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August 31, 2012 12:06 PM
Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes Forum today staged a dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament House Complex and demanded the introduction of Bill related to reservation of SCs and STs in promotion in government jobs. Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan said that the Bill s...
August 31, 2012 12:02 PM
In Assam, curfew has been lifted at Tezpur in Sonitpur from 6am this morning. As the situation improved, curfew was also relaxed at Chirang district for 15 hours, four to 15 hours at Howly and Barpeta Road and eight hours at Aam Bagan in Nagaon district. People came out from their homes to buy neces...
August 31, 2012 11:58 AM
In a major setback to the Sahara Group, the Supreme Court today directed two of its companies to refund around Rs 17,400 crore to their investors withinthree months with 15 per cent interest. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar directed SEBI to take action against the companies, Sah...
August 31, 2012 11:51 AM
Economic growth declined to 5.5 pc in April-June economy grew by 5.5 per cent in the April-June quarter this fiscal due to poor performance of manufacturing, mining and farm sectors.The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 8 per cent in the April-June quarter of 2011-12. During the quarter e...
August 31, 2012 11:44 AM
A blue moon will appear in the night sky tonight, which will be the second full moon this month. Our correspondent reports, when a 2nd full moon rises in a month, the occurrence is known as a blue moon as it happens rarely. The first full moon was visible on the 2nd of this month and now sky gazers ...
August 31, 2012 11:42 AM
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari for a speedy conclusion of the Mumbai terror attack trial in that country, which will be a major confidence building measure in bilateral relations. The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said this when he met Pakis...
August 31, 2012 10:20 AM
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it will soon convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to consider Tamil Nadu's plea for release of 25.373 tmc feet of water from Cauvery river to save the state's standing crops. In an affidavi...
August 31, 2012 10:18 AM
Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over its subordinate judiciary treating offences of illegal possession of arms lightly.The bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said that the law enforcing agencies and to certain extent the courts in the country always treat the crimes lightly ...
August 31, 2012 10:18 AM
Parts of North India received moderate to heavy rainfall which disrupted normal lives.In Himachal Pradesh, Revenue Minister Gulab Singh informed the state Assembly that at least 26 people died due to heavy rain and cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh during the current monsoon.He said that 1,892 houses ...
August 31, 2012 10:14 AM
The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to put in place proper vigilance mechanism to track corruption and leakage of foodgrains in public distributionsystem.A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur asked the government to file its reply how it intends to check the continuing irregularities in the implem...
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