Jammu and Kashmir police plans to provide latest technology and gadgets to police stations to help its officials improve their professional skills, DGP Kuldeep Khoda said today. Inaugurating a day-long workshop for young police officers at
Mizo Students` Union (MSU) today burnt the effigy of the Mizoram University Vice Chancellor Prof A N Rai in protest against the way pre-screening interview was done for 117 teaching posts by discriminating against local scholars. MSU leade
Students bodies, political parties and a rebel group today called back-to-back bandhs for three days, starting from tomorrow, in Meghalaya to protest a police firing at disputed Langpih village along Assam-Meghalaya border, which left four people
The Ambala Division of Northern Railway is eyeing 20 per cent jump in its total income to Rs 1,800 crore in 2010-11 by transporting foodgrains, courtesy an expected bumper output of wheat and rice in Punjab. "We are anticipating 20 pe
A day ahead of the Indian Olympic Association`s Executive Council and Special General Assembly meetings, the sports ministry today shot off a letter to IOA, asking it to take up the contentious issue of tenure limitation of its office-bearers tomo
Railways` preparedness for tackling emergencies is not upto the envisaged levels, with less than 25 per cent of the frontline staff trained to handle disasters or mishaps in many divisions, a Parliamentary panel has said. The committee fou
Team manager Ranjib Biswal`s report on India`s disastrous Twenty20 World Cup campaign in the West Indies is being examined by the BCCI and appropriate action will be taken on its basis, Board spokesman Rajiv Shukla said here today. Shukla
Just about everybody in Himachal Pradesh seems to have heard of Dasmal, a small village 170 km from the state capital and 10 km off the Shimla-Manali highway in Hamirpur district. It has neither inspired Rudyard Kipling, who came visiting the stat
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to fell 699 trees, trim 369 and transplant 493 to make way for 19.54 km monorail project, stoking more concern over continued heating up of the mega city. “We will have t
The Planning Commission today set targets to augment the country`s infrastructure this fiscal, including adding 20,359 MW of power generation capacity and 2,500 km of highways, its deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here. The goal
India on Monday sought comprehensive reform of international financial institutions to enable enhanced capital flows and infrastructure investment in developing markets, which it said will strengthen recovery from the worst global economic crisis
President Pratibha Patil today gave her assent to an ordinance dissolving scam-tainted Medical Council of India (MCI) and replace it with a seven-member panel of eminent doctors. The panel will be in charge till the next one year, H
Karnataka Excise Department collected a revenue of Rs 7,500 crore through sale of liquor during 2009-10, excise minister B Renukacharya said today. In April this year, the revenue collection from excise rose by 24 per cent to Rs 567 crore
The police today cracked down on anti-Posco agitators, mostly women and children, at Balitutha, the entry point to proposed plant site, firing teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse them, injuring at least 20 people. The security pe
After requesting Mizoram to help in transport of essential supplies through its territory to the state because of blockades by Naga students on two vital highways since April 16, the Manipur government today said that life-saving drugs would be ai
In a strong condemnation of the state of co-operative banks in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court has said that government bodies should avoid depositing money with them to prevent "further loss". "It is a matter of concern,
The Gujarat government is planning to issue 42 lakh new soil health cards and set up 85 new labs at Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and sugar factories in various parts of the state for testing 14 lakh soil samples every year, as it
Around 50 people were arrested today when they attempted to picket local electricity board office demanding immediate restoration of power supply to their houses which was disconnected on a court order. The Madras High Court had ordered th
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of city police today took over the probe into the killing of a police constable by three unidentified assailants even as Viqaruddin, said to be a member of the banned SIMI, was emerging as the key suspect.
A Delhi court today deferred the pronouncement of its order on a plea by a lawyer objecting to CBI`s move to withdraw the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg
