New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday allowed the police to take voice samples of senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh for further investigation into the controversial CD case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav accepted the Delhi Police plea for securing their voice samples through CFSL experts to ascertain the motive behind creating the CD with their purported conversation on managing a Supreme Court...
07:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday announced the results for the Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination for the year 2011. A total of 356 candidates have qualified for admission to the 133rd Course of Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun; Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala and Air Force Academy, Hyderabad (Pre-Flying) Training Course. The exams were held by the UPSC in September 2011 and the interviews were held...
10:50 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Her participation in the Olympics may have been jeopardised by a first-round exit from the French Open but top Indian tennis player Sania Mirza on Thursday asserted that she has done enough to "deserve" a wild card into the London Games. Sania has had a successful season so far, forcing her way into four WTA finals and winning two titles. She, along with Russian Elena Vesnina, was also...
01:19 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand out a compensation of Rs 3,000 to an RTI applicant for providing "misleading information" which caused her mental and physical harassment. Laxmi Aggarwal had filed a right to information (RTI) application with the DDA on March 11, 2011, inquiring the time of de-sealing and demolition of an unauthorised construction on the fifth floor of a...
03:48 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: United Spirits, the drinks group owned by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya, said profits in the first three months of 2012 were severely hit by higher domestic taxes and foreign exchange losses. The world's largest spirits company by volume on Wednesday said it suffered an 83 per cent drop in net profits to Rs 100 million ($1.8 million) in the three months ending March 31, compared to Rs 599...
12:43 AM, May 31, 2012
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its chargesheet in the sensational Shehla Masood murder case in the special CBI court in Indore on ...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2012
The Union Public Service Commission, popularly known as UPSC, was accorded a constitutional status as an autonomous entity in the new constitution on 26th January, 1950. One of the major functions of the Commission is recruitment to services and posts under the Union through conduct of competitive examinations. The Commission usually conducts a number of examinations every year on an all-India basis for direct recruitment in various fields, such as...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The government announced an inquiry on Friday into the functioning of the main drug regulator, just days after a parliamentary report exposed dysfunction within the agency and serious irregularities in the drug approval process. The government said in a statement that it had appointed three experts to look at the scientific basis of approving new drugs without clinical trials and recommend ways of improving the procedures of the...
02:13 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pointing to a collusive nexus between drug manufacturers, officials of Drugs Control Organisation and medical experts in granting approvals to new drugs, a Parliamentary Panel said drugs banned, discarded or withdrawn in developed countries are in circulation in India. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare also pointed to serious lapses and irregularities on the approvals of new drugs and pointed out that 33 such drugs...
01:23 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The newly-trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced on Wednesday that it was likely to increase the parking charges. In the first interaction with the media, commissioners of the newly created North, South and East Delhi municipal corporations laid out their ideas for the road ahead. "The focus will be on increasing the revenue. One of the plans is to increase the parking charges. It will also help...
08:28 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: A CBI special court has decided to frame charges against 10 accused, including ex-officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), for alleged lapses in the allotment of plots as part of the resettlement of slum dwellers. The accused were allegedly involved in allotment of plots in fictitious names under the scheme executed by the Slum and Jhuggi Jhopri Department. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Anoop...
08:59 AM, May 06, 2012
Beed (Maharashtra): Anna Hazare on Friday said Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi should be hanged if found "guilty" in connection with the controversial CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with a woman. "Singhvi should be hanged if found guilty," Anna Hazare said replying to a reporter's question. Anna Hazare is currently touring Maharashtra to campaign for a stronger Lokayukta Act in the state. Singhvi quit as Congress spokesperson...
10:38 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Days after resigning from various parliamentary posts and as spokesperson of the Congress in the wake of the controversial video, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has asked for leave from the Rajya Sabha for the rest of Budget Session citing poor health. Citing "illness and family commitment", the Rajya Sabha MP sought leave from April 24 to May 22, which was granted by the Upper House on Friday....
05:30 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Price rise, dissidence, lack of intensity in campaigning and failure to highlight "misdeeds" of BJP-ruled MCD were on Saturday identified by majority of Congress MLAs as reasons for the party's drubbing in municipal polls. At a meeting convened by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to analyse the poll outcome, most of the MLAs cited price rise, particularly hike in milk prices just ahead of the election, and dissidence in...
01:21 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Wednesday alleged that the Congress was trying to "grab power" in South Delhi Municipal Corporation through backdoor and accused it of nursing "evil intentions". Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta lashed out at Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and DPCC chief JP Aggarwal for their "confusing and contradictory" stands. "On the one hand, the Chief Minister and Delhi Congress President JP Aggarwal say that they had nothing...
08:35 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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