New Delhi, February 06: The Central Information Commission has directed the government to make public the report of the CVC on the working of the Prasar Bharti which reportedly indicted its former CEO BS Lalli.
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the government to make public the report of the CVC on the working of the Prasar Bharti which reportedly indicted its former CEO BS Lalli.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to visit Hyderabad on February 4 to distribute appointment letters to one lakh unemployed youth under a scheme named after the late Rajiv Gandhi. But days before the big event, the Prime Minister’s Office ( PMO) cancelled the visit.
New Delhi, February 06: The CPI(M) on Monday said it would not emulate any country to achieve socialism in India but take into account the concrete conditions in the country and lessons drawn from the recent “anti-imperialist” developments in Latin America.
The party also referred to “caste-based political mobilisation” and communalism, saying these factors were being increasingly used by the ruling classes in India to perpetuate exploitation and maintain their hegemony through social oppression.
Riyadh, February 06: Saudi police arrested a Bangladeshi cleaner for raping an eight-year-old local girl at his store room inside a crowded shopping mall in the Gulf Kingdom.
The girl’s mother reported her daughter suddenly went missing and phoned the police and her husband, triggering an alert inside the mall in the southern town of Khamis Mushait, newspaper said on Monday.
“They finally found her in the store room lying in a pool of blood after the worker hit her on the head so he can rape her,” Sharq daily said.
New Delhi, February 06: Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, Robert Vadra, on Monday hinted at joining politics.
Robert Vadra, a businessman by profession and husband of Priyanka Gandhi, said that at present it’s Rahul Gandhi’s turn to be in politics, but will actively enter the political field if people want me to.
Robert Vadra was latest to join the campaign trail from the family today taking out a motorcycle rally to drum up support for the Congress in this constituency.
New Delhi, February 06: Rebutting criticism that the 2G judgement was a case of judicial overreach, Justice AK Ganguly, who was on the two-member bench of the Supreme Court that cancelled 122 licences, Monday asserted that the courts can certainly scrutinise and strike down policy decisions which are unconstitutional.
“Under our Constitution, judicial review is one of its basic features, and, in exercise of such judicial review, the Court can certainly scrutinise and even strike down policy decisions of the executive when such decisions are unconstitutional,” he said.
New Delhi, February 06: Battling for survival for over two weeks at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, two-year-old battered baby Falak continued to be critical Monday while the police claimed to have traced her biological mother.
“Falak is still critical, there has been no major decline or significant improvement in her condition,” M.C. Misra, chief of the AIIMS Trauma Centre told reporters here.
The doctors treating Falak said that the brain infection was a cause of concern.
Thousands of acres of fertile land in the floodplains of the Hindon River – an ecologically sensitive zone – has been usurped by the land mafia in Noida and illegally sold to buyers for constructing houses.
Already, hundreds of concrete structures have mushroomed on these plots, some houses sitting only metres away from the river’s course.
The district administration is aware of the plunder of real estate in the Sorkha-Noida Extension area.
Many clinics suspect of not informing health authority about positive cases
A friendly voice over the phone informed this reporter that HIV testing was a very normal procedure in Dubai, with a simple blood test was all it took to determine your fate.
The questions were being posed to a staff member of one of the leading medical clinics in Dubai, which, among other lab work, specialises in STD testing.
A 22-year-old woman who may be the mother of Falak – the battered baby who is fighting for survival at AIIMS – has claimed that her husband was forcing her into prostitution and she had run away from her home, police say.
Delhi Police claim to have traced the woman, Munni, who could be the biological mother of Falak. A police officer said she was found about a week ago in Rajasthan and brought here Sunday night.
Munni has told her interrogators that her husband was forcing her into prostitution and that is why she ran away from her house in Rajasthan last year to come to Delhi.
Thousands of youth are in a dilemma over the much-publicised Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu (RYK) job scheme, which has failed to provide placements in the private sector. These young people were under the impression that RYK would provide them jobs in the government sector.
A woman, who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a western Pennsylvania bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
Evelyn Marie Fuller, 49, of Carmichaels, remained in the Greene County Jail unable to post bond on bank robbery and other charges filed by police in Waynesburg, where she allegedly robbed the First National Bank on Jan. 20.
Arresting Officer Tom Ankrom said Fuller explained her motives when she confessed to the crime.
Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University will organize a conference on literature to counter terrorism on Tuesday.
The conference will be held under the auspices of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. It aims to highlight the impact of literature in the service society and the role of writers in spreading the culture of tolerance.
