New Delhi: Being sleepy behind the wheel is almost as dangerous as drinking and driving, according to a study from France, with drivers who were either drunk or sleepy at least twice as likely to cause a vehicle accident as their sober or well-rested counterparts. For the study, researchers under the direction of Nicholas Moore at the Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Bordeaux analyzed information from 679 drivers admitted to a hospital...
12:43 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre was on Wednesday directed by the Delhi High Court to consider in three months a plea seeking CBI inquiry against members of Team Anna for allegedly receiving funds from foreign organisations to run their agitation for Lokpal Bill. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A S Chandhiok to treat the PIL as a...
05:16 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has directed the police to register an FIR against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi-run animal care and veterinary hospital where 36 animals died due to their alleged failure in performing the duties. The court also pulled up the investigating officer (IO) for taking up the matter "casually" and directed him to probe the case "expeditiously" against Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre (SGACC). "The SGACC is a...
06:30 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out a return to the pre-1953 position, Centre's interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir have favoured setting up a Constitutional Committee to review all Central Acts and Articles of the Constitution of India to the state extended after 1952. The report of the interlocutors - Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari - which was made public on Thursday, proposed a 'New Compact' with the people of Jammu...
01:29 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Jet Airways is expected to order more than 100 narrow-body aircraft for up to $3.75 billion in 2012-13 as the largest Indian carrier grabs market share from its troubled rivals, a leading consultancy said. The airline is understood to be actively evaluating Airbus's narrow-body A320 aircraft, and is likely to lease up to 10 A330s to support expansion of its European network, the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation...
12:48 PM, May 23, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government will take all efforts to upgrade the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) as a national cancer institute, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said on Sunday.He was speaking after inaugurating a state-level workshop on Role of dental surgeons in prevention and control of oral cancer here. The Minister assured all support for the development and growth of RCC, which has been providing treatment to nearly two lakh patients...
10:22 AM, May 21, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday pitched for a "cooperative" attitude towards the Centre saying the "atmosphere of enmity" created by the previous Mayawati government has deprived the state of "required help". He also ordered that all central schemes be implemented honestly and in a transparent manner and asked the police to bring a perceptible change in law and order in 15 days. Akhilesh unveiled his approach...
03:22 AM, May 19, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha continued to reel under a severe heat wave on Wednesday with one of its towns recording a maximum temperature of 45 degrees Celsius, the day's highest in the state, an official said. Titilagarh town in Balangir district, about 400 km from Bhubaneswar, recorded 45 degrees Celsius, a senior official of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre said. Titilagarh had recorded 44.5 degrees Celsius a day earlier. The other places which...
09:17 PM, May 17, 2012
CHENNAI: Chennai now has a technology centre of the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) at the Madras Exports Processing Zone (MEPZ), which was inaugurated on Tuesday. AMT is an American association that supports makers and distributors of manufacturing technology equipment. The centre was inaugurated by Jennifer Mcintyre, American Consul General.AMTs Chennai Technology Centre provides an opportunity for Indian manufacturers to access the best of American manufacturing technology through better learning...
08:52 AM, May 17, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said better facilities would be provided to Haj pilgrims this year and he would write a letter to the Centre to increase the state's quota of pilgrims. Describing Haj quota of the state as "insufficient", the Chief Minister, after inaugurating a lottery programme for selection of pilgrims, said he would write a letter to the Centre requesting to increase it substantially....
10:12 PM, May 15, 2012
Panihati: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday predicted a hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by this month end. "The Centre may hike the prices of petrol and diesel in the last week of this month after the current parliament session is over," the senior CPI(M) leader told a party rally at Panihati in North 24 paraganas district in West Bengal. In a dig at the Trinamool...
05:37 AM, May 14, 2012
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday indicated that the ball was in the Central governments court as far as the demand for setting up of a sub-committee of chief ministers to examine the provisions of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is concerned.She was addressing the media with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after a 45-minute discussion with him after he called on her at her residence.When asked for...
09:11 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Unfazed by strong opposition, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said NCTC was the need of the hour as threat perception of terrorism continues to be high and delay in setting up the anti-terror hub will increase the risk in the country. Chidambaram said the country needed an institutional mechanism by mobilising all elements of national power to tackle the menace of terrorism. "Given the gravity of the...
07:40 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday again advocated the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying the risk for the country is increasing each day as the project is getting delayed. He said, "Given the gravity of the situation, everyday we delay NCTC, we increase our risk." The Home Minister further said that the threat perception continued to be high in the country. "The threat perception of terrorism...
06:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: MiD DAYs expose about how innocent college girls and housewives, branded as sex traders, were confined to a rehab centre after a police raid led by ACP Vasant Dhoble on a Khar pub, has only emboldened cops to continue harassing them, their kin allege. On Thursday, half of the detained girls whose families had spoken to this paper about the unwarranted police action had to spend another day in...
02:18 PM, May 11, 2012
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