BJP: UPA failed to control Inflation
The BJP alleged that the UPA government has failed to control inflation & was so helpless that now even the finance minister has stopped giving alibis.
BJP said, “Inflation is almost touching 12 per cent now. The government is entangled in the situation. Price rise is a demon beyond their control. The govt is clueless (about what to do) & the proof of this is that even the finance minister has now stopped giving any alibis on the situation”.
BJP further said, ….
Sunita Williams receives Padma Bhushan Award
Sunita Williams, the Indian origin American astronaut, was awarded Padma Bhushan award in the Huston city of America on July 5. After receiving the award the excited Sunita felt elated on receiving it. Sunita was in space for 195 days, making it a record stay. On the occasion she praised Mahatma Gandhi & lauded that he had seen the boundary less without spending in the space, but she had seen it only after she went there.
The award given to her ….
After CBI’s clean chit, Rajesh Talwar gets bail
The CBI has on Friday made it clear that they had no evidence against Dr Rajesh Talwar. CBI joint director Arun Kumar said, “As per our investigations Krishna, Rajkumar & Vijay Mandal looked like the prime culprits. We have no evidence against Rajesh Talwar”.
However, CBI made it clear that all revelations were based on the narco-analysis & lie detector test & the agency still has to find corroborative evidence to nail the guilty. Meanwhile, CBI has arrested the third accused ….
Communal tension in Bangalore
An eerie silence prevailed in the communally sensitive area of J C Nagar, near Palace Grounds, in the Karnataka capital after baton charge by the local police on Friday. Trouble was started in the afternoon when lumps of pork were thrown inside a religious place in the area by a small group of troublemakers. They entered the religious place & damaged a few tiles, reportedly, in retaliation to a stone-pelting incident on an adjacent religious place of another community two ….
Read More: Communal tension in BangaloreSix used bombs recovered in Amritsar
Punjab Police has recovered six used bombs which were laying abandoned in the garbage. A senior official of Police has said that when employees of Municipal Corporation were on their routine job found six bomb shells from garbage.
The empty bomb shells approximately 5 inches long were packed in the gunny bag. The official said that such type of explosive material being used in the army.
Six kg opium seized, 2 arrested
The Punjab police has arrested two notorious drug smugglers, believed to have political connections, & recovered 6 kg of opium from them in Amritsar. Both the arrested drug smugglers, Gian Singh & Jagjot Singh, of Tarn Taran district were intercepted by a police patrol party near the old Sabji Mandi Hall Gate.
Six kilogram of opium was recovered from them. The consignment, smuggled from Rajasthan, was to be delivered to a person in Amritsar. Meanwhile sources in the police department informed ….
25 MLAs suspended from Chhattisgarh assembly
Twenty five MLAs of Chhattisgarh have neen suspended on Wednesday from the state assembly for violating the House rule. The members including leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma, PCC president Dhanendra Sahu, acting PCC President Satya Narayan Sharma, NCP President Novel Verma were suspended from the House for violating the House rule.
Congress through a call attention motion raised several questions on the issue of disputed land of Bodosara, where a group of dalits wanted to construct a religious place on a ….
Bus Accident killed 47 in Bolivia
A bus has been plunged down a cliff near the southern Bolivian city of Potosi in which 47 killed & 10 injured.
The bus was covering a local route from Potosi, 570 kilometres south of La Paz, when it lost control & fell down a steep 200-metre cliff.
Former Punjab CM Amarinder allowed to visit Dubai
Ludhiana: The court allowed the application moved by former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh seeking permission to go abroad for four weeks. The application was moved by the lawyer of Captain yesterday in the court. Amarinder Singh has expressed a desire to visit Dubai. In the application, he has cited the reason for going abroad in connection with a property deal.
It was mentioned that he had purchased property in Dubai & wanted to go there for the purpose of ….
Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi undergoes angioplasty
Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Union I&B minister & West Bengal Congress president, underwent an angioplasty to clear two heart blockages at the Apollo Gleneagles hospital in Kolkata late Sunday night. His condition is stable.
Around 11.50 p.m. on Sunday, Dasmunsi was brought to the hospital from Malda where he had complained of chest pain. He was detected with acute coronary syndrome & his condition was quite critica.
