEDC), & Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) in association with Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) and T |
Common ticket plan for transport hits WB wall
THE Mumbai Metro- politan Region Devel- opment Authority's (MMRDA) plan to provide a seamless payment facility for Metro, Monorail, buses of dif- ferent municipal bodies and the suburban rail network |
The Cricket Trap
WITH each season of Indian Premier League (IPL), it has been expanding beyond the boys and their game bit more. This time, the organisers have gone out of their way to make sure that you can catch the |
Ladies Special
Free Movie
WHAT better way to celebrate than to get your girlfriends together and watch a movie, for free? BIG Cinemas invites all women to come and watch recent releases like Road, Movie, Karthik C |
Back in B-Town
TALK about surprise hits in Bolly- wood and filmmaker Raj Kan- war's name is sure to crop up. From Deewana to Laadla, Jeet, Daag: The Fire, Judaai and his last outing Humko Deewana Kar Gaye, Kanwar |
Rebel without a clue
FOR XAVIER'S
W HEN I joined St Xavier's High School in the first standard, it was the Summer of '69. I remember I had to wear a uniform, conveniently the same co |
Rathore offers himself for narco test
FORMER Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, has expressed willingness to undergo narcoanalysis, but on the "condition" that the complai |
5 THINGS THIS WEEK
Kings XI Punjab Vs Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab will play their first Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Daredevils on Saturday. The match will be held at PCA Stadium, Mohali. Phot |
RED CARPET
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PILE UP IN POLICE STATION PART 1
Seized vehicles pile up in police stations, owners never turn up
AFTER chief minister Beant Singh was assassinated on August 31, 1995, six ambassador cars involved in the case were seized. Around 15 years on, the cars are gathering dust, lying unclaimed in the Sect |
Hiring monkeys
While addressing a conference, Chief Information Commissioner of Punjab R I Singh talked about the deteriorating quality of human resources which are being hired. He said the chiefs of selection commi |
Advance Rose Festival
The Rose Festival in Chandigarh is one of the most popular festi- vals listed on the national calendar of festivals. It encourages people to visit the rose garden and enjoy the grandeur of bloom- ing |
Select committees should examine new legislations
The ongoing Budget session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha would last just for ten odd days, including the gazetted holidays. Since the last few years, the number of days on which the State Assem- bly fun |
Maintain park properly
The municipal park in Sector 30-A (near Shiv Mandir) needs proper maintenance by the Horticulture department of the city's civic body. Although this park has well laid-down pathways for walkers and is |
Parties demanding land should go to other states
The Haryana Congress chief, in a press conference, has de- manded land at concessional rates for their HQ, claiming to have applied for the land in 1998. I think his demand for land at con- cessional |
Bring about a change
Kudos to CN for unearthing the teacher recruitment scam of the Education department. For long, they have targeted private schools and brushed aside their own incompetencies as some- thing minor and in |
Sector 46-C park uses foul-smelling water
I would like to draw the attention of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh towards the foul-smelling water being used for irri- gating the park in Sector 46-C. Whenever the water taps are opened, a |
Survey the top rung for eradicating corruption
A story goes that Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, sought the advice of Lord Mountbatten, the first Governor General of in- dependent India, for eradicating corruption. The Lord suggested ado |
Bring out tourism booklets
The Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh must be lauded for recently releasing colourful booklets in Punjabi and our national language Hindi (cover pages affixed with this letter) about places of tour |
Nayagaon land grab: 500 acres transferred illegally, says report
ALL is not well with the registra- tion and transfer of land by au- thorities in Mohali. Around 500 acres of land in Mohali has been transferred by the authorities in total violation of rules, report |
AAI to provide green cover to international airport
THE Chandigarh International Airport, coming up at Mohali, will have as many as 1,500 silver oak trees under its green cover. This variety has been selected among others because its easy to main- tain |
FOSWAC wants city's educational policy to be reviewed
THE members of Federation Sectors' Welfare Association Chandigarh (FOSWAC) expressed concern at the lackadaisical approach of authori- ties in the recruitment of teachers. A meeting of the executiv |
You repeat, so do
Recently, at a press conference of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a journalist complained that Hooda's answers were always the same, to which the CM light-heartedly replied, "What else |
Bishnoi injured or not?
