Supreme Court orders CBI probe against Magistrate
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29.The Supreme Court today ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into allegations of bribery against the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate, S. Brahmbhatt. Mr. Brahmbhatt of the 10th Metropolitan Magistrate Court at ...
Magistrate suspended
AHMEDABAD, JAN. 29.The Gujarat High Court today suspended Mr. Brahmbhatt, for alleged "misconduct as a judicial officer.'' In a brief communication, the in-charge registrar of the High Court, A.K. Aswani, said Mr. Brahmbhatt had been suspended ...
THE GREG CHAPPELL COLUMN Where have all the bowlers gone?
MELBOURNE, JAN. 29. The two questions I am most often asked these days is "Just how good Steve Waugh's teams were?" and "Where have all the bowlers gone?" Neither question is all that simply answered but I will deal with each one as best I ...
Total ban on poultry imports
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. India has extended the six-month ban on import of domestic and wild birds, hatching eggs, bird semen, fresh meat and processed poultry meat to all countries to prevent bird flu or avian influenza from reaching its shores. Last ...
VHP, Bajrang Dal activists damage Husain's paintings
AHMEDABAD, JAN. 29.A group of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists ransacked an exhibition of paintings by M.F. Husain, and damaged several of his works in Surat this evening. A VHP activist alleged that the exhibitionat the Garden ...
Review panel defers decision on Narmada dam height
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. The political-level Review Committee of the Narmada Control Authority, chaired by the Union Water Resources Minister, Arjun Charan Sethi, today postponed a decision on raising the height of the Narmada dam in Gujarat at its ...
Director-general of BBC quits
LONDON, JAN. 29. There was more turmoil at the British Broadcasting Corporation today as its director-general, Greg Dyke, resigned, less than 24 hours after its chairman, Gavyn Davis, quit following the publication of the Hutton inquiry report, ...
More new trains likely
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. Indications are that an announcement of new trains, including a Jan Sadharan Express, the common man's version of the Rajdhani Express, and some fresh gauge conversion projects are on the cards as the Railway Minister ...
Manish killing: 3 detained
LUCKNOW, JAN. 29.The Uttar Pradesh police today detained for questioning three persons bearing resemblance to the computer sketches of the alleged killers of Manish Mishra, the grand nephew of the Prime Minsiter, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Mishra ...
