Qayam Ali The Constitution enables governments to provide for reservation of SC/ST category employees even in promotions but courts cannot direct them to make such a provision, the Supreme Court has ruled.
A bench of justices J Chelameswar and A K Sikri, however, said the aggrieved employees, belonging to SC/ST categories, can themselves seek redressal from the court if they are denied the rightful promotions.
France vowed to combat terrorism with “a cry for freedom” in a giant rally for unity today after three days of bloodshed that horrified the world.
Police searched for a woman linked to the three al-Qaeda-inspired attackers, but a Turkish official said she appears to have already slipped into Syria.
The rally today is also a huge security challenge for a nation on alert for more violence, after 17 people and three gunmen were killed over three days of attacks on a satirical newspaper, a kosher supermarket and on police that have left France a changed land.
At least 16 people were killed in a bomb attack in Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, media reports said.
According to reports, the suicide bomber, who triggerred the blast, was a 10-year-old girl. No group has so far claimed responsibility for Saturdays attack, BBC reported.
The extent of damage was still being ascertained and rescue efforts still going on at the place of the explosion, Jibrin said. He said official casualty figure will be given after ongoing rescue operation.
“Security operatives have cordoned off the area,” the police spokesman added.
Amid reports of unease in his relationship with senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday described Kumar as ‘Chanakya’ of state politics and dismissed reports of differences between them.
“Nitish Kumar is Chanakya of Bihar politics,” Manjhi said while addressing a foundation day function of a women’s college, about 6 km from Hajipur.
Saudi Arabia today publicly flogged a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, with Amnesty International condemning his punishment as a “vicious act of cruelty”.
A Saudi court in September upheld a sentence of 10 years in prison as well as the flogging for Raef Badawi, who has been behind bars since June 2012.
The 30-year-old received a first instalment of 50 lashes today and is expected to have 20 weekly whipping sessions until his punishment is complete.
Today when teens are longing to watch movies and craving towards fashion, Zuberia a 9th class student is fighting for her education.
Zuberia Begum (14) and her sister Sabiha Begum (13) who hails from Patancheru are the student of RC Puram Govt School (Urdu Medium) has been forced by their parents to put off their education.
Zuberia once attemded a programme “awareness on child education” conducted by CARPED in her village. Zuberia approached Centre for Action Research and People’s Development, which also runs toll-free child help line for her help.
The government will go for major disinvestment in the next two-and-a-half months and will strive to stick to the fiscal deficit target of 4.1 per cent in the current year, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday.
“As far as disinvestment figures are concerned, we still have close to three months left. And I can only tell you this is going to be period of great activity as far as disinvestment is concerned,” he said at a CNBC-TV18 award function.
A woman sustained burn injuries when her brother-in-law allegedly threw acid on her after a failed rape attempt at Khudda village in Chapar area of the district, police said on Friday.
The woman, who sustained burn injuries, was admitted to the district hospital, said Deputy SP Arun Kumar.
In her statement to the police, the woman has alleged that her brother-in-law identified as Jahangir, tried to rape her when they were returning to the village on a bike.
Upon resisting, he allegedly threw acid on her and fled from the spot, police said.
Shah on his agenda for strengthening the base of the party in Telangana State, held a core committee meeting and brainstormed with the party’s district presidents, general secretaries and morcha presidents.
BJP national president Amit Shah on Thursday claimed that BJP will emerged as a Major force by 2019 in the state of Telangana.
Commenting on the KCR government in Telangana, the BJP chief said that “it is running on a weak foundation”. BJP can “fill in the vacuum” as the other political parties like the Congress.
Thousands of TCS employees, of TCS have signed an online petition asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to stop “indiscriminate termination” by the company.
The Forum for IT Employees (FITE) on Wednesday filed a petition to the Labour Commissioner and asked him to bring justice to the unfairly terminated employees.
According to FITE members,over 25000 of employees shaev acked suddenly and thrown out of office leaving them no buffer time to search for jobs in other organizations and almost 3000 are from Hyderabad.
Nazeer Ahmed who was an active member of Fashiuddin gang nabbed by Counter Intelegence Cell yesterday who are involved in attacking Kar Sevaks after the Babri Masjid Demolition in 1992.
According to police Fashiuddin and Nazeer form a gang to target Nandraj Goud and papaiah Goud who took part in the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. Fashiuddin and others were killed in an encounter while Nazeer was able to fly to Saudi.
Nazeer was involved in many cases registered at Homayath Nagar and Abids police stations in 1993.
Telangana Home Minister N.Narsimha Reddy has launched an integrated e-Challan system for on Thursday at Cyberabad Commissionerate. He termed this system as a coordination between higher authority and police department.
This system enables two Commissionerate to have common platform and all violations and crimes can be integrated under a single platform. Mr. Narsimha promised to extend this system all over the state.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, have hit upon a new idea to empower Dalit entrepreneurs in the State, who is focusing on strengthening the party base in the State.
