Haryana govt. helping Dera Chief Ram Rahim
Anshul Chhatterpati, who has filed a case against Gurmeet Singh, flayed the Haryana Government for helping Dera chief indirectly during the trial in CBI court at Ambala. Chhaterpati, son of Ram Chander Chhatterpati who was allegedly murdered in 2002, alleged that the government has been shielding the dera chief. He told media persons that the Haryana government had fled an application before the registrar general of the Punjab & Haryana High Court seeking tranfer of the trial of criminal cases ….
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Around 2900 doctors working in government hospitals in Orrisa have threatened to tender mass resignation on August 27 over the delay in implementation of measures announced by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The doctors claimed that Patnaik had made a six-point announcement on the Assembly floor in response to their demands six months ago.
Patnaik had announced that the doctors would get a salary of Rs 8,000 & status of junior Class-I at the entry level, special allowance of Rs 3,000 per ….
Blast in Madhya Pradesh, 1 injured
A scrap dealer was seriously injured in a bomb blast at his shop at Subhash Nagar area in Ratlam on Friday while another bomb was defused. The incident took place when Bhanwar, 35 years old, tried to unseal the bomb with his mouth without realising that it was an explosive. He was injured & rushed to the nearby hospital.
The bomb was received by the shopkeeper along with scrap sold by two women ragpickers. Another crude bomb was found at the ….
Apple launched third generation iPhone in India
Apple has launched third generation iPhone in India on Thursday. Crowds lined up outside a Gurgaon mall & a few shops in Delhi to pick up the latest Apple iPhone that went on sale at midnight on Thursday in India & no one was daunted by the Rs 30,000-plus price.
The Apple iPhone 3G was launched across India by telecom majors Bharti Airtel & Vodafone. The iPhone is priced at Rs 31,000 for 8GB & Rs 36,100 for 16GB of memory ….
Dawood’s aide Karimulla detained
The Mumbai Police has detained Karimulla Khan Osan Khan, an accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case who was on the run for the last 15 years. Khan, an accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from suburban Nalasopara area.
Khan was allegedly involved in landing of RDX on the Raigad coast & its transport to Mumbai prior to the blasts which killed 273 people & injured over 700. He has been absconding since then, but returned to India in 2006. ….
Amarnath Row: Attack on Senior Congress leader, Police Station in Jammu
The activists of Pro-shrine have on Thursday attacked the police station and torched vehicles in Jammu district’s Bhagwati Nagar. The activists have attacked Senior Congress leader & former deputy chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma.
Sharma was on his way to a doctor’s house in Bhagwati Nagar when a group of youth pelted his car with stones. Security guards were unable to bring him out of the vehicle.
The town was rocked by communal clashes on August 12 resulting in the ….
Idea launched services in Mumbai
Idea has on Thursday launched its mobile services in the highly competitive Mumbai circle. With its entry Idea becomes the seventh operator in the Mumbai circle to offer its services along with competitors like BPL Mobile, Vodafone, Airtel, MTNL, RCom & Tata Indicom.
Sanjeev Agha, MD of Company, said that Idea would spend 8 billion rupees on its Mumbai expansion in the current financial year. He said that the company aims to achieve break even for the investments made in the ….
Heavy Rains in Varanasi killed 8
At least eight people have been killed & more than two dozen injured due to heavy rainfall in eastern Uttar Pradesh since last night. About 300 mm rainfall has been recorded in 12 hours since 8 PM in Varanasi.
Over a dozen houses have collapsed, killing at least seven people, including three women & two dozen others were injured in rain related incidents. A 14 years old boy identified as Mayank Rajbhat was electrocuted when he came in contact with a ….
Trade unions “Nationwide strike” hits normal life
Six flights, mostly bound for Kolkata, have been cancelled on Wednesday as airport employees went on a 12 hour strike on the issue privatization of government-owned airports & wages. Their stir is in support of the country-wide general strike-call given by the Central Public Sector Trade Unions.
Hundreds of Airport Authority employees staged a demonstration at domestic, International Cargo terminals at the airport demanding a better pay, job security of the AAI employees in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad & Nagpur ….
Trade unions call “Nationwide strike” tomorrow
Left-backed trade unions have called a “Nationwide strike” on Wednesday to protest against the “anti-worker,” “anti-people” neo-liberal economic policies of globalisation. A. Soundararajan, state general secretary of the CITU has said that “rail rokos” had been planned in a few places as a part of the strike. He also said, “Even bus rokos could take place, in case the buses were operated”.
