Tuesday, February 12, 2013

India:2/13/2013 8:06:47 PM



Haryana Roadways staff stir may hit 3500 govt buses too

The call for the roadways employees' strike may hit the government transport services in Haryana on Wednesday.






Big fat Punjabi wedding to go slim

The big fat Punjabi wedding, benchmarks of which are still being pushed upwards, has now finally started witnessing the antithesis as the Gujjar community in this region has decided to cut down on useless expenses made on fancy items during the wedding.






Ramdev to go ahead with inauguration of yoga complex in Himachal Pradesh

Even as the state government has started a probe into alleged violations in leasing out 28 acre prime land in HP to Patanjali Yogapeeth by the previous BJP government, the Yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is all set to inaugurate the first phase of the project on the land under question.






No quake-resistant building in Shimla

An earthquake of 8 or above magnitude on Richter scale can turn Shimla, into rubble.






More snow, thunder predicted in Himachal from February 15

Life thrown out of gear because of prevailing intense cold conditions may remain so for a while as more snow and rain are predicted in the state from February 15 to 17.






No green fee exemption to vehicles with non-Himachal registration numbers

Local vehicles bearing non-Himachal registration numbers will no longer be given an exemption on green fee levied at four entry points to Shimla town.






Raj rebuffs Uddhav, says no to merger

Chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Raj Thackeray on Tuesday ruled out a merger or an alliance with the Shiv Sena and said that he wants to "win" the state on his own. Last month, Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had extended an olive branch to his cousin through an interview in the party's mouthpiece Saamna.






Businessmen scared to complain against tax officials

The finance ministry's plan to stamp out corruption in customs and excise departments across the country and address other grievances by appointing ombudsmen hasn't taken off with businessmen reluctant to file complaints against tax officials fearing reprisals.






People feel they'll go to hell if they don't have a son: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its concern over the deteriorating sex ratio and chided state governments over their failure to check sex determination clinics and punish law violators fuelling female feticide.






CPM will be shown the door in Tripura: Rahul

The CPM will be thrown out from India just as the Marxist party was dislodged in Kerala and West Bengal, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday.






Low sperm count? Don't take it too hard

Thousands of Indian males have been incorrectly diagnosed as 'unable to reproduce' because of incorrect diagnosis of their sperm count and quality.






'I have emerged stronger after blast'

Amrapali Chavan, who suffered severe burns in the German Bakery blast, says the incident made her mentally and physically strong.






Blood money secures release of 17 death-row Indians

The 17 men who returned to India on Tuesday after as good as cheating death in the UAE could neither praise god enough nor control their emotions on seeing their families.






Sikhs troop in from France to protest at Hollande meet

United Sikhs, a global body espousing the cause of Sikhs, is now demanding that the French government allow biometric cards which only require facial recognition and no turban.






India bought helicopters Obama rejected as 'costly'

Obama had found AW-101 copters too exorbitant to pass muster in 2009. But Indian govt had no such qualms and inked Rs 3,546cr deal for 12 choppers in 2010.






Guru's secret hanging a human rights violation: Prosecutor

The very lawyer instrumental in securing death sentence for Afzal Guru disapproves of the secretive manner in which he has been executed without being given an opportunity to meet his family.






Most BJP legislators against dissolving House

A majority of BJP MLAs, including ministers, are not in favour of dissolving the assembly early."Governor H R Bhardwaj has said he would act even if a single MLA resigns.






Jundal yet to be arrested in German Bakery case

Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, lodged in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, has not yet been taken into custody by the Anti-Terrorism Squad for his role in the 2010 German Bakery blast.






MiG-27 crashes in Barmer, pilot ejects safely

A MiG-27 aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed soon after take-off in Barmer district on Tuesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely.






After assembly, BJP sweeps civic polls across Gujarat

BJP continued to ride the momentum from the assembly elections held in December and pocketed 60 per cent of the seats in the municipal elections held across the state on Sunday.






Rajasthan's Rajsamand shows the way with Right to Hearing Act

Having cradled the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the district is on the threshold of showing the way once again - the way ahead for operationalising the Grievance Redressal Bill.






Terrorists drop gun to stick to rubber in Tripura

Tripura's burgeoning rubber trade, which has grown from a cultivable area of just 3500 hectares in 1982 to a massive 57,620 hectares in 2012, has changed the life of Debbarma and hundreds of other former militants like him in Tripura.






16 Kashmiri students held in Dehradun

Uttarakhand police on Tuesday arrested 16 Kashmiri students in Dehradun for attempting to burn effigies in protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.






13 killed in Assam poll violence

Thirteen tribals, including five women, were killed in separate incidents of violence related to panchayat elections in Assam's Goalpara district on Tuesday.






Muslim guide helps Jain monks get their PhDs

Niranjan Muni (52) completed his thesis on 'Austerities in Jainism and Other Religions: A Comparative Study'.




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