He is likely to come up with an announcement with this regard at the industrial expo going to held in February by DICCI (Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce of Industry).
According to sources, KCR gets this idea after going through a book ‘Defying the Odds’ written by D Shaym Babu, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and Devesh Kapur.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s VVIP tours in the State have cost the taxpayer Rs 4.92 crore in two-and-a-half months. Of the total expenditure of `4.92 crore, `1 lakh is ‘planned’ expenditure and the rest non-plan, according to the State government.
The State government on Wednesday released the amount to the APACL AP (Aviation Corporation Limited) from which aircraft had hired to ferry the VVIPs.
Even as several BJP leaders are demanding a new, “stricter” anti-conversion law in the wake of controversies triggered by some Hindutva groups’ “reconversion (ghar vapsi)” programmes. The Minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla today said existing laws are enough to deal with conversions by force or inducement.
Asked about her views on an anti-conversion law, Ms. Heptulla said “There are already so many laws in the country and the existing laws are enough to deal with it (conversion).
Twelve people were killed when a bus fell in into a gorge in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district today. Most of them were students. The driver of the APSRTC bus with registration number AP28Z 1053 lost control over the wheel while trying to avoid hitting an auto rickshaw.
The incident occurred at around 8:30 AM when the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bus was going to Penukonda from Madakasira in the district where it fell into a valley, 20 feet below, Anantapur District Superintendent of Police Rajsekhar Babu said.
Shares of Coal India gained nearly three per cent today as coal workers called off their nationwide strike after the government assured trade unions that the state-run CIL will not be privatised and the employees’ interests will be protected.
CIL’s scrip climbed 2.69 per cent to Rs 385 at the BSE. On the NSE, it rose by 2.74 per cent to Rs 385.
Coal workers last night called off their nationwide strike after two days as the government assured trade unions that the state-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) will not be privatized and the employees’ interests will be protected.
Ten Dalit families of Jamalpur village here have said they will convert to Islam if they are not allowed to worship at the historic Lav Kush Janmabhoomi temple at Baleni.
In a memorandum submitted by the villagers to District Magistrate (DM) Pankaj Yadav and the SSP on January 5, they sought permission to worship in the temple by January 26 and threatened to convert otherwise.
Shyam Singh, a village resident, alleged that the priest had stopped him and ten other Balmiki families from worshipping at the temple on October 8 last year following which they lodged a complaint with the DM.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao on Thursday said that the party did not associate with Unnao MP Sakshi Maharaj’s controversial remarks adding that the latter’s views were personal.
“We had made it very clear that those comments were Sakshi Maharaj’s own views. These are not the views of BJP or the Government of India. The party does not associate itself with these remarks,” said Rao.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Nalin Kohli too disassociated the party’s thinking from the leader’s statement.
Senior players Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal were ignored while fast bowler Sohail Khan made a comeback after nearly three years in wilderness in Pakistan’s 15-member squad for the ODI cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand starting February 14.
Actress Bipasha Basu, who has turned 35, says she’s only keen to do roles that suit her and that she’s not game to essaying a college girl on the big screen.
Bipasha, who celebrated her birthday Wednesday, will next be seen in a double role in horror movie “Alone”. She was last seen in “Creature 3D”.
Asked why she’s picking horror films, the bold and beautiful actress said: “If at all anybody offers me a role of a college girl, I won’t do it. It is very frivolous! You have to do roles that suit you.”
She feels that whenever she has essayed “strong roles”, people have liked it.
The State Bank of Hyderabad has increased the rates of interest on term deposits from 8.6 to 8.75 for periods ranging from five to ten years with effect from January 6.
The SBH also launches a new recurring deposit, SBH-KUBER Monthly, for 36 months where a customer depositing Rs2,500 a month will get Rs 1,02,649 at 8.85 per cent interest per annum. However, the 400-day SBH-KUBER deposit scheme will continue at 8.85 per cent per annum.
The deposits can also be made in multiples of Rs 2,500 during 36 months.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has called for a “religious revolution” asking Muslim leaders across the world to battle the rising extremism.
According to CNN, he said that they do not have the time to lose now while addressing the crowd in a speech at the Prophet Mu?ammad’s birthday celebration that coincided with the New Year’s Day.
El-Sisi, elected in May after leaving the military to run for the office, stressed on the fact that they need a ” religious revolution “.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal met Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath and Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer Chandra Bhushan Kumar seeking removal of anomalies in the voters list of the national capital.
The AAP had on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission claiming that around four lakh fake voters are in the national capital.
The party also demanded action against booth level officers for the discrepancies in the voters list.
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A 24-year-old Indian student has been deported from the US after he was convicted of cyberstalking for posting threatening comments on social media to carry out a campus shooting.
Keshav Mukund Bhide, a former student at the University of Washington (UW), cannot return to the US for ten years.
Bhide was arrested in June after he threatened women at the university in the comments section on YouTube.
He also defended the actions of Elliot Rodger, a college student who killed six people at the University of California, Santa Barbara in May and then killed himself too.