India is likely to become the third largest aviation market in the world from its current position as traffic volumes grow exponentially, a top official said Tuesday.
“The growth of civil aviation is likely to push India from ninth to third position in the world in terms of volume of traffic, necessitating a very strong security system,” said Gurjot Singh Malhi, commissioner of security (Civil Aviation), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
The Goa government Tuesday cancelled the licenses of nearly 450 iron ore traders registered here in a bid to check extraction and export of iron ore.
The order suspending the licenses was issued late Tuesday by the mines ministry which is headed by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
“All of them have also been issued showcause notices which asked them why action should not be taken (against them),” newly appointed mines department director Prasanna Acharya said.
Designer Shabina Khan has turned co-producer with the forthcoming film “Rowdy Rathore” and says she is not the official designer for the action movie but has created few costumes for Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.
“Rowdy Rathore” is jointly produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Shabina.
A man was awarded the death penalty by a court here Tuesday for burning alive his daughter-in-law in 2009. His son and daughter were awarded similar sentences.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ramesh Kumar awarded death sentence to Gulbeg Ali, a resident of Gokulpuri in east Delhi, his son Zulfikar Ali and daughter Kumari Mubin Fatima for setting ablaze victim Shama Parveen in October 2009 in their house.
Parveen was married to Gulbeg Ali’s other son Sarfraz.
The court also fined the convicts Rs.5,000 each.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 23 Indian fishermen and seized four boats for violating the country’s maritime boundary, officials said Tuesday.
The fishermen were detained by the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) during a routine patrol, a spokesman for the agency said.
He said the Indian fishermen and their boats were apprehended for entering deep inside Pakistani waters.
The spokesman said the fishermen had been warned by the Pakistani maritime authority, but they “ignored” the warning.
It is not everyday that a 10-year-old catches the office of the prime minister of India off-guard and without answers. But then, Aishwarya Parashar, a Class 6 student, is no ordinary girl.
For she has stumped PMO officials with her Right to Information (RTI) query on when and by what orders was the title of ‘Father of the Nation’ conferred on Mahatma Gandhi.
Sitting in her small but neatly kept house in Rajajipuram F Block, the backdrop of teddy bears and toys makes her just any other Barbie doll loving girl next door.
The US move to announce a $10 million bounty on Pakistan-based planner of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack is a huge step – huge for the US and its already tense relations with Pakistan and huge for India in several ways.
The move brings to fruition India’s diligent and meticulous efforts to convince the US over the last three years that Lashkar-e-Toiba is not only one of Pakistan’s ISI assets often used against New Delhi, but that its tentacles are a lurking danger for the US and the whole world.
The snow-hit areas of erstwhile Doda district will soon be supplied with three months of free ration, the Jammu and Kashmir government said today. “The snow-hit areas of erstwhile Doda district will soon be provided three months of free ration as announced by the government,” Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Qamar Ali Akhoon said here.
The assessment of damages in all the three districts Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban — have been completed by revenue
department and distribution of free ration can be started any time, Akhoon said.
Announcing sops for Muslims ahead of next year’s panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that her government would bring in a law for providing them quota in government jobs.
“The previous government had done it without proper survey and that is why it turned out to be a hotpotch and a
case is pending in court,” the chief minister told a meeting of Imams at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here.
A survey would be taken up for this, she said, adding that Backward Classes Welfare minister Upendranath Biswas has been asked to complete the work as early as possible.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawah today tightened security at the residence of its chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in the Pakistani city of Lahore after the US announced a 10-million dollar bounty for the man accused of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Besides, nine policemen from Punjab Police deployed at Saeed’s two-storey home at E Block of Jouhar Town, the JuD posted more armed volunteers to ensure foolproof security.
Listening to his friend’s advice to live a lavish life proved costly for a 22-year-old domestic help from Bihar who landed in jail after allegedly robbing
his employers’ house of jewellery worth Rs one crore and huge cash when they were away.
Narayan Sahani and his friend Gopal Sahu were arrested from Madhubani district in Bihar adjoining the Indo-Nepal
border after two months of intensive search by the Delhi Police.
Platinum, diamond and gold jewellery worth 1 crore, and Rs 2.8 lakh in cash were recovered from their possession,
Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at an Israeli diplomat’s car here, was today denied bail by a Delhi court.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav dismissed Kazmi’s bail plea saying there was no substance in his bail plea.
“I have gone through the case diaries brought to the court by the special team of Delhi police… I have not found any substance in the defence arguments,” the CMM said.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti today alleged that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre was “facilitating” crime and corruption in Jammu and Kashmir.
“It is unfortunate that UPA government is not taking cognisance of the grave charges of corruption and crimes in
J&K. They seem in a way to be facilitating corruption in the state,” Mufti told reporters here.
Replying to a question on the demand for CBI probe into the multi-crore Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA)
In another shocking incident of corporal punishment, a woman teacher in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district severely punished 12 girl students who had to be hospitalized.