After the terrible clash between the workers of Haryana Janhit Congress and Chandigarh police last week, party leader Kuldeep Bishnoi went to the Gov
ernment Hospital, Sector 16. This led to a spat |
Patil's predicament
Shivraj Patil is considered to be one of the closest persons to the Nehru-Gandhi scion. In fact, his appointment as the home minister in the UPA Cabinet of 2004 and now his se- lection for the post of |
Kingfisher Airlines flight takes off after 5-hour delay
AS MANY as 100 passengers of Kingfisher Airlines' Chandigarh- Mumbai flight were stranded at the Chandigarh airport for five hours on Sunday morning without any assis- tance from the airline staff. Th |
Senior citizens celebrate women's day
The women wing of Senior Citizens'
Welfare Association, Manimajra celebrated International Women Day with former governor of Haryana, Dhanak Lal Mandal as the chief guest. Speaking at a symposium on |
My Adorable Wife contest held at Chaitanya hospital
An event `My Adorable Wife' was or
- ganised at Chaitanya Hospital on Sunday, to mark the In- ternational Women's Day. Men were invited to speak about the achievements of their wives. Dr Anil Narang, |
Residents' welfare panel of Sector 20 constituted
The general body meeting of House
Owners' Welfare Society, Sector 20-A, elected Sarvashri Vasu Dev Gupta as its president. Harkirat Singh was elected as the vice-president and RL Soni was elected th |
Seven die in road accident near Ambala
: Seven persons, including women and chil
- dren, were killed in an accident between a Haryana Roadways bus and a car near the Naggal police station on the Ambala-Hissar National Highway on Sunday. T |
Mass marriages of poor girls solemnised
: Dasmesh Welfare Charitable Trust, Roopnagar,
solemnised mass marriages of 10 poor girls at Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh at Solkhian near Ropar on Sunday. Member Parliament Ravneet Singh Bittu |
Anti-terrorist front holds demonstration
: The Anti-Terrorist Front India held a demon
- stration againt Lashkar-e-Taiba to protest against threats to kill chief ministers of Haryana and Punjab. The demon- stration was led by ATFI president |
`Extensive expansion of public sector banks need of the hour'
: Emphasising the need for extensive ex
- pansion of public sector banks in the country to achieve the national objective of financial inclusion, Harvinder Singh, General Secretary of Bank of India O |
Chief of schools' association meets CBSE chairperson
: H S Mamik, president of Independent
Schools' Association met CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi to apprise him of the matter related to disaffiliation of Shivalik Public School. Mamik said the students |
Two-day MES mela concludes
: Two-day repair and servicing mela of
Military Engineering Service (MES), to give thrust to the maintenance activities at the residential quarters of Air Warriors at sectors 28, 31 and 47 concluded |
Cyclist hit by bus, injured
: A cyclist, Roshan Samria, was badly in
- jured after he was hit by a Chandigarh Transport Under- taking bus (CH O1 G1 7123) near the petrol pump in Sec- tor 15. He was admitted to the PGI. The poli |
Dances, kite flying mark end of Panchkula spring fest
CULTURAL events - dance perfor- mances, kite flying and baby show- marked the concluding day of the 24th Spring Fest-2010, Panchkula's annual flower festival organised by HUDA, here on Sunday. In t |
Trials held to shortlist Mr India
Punjab Amateur Body Building
Association conducted trials at Flex Bodyliners in the city on Sunday to select the body building team for Mr North India and Federation Cup. Mr North India competition |
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY
`Empowerment is power to take decisions
INTERNATIONAL Women's Day was first ob- served on February 28, 1909, in the USA. A century later, experts feel that the women today are better off than the previous generations. Although, the terms |
`Hypertension can cause stones in kidney'
Dayanand Medical College and
Hospital today organised a free kidney stone de- tection and consultation camp on the hospital premises. As many as 50 patients were examined during the camp and were |
Communist leader remembered
A large number of people at
tended the bhog ceremony of communist leader B S Amarmeet at Sarabha Nagar on Sun- day who had expired recently at the age of 81. The leader was well-known for organisi |
Blood donation camp held
NGO Salaam Zindagi Foundation
organised 23rd blood donation camp at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College on Sunday. Kuldeep Singh, Ludhiana Additional Deputy Commissioner, inaugurated the camp.
