HYDERABAD/GUNTUR: The state government is understood to be contemplating cancellation of the MoU with the promoters of the Vodarevu and Nizampatnam Port Industrial Corridor (VANPIC) and resume the land allotted to it.Officials are said to be gearing up to obtain legal opinion on the move, and are likely to issue notices to the project management over the next couple of weeks.Giving credence to these moves, rural development minister D Manikya...
10:18 AM, May 18, 2012
CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...
05:30 PM, May 12, 2012
Jajmau: A cocktail of chemicals is being dumped into the river Ganga in Kanpur. What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. In the historic city of Kanpur, a thriving leather industry is central to the crisis facing the Ganga. Rakesh Jaiswal, an eco-crusader, explains, "This is a failure of the Ganga Action Plan. The water that should...
10:53 AM, May 11, 2012
Lucknow: Saharanpur range DIG Satish Kumar Mathur, who had on Wednesday sparked a controversy by advocating honour killing, was transferred by the authorities on Thursday. This came hours after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said he would take action against Mathur if the police officer had supported honour killing. "If that is the statement then that statement is wrong. If an official holds such high post and if that...
08:02 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Saharanpur range DIG Satish Kumar Mathur sparked a controversy by advocating honour killing, the Uttar Pradesh government has promised action. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said he would take action against Mathur if the police officer had supported honour killing. "If that is the statement then that statement is wrong. If an official holds such high post and if that person makes such statements, actions will...
12:59 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order, Crime) Jagmohan Yadav said on Wednesday that he would look into the statements made by Saharanpur Range DIG Satish Kumar Mathur justifying honour killing. Yadav said that he had already spoken to Mathur once and will speak to him again to find out the truth. "I have spoken to the DIG once and will speak to him again...
12:59 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: A top-ranking police official in Uttar Pradesh has sparked a controversy by openly advocating honour killings. The official in question is Satish Kumar Mathur, the DIG of Saharanpur Range. Mathur was caught on camera saying that if his own sister ever eloped he would kill her or commit suicide. Mathur made this shocking statement when he was routinely inspecting police stations and met a man whose daughter had...
08:11 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: An 18-year-old girl was abducted by four men in a car in broad daylight on Saturday. The incident occurred at around 2 pm on the Loni-Saharanpur road when the victim Gulistaan had stepped out to buy medicines. Her sister-in-law who was with her at the time claims the accused forced the girl into their Scorpio car and drove off in the direction of Delhi. The sister-in-law then raised...
06:17 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The parents-in-law of a widow, expelled out of her matrimonial house after her husband's death in 2010, has been asked by a Delhi court to pay Rs 10,000 as monthly maintenance to her and her minor son. Metropolitan Magistrate Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal gave the order holding that a man's widow is entitled to claim maintenance from her father and mother-in-laws. Accordingly, the court asked the woman's father-in-law, an...
09:09 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Kanpur: In a country where bunking classes is common, a 17-year-old Muslim boy stands out in stark contrast. He has not missed a single class in 14 years of school life. Meet Mohammed Omar, student of St Aloysius School who took his Class 12 exam last month. Teachers say Omar has not been absent even a single day. Omar said that he did not do this intentionally initially but was...
10:19 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a more embarrassment for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, a report has exposed how a key minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is involved in a 15 crore benami land deal in Bhopal. CNN-IBN has accessed a confidential Income Tax report which says that there is evidence that MP Health Minister Narottam Mishra took bribe for awarding contracts in 2008. In 2008, Narottam Mishra was Madhya...
09:50 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Kanpur: An Uttar Pradesh Police officer who was shot at along with a constable inside a police station in Kanpur by a drunken youth succumbed to his injuries in hospital on Friday, police said. Sub-Inspector Devendra Singh who was critically wounded in the incident at Naubasta police station, where he was the station officer, died at Regency Hospital, Amitabh Yash, deputy inspector general, Kanpur, said. He said as per departmental...
01:54 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Kanpur: The 17-year-old class XI student, who was raped in Kanpur by a friend and two others after being given cold drink laced with sedatives, attempted suicide but was saved by doctors, police said on Sunday. Unable to bear the trauma of being gangraped, the girl attempted suicide late last night by consuming poison, but was rushed to a nearby medical college where doctors saved her, DSP Jay Narayan Singh...
12:20 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Kanpur: A 17-year-old girl studying in class XI was on Saturday gangraped in a hotel by her friend and two others after one of them offered her cold drink laced with sedatives, police said. The girl was offered the laced drink by her friend Rajeev on Saturday afternoon when he took her for a drive, they said. When she lost consciousness, Rajeev and his friends took her to a hotel...
11:49 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Imphal: Four people, including two soldiers of India Reserve Battalion (IRB), were arrested on Saturday in connection with an alleged gangrape of a woman in Manipur. The woman was gangraped in Bhishanpur district on Thursday. The woman was abducted by the four men and taken to an isolated place in the district where she was allegedly sexually assaulted by two persons. Following a complaint lodged by the victim, Bishnupur Police...
09:06 PM, Mar 24, 2012
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