Former president APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday asked the government to ensure that land encroached by Chinese troops is freed.
“Indian leadership should ensure the return of Chinese troops from the Indian territory,” Kalam said, referring to recent incursion by Chinese troops in Ladakh.
He said that encroached land should be freed from Chinese occupancy.
Kalam was here to deliver convocation lecture at Saket Post Graduate Degree College.
PTI
The third rank holder in this year’s Civil Services Examination, Stuti Charan, has done a post-graduate diploma in marketing management from the national capital. She appeared for the exams in Delhi. This was her third attempt.
She has completed BSc from Jodhpur University and PG Diploma in Personnel and Marketing Management from IIPM in New Delhi.
Amongst the top 25 candidates, there are candidates from 12 states, including Delhi, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.
CBI officials on Friday raided the premises of a senior Army officer after registering a case of corruption against him on the charge of bribery and amassing assets disproportionate to known sources of his income.
“CBI conducted raids at several places of Major General V K Sharma in Udhampur, Pathankote, Delhi and Gurgaon and seized some documents today”, a CBI official said.
Three special teams were formed and sent to different locations to conduct the raids, he said.
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Hitting out at the government for the alleged involvement of the Railway Minister’s nephew in a bribery case, opposition parties on Saturday demanded that Pawan Kumar Bansal step down on moral grounds.
BJP charged the government with shamelessly using constitutional bodies to hide their corruption.
Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu and ensure a thorough investigation.
Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani national serving a life sentence was attacked in the prison in Jammu, a day after Indian national Sarabjit Singh succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal assault within a jail in Lahore.
Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday said CAG has an important role to play in efforts towards improving environment by not only commenting on the effectiveness of the rules and regulations in this regard but also by offering suggestions to the government for the purpose.
He said that India has been active in international forums relating to environmental protection, and is party to 94 multilaterals environmental agreements.
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While ‘khap panchayats’ (caste councils) in Haryana continue to frown on inter-caste and sub-caste marriages and punish those who do so, marrying outside one’s caste is ever so profitable in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh – it’ll get couples all of Rs.75,000.
To prompt young men and women to break the caste barrier, the cabinet headed by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has enhanced the inter-caste marriage incentive from Rs.25,000 to Rs.75,000. It’s given to couples where one of the spouses belongs to a Scheduled Caste.
Idol stolen from temple
(Siasat News): An incident of theft took place at Hanuman temple situated near bus stand in Shamshabad in the afternoon.
The priest of the temple Shiva Shankar Swamy had lodged a complaint in Shamshabad RGI police that as he had gone to his house in the afternoon because of the severe hot, the robbers must have taken this chance to commit the crime.
When he came back he found the costly Hanuman idol weighing 7 kilos, missing from the temple. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.
A 90 year-old poor woman was found in Shaheen Nagar, who was left there by some unknown persons 3 days ago. They brought her there in an auto and left her in the lurch. When local people called Siasat office and informed about the woman they were advised to send her to Aaram Ghar located at Shivrampally, meant for abandoned men and women.
His image taking a bit of beating after verbal duel with Rahul Dravid during Friday’s IPL game, Gautam Gambhir on Saturday sought to clear the air by saying that he never exchanged any harsh words with the legendary batsman, who remains a respected figure for him.
This is the second time that Gambhir is involved in such an altercation. In an earlier IPL match, he and Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli were involved in an ugly on-field spat.
Doctors have time and again harped on the importance of using a sunscreen to protect one’s skin. For many, however, choosing the right sunscreen is a tough choice, what with scores of products with various SPFs (Sun Protection Factors) flooding store shelves.
Does higher SPF mean better protection? Not so much, say doctors, who warn against being misled by marketing gimmicks.
Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan on why the audience needs an attitude makeover
Even as we celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema today, we have yet to stop blaming the industry for the ills that plague our society. From encouraging violence to social evils, cinema is blamed for everything!
In the centenary year, I really hope this mindset changes. As it is, we are becoming even more regressive in our thinking. There are diktats not only on what should be portrayed, but also in what manner it should be portrayed!
The Mexican unit of Japanese auto giant the Honda Motor Co. announced plans to invest $470 million in the construction of a transmission plant in Celaya, in the central state of Guanajuato.