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Nowhere to go six years ago, woman now in driver's seat
HEN six years ago, Savita Kumbhar took to driving an autorickshaw at the age of 31 to make a living, all she wanted was just enough money to sustain herself and her son as the burden of running the fa |
Lessons for couples on increasing intimacy
MARRIED couples often seek tips to spice up their sexual life but these days, there is a wide range of people seeking advice, say clinical sexologists here. That's why sex therapists have a lot on the |
After govt flip-flop, parents ask: What about extra fees collected for '09-'10?
BINA Verma (name changed), parent of a class III student in a re- puted English medium school, has paid her son's school fees of Rs 20,490 for 2009-'10, exactly 10 per cent more than the previous year |
Chinchwad firm workers' hungerstrike enters day 3
THE 17 visually-challenged work- ers, along with 14 others sus- pended by a private firm in Chinchwad, have entered the third day of their hunger strike. The workers are protesting against the comp |
Bar association proposes to ban litigants' vehicles inside court
WITH increasing congestion in the Pune district court premises due to the presence of large number of vehicles of litigants, the Pune Bar Association (PBA) has proposed that all litigants visiting the |
H1N1 vaccine: Phases II, III human trials begin today
THE Serum Institute of In- dia will begin phase II and III human clinical trials of the nasal spray vaccine against the H1N1 virus at two sites in Pune and three other centres on Monday. The virus has |
Senate eligibility: Forum may move HC
THE Vidyapeeth Vikas Manch (VVM), a city- based forum of acade- micians, is planning to move the Bombay High Court as there is still no consensus about the new eligibility crite- ria for candidates co |
Design fest: Bamboo steals the show on day 3
A SEMINAR on 'Design in Bamboo' was held at the BN College of Architecture for Women (BNCA) on Sunday, day three of the Pune Design Festival. The seminar that was jointly organised by 'Bamboo Vishw |
Jaiswar wins Sunday Rapid Chess tourney
SHAILESH JAISWAR won the 42nd edition of the Every Sunday Rapid Chess Champi- onship, organised jointly by the Pune District Chess Asso- ciation and Global Mind Sports Foundation, for a record 11th ti |
Tur dal supply increases, price falls
PRICES of several essential commodities have fallen in the last month, with the re- duction in prices of vegeta- bles and pulses. Pulses traders said the increased supply of tur dal had en- sured a dr |
Women's Day: hospitals to organise check-up camps
TO mark International Women's Day, several hospi- tals and health centres in the city will organise check-up camps specifically for women on Monday. KEM Hospital will conduct 'pap smear and bone mi |
I am what I am because of my mother, says Lata
"I AM what I am today because of my mother. It was she who inspired and guided me after my father's death," said Lata Mangeshkar here on the eve of Interna- tional Women's Day. Lata was in the city |
IT cricket: HSBC, Siemens win
TEAMS from HSBC Global Technologies, Siemens, Symantec and Amdocs regis- tered easy victories in their league matches against Sun- gard, Cybage, Persistent Sys- tems and ClearPoint respec- tively in t |
M A Rangoonwala T10 cricket tournament from today
THE MCE Society's M A Rangoon- wala Institute of Hotel Management and Research, Azam Campus, Camp, will organise the second edi- tion of the M A Rangoonwala T10 Cricket Tournament at Md Gany sports Co |
Starstruck?
