New Delhi: The Child Welfare Commission (CWC) on Tuesday ordered that a case would be registered against the father of the teenaged girl, for cruelty and child abuse, who had brought a battered two-year-old Falak to AIIMS on January 18. The teenager will continue to stay in the institution as she refused to go with her father. The CWC has also demanded that past records be verified and legal action...
05:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when the Supreme Court has asked the state governments to provide shelter to the homeless, a group of visually challenged students in Delhi have been forced to live out in the open, after their shelter in the Virender Nagar area near Janakpuri in west Delhi was sealed without notice by the authorities. Till 2010, the nearly 30 visually-challenged students of the Louis Welfare Blind Association...
04:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A British newspaper, 'The Observer' has set off a storm, releasing a video which shows members of the protected Jarawa tribe partially naked, made to dance for tourists in the Andaman Islands. The Centre has ordered an enquiry but the local administration downplayed the issue saying it was taken at a time when laws for protecting the tribes were not so stringent. The report claims that the voice...
09:04 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: The DGCA on Thursday cracked the whip on airlines, saying there will be no compromise on air safety after an official audit report suggested that the financial crisis in the aviation sector may lead to safety concerns. And as worries mount for issues regarding maintenance and operations across airlines, the DGCA has clarified that Kingfisher won't be shut down. The DGCA ended speculation on whether Kingfisher airline will...
08:58 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst the continuing financial woes of domestic airlines, the DGCA chief has said that there is no threat of any of the airlines being shut down. "There is no threat of any airline shutting down or their licences being cancelled," DGCA chief Bharat Bhushan said on Thursday. He said that all airlines were financially weak, but the DGCA will ensure that this not affect air safety. "We have...
03:50 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: A 75-year old in Delhi goes door to door collecting unused medicines. Omkar Nath takes his entire collection to NGOs and hospitals that work for the poor. At 75, Omkar has a booming voice and a strong will. No wonder that many have named him as the Medicine Baba and eagerly wait for his arrival as they have been doing for the past four years. A Delhi resident...
08:45 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: A group of 300 volunteers and differently-abled individuals set out on a tour called the Badhte Kadam journey to spread the message that differently-abled people just want respect. The tour, which began on October 21, intends to cover different states for 40 days to spread their message to people across the country. The event, an initiative of the National Trust, is a celebration of the self of differently-abled...
11:46 AM, Dec 03, 2011
BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley are likely to be present when LK Advani ends his Jan Chetna Yatra on Sunday. ...
11:28 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Sources at Kingfisher admit that they have saved over Rs 4 crore by not flying on loss making routes. ...
07:24 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: Veteran journalist-cum-social activist Kanak Mani Dikshit, who drove down from Nepal, left Delhi on Wednesday morning to go on to his next stop, Peshawar in Pakistan. Dikshit's journey is aimed at increasing awareness about spinal injuries. "This little car is called the Spinal Beetle. this is the mascot of our spinal injury rehab centre in Nepal," Dikshit said. A nasty fall into a 150-feet-deep ditch in 1991 left...
09:35 AM, Nov 10, 2011
The families of the 1984 riots say that they still have not received justice even after 27 years. ...
04:05 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has found blatant disregard of norms by several flying schools across the country. The DGCA has warned the schools that there permits will be cancelled if they fail to comply with the guidelines. Audits of as many as 40 flying schools were carried out by the DGCA in the wake of the fake pilot scam in which licenses of more than...
05:29 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Bhatta-parsaul: With just a few months to go for the Uttar Pradesh elections, the lanes of Bhatta-parsaul village are alive again with village women seeking justice. The government's FIR against 16 policemen almost six months after the alleged rapes took place seems top have emboldened them to finally speak out. This 35-year-old woman and a mother of three claims that she was raped during the anti-land acquisition agitation by farmers...
05:08 PM, Oct 26, 2011
New Delhi: With just two weeks to go for the Formula 1 race, its fever is catching up in the capital and so is the business around it. Stores all over the city are selling F1 products right from the checkered flag to balloons and various other things that are adding to the fervour. There are so many thing to buy, you can almost throw an F1 party. F1 specific...
11:41 AM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday slashed the compensation relief awarded to the victims of the 1997 Uphaar Cinema fire case, disappointing the families who have lost their loved ones in the tragedy. After fighting for nearly 15 years, the Supreme Court verdict on Thursday came as a major setback for the families of the 59 Uphaar tragedy victims as the compensation to the families of deceased older than...
10:15 PM, Oct 13, 2011
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