The president of Honda Mexico, Isamu Yamaki, and Tetsuo Iwaumura, COO of Honda North American regional operations, made an announcement before Mexico’s secretary of the economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, that the new plant joins the others that the company has in this country, the company said in a communique.
Rajasthan Royals batsman Owais Shah says the Kolkata Knight Riders possess some world class spinners in their ranks and their performance in helpful conditions made the difference in their IPL match on Friday.
The struggling defending champions cruised to an eight-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals in a spin-oriented battle yesterday.
Shah said the Knight Riders had more experienced spinners in Sunil Narine and Sachithra Senanayake.
The first airplane that can fly both day and night powered exclusively by the sun’s rays has taken off from California in the first stage of an attempt to fly across the US without using any fuel.
The solar-powered plane, dubbed Solar Impulse, set off Friday from San Francisco shortly after 6 a.m. local time (1300 GMT) and was expected to land in Phoenix, Arizona, 19 hours later for the aircraft’s first stop in the first-ever fuel-free transcontinental plane flight.
Two housing officers and one police sub-inspector have been caught during Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) raids across the State on Friday.
The ACB identified Rs.5 crore worth illegal assets at the residence of Vinukonda Housing DE Shankar in Guntur district. Shankar possessed 35 acre land, 10 house sites, two residences and two cars. The ACB sleuths have taken Shankar into their custody.
TDP has demanded that all the outsourced employees be regularized as per the government’s assurance.
In a statement here on Friday, party’s official spokesperson Nannuri Narsi Reddy, said instead of fulfilling its promise of regularizing the existing outsourced employees, the government was in fact removing the employees. He said through the GO 1041, the government had removed 7,800 MPDOs working in the agriculture departments. Likewise 1439 contract teachers, 487 contract employees of the housing board and 280 employees of the irrigation department.
The Legislative Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar has said that the Standing Committees have to submit their reports on budget by the end of this month.
Speaking to the media after the review meeting with the officials of various departments including government Chief Secretary PK Mahanthi here on Friday, the Speaker said that the second phase of budget session of the Legislative Assembly will be held next month. He said that the Standing Committees members have to work efficiently irrespective of their party affiliations.
Local police in Houston, a city in the U.S. state of Texas, confirmed an armed man shot and killed himself at the city’s Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday afternoon.
The police said that at around 1:35 p.m. local time, Thursday, they were informed of a “discharge of firearm” at Terminal B at the airport. And the shooting took place at the ticketing area of the airport when one armed man pulled out a gun and committed suicide, according to a report aired by the local TV channel abc13.
President Pranab Mukherjee has called upon the film industry to portray positive societal values through movies to build tolerant and harmonious India. Expressing concern at growing violence against women and children, Mukheerjee said, cinema can play a pivotal role in resetting the moral compass of the society and prevent erosion of values. Mukherjee was addressing the 60th National Film award function in New Delhi on Friday evening. He hailed the contribution of Indian cinema, which he said reflects India’s soft power the world over.
At least 118 people were killed and 377 others got injured in 29 bomb blasts as the militants raised the number of attacks at the political rallies and offices of parties across Pakistan during the month of April, according to official statistics.
Out of the 29 bomb attacks, six were of suicide nature that ripped through different areas of Pakistan, targeting different targets, killed 48 persons and injured 162 others.
Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu and ensure a thorough investigation.
Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani national serving a life sentence was attacked in the prison in Jammu, a day after Indian national Sarabjit Singh succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal assault within a jail in Lahore.
In a statement on Friday, Khoso expressed “deep concern” over the incident and noted that a large number of Pakistani nationals were incarcerated in Indian prisons.
Three children were killed in separate wall collapse incidents following heavy rain that also damaged thatched houses affecting 2,000 people in Balasore district, officials said on Saturday.
Sania Sing, 9, and Basanti Sing, 8, were killed when a mud wall collapsed on them at Benapada village on Friday evening.
In another wall collapse incident, Jitendra Das, 9, died and five others were injured in Thalsadha village.
Besides, about 2,000 people were affected as many thatched houses were damaged during rain in seven revenue villages in the district, they said.
–PTI