Month: May 2015

Congress leader Sharmishtha Mukherjee on Sunday called for the instalment of gender sensitisation camps at all levels to avoid incidences of women abuse and criticised the Punjab Government for making ‘insensitive’ statements.

Nepal’s Ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyay on Sunday thanked India for its relief efforts after a massive earthquake shook the country last week.

“We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to India for their support; it’s wonderful. It is incredible and natural that every Indian is standing to support Nepal. We are very thankful,” said Upadhyay.

Earlier in the day, Upadhyay had said that the crisis highlighted the ‘heart-to-heart’ relationship between people across the two borders.

The Mughal Road, which connects Jammu region with the Kashmir Valley, will open for one-way traffic on Sunday after being closed for over five months, an official said.

“Traffic will be allowed from Jammu to Srinagar,” the official told IANS.

Connecting the Jammu region with the valley through Poonch, Rajouri and Shopian districts, the road was originally built by Mughal emperors.

For centuries the road remained closed. It was rebuilt in 2005 as a link road between the landlocked valley and rest of India. During winter, heavy snowfall forces its closure.

–IANS

Ten rear coaches of a Duronto Express, going from Mumbai to Ernakulam, derailed in a tunnel near Balli railway station in Goa on Sunday morning, a railway official said. No casualties were reported.

The accident occurred around 7.15 a.m., about 45 km south of Panaji, as the 12223 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Ernakulam Duronto Express was passing through a tunnel.

No casualties have been reported yet. A medical van and relief trains have just reached the site, said Konkan Railway’s (KR) public relations officer Baban Ghatge.

As many as 500 cases have come under the scanner of revenue intelligence agencies and capital markets regulator Sebi for raising a whopping Rs 2 lakh crore illegally in the guise of non-convertible debentures and private placements.

Suspecting that these financial instruments are being misused to launder black money, the revenue intelligence agencies have shared the details with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and other regulators for further action, official sources said.

Kashmiri Pandits today staged a protest here demanding that the state and the Centre take the community members into confidence before any decision on their return to the Valley and also pressed for setting up a commission to probe the “genocide” which led to their exodus.

Members of the community, who converged in large numbers at Jantar Mantar here, demanded that Jammu and Kashmir government reopen prosecution cases against all those involved in the killing of Kashmiri pandits in the Valley following the outbreak of militancy.

In a shocking incident, a Bihar policeman was found stealing diesel from an escort vehicle that is employed in VIP security in Patna.

The broad day light theft of diesel has blasted the police excuse that they have scarcity of fuel to reach any crime spot.

The jeep was stationary near Gandhi Maidan police station when the theft was committed by the policeman.

Recently, Bihar police have bought many new vehicles to provide security to VIPs.

So far there has been no report of any action against the guilty cop seen in the video.

–PTI

US-based Ford Foundation has funded a political party and profit making organisations “illegally” which has resulted in the foreign outfit coming under the Home Ministry scanner and put on the “watch list”.

A senior Home Ministry official said an investigation has found that funds sanctioned by the Ford Foundation to an NGO have reached a political party which automatically makes the donor liable to face action. But the Ford Foundation has rejected the charge.