Anantapur, April 28 (TMS): The School Education Minister Saki Shailajanath has clarified on his recent tour to China without seeking permission from the Central Government. Speaking to media persons the minister made clear that he had visited China on an official visa and that the tour was personal. Further, referring to the prospects of the Congress nominees in [...]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Tweenty-three percent of the candidates in the April 15 municipal elections here are millionaires while nearly nine percent have criminal charges against them, think tank National Election Watch said Tuesday. Of the 2,400 affidavits filed by the candidates for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi poll, the think tank has analysed 1,485. [...]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) At least 128 of the 360 candidates for the sixth round of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls Feb 28 have criminal background, a report from a think tank said Saturday. A total of 210 candidates are billionaires. This is 36 percent of the total and is much higher than 27 percent of [...]
Hyderabad, April, 24 (TMS): ACB registered a case on March 2, 2012 against the officials who processed the files and manipulated various records subsequent to the approval of successful bidder in 16 liquor shops in Khammam. Nunna Venkata Ramana was learnt to be the Liquor Syndicate Leader, Who gained control over the business [...]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed by the Delhi government against a single judge’s order restraining it from issuing a notification for next month’s Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw [...]
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Out of two lakh people who need organ transplants, only 4,500 manage to get a transplant done in a year due to lack of donors, an expert said Wednesday. “In India, only 4,500 transplant patients get operated annually out of a total of two lakh,” Apollo Hospitals group medical director Anupam [...]
By Garima Tyagi New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Leaving an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) course midway or after confirming the admission will now cost students dear as the Delhi High Court has held that this would bar them from reappearing in the entrance test in the following year. Justice Hima Kohli has upheld the decision [...]
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) A court Thursday permitted the deletion of Google and YouTube from a list of websites sought to be prosecuted for allegedly posting objectionable content on their sites. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh passed the order after petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi’s counsel Santosh Pandey said he had no objection to the [...]
Islamabad, April 29 (IANS) At least three people were killed and 20 others injured Sunday in a car bombing in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area, a media report said. A van laden with explosives was detonated by a remote-controlled device near a bus stand in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency bordering Afghanistan, Xinhua reported citing local media. [...]
Guwahati, Feb 25 (IANS) Alleging presence of names of illegal migrants in the Assam voters’ list, Assam Public Works (APW), an NGO, has sought the Supreme Court’s intervention in the matter.Abhijeet Sharma, secretary of the APW, has moved a writ petition (civil) in the Supreme Court and appealed to the apex court for directing the Government [...]