The incident took place Tuesday at Gudur town in Nellore district, about 400 km from here.
According to police, the teacher at a government-run school lost her cool when the class 7 students did not recite an English poem. She asked them to do 150 sit-ups. As many as 12 students collapsed after doing some sit-ups and had to be rushed to a local hospital.
A man was awarded the death penalty by a court here Tuesday for burning alive his daughter-in-law in 2009. His son and daughter were awarded similar sentences.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ramesh Kumar awarded death sentence to Gulbeg Ali, a resident of Gokulpuri in east Delhi, his son Zulfikar Ali and daughter Kumari Mubin Fatima for setting ablaze victim Shama Parveen in October 2009 in their house.
Parveen was married to Gulbeg Ali’s other son Sarfraz.
The court also fined the convicts Rs.5,000 each.
Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar on Tuesday stated that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram should set a deadline for stakeholders to make their stand clear on Telangana statehood issue.
Talking to media persons, Ponnam Prabhakar said that the parties were escaping to make their stand on Telangana as the Centre has not set any deadline on the issue. “If Chidambaram sets deadline, the parties will make their stand clear on the issue and the Centre can take a decision on Telangana issue speedily,” he stated.
Raising the pitch for next year’s panchayat elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday announced pro-minority sops including a monthly honorarium for Imams.
“The government wants to give a monthly honorarium of Rs. 2,500 to Imams of the state which will be paid through the state Wakf Board.
“For the purpose a special task force comprising government officials and Imams from the city and districts will be constituted which will make the necessary recommendations for the implementation of the scheme,” Banerjee said here during a meet with the religious leaders.
In another shocking incident of corporal punishment, a woman teacher in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district severely punished 12 girl students who had to be hospitalized.
The incident took place Tuesday at Gudur town in Nellore district, about 400 km from here.
According to police, the teacher at a government-run school lost her cool when the class 7 students did not recite an English poem. She asked them to do 150 sit-ups. As many as 12 students collapsed after doing some sit-ups and had to be rushed to a local hospital.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has said that he does not give importance to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, started by cousin Raj Thackeray, and neither do the people.
“I don’t give much importance to MNS, neither do the people…What matters at the end of the day is the work one does, not what analysts say,” Uddhav said, in an interview with the New York Times.
He was responding to a query on analysts’ view that MNS is a rising party to watch for in the city and state, given its strong showing in the recent elections.
The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday accused the State Government of putting the financial burden on the common man by way of increasing the power tariff, LPG prices and Service Tax.
Addressing a press conference at NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP MLA R Chandrasekhar Reddy said that the State and Central Governments have been extorting money from the common man using different technical terms. He said instead of finding alternate means of overcoming the financial losses of the Energy Department, the State Government simply agreed for a steep hike in power tariff.
The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday asked YSR Congress party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to disclose the sources of funds which he used to set up powers plants in several States.
Talking to reporters at NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP Deputy Floor leader Gali Muddu Krishnamma Naidu alleged that Jagan and his family members were making an investment of about Rs 60,000 crore to set up 12,000 MW power plants at Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana. He said if Jagan did not indulge in corruption, then he should disclose as to how he mobilised such huge funds for the power plants.
Samajwadi party MP from Rampur P Jaya Prada Nahata on Tuesday stated that she would join Andhra Pradesh politics in 2014.
Talking to media persons after performing special pooja to Lord Venkateswara at the hill shrine on her birthday, Jaya Prada said that she wished to join the State politics for a long period and sought the blessings of Lord Venkateswara for the same purpose.
The High Court on Tuesday rejected the petition of Lanco Hills that the land it purchased for the construction of Lanco Hills Technology Park does not belong to the Andhra Pradesh State Wakf Board.
Disposing a petition, the court observed that the 1,654.32 acres of land allotted to Lanco Hills for the construction of park belonged to Wakf Board. The court advised the Lanco Hills to settle the ownership dispute at the Wakf Board Tribunal only. The Advocate Shafeeq Rehman Mahajir has been pursuing the matter on behalf of the A.P.State Wakf Board.
Bollywood’s “junglee billi” Priyanka Chopra took the packed audience at the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) by surprise here Tuesday when she went up in the air during her performance, and got cricketer Harbhajan Singh to dance a little jig with her.
Looking chic in a black and white sequinned top, black pants and a red wrap-around skirt, the actress opened her act with her popular song “Aaj ki raat”.
Three persons have been arrested for stealing Rs 23 lakh from an automated teller machine (ATM) of a public sector bank in Geeta Colony in East Delhi a fortnight ago, police said today. Yunus Hasan, 21, Mohammed Abbas, 19 and Mohammed Zahid,20, all presently residing in Laxmi Nagar, had vandalised the ATM of Punjab National Bank on the intervening night of March 14-15 and stole Rs 23,03,200 from the cash chest after cutting it open with a gas cutter, a senior poilce official said.