Courtesy: Arab News
Iran will attack any country whose territory is used by “enemies” of the Islamic state to launch a military strike against its soil, the deputy head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards told the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday.
“Any spot used by the enemy for hostile operations against Iran, will be subjected to retaliatory aggression by our armed forces,” Hossein Salami said, during military maneuvers.
State Bank of India, the country’s biggest lender, will name and shame “wilful” defaulters and put their pictures in newspapers to get them to pay up, the Economic Times said on Saturday.
“The fresh approach will ruffle a few feathers,” the paper quoted a bank executive as saying.
A “wilful defaulter” is one who does not meet payment obligations even when he or she has the funds.
Bad loans in India could jump to as much as 5.8 percent of the total within two years in a “severe risk” scenario, up from 2.8 percent in September, according to a central bank report.
London, February 6: Queen Elizabeth II starts five months of diamond jubilee celebrations this weekend with the promise of pomp and splendour despite the British monarch’s wishes for restraint.
The queen will make a deliberately low-key visit to Norfolk in eastern England on Monday, 60 years to the day since she ascended to the throne after her father King George VI suddenly died on February 6, 1952.
Actress Priyanka Chopra, who has been hitting the headlines for her alleged affair with superstar Shahrukh Khan, has finally chosen to make few comments over these rumours. Even earlier when the PC-SRK rumours were doing rounds, both the actors chose to keep mum over the entire issue.
The cold weather also left buses struggling to drive up the Italian capital’s slushy hills, and cars without tyre chains were temporarily ordered off the road. Scores of vehicles were blocked for hours on the ring road around the city after cars skidded and crashed.
Drivers frustrated at waiting for accidents to be cleared ended up abandoning their cars.
About 6cm (2.5in) of snow fell in many areas of the capital.
US Muslim groups have joined hands to call for the New York attorney-general to investigate the city’s police over recommendations to increase surveillance of Shiite mosques in the city.
The incident show “the need to hold the NYPD [New York Police Department] accountable for its flagrant use of discriminatory policing practices has never been more glaring and urgent,” Muslim groups said in a letter to New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman cited by Huffington Post on Saturday, February 4.
Eight persons arrested for kidnapping
(Siasat News): The KPHB police arrested eight persons on Sunday in connection with the kidnap of an engineer and recovered Rs. 1 lakh in cash, two blank cheques, four promissory notes and a SUV from their possession.
All kidnappers were in their late 20s, said KPHB inspector G Baswa Reddy.
One electrocuted to death
Hyderabad, February 6 (Siasat News): A man was electrocuted to death in Pahadi Shareef police station limits.
A woman’s body found in a Clearwater, Fla., storage unit may have been stored there 17 years ago. When Ann Bunch died in 1995, the family had her body prepared for burial at a funeral home in Alabama but then ran out of money.
Bunch’s daughter, Bobbie Barnett Hancock, decided to place the body in a special container in a unit at U-Stor Self Storage in Clearwater. As Hancock was dying of cancer last year, she told her daughter, Rebecca Ann Fancher, what she had done. Fancher is Bunch’s granddaughter.
Stirred by poverty in villages and rising fuel prices, a candidate has decided to shun the use of costly vehicles and is seeking votes by riding a buffalo in the Basti Sadar assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh, which goes to polls this month. Elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases from February 8 to March 3.
An Indian woman narrowly escaped being burned alive after doctors wrongly declared her dead and relatives prepared her funeral pyre.
Grieving family members were about to place 72-year-old Magan Kanwar on the flames yesterday when she suddenly “woke up”.
Female mourners who were bathing the “corpse” in preparation for the traditional send-off noticed she was breathing and the funeral in Jaipur, northwest India, was immediately halted.
Agencies
Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s wish to reshuffle his cabinet may remain a dream at least for the time being.
The central leadership of the party has reportedly allowed him to limit the expansion of his cabinet to induction of three legislators from the Telangana region, contrary to the impression given to him when it asked him to induct two PRP legislators last month.
Victim Emma Frost was abused by her father for ten years. Her father forced her to act as her dad’s “wife”.
Emma Frost, 22, was repeatedly abused by her father Christopher Frost, 45, when she was aged just nine.
As she got older, she was forced to cook and clean for him as well as share his bed.
Frost was jailed for life last December after Emma finally found the courage to speak out.
The first time he touched his daughter he told her that it was a ‘special cuddle’. It happened more and more frequently over the next few years.