Patiala Railway over bridge to open on July 15
The Railway Over Bridge (ROB) over the level crossing No. 21 in Patiala is all set to be inaugurated by Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on July 15. The deputy commissioner of Patiala, DS grewal has said that the project has cost Rs. 27 crore. The length of this ROB is 608 meters & 18.7 meters wide for the plying of two way traffic.
The funds for the purpose made available by the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board. The foundation stone ….
Serial blasts in Karachi killed 1
At least one person killed & 50 persons have been injured in a series of six bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday. The explosions, which occurred in busy commercial & residential areas, caused widespread panic in the bustling city of about 16 million people.
These series of blasts in Karachi were of low intensity and they have not caused any damage to property. Police & paramilitary Pakistan Rangers were ….
Earthquake struck Andaman islands
An Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 struck some parts of Andaman islands on Monday. The earthquake struck at around 3:30 pm & the epicentre was located at of a latitude 10.7 degrees North & a longitude of 91.6 degrees East.
The quake was of moderate intensity, it said & there were no immediate reports of any damage or casualty.
Congress Govt falls in J&K, Azad resigns
Jammu & Kashmir’s CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned after losing the floor test. The Azad government was reduced to a minority after PDP withdrew support on June 28. Ahead of the confidence vote, Azad, along with state Congress president Saif-ud-din Soz, met Governor N N Vohra last night. The meeting lasted more than two hours.
PDP patron & MLA from Pahalgham Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is currently in the United States on a private visit. There are reports stating that it ….
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife in hospital after suicide attempt in Patiala
Cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife Navjot kaur has on Saturday attempted to commit suicide at her residence in Patiala. She has been admitted in Intensive care unit in Sadbhavna medical & heart hospital in Patiala. The doctors however said it is a case of food poisoning, a private news agency reported.
Navjot Singh Sidhu who was in Amritsar rushed to Patiala & visited her wife in the hospital but he refused to talk to media. It is learnt that ….
Three opposition MLAs join BJP in Karnataka
The ruling BJP in Karnataka got a boost on Saturday when two JD(S) & one Congress legislators quit their parties to join it. The two JD(S) MLAs — Balachandra Laxman Rao Jarkiholi & K Shivanna Gouda Naik — & a Congress legislator Anand Vasant Asnotikar submitted their resignation letters to speaker Jagadish Shettar, who has accepted them. The three legislators have not given any reason for quitting the assembly membership & the parties.
Later, they went to the BJP office where ….
International serial killer Charles Sobhraj marrying Nihita Biswas
Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted & sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, is engaged & plans to marry a woman of 44 years younger than he is. Both Sobhraj, 64 years old & his 20 years old Nepalese fiance, Nihita Biswas, said that they are planning to get married if he is freed by Nepal’s Supreme Court.
Nihita Biswas first met Charles Sobhraj in prison to act as his interpreter & she was hooked. Charles Sobhraj ….
Bomb blast in Yemen killed five
At least five people have been killed on Sunday in an explosion in central Saada, a town in northwest Yemen at the focus of a Shiite revolt. Rescue services evacuated the casualties as security forces sealed off the area.
Yemen’s mountainous Saada province on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the heartland of an on-off uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite rebels in 2004 in which thousands of people have died. Preliminary investigations indicate that the explosion resulted from a bomb ….
Earthquake struck Arunachal borders
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale struck the Arunachal Pradesh border early on Saturday morning. The earthquake hit Eastern Xizang on the Arunachal borders at 03:05 a.m..
There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualty. The epicentre of this earthquake was located at a latitude of 29.4 degree North & a longitude of 96.4 degree East.
Lakshmi Mittal tops UK’s Richest Power list; Sarin at 24th
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal figures right on the top of a new “richest power list”, compiled after combining two separate rankings of the most powerful & the most richest in the UK. Giving Mittal Company on the new list, compiled by The Times newspaper, is another Indian-origin executive Arun Sarin, the world’s top mobile firm Vodafone’s outgoing CEO, who has made it to 24th in the combined list, even though he does not figure among the top 1,000 richest persons ….
Read More: Lakshmi Mittal tops UK’s Richest Power list; Sarin at 24th