Reliance Capital Asset Management Company (RCAM) and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership have been selected to manage Rs 60,000 crore provident fund corpus of coal industry workers, an government official has said.
The decision was taken by the board of trustees (BOT) of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation (CMPFO) in its meeting, chaired by Coal Secretary Anil Swarup, who is the Chairman of BOT, in Kolkata yesterday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have faced lot of flak for his team’s embarrassing ODI series defeat against Bangladesh but Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi is “not happy” in the manner the Indian ODI skipper was being targeted.
Afridi termed this as “sub-continental trend” where the cricketing heroes are pilloried after one odd series defeat.
A court today rejected the bail application moved by 35-year-old corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who is accused of mowing down two persons here on June 10 under the influence of alcohol.
“The application is rejected,” Magistrate Richa Khedkar said in her order while extending Gadkar’s judicial custody till July 10. Gadkar, through her lawyer Amit Desai had told the Kurla court that the investigation in the case is over and her custody is no longer required.
German ambassador Michael Steiner was today of the view that the language row with HRD Ministry could have been avoided and handled slightly differently.
Steiner, who would be leaving India next week after ending his tenure as ambassador to New Delhi, said “this is one issue that could have been avoided. It could have been handled slightly differently.”
The ambassador was addressing a small gathering at his residence where a recipe book authored by his wife was launched.
Uttarakhand government today approached the Centre, seeking to change the name of the airport at Dehradun and augment its night landing facility.
Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Dinesh Dhanai, who met Union Minister of state for Civil Aviation and Tourism, Mahesh Sharma here, told reporters that the state government has sought the centre for changing the name of the Jolly Grant Airport located in Dehradun.
Israel today released a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank, the Islamist group said, a year after his arrest along with hundreds of others following the killing of three Israeli teenagers.
Hamas says Hassan Yusef, who has spent years in Israeli jails and was elected to the Palestinian parliament in 2006 while in Israeli custody, has worked entirely in the political wing of the movement.
He is also known for having disowned his son after he worked as an informant for Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency under the codename “The Green Prince”.
With the issue of “paid news” apparently weighing heavily on his mind, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday made a strong pitch for self-correcting mechanisms to check any aberrations.
“Regulation and restraint cannot come from any external source, but internally from system itself… from self-imposed code of conduct,” Mukherjee said here.
Noting that media has an important role to play in a democracy, he said newspapers must be keepers of the conscience of the country.
Religion-based societal violence in India was the ‘most significant’ human rights problem in the country in 2014, besides ‘widespread corruption’ and abuses by police and security force, according to a US State Department report.
In its annual Congressionally-mandated ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014’, the lengthy India section mentions a number of issues, including arbitrary arrest and detention, disappearances, hazardous prison conditions, and lengthy pretrial detention.
Haryana has sanctioned Rs.7 crore for this fiscal to provide free bicycles to the Scheduled Castes (SC) students studying in government schools, an official statement said on Friday.
The students of Class 9 and Class 11 will get the bicycles free of cost.
Only those Scheduled Castes students would benefit under the scheme who have to commute to the next village to attend a high school or a senior secondary school, the statement said.
It said that to avail of benefits under the scheme, the student should be a resident of the state.
Mumbai Police today observed the ‘International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ with a commitment to wipe out the menace from the city.
The anti-narcotic cell of Mumbai Police, mandated to deal with such cases, launched a motto ‘No place for Drug..Just Say No’ appealing to the people of Mumbai to stay away from the use of psychotropic substances.
“Our men will visit schools and colleges and also contact NGO workers to make a sustainable impact of our drive, which will continue for a fortnight,” Mumbai Police spokesman Dhananjay Kulkarni said.
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CBI today told a Delhi court that no fresh FIR has been lodged against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who has been given clean chit in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on allegations of influencing witness and money laundering.
CBI’s reply came while responding to the court’s query whether the agency has registered any case against Mr Tytler under sections 193 (punishment for false evidence), 195A (threatening a person to give false evidence) of IPC and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
One way traffic was today restored at the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, which was closed due to landslides triggered by heavy rain.
“The stranded vehicles were cleared yesterday evening, whereas one way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu was restored today after the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) removed the debris from the highway,” SSP Traffic National Highway, Sanjay Kotwal told PTI.
The men and the machinery of the BRO has been working day and night to make the highway motorable from both the sides, he added.
To address regional challenges in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) on June 28 at Barhi in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand.
