The proposed National Sports Development Bill has already run into rough weather with the Indian Olympic Committee and the National Sports Federations up in arms against it. The Bill as such seeks establishment of a national sports development council headed by an eminent sportsperson and deli…neates the role between the various sports bodies and the [...]
* Merkel nuclear U-turn driven by Fukushima disaster * Eight oldest nuclear reactors will not reopen * Nuclear fuel rod tax to remain – environment minister * Germany’s biggest utility: 2022 exit not what it hoped for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition declared today it would shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy [...]
He minces no words, he’s a man certainly not at peace with the way we pick an imitative lifestyle, thought, perspective and more over everything fragrant of the soil, our ethos & the abundant Nature. India’s leading artiste Jatin Das makes for a delightfully candid conversation…
A girl jumped into the Chenab river after she was allegedly harassed by policemen including a sub- inspector in the mountainous Doda belt of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said here today. “A girl who was having a tea with her friend Najab Din, resident of Ukhral, district Ramban at Pull Doda, yesterday jumped into [...]
International Shimla Summer festival would begin on June 2 on the Historic Ridge here, Deputy Commissioner said. While addressing a press conference here yesterday, Deputy Commissioner Onkar Chand Sharma, who is also the Chairman of the festival organising committee, said efforts have been put in to make the event a healthy entertainment. Prominent playback Bollywood [...]
Area under horticulture crops in Haryana has reached about 6.34 per cent of the total cropped area in the state as a result of the steps taken by the state government to motivate the farmers to grow horticulture crops in place of traditional ones. Stating this here today, a spokesman for the Haryana Horticulture Department [...]
In amritsar, the CBI and the drug inspector yesterday raided an ayurvedic pharmacy that is facing charges of being allotted way higher limits of medicinal opium than it could have got and its open sale. The CBI has already registered a preliminary enquiry against certain officials of the Directorate of Ayurveda and Health Department. Pharmacies [...]
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the recently elected Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) members on the petition filed by a defeated candidate challenging the election results on the grounds that more time was alloted by the other parties for casting of votes enabling casting of illegal votes. Justice Sunil Gaur after hearing [...]
Three youth from Punjab who were facing the death sentence today returned home after being freed by the Dubai authorities following payment of blood money to the family of the deceased Bikramjit Singh. Bikramjit was killed in a drunken brawl a few years ago. Indian Punjabi Society founder president S P Singh Oberoi, who helped [...]
A US federal Court here has set September 21 date for pre-trial hearing in a case against Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath and India’s Congress Party in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Judge Robert W Sweet of US Federal Court of the Southern District of New York issued an order in this regard. Gurpatwant [...]
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