LIVING WITH A SUPERSTARSHAH RUKH KHAN DISCOVERY TRAVEL AND LIVING, FRIDAY, 9:00 PM RATING: What's it about? It's about Shah Rukh Khan and nothing else but Shah Rukh Khan. The show is a 10-part |
A night to remember
IT'S Oscar time again. In the days leading to D- Day on Monday, Star Movies has arranged a string of goodies including a half hour special where anchor Rajiv Masand will take the viewers through the m |
Talent hunt
AMERICA'S Got Talent is coming to India. Vh1 brings the latest season of the talent show hosted by Jerry Springer with celebrity judges Sharon Osborne, David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan. With Indian a |
Marital discord
THE plot is thickening in Star Plus's Tere Mere Sapne. Sarju (Yash Pandit) who saved Kalua (Shashi Ranjan) from a false case of drug smug- gling had lied to Kamya (Parull Chaudhry) that he's unmarried |
Talking point
How does it feel to be back on a fic- tion show after doing only reality shows? It feels very refreshing. My role in Do Saheliyan is not one of the lead ones, but it's certainly a challenging one, bec |
BIRTHDAY BOYS
CAT meets mouse. Mouse hits cat. Cat chases mouse. And the game only ends when one of them-usually the cat-is outgeneraled and out- witted. This is the basic storyline that the iconic Tom & Jerry cart |
International Women's Day March 8
A world apart
What a woman really wants MRUNAL KULKARNI, actor The topic reminds me of the Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt starrer What Women Want, a romantic comedy. Jokes apart, I feel most women actually don't know |
Fact of matter
F ILMS as well as the audi ence these days have in creasingly improved as they are both moving more and
more towards reality. I am sure this film too will be pertinent to that sec |
India rubbishes Qureshi claim, says Saeed discussed on Feb 25
INDIA on Sunday ex- pressed "surprise" over Pakistan's claim that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the 26/11 masterminds, was not taken up during For- eign Secretary-level talks and said New |
`Daughter' Preity's cameo in Amrohi property drama
THOUGH producer Shandar Amrohi may see a "spiritual daughter" in Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, her "involve- ment" in the property dispute that has sprung within the fam- ily is right now limited to h |
Sidelined by Pak for Nankana Sahib univ function, SGPC irked
THE Pakistan government is all set to lay the foundation stone of Guru Nanak Dev Inter- national University (GNDIU) at Nankana Sahib on April 17. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) her |
3 days later, ashram offers Rs 1-crore stampede relief
THREE days after the tragedy that claimed 63 lives at Bhakti Dham Ashram of Ram Kripal Tripathi alias Kripalu Maharaj in Pratap- garh, the ashram on Sunday released a fund of Rs 1.1 crore to be distri |
20 years later, lost son returns
THIS could well have been the script for a Bollywood flick.In early nineties, an eight-year-old boy goes miss- ing from Srinagar. Two decades later, the boy, now a man, returns home. A tearful re-unio |
MCI chalks out anti-gift rules
EVEN as the Union Health Ministry is planning to bring out a legislation to break the cash- or-gift-for-prescription nexus between doctors and the phar- maceutical industry, the Med- ical Council of I |
HAFIZ SAEED RAILS AGAIN, SEEKS PAK `FORCE' AGAINST INDIA
LASHKAR FOUNDER Hafiz Saeed (standing before microphone) told a large rally in Lahore Sunday that India had "imposed war on Pakistan" by constructing "illegal dams", and that should India's "water ter |
MCOCA slapped on godman Dwivedi
The stringent
MCOCA was invoked against `godman' Shiv Murat Dwivedi, arrested on charges of running a multi-crore sex racket.
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India out of Davis Cup World Group
India were ousted
from the Davis Cup World Group after Somdev Devvarman
lost to Mikhail Youzhny
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CIC orders Rs 1 lakh relief under RTI
IN an unusual RTI case,
the Central Information Commission (CIC) has ordered that compensation of Rs 1 lakh be paid to an applicant whose request for information from the Central Excise, Customs and |
AS IRAQ VOTES, BLASTS KILL 38
A WAVE OF ATTACKS struck Baghdad and other cities, killing at least 38 as Iraqis voted Sunday to elect a new parliament. NO TURNOUT estimates were available when polls closed at 5 pm, but observers |
Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
ARGENTINA beat NEW ZEALAND 1-0 KOREA beat CANADA 9-2 GERMANY drew NETHERLANDS 2-2 T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S ENGLAND VS SPAIN (4.35 PM) AUSTRALIA VS PAKISTAN (6.35 PM) INDIA VS SOU |
Maoist bosses feel the heat, seek new hideouts in urban jungles
MAOISTS trying to shield their top brass from rapidly intensi- fying government operations in their jungle bases have instructed cadres and sympathizers to identify hideouts in India's bigger cities, |
Indian man charged in death of Baby Gurshan
