The Delhi Police had arrested a 25-year-old man accused of kidnapping, raping and torturing a five-year-old girl in the national capital. The accused, reportedly named Manoj Kumar, was arrested from Muzzaffarpur district in Bihar on Friday night.
Salvaging its reputation partially, the Delhi Police claims to have arrested the suspect in the rape and brutalisation of a five-year-old in the national capital. The accused, identified as one Manoj Kumar, was arrested from Muzaffarpur di
While the average Mumbaikar fights with more civic issues than this time last year, and are asking more questions of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Council with each passing day, renaming of roads remains the top priority for the elected ward councilo
Good news on the economic front. With the international commodity prices and domestic inflation easing, Indian economy is expected to pick up pace. “I think the slowdown has bottomed out. We will see the growth rate picking up and ba
RP Meena, an IPS officer of Odisha cadre, is the new secretary of the Medical Council of India (MCI), the statutory body regulating medical colleges, affiliations of new colleges and registration of doctors. He was currently director in the centra
The Supreme Court today cancelled 49 leases in mines reporting maximum illegalities in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga districts of Karnataka, but allowed resumption of activity in mines with lesser illegalities as recommended by a Central Empower
A day after actor Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks time to surrender, seven other convicts including 70-year-old Zaibunnisa Anwar Kazi, were also given the same amount of time by the Supreme Court to turn themselves in to serve their remaining s
Investors approaching listed companies with complaints now have a new reason to cheer with the markets watchdog directing all these companies to redress such complaints within a month using a centralised online complaints redressal system. The reg
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has promoted three of its general managers to the post of executive directors (ED). According to a statement issued on Thursday, S Bhattacharya has been made ED, communication navigation and surve
Amid the rise and rise of Narendra Modi, the only challenge ironically comes from an ally, Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal (United). After the hat-trick in Gujarat, the clamour for Modi as PM is only growing and he has acknowledged the same, making add
The supreme court’s partial and interim stay on its own verdict on appointment of information commissioners and working of commissions has brought relief to RTI activists. The apex court’s order delivered on Tuesday has removed
The genesis of the problem with Indian politicians, as these columns and many others have said before, lies within a few inches of each other: their brain, and their mouth. Like good hand-eye coordination required of a batsman, it’s the brai
Almost a year after a task force submitted its report on monitoring of the proactive information disclosure under section 4 of the RTI Act, the government has issued a set of guidelines to all central government departments and ministries, instruc
If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought Narendra Modi’s decision to emerge from the ‘confines’ of Gujarat to the national stage would be a panacea ahead of the general elections, it could not have been more wrong. And
Hitting out at rich nations for bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday pitched for subsidies for clean energy saying market forces alone would not be able to finance it. Singh also voiced concer
An explosion near the Karnataka BJP office in a crowded residential area here today left five persons injured, two of them seriously.Three cars and another vehicle were damaged in the explosion, the exact nature of which was not immediately known,
While folks working with the right to information (RTI) were still reeling from the supreme court judgment on the appointment of information commissioners in the Namit Sharma case, came the prime minister’s speech on the seventh year celebra
In a dramatic turnaround, the union government has now opened up public-private partnership (PPP) projects to public scrutiny. The move comes in the way of a fresh set of guidelines issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT)
On January 16, 2013, president Pranab Mukherjee presented the Krishi Karman award to Bihar for a significant increase in production of paddy in 2011-12. The 7.2 million tons produced was 50 percent more than its previous highest yield of 4.6 milli
With most of our judicial and quasi-judicial bodies suffering from enormous delays, the system is in a way surviving on its own. Though there are some good orders and judgments, our lives are finite and if things are not done in reasonable time th
