The Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir today said that work to dispense speedy and fair justice to common man through the ‘Gram Nyayalaya’ (rural court) is in the process of being implemented.
Justice Kabir, who was in Sirohi district to inaugurate a ‘Gram Nyayalaya’ building, told reporters here that “these courts are created to to mitigate legal problems of poor who found it difficult to travel to district courts”.
–Agencies
India has non-military interest in Afghanistan and any Pakistani fears in this regard are imaginary, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.
“We have a non-military interest in Afghanistan. We have committed a billion dollars to the reconstruction of Afghanistan. We are building Afghanistan’s parliament. We’re building roads… But we’ve not sent a single soldier to Afghanistan,” he told the popular Charlie Rose Show.
Over 1,000 agents of chit fund-funded Saradha Group, which is virtually on the verge of collapse, Friday held a demonstration in front of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s house here, urging her to bail them out.
A few days ago, the Banerjee government in the state ordered the arrest of the group’s chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen for defaulting on repayments.
The agents gathered in front of the chief minister’s south Kolkata residence and sought her intervention in the payment crisis.
Even two days after a bomb blast near the ruling BJP’s office here that left 16 injured, there was no breakthrough till late Friday, as investigations by sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the state police did not lead to any suspects or motive behind the terror attack.
“Investigation in the bomb blast at (the north-western suburb of) Malleshwaram is underway though no definite clues so far on its perpetrators or additional inputs to nab the culprits. We hope to crack the case at the earliest,” a senior police official told IANS.
Over 100 protesters Friday thronged the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where the five-year-old girl, who was raped for two days in captivity, is admitted.
The angry protesters were stopped at barricades manned by over 100 police personnel deployed at AIIMS.
Both the entry gates to the hospital were closed.
The crowd, which was shouting anti-police slogans, primarily consisted of Aam Adami Party workers.
Amritsar, Apr. 19 (ANI): Sikh devotees who had recently visited Pakistan to offer prayers and pay homage at gurdwaras across the border, have returned home and complained about the poor upkeep of the shrines by the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC).
They claimed that several Sikh shrines, including the historic Gurdwara Panja Sahib needed urgent repair and upkeep.
The Sikh Jatha of about 2000 Sikh devotees returned to India after celebrating the Basakhi festival at Nankana Sahib.
Ayodhya/New Delhi, April 19 (ANI): Hindu devotees across North India thronged temples and celebrated Ram Navami- the day which marks the birth of Lord Rama.
Devotees bathed in River Sarayu in Ayodhya on Friday.
Devotees were seen offering special prayers on the riverbank other than taking holy dip in order to seek the blessings of Lord Rama.
Ayodhya- as regarded by Hindus is the birthplace of Lord Rama, thousands of devotees from far and near also visited the famous Kanak Bhavan temple to offer prayers on the occasion of Rama Navami.
Bangalore, April 19 (ANI): Security has been beefed up at railway stations and crowded places in southern India after the recent blast outside the office of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bangalore, in which at least 16 people were injured. Police inspector in Chennai, Sekar, told yesterday that the security is on high alert in the railway station. “After the Bangalore blast incident, we have beefed up the security in Chennai Central. We have organized a five-step security; the railway staff and police have combined together to enhance the security.
New Delhi, April 19 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was sucessfully operated upon today for sinuses by a team of ENT specialists at the Fortis Escorts Institute, New Delhi.
She had been recently suffering from nasal allergies and sinusitis and was admitted to the Fortis Escorts Institute yesterday evening.
She is recovering well and has been advised rest for few days. (ANI)
Sustainable development is an integral part of fundamental rights conferred on citizens by the Constitution and cannot be allowed to be hampered by environmental degradation, the Supreme Court has said.
“Inter-generational equity and sustainable development have come to be firmly embedded in our constitutional jurisprudence as an integral part of the fundamental rights conferred by Article 21(Right to Life) of the Constitution.”
Saying that she was “shocked” about the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Friday demanded the girl should be immediately shifted to AIIMS.
“I am terribly shocked to know about the details of the rape of five year old child in Delhi. She should be shifted to AIIMS immediately,” Sushma Swaraj said on her Twitter account.
“I had thought that after Damini case thinking will change. Unfortunately, the situation has worsened,” she said.
Whose development model — Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s or Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s — he thinks will work for India? Well, IT czar Azim Premji clearly chose to duck the “googly” and steer clear of any controversy.
When a reporter wanted to know his views on “what model will really work for India” in the context of the debate over the “development agenda” of Modi and Rahul, the chairman of Wipro Ltd refused to offer any comment.