“The foundation stone of the campus of IARI will be laid by the Prime Minister on June 28 at Goriya Karma village in Barhi,” said an official release issued by the Agriculture Ministry.
As many as 49 child workers, including 20 from Bihar, have been rescued from small-scale units in Ganjam and Gajapati districts of Odisha.
22 children, including 20 from Bihar, who were working in small manufacturing and sugarcane juice processing units in Berhampur were rescued during a raid by a district- level monitoring committee squad yesterday.
In a separate raid, 27 children were rescued from Paralakhemundi in Gajapati district yesterday, said Gajapati district Child Protection Officer, Arun Tripathy.
Union minister and LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan today attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad for “straying” from the path of Jai Prakash Narayan by joining hands with Congress and “disrespecting” the ‘Loknayak’.
“Nitish and Lalu who could not give respect to JP have no moral right to take the name of Loknayak,” Mr Paswan who visited JP Narayan’s residence at Charkha Samiti in Patna and later went to Gandhi Maidan and Income Tax roundabout to garland the Loknayak’s statue, told PTI.
Lawyer Jahnvi Gadkar, accused of running over two persons under the influence of alcohol, has been denied bail by a Mumbai court.
The 35-year-old lawyer had crashed her Audi SUV into a taxi allegedly in a drunken state. Two people had died in the accident on June 9.
Ms Gadkar has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Google has announced that it is begun testing the latest prototypes of its self-driving car, which are designed to be autonomous without any sort of controls.
According to the Techcrunch.com, during this testing phase, they have safety drivers in the driver seat during this stage of the test, with removable steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals to ensure they can take control if necessary.
In self-driving mode, they top out at 25 mph, and are using the same system software that has powered the previously Lexus-made test vehicles with minimal incidents.
The solar charkha has revolutionised India’s Khadi sector in terms of improved technology, and now, according to the government, it has the potential to generate more jobs for women.
This view was expressed by Minister of State for MSME Giriraj Singh during a two-day visit to the Central KVIC office.
He interacted with Arun Kumar Jha, CEO and Commissioner, senior KVIC officials and representatives of Khadi institutions from the State of Maharashtra, and said that the objective is to employ one lakh women in each parliamentary constituency and cover them under social security schemes.
Filmmaker Karan Johar, who recently launched the song of the upcoming film ‘Baahubali’ in Mumbai, said it would be an honour for him to work with superstar Salman Khan.
Karan, who wears many hats, such as filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, costume designer and the reality show judge, asserted that working with Salman would always be an honour, pleasure and privilege for him.
The 43- year- old director has only once worked with the ‘Kick’ star in 1998, but it seems that he would love to team up with the actor again.
The water storage available in 91 important reservoirs of the country as on June 25, 2015 was 43.26 BCM which is 27 percent of total storage capacity of these reservoirs.
This storage is 111 percent of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 146 percent of storage of average of last ten years.
The present storage position during current year is better than the storage position of last year and is also better than the storage of average of last ten years.
Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda and former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday met the family members of the farmer who committed suicide in the state’s Mandya district.
The farmer, identified as Linge Gowda, was upset at the non-payment of dues by sugar mills and harassment by moneylenders which pushed him to take this extreme step.
Linge succumbed to burns on the spot from where his body was sent for a post mortem by the police.
Detailed story to follow. (ANI)
Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Education Kadiam Srihari released Intermediate supplementary examination results on Friday at 12 noon at Intermediate Bhavan here.
While the first year pass percentage was 66.23 per cent, the pass percentage of Intermediate II year was 42.77. Dates for revaluation of examination papers and recounting of marks have been extended till July 4. The students can check their results on www.examresults.com and www.results.cgg.gov.in.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has extended the time limit by one more year for the differently abled persons for filling the backlog vacancies reserved for them in various departments and bodies.
According to a GO issued recently, the Principal Secretary, Women, Children, Disabled and Senior Citizens Welfare Department has extended the last date for filling vacancies by differently abled persons from March 31, 2015 to March 31 next year.
To make agriculture remunerative, profitable and sustainable, his government would form a “Krishi Cabinet” that would look into the challenges of the primary sector, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu has said.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today condoled the death of noted Gazal Singer Vithal Rao.
In a message here, the Chief Minister stated Vithal Rao worked under X Nizam and offered better services. As part of Telangana Formation Day, the State Government recognized his services and announced some financial assistance to him, he recalled. He conveyed his sympathies to the bereaved family members and friends.