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March 2, 2012 4:42 PM

2G judgements: SC beyond established limits of judicial review, says Centre

Government on Friday gave its analysis of the Supreme Court's 2G judgements saying it went beyond the established limits of judicial review. It also said that it entered the exclusive domain of the executive when it held that the policy of first-come-first-served was flawed.A presentation by th...

March 2, 2012 2:29 PM

Air Force to get Akash missile

The Defence minister A K Antony will hand over the first batch of the ingeniously made Akash surface-to-air missile system to the Air Force on Saturday. Mr Antony will also hand over a newly-developed Advanced Light Weight Torpedo (TAL) to the Navy in Hyderabad. Our correspondent reports, this is a ...

March 2, 2012 1:59 PM

Air Force to get Akash missile

The Defence minister A K Antony will hand over the first batch of the ingeniously made Akash surface-to-air missile system to the Air Force on Saturday. Mr Antony will also hand over a newly-developed Advanced Light Weight Torpedo (TAL) to the Navy in Hyderabad. AIR correspondent reports, this is a ...

March 2, 2012 1:30 PM

UP, Goa Elections: All arrangements completed, polls to go on Saturday

All arrangements are complete for the seventh and final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Sixty Assembly seats in 10 districts will go to poll in this phase which will decide the political fortune of 962 candidates. The elections in this phase are being keenly watched as many prominent ...

March 2, 2012 1:29 PM

Aarushi Murder case : SC refuses to shift parents trial

The Supreme Court today refused to shift the trial of Aarushi Murder case against her parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar from a Ghaziabad court to Delhi. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and J S Khehar dismissed the plea of the couple, saying there is adequate security in the Ghaziabad court and inconve...

March 2, 2012 1:26 PM

Gujarat encounters: SC appoints former judge as chairman

The Supreme Court today appointed its former judge, Justice H S Bedi as the chairman of the monitoring authority to look into the case of 22 alleged fake encounter killings in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006.The apex court said it wanted the supervision and monitoring of the investigation in the cases...

March 2, 2012 1:16 PM

SC dismisses plea for quashing Vodafone tax judgement

The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea for quashing the Vodafone tax matter judgement and imposed a cost of 50,000 rupees on the petitioner. It held that a PIL questioning CJI S H Kapadia being part of the bench which delivered the Vodafone tax matter verdict as highly scandalous, frivolous and ...

March 2, 2012 1:01 PM

India’s unemployment rate falls by 1.7%

Unemployment rate in India has fallen by 1.7 percent in 5 years despite global slowdown. It was 8.3 per cent in 2004-05 but came down to 6.6 in 2009-10. Disclosing this in New Delhi on Thursday ,Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge attributed the achievement to the employment measures i...

March 2, 2012 12:59 PM

India’s unemployment rate falls by 1.7%

Unemployment rate in India has fallen by 1.7 percent in 5 years despite global slowdown. It was 8.3 per cent in 2004-05 but came down to 6.6 in 2009-10. Disclosing this in New Delhi on Thursday ,Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge attributed the achievement to the employment measures i...

March 2, 2012 12:22 PM

GoM decide to shift NTPC North Karanpura power plant in Jharkhand

A group of ministers has decided to shift the proposed site of NTPC's 1980-MW North Karanpura power plant in Jharkhand. The move is expected to save six billion tonnes of coal reserves. The group of ministers (GoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that met on Thursday evening in New...

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