A 23-YEAR-OLD Indian man was today arrested and charged in the death of the Indian toddler whose body was found dumped in a Melbourne suburb three days ago. Dhillon Gurse- wak, a part-time taxi
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Women's Bill: Text same, but different context promises smooth passage
THE story of the journey of the Women's Reservation Bill cannot be told through its political math. With the Bill set to come up for consideration in the Rajya Sabha tomor- row, the political calculat |
MCI plans new body to improve medical education
In a bid to spruce up medical education in India, the
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EXPRESS IN KABUL
Hunting Kabul attackers, Afghan cops stumble upon illegal Indian residents
IN an unexpected fallout of last week's suicide attack in abul, the Afghan police have
caught nearly 60 Indians who were in the country on fake visas after being lured by the promise of high-p |
India rubbishes Qureshi claim, says Saeed discussed on Feb 25
INDIA on Sunday ex- pressed "surprise" over Pakistan's claim that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the 26/11 masterminds, was not taken up during For- eign Secretary-level talks and said New |
House divided still, but the lines have shifted
the measure. Nitish's turn- around on the Bill shows that. For Nitish, the rethink is perhaps part of a search for a new political idiom and constituency that has marked his tenure as chief ministe |
`Daughter' Preity's cameo in Amrohi property drama
THOUGH producer Shandar Amrohi may see a "spiritual daughter" in Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, her "involve- ment" in the property dispute that has sprung within the fam- ily is right now limited to h |
Maoist bosses seek refuge in urban jungles
In the wake of this assault, sources said, the Maoists are worried for their senior lead- ers, which explains their ur- gency to find hideouts in big cities to escape detection. Re- peated instruction |
Maoists kill labourer in Bengal
The Maoists killed a
daily labourer in West Midnapore on Sunday and put up posters near the residence of Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma and the district police headquarters. The bullet-riddled |
Bengal to send GJM's `Enemy No.1' for Gorkha talks
THE Left Front minister who claims to be Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's "Enemy Number 1" will now repre- sent the state government at the next tripartite talks on the Gorkhaland issue. The Minister for U |
CJI advocates `due regard' for victim's wish to marry her rapist
CHIEF Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan today said that "due regard" should be given to the wishes of a rape victim if she chooses to marry the rapist or have the baby conceived as a result of t |
HAFIZ SAEED RAILS AGAIN, SEEKS PAK `FORCE' AGAINST INDIA
LASHKAR FOUNDER Hafiz Saeed (standing before microphone) told a large rally in Lahore Sunday that India had "imposed war on Pakistan" by constructing "illegal dams", and that should India's "water ter |
Maoists kill labourer in West Midnapore
The Maoists killed a rer in West Midna
daily labourer in West Midnapore on Sunday and put up posters near the residence of Superintendent of Police Manoj Verma and the district police headquarters. T |
MCOCA slapped on godman Dwivedi
The stringent
MCOCA was invoked against `godman' Shiv Murat Dwivedi, arrested on charges of running a multi-crore sex racket.
|
India out of Davis Cup World Group
India were ousted
from the Davis Cup World Group after Somdev Devvarman
lost to Mikhail Youzhny. P
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AS IRAQ VOTES, BLASTS KILL 38
A WAVE OF ATTACKS struck Baghdad and other cities, killing at least 38 as Iraqis voted Sunday to elect a new parliament. NO TURNOUT estimates were available when polls closed at 5 pm, but observers |
Close shave for Ganguly & Co
It was a close shave
for Sourav Ganguly & Co at the Vivekananda Park on Sunday. The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain, along with coach Dav Whatmore and bowling consultant Wasim Akram paid a vi |
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Hunting Kabul attackers, Afghan cops stumble upon illegal Indian residents
IN an unexpected fallout of last week's suicide attack in Kabul, the Afghan police have caught nearly 60 Indians wh |
Indian man charged in death of Baby Gurshan in Australia
A 23-YEAR-OLD Indian man was to- day arrested and charged in the case involving the death of the Indian tod- dler whose body was found dumped in a Melbourne suburb three days ago. Dhillon Gursewak, |
Maoist bosses feel the heat, seek new hideouts in urban jungles
AOISTS trying to shield their top brass from rapidly intensify- ing government operations in their jungle bases have instructed cadres and sympathizers to identify hideouts in India's bigger cities, w |
Women's Bill: Text same, but different context promises smooth passage
THE story of the journey of the Women's Reservation Bill cannot be told through its political math. With the Bill set to come up for consideration in the Rajya Sabha tomor- row, the political calculat |
