The power bills of Delhiites will not go up till July as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) Friday decided to extend the existing electricity tariff for three months.
The three power distribution companies had sought increase in tariff to adjust their power purchase cost.
However, the DERC decided to extend the existing power tariff, citing delay in submission of Power Purchase Cost Adjustment Charges (PPAC) by the power companies.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today rued that the quality of poll campaign had witnessed a fall with personal allegations and counter allegations, in comments which could be seen as directed at own party leaders including Narendra Modi besides those from other parties.
“The elections are warming up and the level of our debate is falling down. The debate should have been on policies, programs and ideology. Unfortunately, it has come down to personal allegations and counter allegations. The language used is harsh and intemperate,” Swaraj said in a tweet.
Saudi citizens can now petition 90-year-old King Abdullah directly and lodge complaints through an Internet site set up at the initiative of the monarch himself.
The portal tawasol.Royalcourt.Gov.Sa, named after the Arabic word for communication, was launched on an experimental basis on Wednesday.
All messages are to be forwarded to the king.
“People will be able to inform the king about any shortcomings in the services offered by government agencies, and to take suitable action for the benefit of all citizens,” the website says.
Twelve kids fell ill after consuming mid-day meal at a primary school at Katar village in Dehri block today.
Sadar Sub-divisional Officer (SDO) Mohammad Shahid said a doctor was immediately called and the students were treated at the school itself. All of them recovered after some time.
“All kids are safe now. A lizard was found in the ‘daal’ (lentils) given to the kids. The food is provided by an outside supplier. We are probing to nail down the persons responsible for the incident,” said the SDO.
Ujjwala Sharma, mother of Rohit Shekhar, the biological son of N D Tiwari, staged a dharna outside the Congress leader’s residence here today after which he reportedly allowed her to stay with him.
Ujjwala staged a dharna in front of Tiwari’s residence at Mall Avenue here with her supporters after not being allowed entry by his Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Bhawani Dutt Bhatt, who said he did not have permission for that. She had staged a dharna yesterday also.
Aam Admi Party (AAP) today urged the district administration of East Singhbhum to initiate steps to look into the acute power crisis faced by the people for last few days.
A delegation of AAP led by its leader Kumar Chandra Mardi who has contested the ensuing Lok Sabha elections from Jamshedpur constituency, met the Deputy Commissioner Dr Amitabh Kaushal to apprise the situation particularly in Mango area.
AAP leaders claimed that students were the worst sufferers of acute power crisis.
Pakistan today summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baghlay to lodged a protest over denial of visas to 500 Pakistani pilgrims to visit the famed shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer.
Visits to religious shrines in Pakistan and India are governed under the Bilateral Protocol on Visits to the Religious Shrines, 1974.
Pakistan conveyed its deep disappointment and concern over the denial of visas by the Indian government, a statement released by the Foreign Office said.
Congress today approached the Election Commission against the statement made by Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi that Muslim who don’t vote for his party are not true Muslims.
“In a country like ours, which has been founded on the principles of secularism, being the basic structure of the Constitution, such statement by Abu Azmi is totally deplorable and condemnable, apart from being against the unity and integrity of India,” the AICC said in its communique to EC.
Alleging total collapse of law and order machinery under Samajwadi Party rule in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati today said the Akhilesh Yadav government was playing into the hands of the mafia and underworld dons.
“Law and order has touched an all time low in Uttar Pradesh with mafia and underworld dons calling the shots under SP rule,” she said at a rally here in support of BSP nominee from Haridwar Haji Islam.
A magisterial probe was Friday ordered into Wednesday’s firing in the Jammu and Kashmir capital in which a youth was killed and three others were injured, officials said.
Srinagar District Magistrate Farooq Ahmad Shah said a magisterial probe has been ordered into the firing in the old city area of Nawa Kadal, in which Bashir Ahmad, son of Muhammad Shafi, a resident of Gratabal Nawa Kadal, was killed.
The probe will be completed and the report submitted within 15 days, he said.
Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh Friday said the ongoing general election was marked by “rhetoric” and it lacked debate on issues of national importance.
“Political parties have lost their moral compass, rhetoric has replaced logic. The level of political discourse has reached an abysmally low point,” the former defence and external affairs minister said during a meet-the-press event here.
