Archive for 'April 26th, 2012'

Affidavit filed that Deshmukh may be owning flats through proxies

Affidavit filed that Deshmukh may be owning flats through proxies

Mumbai, Apr 26 : In fresh trouble for Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, an affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court alleges that he might be owning two flats through proxies in the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society [...]

Hooch Tragedy Case: 4 get life sentence & 15 get 2 year jail term

Hooch Tragedy Case: 4 get life sentence & 15 get 2 year jail term

Mumbai, Apr 27: Criticising Maharashtra Government for not taking action against police and excise officers in a hooch tragedy case, a local court on yesterday awarded life imprisonment to four persons, and two-year jail terms to [...]

Forest rights act incentivising encroachment: AP forest dept

Hyderabad, Apr 26 : Encroachments on account of Recognition of Forest Rights Act (RoFR), diversion of land for irrigation projects, and cutting of the plantations were the chief reasons for the declining forest cover, a top [...]

Delhi: Two held for betting on IPL matches

New Delhi, Apr 27: Two men, involved in betting racket involving cricket matches, were arrested in West Delhi, police said on yesterday. Sunil Bansal and Aman Preet Singh were arrested yesterday after police received a tip-off [...]

Minor’s body recovered in Kathua

Jammu, Apr 26 : Army divers today fished out the body of an 8-year-old body from a nullah in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. On the orders from Headquarters Northern Command, divers from Special Forces [...]

Central Govt passes Banking Bill & brings back 10% voting right

Central Govt passes Banking Bill & brings back 10% voting right

New Delhi, Apr 27: The Union Cabinet on yesterday decided to retain the voting rights in the private sector banks at 10 per cent and felt it could be raised progressively to 26 per cent as [...]

BJP’s Shamsher says Omar must remove corrupted ministers

BJP’s Shamsher says Omar must remove corrupted ministers

Jammu, Apr 26 : The BJP on yesterday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to prove his claims of “heading a clean government” by sacking ministers allegedly involved in cases of corruption and land [...]

30 members of a marriage party injured in road accident

Biharsharif, Apr 26 : Thirty members of a marriage party were injured today after a bus in which they were travelling lost control and overturned on NH-82 in Bihar’s Nalanda district, a police officer said. The [...]

Cong hits back at BJP on Bofors issue

New Delhi, April 26 : Hitting back at BJP for raking up the Bofors issue, Congress today threatened there could be a judicial commission into the Tehelka controversy that led to the ouster Bangaru Laxman as [...]

Health Min Sivakumar inaugrates ‘Anti-filariasis’ health programme

Health Min Sivakumar inaugrates ‘Anti-filariasis’ health programme

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 27: The Mass Drug Distribution for lymphatic filariasis, a public health programme being conducted across the state, was inaugurated by Health Minister V S Sivakumar at a function at Thiruvananthapuram on yesterday. The programme [...]