India rubbishes Qureshi claim, says Saeed discussed on Feb 25
INDIA on Sunday ex- pressed "surprise" over Pakistan's claim that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the 26/11 masterminds, was not taken up during For- eign Secretary-level talks and said New |
`Daughter' Preity's cameo in Amrohi property drama
THOUGH producer Shandar Amrohi may see a "spiritual daughter" in Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, her "involve- ment" in the property dispute that has sprung within the fam- ily is right now limited to h |
Rao talks resettlement of Tamils with Rajapaksa
IN THE first high-level contact between the two countries after the Presidential polls here, For- eign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Sunday met Sri Lankan Pres- ident Mahinda Rajapaksa and assured him of |
First-time Rajasthan sarpanchs resolve to fight corruption
LAST month, 40 sarpanchs, unknown to each other, resolved that they would not sign cheques blindly, succumb to pressure from government babus or ac- cept bribes of any kind. These 40 sarpanchs spent l |
explai.ne.d
13-yr journey till now
The chances of the WOMEN'S RESERVATION BILL, hanging fire for 13 years for want of political consensus, passing this time look the brightest not only given the strength of its formida- ble supporters |
Sad for not being able to vote on women's Bill: Alva
With Parliament all set to take
up the Women's Reservation Bill on Monday, Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva has ex pressed her sadness for being unable to vote on the landmark measure. "I am sad f |
Duley abduction in wake of murder of 23 school teachers
MAOIST THREAT
AS THE fate of Ranjit Duley, the headmas- ter of Shibram Satpa- thy School in Sarenga, Bankura, who was abducted by armed Maoists, hangs in balance after the 48-hour deadline set by the extremists exp |
CIC orders Rs 1 lakh relief to man denied info under RTI
IN an unusual RTI case, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has ordered that compensation of Rs 1 lakh be paid to an applicant whose request for information from the Central Excise, Customs and S |
Bollworm in Gujarat Bt cotton: Scientist says data wrong
WHILE Bt technology giant Monsanto has admitted that American pink bollworm has affected Bt cotton in four dis- tricts of Gujarat, India's top cotton scientist says the data is basically wrong. Cen |
9-yr-old Mumbai girl's body found on police quarters terrace
THE body of a nine-year-old girl was found on the terrace of a police quarters in Kurla east on Sunday morning, a day af- ter she went missing. The girl might have been raped before being murdered, th |
CPM missive to cadres: Keep eye on new faces, establish presence
Apprehending possible expansion of the Maoist base in sev eral other districts in West Bengal, the ruling CPM has asked its cadres to gather information about new suspicious faces and establish their |
Two boys die after falling in drains
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A DIFFERENT PITCH
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Godman' booked for abduction
A self-styled godman in
Ghaziabad has been booked for abducting his cousin. The police said the accused, Anup Kumar Sahay, is a resident of Vijay Nagar. Accord- ing to a complaint filed by the |
Hooch tragedy: two more die in Ghaziabad
: Two more persons died in Ghaziabad in the
hooch tragedy, the police said on Sunday. A large crowd also gathered at the National Highway 24 in Garh Mukteshwar area demanding Rs 5 lakh as compensati |
Fire in Noida slum, 50 hutments gutted
Fire broke out at two spots in Noida on Saturday
night. The first was in a slum area in Sector-63 at midnight. More than 50 houses were gutted. Seven fire tenders were sent to the spot and no cas |
Soon, sensors to track bus breakdowns
AFTER facing criticism for a series of fire-related mishaps in DTC's low-floor buses in recent months, the Delhi gov- ernment is looking at installing sensors on the fleet to keep a tab on technical b |
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, a message on wheels
TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Delhi-based travel photographer Roby Das is an avid biker. But he believes in using his passion t as a tool for advocating social awareness. "It is one thing to love bike |
Special vehicles fo garbage collection
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HAFIZ SAEED RAILS AGAIN, SEEKS PAK `FORCE' AGAINST INDIA
LASHKAR FOUNDER Hafiz Saeed (standing before microphone) told a large rally in Lahore Sunday that India had "imposed war on Pakistan" by constructing "illegal dams", and that should India's "water ter |
Indian man charged in death of Baby Gurshan
A 23-YEAR-OLD Indian man was today arrested and charged in the death of the Indian toddler whose body was found dumped in a Melbourne suburb three days ago. Dhillon Gursewak, a part-time taxi driv |
