In another big score, 27 of the 30 students from Bihar’s Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year, its director said Friday. “It is again good news that this year, 27 out of the 30 students made it to [...]
The CBI today conducted raids at the premises of 15 Jharkhand MLAs as part of its investigation into the allegations of horse trading that led to countermanding of the March 30 Rajya Sabha polls.In the early morning raids, 36 teams swooped down upon the residences of MLAs of Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh, Godda, Bihar’s Banka district [...]
Three judges of Saket district court here fell victim to an incident of road rage when four bike-borne youth attacked them and their car driver at south east Delhi on Thursday, leaving one judge critically injured, police said. The judges were driving to Ambedkar Nagar when their vehicle barely hit one of the bikes of [...]
A total of 58,697 Kashmiri migrant families are registered with respective Relief Authorities in the country with 19,338 families residing in Delhi, the Ministry of Home has said. A relief grant of 1,250/- per head per month subject to a maximum of 5,000/- per month per family is given to the migrant households in Delhi [...]
A 42-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by his younger brother who was infuriated because the former had touched his car, police said Thursday. Ravinder, 36 murdered his brother Jagminder by repeatedly hitting him with an iron road May 15 in north Delhi’s Auchandi village near Bawana. “The older brother touched the accused’s Maruti Omni [...]
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has decided to launch mapping of the mining areas and vulnerable regions in Rajasthan and other states to find out child labourers working in mines and quarries. The objective is to evolve a new child labour tracking system with the emphasis on rescue and rehabilitation. The [...]
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has reported of gross underutilisation of Rail Safety Fund (RSF) meant for upgrading level crossings and construction of roads, over bridges and roads under bridges. “Huge surrender of funds, thus, indicated low priority being accorded to safety works,” says CAG report tabled in Parliament this week. According [...]
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development, in a report tabled in Lok Sabha on Thursday, recommended that the government refrain from acquiring land for industrial ventures of any kind, triggering resentment among industrialists of the country. In its report on the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill, 2011, the committee said the government [...]
Running the air conditioner or refrigerator during peak hour may cost dear as the Centre is mulling a higher peak hour tariff on domestic electricity consumers. The working group of the Planning Commission on power has recommended the introduction of peak hour and off peak hour tariff for domestic consumers to discourage power consumption during [...]
Hectic preparations are underway to hold the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-day National Executive Meet, starting on May 24, at Yashwant Rao Chavan, Nariman Point in south Mumbai. Top BJP leaders, chief ministers, deputy chief ministers from the BJP-ruled states, leaders of Opposition in other states, state presidents as well as other members of the [...]