Balasore: India on Friday successfully test fired its two indigenously-developed surface-to-air 'Akash' missiles of Air Force version with a strike range of 25 km from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha. "Two Air Force version Akash missiles were test-fired from the ITR in quick succession. Both the trials were successful and met all the mission objectives," ITR Director MVKV Prasad said. The anti-aircraft missiles, with a...
12:48 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Though Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, the BJD MP and chief advisor to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, was at the helm of affairs in the BJD ...
11:25 AM, Jun 01, 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
Washington: Bharatiya Janata Party would make public the names of 800 Indian account holders in Swiss Banks if it comes into power in the 2014 general elections, senior party leader Yashwant Sinha has said. "Of course, we will do. Of course, we will do," Sinha told a small audience at an event organised by a recently formed Washington-based Indian American think-tank Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS). "Will...
05:53 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External Affairs regarding the mysterious disappearance of an Indian techie working in Saudi Arabia. Fasih Mehmood was allegedly picked up by the members of the National Investigative Agency on May 13 and has been missing since then. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar issued notice to the Home...
11:23 AM, May 30, 2012
Guwahati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the rise in crimes against women in Assam but described the situation as better on the issue of rights violations. "The data available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that Assam is ranked second in the country in the category of crime against women. Most of the cases are related to kidnapping, rape and cases of...
03:02 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission is understood to have decided not to intervene in the matter concerning the arrest of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose mother has sought his release in view of the coming by-polls in Andhra Pradesh. The three-member Election Commission met on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi and discussed the letter from YS Vijayalakshmi, YSR Congress honorary president, seeking a...
03:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission is likely to issue its notification for the Presidential election by mid-June, setting in motion the process of election to the country's top post. President Pratibha Patil's term ends on July 24 and the EC notification in this regard will be issued sometime in mid-June. "The notification for the last Presidential election was issued on June 13. The EC will be issuing a notification around...
03:22 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday successfully carried out a test of its quick reaction tactical nuclear-capable Hatf-IX missile with a range of 60 km, aimed at "deterring evolving threats at shorter range." The military described the test of the "indigenously developed short range, surface-to-surface multi-tube missile Hatf-IX" or Nasr as successful. A military statement said the missile can carry "nuclear warheads of appropriate yield with high accuracy and possesses shoot and...
11:59 AM, May 29, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a chargesheet in connection with the murders of former Chief Medical Officers VK Arya and BP Singh on Tuesday accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. The investigative agency in its first chargesheet in the sensational murders of two CMOs is also likely to name a former Health officer in the criminal...
10:39 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) Results for 2012 will be announced on Tuesday by 14 National Law Schools/Universities. Candidates seeking admission into the under-graduate and post-graduate programmes can check their results at www.clat.ac.in. The institutes under CLAT are: National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR) National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU) The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata...
09:58 AM, May 29, 2012
Srinagar: There seems to be yet another conflict between Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Opposition PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti. The PDP leader charged out of a meeting on Monday after an argument with the Chief Minister over the appointment of the state's first Chief Vigilance Commissioner. Mufti expressed dipleasure over the suggestion of State DGP Kuldeep Khoda taking over the post. The four member selection committee headed...
09:56 AM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother and the party honorary chief YS Vijaya on Monday requested Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to direct CBI to release her son in larger interest of democracy and sought holding of free and fair elections in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter addressed to Quraishi, Vijaya alleged her son was arrested just days before the June 12 bypolls as part of a larger conspiracy...
12:37 AM, May 29, 2012
Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. ...
11:36 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. The councils of the IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday decided to have joint entrance test for engineering colleges that come under these three councils. According to the decision taken, for the first time, the class XII examinations will count towards entrance. There will be...
04:56 PM, May 28, 2012
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