Senior advocate and suspended BJP MP on Friday said any party, which wants to come to power after the next Lok Sabha elections, should declare its prime ministerial candidate in advance.
Talking to reporters during a private visit here, Jethamlani said, “The political party wanting to come to power should declare the name of its prime ministerial candidate in advance, for giving people enough time in selecting the party.”
Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he wanted to “correct the system” within Congress as problems of grassroots level workers did not reach its top brass and assured partymen that he was available to them at any time.
In a closed-door interaction with delegates as part of organisation building exercise here, the fourth such meet in Punjab, the Congress Vice President told partymen that he wanted to “correct the system” within the party.
The five-year-old girl battling for life after being starved, tortured and brutally raped here for two days, was Friday shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for treatment, a police officer said.
“The girl has been shifted to AIIMS from Swami Dayanand Hospital, for better treatment,” Additional Commissioner of Police DK Gupta told IANS.
The girl was raped several times by her neighbour, who abducted her April 15 and held her hostage in his flat in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar for over two days, torturing her and denying her water and food, according to police.
Indian-origin student Sunil Tripathi is not a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing, contrary to some rumours floating on the social media.
Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student who went missing mysteriously on March 16, was reported by some as the Boston bombing suspect number two on Thursday night.
Tripathi was first suggested as a suspect for Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings on Reddit, then later by the Twitter account of Kami Mattioli, who knew the college student when he was in high school, the Inquisitr, a news website reported.
An alleged spurious drug racket in government hospitals here is widely perceived to be not merely a health or medical issue but also a deeply political one.
Members of the local doctors’ association, traders, travel agents and civil society have been demanding action against those involved in supplying a spurious life-saving drug to hospitals.
India should respond to Syria’s humanitarian crisis by working with Brazil and South Africa for improved access to humanitarian aid, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
In a briefing to the UN Security Council, UN Under Secretary-General Valerie Amos said the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria was reaching “the point of no return”.
According to him, there were 6.8 million people in need, 4.25 million internally displaced and 1.3 million refugees in neighboring countries. He added that the most urgent needs were in opposition-held areas.
Changing the orthodox mindset of the society, a 23-year old girl became the first Kashmiri to develop an android application named ”Dial Kashmir,” which contained over 500 contacts of government departments and private numbers. Mehvish Mushtaq, an ambitious computer engineer created an application, which is a one-stop source for ”essential information” about the state. Mushtaq said that she wanted to develop something, which would prove beneficial for the people. “There is nothing like this in Kashmir. Most of the people use android phones.
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Friday underwent a surgery for sinusitis in a city hospital, doctors said.
Dikshit, 75, was operated for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
“Dikshit was operated Friday under the care of her personal cardiologist Ashok Seth at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute by her personal ENT consultant Devinder Rai from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,” said an official statement from the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
According to doctors, Dikshit was suffering from sinusitis since one year.
The gap between urban and rural should be bridged for overall development of the country, former President and ‘Missile Man of India’ A P J Abdul Kalam said on Thursday.
Addressing engineering students of Chandigarh University during a convocation ceremony at Landran near here, Kalam said development of rural areas was the need of the hour as the real power of the country lies in its villages.
Sharing his vision of making India a world power till 2020, Kalam said there was a need to bridge the gap between urban and the rural areas for the country’s all round development.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram and actor Aamir Khan have been named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world in its annual list of global achievers that also includes teenaged Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and US President Barack Obama.
Describing Indian politicians as typically being “warm and fuzzy, chronically late and terribly imprecise”, Time says Chidambaram, 67, is “detail-oriented, works from 8 to 8 and has a reputation for getting a lot done.”
HCL Infosystems has bagged a major contract from Chhattisgarh’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for supply of laptops to final year engineering and medical students in the state, official sources said on Thursday.
Officials said that the contract has been placed by Infotech & Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS), the nodal agency for procurement of laptops. The laptops to be distributed by Chief Minister Raman Singh during his six-phase Vikas Yatra, starting from on May 6 from Maoist heartland Dantewada.
Educating youngsters about heritage and culture is as important as awareness about other issues, said educators and heritage conservationists here Thursday on the occasion of the World Heritage Day.
“They are our future generations. They are the ones who will be the thinkers and decision makers…heritage education is important,” said Devi Kar, director, Modern High School for Girls, during the screening of documentary films made by school students on heritage at the Victoria Memorial.
In a bid to make the stay of foreign tourists safe and memorable in India, the Centre is contemplating the formulation of a new policy, Union Tourism minister K Chiranjeevi said. “We will convene a meeting of state Tourism ministers to chalk out a policy to ensure complete safety and security of foreign tourists,” Chiranjeevi told reporters after inaugurating the new campus of the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) here.