Women's Bill: Text same, but different context promises smooth passage
THE story of the journey of the Women's Reservation Bill cannot be told through its political math. With the Bill set to come up for consideration in the Rajya Sabha tomorrow, the political calculator |
Maya rules out support
On the eve of the presentation of the Women's Reser
vation Bill in the Parliament, Chief Minister Mayawati threw a spanner in the works on Sunday, putting forward her own demands to the Prime Ministe |
CJI advocates `due regard' for victim's wish to marry her rapist
CHIEF Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan today said that "due regard" should be given to the wishes of a rape victim if she chooses to marry the rapist or have the baby conceived as a result of t |
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Hunting Kabul attackers, Afghan cops stumble upon illegal Indian residents
XPRESS IN KABUL
IN an unexpected fallout of last week's suicide attack in Kabul, the Afghan police have caught nearly 60 Indians who were in the country on fake visas after being lured by the promise of high- |
Hockey WORLD CUP 2010
ARGENTINA beat NEW ZEALAND 1-0 KOREA beat CANADA 9-2 GERMANY drew NETHERLANDS 2-2 T O D AY ' S M AT C H E S ENGLAND VS SPAIN (4.35 PM) AUSTRALIA VS PAKISTAN (6.35 PM) INDIA VS SOU |
Ashram gives Rs 1 crore to stampede victims
Three days after
the tragedy that claimed 63 lives at Bhakti Dham ashram of Ram Kripal Tripathi alias Kripalu Maharaj in Pratapgarh, the ashram on Sunday released a fund of Rs 1.1 crore to be distri |
MCOCA slapped on godman Dwivedi
The
stringent MCOCA was invoked against `godman'
Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, arrested on charges of running a multi
crore sex racket
|
India out of Davis Cup World Group
India were ousted
from the Davis Cup World Group after Somdev Devvarman
lost to Mikhail Youzhny.
|
AS IRAQ VOTES, BLASTS KILL 38
A WAVE OF ATTACKS struck Baghdad and other cities, killing at least 38 as Iraqis voted Sunday to elect a new parliament.
NO TURNOUT estimates were available when polls closed at 5 pm, but observers |
Differences among Maoists
He was given charge of the Belpahari-Bandwan region - an area which till date continues to be the strongest Maoist do- main and strategically located near Jharkhand. His stay at Belpahari-Bandwan, |
CORRECTIONS
CLARIFICATIONS & DISCLAIMERS
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No Arunachal roject given up, Krishna clarifies
FOREIGN Minister S M Kr- ishna on Saturday denied re- ports that India had suc- cumbed to Chinese pressure to designate Arunachal Pradesh as disputed territory in not seeking World Bank funds for deve |
Cousins die as car crashes into call centre cab in S Delhi
A 21-YEAR-OLD who had recentlyreturned from the US after completing her studies and her cousin died on Thursday night when their
r collided with a call cen- C vehicle in Vasant Kunj, th uth D |
In UP village, devotees Stop cops from probing `godman' property
FOLLOWERS of self-styled fr dman Shiv Murat Dwivedi rmed a human chain a ound his property in his vil- a ge in Uttar Pradesh on Fri- si y and thwarted attempts by Delhi Police tea |
Woman held for abandoning girl child
Threemonths after an infantwas found abandoned on
racks near Faridabad railway station on December 10 last year, the e claimed to have arrested her mother, one Forenti, from a village jasthan on Fr |
16 hurt as Building Collapses
Sixteen people
were injured as a building ollapsed in West Delhi round 9 am on Saturday. A olice vehicle was crushed in he incident. Police said repair ork was going on in the the wo-storey building |
D-U split over Women's Bill
THE Janata Dal (United) finds itself in a fresh crisis with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar supporting U Women's Reservation Bill and party G sident Sharad Yadav firm on opp |
BJP TO PUSH BILL
A day after issuing a whip to its
members in the Rajya Sabha to support the men's Reservation Bill, being moved in the per House on Monday, BJP president Nitin dkari held a core group meeting on Sa |
BSF officer in 10-day udicial remand
As a court here
sent BSF Commandant R K irdi in 10-day judicial re and, the J-K government on aturday said the Armed orces Special Powers Act AFSPA) will no longer be al wed to become a shield f |
GAME, GOAL
AT the two-storey workshop of Rak- h hak Industries in Jalandhar's Avtar h agar area, about 70 people sit h unched over mulberry sticks, fine B ood shavings spilling out of their |
Poster Women
IT'S easy to put a face to Yasmin. Esecially when you are told she is om a small village in Bihar where omen, for generations, have been hooled in conformity. What doesn't into the picture of a wom |
THE SUNDAY STORY
Hit again, but this time it's different
AJOR Deepak Yadav fol- lowed a set routine every morning. Just like back home in India, he would wake up early to get ready for the long day ahead, readying himself for the questions that would inevit |
THE BIG PICTURE MOTION PICTURES