He said, the trade unions such as CITU, AITUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC, HMS, bank employees union, BSNL workers would be ….
Flood in Punjab after breach in Satluj
Ferozepur: Around 20 villages along the Satluj have been submerged due to 100-feet breach in its embankments. Large posse of army personnel & locals were deployed for rescue operation after an aerial survey of flood-affected area. Rail traffic on the Jalandhar-Ferozepur route was stopped due to heavy water on the railway track.
Several villages of the Lohian sub-division in the district submerged due to the breach. Other affected villages ….
Govt approved Sixth Pay Commission report
The government has on Thursday approved the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, heaping civil & defense staff with a salary hike bonanza on the eve of the country’s 61st Independence Day.
Highlights
1) The new pay commission’s recommendations will be effective from January, 2006 as the term of the Fifth Pay Commission ended on December 31, 2005. However, the arrears will not be disbursed in one go but will be divided into two components to be given by the end of next year. ….
11 killed as school bus fell into river in Mangalore
At least 11 people, including seven children, have been killed & 20 others missing when the bus they travelling was skidded off a bridge & fell into Palguni river near Gurupura, about 15 kms away from Manglore. While six children were rescued, search was on for other passengers.
The mishap occurred when the driver of the bus, carrying around 35 people, lost control over the vehicle which was on its way to the school. Karnataka Government announced Rs 1 lakh relief ….
3 killed, 50 injured as land agitation turns violent in Greater Noida
At least three people have been killed & 50 others injured, including 50 policemen, in clashes between farmers & police in Greater Noida. Farmers were demanding adequate compensation for their acquired land in Greater Noida. Farmers were on protest mode for the past few days demanding enhanced compensation for their land acquired in 2006 by the Uttar Pradesh government.
SSP Noida R K Chaturvedi said, “As violence continued police opened fire in which three persons were killed & about 50 people ….
VHP’s nationwide “chakka jam” affects normal life, Major highways blocked
The Vishav Hindu Prashid nationwide “chakka jam” has affected normal life. Major Highways have been blocked by the activists of the VHP. The VHP began its nationwide protest against the cancellation of land transfer to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board by blocking roads & trains across the country.
In Chhattisgarh, protestors laid siege to dozens of busy squares in capital Raipur besides bringing traffic to a halt at ….
Shoot-at-sight orders issued in Kishtwar
Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued on Wednesday in Kishtwar town, rocked by communal clashes over the Amarnath issue, even as fresh violence erupted in Srinagar with protesters pelting stones at security personnel in several areas in the city.
There are various Incidents of stone pelting by protesters reported from Safakadal, Nawakadal, Fatehkadal, Karan Nagar, Natipora, Chanapora & Bemina areas in Srinagar city.
In Kishtwar town, hit by communal clashes yesterday, shoot-at-sight order were announced over public address system installed in police vehicles ….
Heavy rain disrupts life in New Delhi
Delhi residents are facing Traffic jams as heavy rains drenched national capital on Wednesday. The minimum temperature recorded was 26.6 degree Celsius, one point above normal while the maximum was 30.5 degrees, a deviation of three points.
The city received 23.0 mm rains in an hour. The Met office has predicted a cloudy sky with a few spells of rain and thunder showers in the next 24 hours.
Taslima Nasreen returned to India
Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer, has on Friday returned after spending after spending more than four months in Sweden. The 45 years old Bangladeshi writer, who has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists, arrived at the Indira Gandhi International airport in morning &was immediately whisked away by security agencies to an undisclosed destination.
Taslima Nasreen was dramatically bundled out from West Bengal in November last year. She had left India on March 18 for Sweden after she was kept in a ….
Bomb Blast rocked nagarbhavi area of Bangalore
A minor explosion has been occurred in Nagarabhavi area of Bangalore on Friday. The explosives were kept in a dustbin in Nagarbhavi area, near Mysore Road in Bangalore, a private news agency reported.
A police team has been rushed to the spot to investigate the cause of the explosion.
Bomb Blast in Siliguri, 3 injured
At least three children have been injured after a bomb blast at Shantipara, one km from New Jalpaiguri Railway station & the bomb squad recovered four bottle bombs from the spot. The blast took place when four students of Gatebazar Railway school were roaming around in the area & picked up a bottle appearing to have some jelly like substance inside it.
When one of them tried to open it to have the jelly, the bottle exploded & three of them ….