Sirsa becomes 100 per cent CFL district
Chandigarh: Sirsa in Haryana has achieved the distinction of becoming the first district of the country to totally switch over to use of Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL), thereby saving 60MW of electricity and effecting a saving of Rs 9 crore ...
Srikrishna report revival badly timed for the Congress-NCP
MUMBAI: The demand to implement the Srikrishna Commission report on the 1992-93 communal riots in Mumbai could not have come at a worse time for the Congress-Nationalist Congress party (NCP) Government in Maharashtra. Its relations were at an ...
Himachal Pradesh Daily wages in Himachal increased
REKONG PEO (KINNAUR): Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday announced an increase in the minimum daily wages for temporary workers. They will now get Rs. 80 per day instead of Rs. 75. The wages of home guards have also ...
Jammu & Kashmir Poppy husk seized
Jammu: Two persons were arrested and 200 kg of poppy husk recovered from their possession in Nagrota, 15 kms from here. Taranjit Singh alias Chiriya and Gurtej Singh alias Guji were arrested while allegedly smuggling poppy husk from Srinagar ...
Madhya Pradesh Three injured in clash
Jhansi: Three persons, were injured when two groups opened fire at each other in here on Wednesday. Senior Superintendent of Police Vir Bahadur Singh said Suresh Rai of Simraha village was returning home when Surendra Rai, from the ...
Chauhan announces National Independence Fellowship
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Wednesday said that the 150th anniversary of the 1857 war of independence would be observed with patriotic fervour. The Chief Minister was addressing the citizens after unfurling ...
Maharashtra Most wanted dacoits arrested
Mumbai: One of Maharashtra’s most wanted dacoits who led a gang operating in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh has been arrested along with two accomplices. “We arrested Suresh Bhaurao Shinde alias Surya and his ...
Birth anniversary
PUDUCHERRY: The 135th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo was observed here on Wednesday at the ashram. A large number of devotees from within the country and from abroad thronged the ashram premises from early morning to offer prayers. A ...
Medical camp
PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry Society For the Care of the Aged will conduct a medical camp for elderly people on August 17. Ophthalmologists from leading hospitals would screen the elderly for eye problems from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The camp would be ...
Free Sanskrit course
PUDUCHERRY: Sanskrita Bharaki, a non-governmental organisation, has announced the introduction of a free six-month course on Sikshana Kendra. The course is divided into two parts, each of three months duration. Level one would give ...
Three killed in mishap
Jaipur: Three persons were killed when a tanker rammed into a tempo near Sandera road in Ajmer district on Wednesday. The victims died on the spot, the police said. A case was registered against the driver of the tanker who fled after ...
Shekhawat calls it “a great experience”
JAIPUR: It wasn’t exactly a hero’s welcome but his supporters and long-time friends received Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the Grand Old Man of Indian politics, with a great deal of warmth when he returned to the Rajasthan capital on ...
Rift in Kota Congress flares up
JAIPUR: Internecine feuds within the Rajasthan unit of the Congress flared up in Kota region the other day when a group of party men smeared the face of Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Ashq Ali Tak with dirt and garlanded him with ...
Uttar Pradesh FIR against freedom fighter quashed
Ghaziabad: A first information report was, on Wednesday, quashed against a 92-year-old freedom fighter and soldier of the Indian National Army led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Bulandshahr district. The FIR was registered against ...
Probe ordered
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Government has ordered an inquiry into the footage aired by a TV news channel purportedly showing an alleged fake encounter in which the police shot dead a criminal even though he was about to surrender. Chief ...