I T'S 9 p.m. and the heat of the day is still to melt away. On any other night, most homes in the village of Mayani in Maharashtra's Sa- TH tara district would h |
Bollworm in Gujarat Bt cotton: GEAC to look into report
HE Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) is learnt to have received a report confirming pink bollworm developing resis- tance to Bt cotton in four dis- tricts in Gujarat. The apex regula- tor |
UP admn holds ashram esponsible for stampede
THE preliminary report into the March 4 stampede at the Sant Kri- palu Maharaj ashram of Pratap- garh, which left 63 dead and 76 injured, has held the manage- ment of the ashram and the or- ganisers o |
shot video of swami, says former disciple
UNRAVELLING the mystery behind the source of the video that now has Swami Nithyananda on the run, a former disciple has ap- proached the police claiming it was he who secretly recorded the self-styled |
Unhappy with Panna probe, forest minister calls for CBI inquiry
UNHAPPY with the report submitted by a state commit- tee tasked to find out why tigers went missing from the premier Panna reserve, Mad- hya Pradesh Forest Minister Sartaj Singh now wants a CBI inquir |
akshadweep distress call:
Raising concerns about the presence of pi
tes off Lakshadweep coast, a Ukrainian ship send a distress message to e Indian Navy, which was later reported as a false assessment of the sit tion by the s |
Lanka criticises UN plan to set up rights panel
TERMING as "unwarranted", the United Nations's move to set up an expert panel on al- leged human rights violations in Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said his nation opposes the proposal. "T |
IRAQ VOTES Today
Sunday's parliamentary election is a test for Iraq's young democracy, and will help decide whether the
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COURT ASKS POLICE TO SEEK INTERPOL HELP IN MONEY CASE
A Sri Lankan court has directed
OLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has directed lice to seek Interpol's help to trace an abonder allegedly involved in providing illions of "unaccounted money" to forme |
PML-N leader killed in Balochistan
A leader of the
main Opposition PML-N was killed and three of his guards were injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Balochis- tan province on Saturday. PML-N leader Aziz Imrani was shot dead |
'Qaeda in Aceh': Jihad on despite crackdown
A group calling itself "alaida
in Aceh" claimed on Saturday to e the target of a police crackdown in e Indonesian province, where authori s have arrested and charged susected militants with plan |
Iran gives Russian pilots two months to leave
Iran has given Russian com-
mercial pilots working two months to leave the country as it has no need for them, Transport Minister Hamid Behba- hani was quoted as saying on Saturday. Iran has voic |
US aids Somalia in drive to take capital
SOMALIA is preparing a major offen- sive to take back this capital block by crumbling block, and it takes just a listen to the low growl of a small sur- veillance plane circling in the night sky overh |
Sarah Palin acts greedy at Oscars gifting suite
Sarah Palin may have not been nominated
for an Academy Award, but that did not stop her from invading the Oscar's gifting suite and walking away with a ton of free goodies. Palin showed up at the Sil |
Chavez calls Hillary 'blond Condoleezza
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
mocked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday and called her a "blond" version of her predecessor. He said a row with Spain over alleged links with rebel gr |
Malaysian magazine
: AMalaysianmagazine
apologised on Saturday for upset- ting Christians after it published an arti- cle researched by two Muslims who pretended to be Roman Catholics and took communion in a church. Th |
Pentagon shooter was
: John Patrick Bedell was a
illiant and seemingly gentle computer hiz, yet so withdrawn that people in is rural community where his parents d grandparents are civic leaders knew tle about him. Fam |
New Marja leader has criminal past
THE man chosen to be the fresh face of good Afghan governance in a town seized from the Ta liban has a vio- lent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said on Saturday they are not pushing |
Gifts, parties, celebs: LA readies for Oscars
THE red carpet has been laid out in front of the Kodak Theatre, topped with a plastic sheet in case of rain. To urists are flocking to Hollywood & Highland to see a bit of the Academy Awards prepa- ra |
16 hurt as building ollapses
Sixteen peole were injured as a building ollapsed in West Delhi round 9 am on Saturday. A olice vehicle was crushed in he incident. Police said repair ork was going on in the the wo-storey building ( |
Cousins die as car crashes nto call centre cab in S Delhi
21-YEAR-OLD who had reently returned from the US i fter completing her studies nd her cousin died on r
car collided with a call cen- tre vehicle in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi. The victims |
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