To curb the rise in onion prices, government today extended by one year the ban on hoarding the kitchen staple beyond the prescribed limit.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pitching for a higher growth of 8 to 10 per cent to eradicate poverty, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the country is no more satisfied with the current rate.
“India is no longer satisfied being in the 6 to 8 per cent growth. It wants to transcend to another level and aim for 8 to 10 per cent growth…We wish to grow faster because we have a huge challenge of eradicating poverty ahead of us,” Jaitley said at the launch of ‘Digital India Week’ here.
Citing the example of financial inclusion programme, he said the ‘Digital India’ initiative has a huge potential.
With monsoons here, Delhi government has started taking steps to prevent outbreak of dengue in the national capital. Now, the government has asked all the central government-run hospitals in Delhi including AIIMS to “buckle up” to tackle an outbreak of dengue during the monsoon season and prepare an action plan within a week to combat the vector-borne disease.
The Home Ministry today directed Director General of Tihar Prison Alok Verma to conduct an inquiry into the recent jail break incident in the high-security prison from where two undertrials managed to escape.
Verma has been asked to carry out a detailed inquiry into the jail break incident and fix responsibility, a Home Ministry official said.
Two undertrials scaled the wall of the ward they were lodged in and then dug a tunnel through the boundary wall to escape from the jail which is considered to be the most high-security prison compound in the country.
K P P Nambiar, founding Chairman of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keltron), a public sector electronics company in Kerala, died here tonight due to age-related illnesses, family sources said.
Nambiar (86) is survived by wife Umadevi Nambiar and a son and a daughter.
“My father, Shri KPP Nambiar passed away in his residence at 7.50 pm due to age-related illnesses,” Kiran Nambiar, son of K P P Nambiar, told PTI here.
Nambiar was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 2006. He was also was the president of the World Malayalee Council.
SwiftKey now has new adaptive layouts for nine Indian languages to its predictive keyboard app for Android.
SwiftKey is an input method for Android and iOS devices such as smartphones and tablets. SwiftKey uses a combination of artificial intelligence technologies that enable it to predict the next word the user intends to type.
SwiftKey learns from previous SMS messages and output predictions based on currently input text and what it has learned.
A khap panchayat in the Barmer district of Rajasthan has allegedly issued a diktat, banning girls of the village from using mobile phones and social media.
The disputed decision taken by Kanana village’s Samdari panchayat also warns girls not to wear jeans and bridegrooms to wear dhoti when getting married.
However, the same panchayat had earlier received praise for taking passing some welcoming rulings including bans on child marriages and liquor, as well as directing the people of the village to send all children to school. (ANI)
Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses of the Centre and city police on a plea seeking directions to replace “archaic and difficult words and phrases of Persian and Urdu language” with simple Hindi or English words for day-to-day work at police stations.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath issued notice to Ministry of Home Affairs and Commissioner of Delhi police on a PIL opposing “use of Urdu and Persian words in proceedings at police stations, recording of statements, submitting of challan in courts, etc”.
HRD Ministry has initiated the process for appointment of a new IIT Delhi director, weeks after it relieved R Shevgaonkar of his duties.
The Ministry has invited applications for the post after Shevgaonkar was relieved on June 11.
“The search-cum-selection Committee will consider applications received as well as nominations received from eminent persons.
“The appointment will be on contractual basis for a period of five years or till the attainment of 70 years, whichever is earlier,” the advertisement stated.
Students from non-CBSE boards on Wednesday staged protest against Delhi University’s admission guideline to deduct 10 per cent marks from the best of four subjects of candidates from boards with different marking pattern.
Alleging a bias towards candidates from state boards, the students staged a protest at varsity’s North campus and demanded the penalty clause be withdrawn.
According to the university guidelines, all the discipline subjects must have at least 70 per cent component of theory in the qualifying exam for the purpose of being treated as academic/elective subject.
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed an inquiry being conducted by the state Lokayukta’s police into the bribe charge against some of its unidentified officials.