Jaswant Singh said the Bharatiya Janata Party has become a one-man party with a “coterie”, though he evaded making any comment on the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
The BJP and Congress Friday exchanged barbs on the ‘snoopgate’ controversy concerning the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat with union Law Minister Kapil Sibal saying a judge will be appointed before May 16 to head the probe panel and BJP leader Arun Jaitley noting that the new central government will be within its rights to review any “mala fide last-minute” decision taken by the UPA.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde also hit out at Modi over his government’s alleged illegal surveillance of a young woman architect.
The Congress Friday strongly rebutted charges by BJP leader Narendra Modi accusing Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of insulting the Telugu population by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh unilaterally.
Accusing Modi of making “false statements” and “breaching the decency of the political discourse”, union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to create the new state of Telangana “was not taken in haste”.
The Department of Library and Information Science, University College of Arts and Social Sciences, Osmania University, is offering one-year Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Information Management (Course Code: 81) under UGC innovative program scheme.
The salient features of the course is to teach and train students in the use of latest techniques in building and maintaining Digital Libraries; Digital Library software such as DSpace, Koha, NewGenLib, Digitization procedures and techniques; Content Management Systems such as Drupal and Joomla; Use of ICT in Libraries.
The candidates, who have cleared APSET-2013 Examination and attended for Certificate Verification at their respective Regional Centers are advised to collect their APSET Certificate by hand from the Office of APSET, II Floor, PGRRCDE, Osmania University, Hyderabad from May 12. The candidates, who opted for postal delivery during certificate verification their certificates will be dispatched from May 19, said Prof. B Rajeswara Reddy, member-secretary, APSET, OU.
Keeping the second phase of general elections in view, BJP and TDP combine has intensified its attack on YSR Congress Party in the Seemandhra region.
The BJP and TDP combine befriended Jana Sena chief and actor Pawan Kalyan to take on the mighty YSRCP chief and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who is eying Chief Minister post in the Seemandhra. BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan are firing salvos against Jagan during their public meetings held as part of second phase of elections to be held in 13 Seemandhra districts.
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday cautioned the people in Seemandhra saying that “jail birds are coming to loot you”.
Addressing an election meeting at Ichapuram in Srikakulam district, the TDP president said if YSRCP leaders won in the elections, they would even usurp the houses of the people and cautioned the people to be cautious.
TDP senior leader Yanamala Ramakrishnudu today urged the Election Commission to ensure free and fair election in the Seemandhra region besides taking action against those who indulged in distribution of money and liquor to woo the voters.
Yanamala urged the people to teach a fitting lesson to “political mafia” who are distributing the looted money and making democracy a mockery.
TRS leader and Sircilla MLA K. T. Rama Rao, son of TRS supremo K Chandrasekhara Rao, here on Friday said the choice for his party was not essentially limited to NDA and UPA government after the elections, indicating that it may sail with the Third Front even as it kept its options open.
“We hope to bag a significant number of Lok Sabha seats also which should allow us to play a key role in Delhi”, he said.
A mind numbing incident of a widow being gang-raped and slashing of her private parts by her close relatives in Tuniki Bollarum in Medak district on the night of April 28 came to light.
Reports (both English and Telugu version) of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on ‘Revenue Sector’ (Report No.2 of 2014) on Functioning of Directorate of Mines and Geology – Government of Andhra Pradesh have been forwarded to the State Government on May 2 for laying in the State Legislatures of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, according to a pressnote issued by Lata Mallikarjuna, Accountant General (E&RSA), Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.
Traditional Yoga is conducting a series of free workshops in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad from May 4.
In the wake of formation of Telangana State from June 2, all the Telangana employees of Civil Supplies Corporation Limited have decided to form a new employees union.
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today came down heavily against YSRCP president and Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for pumping in huge illegal money to lure the voters in the Seemandhra region.
Talking to mediapersons at Kadapa, the home district of Jaganmohan Reddy, Jairam alleged that the YSRCP chief seems to have ‘treasure’ like one in the Golconda Fort. Jairam accused the former of indulging in misleading the people for votes and seats. The Union Minister sought to know from where Jagan could bring crores of rupees to attract the voters for the elections to be held on May 7.
The CBI Friday filed a charge sheet in a court here against seven people over the death of 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania.
The charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh named seven people, including three minors, on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongful confinement, common intention, destruction of evidence and under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for passing racist remarks against Tania.