Setting aside the Delhi High Court judgement on sanction of prosecution in 2G case, the Supreme Court today held that filing of a complaint under the Prevention of Corruption Act is a constitutional right of a citizen and the competent authority should take a decision on giving the sanction within a time frame. If the [...]
Planting of trees by families on birth of a girl child, the theme of Bihar’s tableau in this year’s Republic Day parade, has worked wonders for a village in Bhagalpur by improving the environment and providing financial security to girls.The tradition in Dharhara village, about 40 km from here, was popularised by Chief Minister Nitish [...]
The Symbiosis College here has deferred a seminar on Kashmir after objections by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and an organisation representing displaced Kashmiri Pandits. Representatives of ABVP, the student wing of BJP, and Panun Kashmir, who met the college authorities yesterday, said the proposed screening of a documentary, `Jashn-e-Azadi’, at the seminar, `Voices [...]
The Supreme Court Tuesday said the government has to decide within three months whether or not to give sanction on an application seeking prosecution of a public servant under the prevention of corruption act.The apex court said this while allowing a petition by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sitting [...]
Investigations into tax evasion by a former government official has unravelled that a minister in the Cabinet of Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat received huge payoffs from a complex nexus of land sharks who set up a web of fictitious transactions to give their kickbacks. According to an Income Tax assessment order and notice served [...]
Joining issue with the controversy over a re-employment ban on four Isro scientists, a bitter former chairman of the Indian space agency, Madhavan G Nair, told Deccan Herald on Monday that his successor KRadhakrishnan brought the controversial Antrix-Devas contract over S-band spectrum to the Centre’s notice after assuming office. Although Nair wouldn’t say that Radhakrishnan [...]
The “Most Immediate” letter signed by a Ministry of Defence (MoD)deputy secretary to the Adjutant General categorically states that “there are no grounds for interefering” with a previous ministry order of July 21, 2011, which had turned down Army chief General VKSingh’s stand that his date of birth is May 10, 1951. The letter will [...]
Amid growing tensions over impending sanctions by the United States and others on Iran, India is considering various payment options, including in rupee, for its oil imports from Tehran. “Oil imports are continuing and we are in a position to pay. There are different options that are being discussed. Rupee is one of the options [...]
The National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) will have “much larger role” in internal-security than the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) formed in 2001 following the Pakistani Kargil intrusion in 1999 due to “intelligence failure”. The counter terrorism body will not only be “an intelligence dissemination centre” like MAC but would address terror with a “a pro-active approach”, sources [...]
Reflecting India’s growing maritime importance, 14 sea-faring nations will be participating in the eighth edition of the Navy’s Milan series of exercise, to be held in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from February 1 to 6. The once-in-two year naval exercise began in 1995 with four nations. Over the years it has grown in size [...]