Passing an interim order against the internal probe, a division bench of the high court comprising Justice N. Kumar and Justice B. Sreenivase Gowda said the anti-graft body should wait for the report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up on Tuesday by the state government to probe the charge.
The Aam Aadmi Party has reportedly set aside Rs 520 crore to fund its radio advertisements over the current financial year, in which Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address the people of Delhi and share his government’s work.
The ads, which will run with the tagline ‘Jo Kaha, So Kiya’, will refer to his party’s pre-poll promises and the steps taken by the government to implement them.
Ministry of Human Resource Development issued a show cause notice to Shashanta Datta Gupta, VC of Vishwabharati University asking him to explain the financial and administrative irregularities committed in the university which were pointed out by the three member enquiry committee. The VC has been given 21 days time to offer his explanation. In case he fails to offer his explanation, disciplinary action would be taken against him. President of India who is the Visitor of the University may apply section 16 of the Act to remove VC.
Former Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University formulated a special committee for the establishment English medium higher secondary schools in all the districts of UP by 2017 to coincide with the Bicentenary birthday celebrations of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University. This was disclosed by the spokesman of AMU, Mr. Rahat Abrar. He informed that these schools will follow CBSE syllabus. They will be open to all but Muslim students will get reservation on account of their educational backwardness.
Mr. Abhijeet Chowdry, Director of Gateforum informed that a Pen Drive has been prepared consisting of video lectures for 300 hours and complete syllabus of GATE in addition to study material. This can be had form http://gateforum.com/
–Siasat News
Central Hajj Committee has decided to refund Rs. 3000-5000 to the Hajj pilgrims of 2013 as a result of savings after deducting the expenses.
Iran has received 13 tonnes of gold which had been held in South Africa for two years due to sanctions, Iran’s central bank announced on Wednesday.
The gold was delivered to the central bank on Tuesday night. After purchasing the gold, Iran had to deposit it in South Africa as sanctions blocked its way to Iran, semi-official Fars news agency quoted Central Governor Valiollah Seif as saying.
The report did not mention where nor when did Iran purchase the gold, according to Xinhua.
For maintenance of peace and also for the development of Telangana State, the procedures adopted during Nizam’s period will be given preference. This was stated by Home Minister of Telangana State, Mr. N. Narasimha Reddy. He was addressing a gathering of Iftar party organized by Mr. Mahinder Reddy, Commissioner of Hyderabad City police at Chowmahalla Palace, Khilwath yesterday. Present on this occasion were, VC of Jamia Nizamia, Maulana Khaleel Ahmed, Maulana Abdullah Qureshi, Maulana Murtuza Pasha, Maulana Qubool Pasha Shuttari, Muslim Bureaucrats and Police Officers.
On the invitation from Mr. Firasat Ali Baqueri, Dr. Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi arrived from Pakistan. He will address the gathering at Aza Khana Zehra, Darul Shifa from 5th July to 9th July at 8 p.m. He is a renowned orator of Shia Community. He has made a mark in the community by his unique speeches on religion, culture, history and science.
–Siasat News
In Atali village of Ballabhgarh, violence erupted once again yesterday. Hindus and Muslims of that village pelted stones on each other on three occasions in which four people were injured. According to police report it was difficult to identify who started violence but the residents of the village told that the first clash occurred in the morning when the Muslims were offering morning prayer in the mosque. At that time Hindus pelted stones on them. During the same time, the Hindus at the adjacent temple were holding kirtan making loud noises which sparked the violence.
Justice is being denied in cases of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International India said on Wednesday.
Twenty five years after the introduction of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir, the state continues to enjoy impunity, said the report “Denied: Failures in accountability for human rights violations by security force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir”.
Attempts are being made to taint the image of Azamgarh District of UP with special reference to Muslims. Recently a fake FB ID of Salman Yousuf was created describing him as ISIS activist in India. The details of the FB ID show that he studied at Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh and Osmania University Hyderabad. Subsequently these entries were deleted.