New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Friday registered a case on the death of dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died last month in Ireland after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage pregnancy on the ground that Ireland was a Catholic country. "Acting on a complaint filed by Odisha-based organisation India Media Centre, the NHRC has a registered a case on the matter," a statement from the Commission said. The...
09:31 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Patna: If you've been one of those who wished to try and be part of the reality game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, it's time for you to head to Bihar. An expert at the show, Rs 1 crore winner Anil Kumar Sinha, is giving tuitions on how to ace the reality game show. "It was a long cherished dream which was fulfilled after a very long struggle. At that point...
01:40 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Imphal: A team of young professionals in Manipur is going out of its way to help the victims of continuing counter-insurgency operations in the state to help overcome the trauma. And a dance therapy workshop is one of their innovative methods. Sunitibala Takhelmayum, counsellor at Human to Humane Transcultural Centre for Trauma and Torture, says, "The victim or the client affected by counter-insurgency... we try to help them overcome the...
08:32 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Jhajjar: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad on Saturday announced that a National Cancer Institute (NCI) would come up in the AIIMS-2 campus at Badhsa village in Haryana, which would be an even bigger facility than the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai. A National Cardio Care Centre (NCCC) would also be set up in this institute, he said. The health minister was speaking after inaugurating the outreach OPD...
12:49 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday accused the central government of taking a negative approach towards Tamil Nadu's demands. Speaking at the wedding of Industries Minister P Thangamani's son here, Jayalalithaa said: "The Centre has been reducing the supply of kerosene to the state. It is also taking steps to curtail the state's powers." The CM said her letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were acknowledged. But...
02:03 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognisance of the of Ponty Chadha incident, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought explanation from the Centre about the norms for issuing gun licences to private security persons and how agencies engaging them are being regulated. Issuing notice to the Centre, a bench of justices DK Jain and JS Khehar said that the recent incident in which firearms were allegedly used by private security personnel...
09:33 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Home Ministry has provided additional security forces to Maharashtra to assist local administration in maintaining law and order in the wake of critical health condition of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. Paramilitary personnel have been provided following a request by the Maharashtra government which has beefed up security after Shiv Sainiks damaged some media vehicles and equipment on Wednesday, official sources said. The forces, which were in...
10:39 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Chennai: Initial steps for the construction of another fast-breeder test reactor powered by metallic fuel at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) complex at Kalpakkam has begun, a senior official said on Monday. "The government had initially sanctioned Rs 25 crore for the 120 MW metallic fuel test reactor (MFTR). Around Rs.6 crore is expected to be spent by the end of this fiscal on geo-technical investigations for the...
05:18 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Dehradun: A young man admitted to a de-addiction centre in Dehradun was found dead in mysterious circumstances. The dead youngsters identified as Rajesh was admitted to the de-addiction centre in Dehraduns Arya nagar just 5 days ago. Rajeshs family claims that the employees of the de-addiction centre had beaten him mercilessly following which he died. His family pointed to the injury marks on his body as a proof of their...
11:39 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Patna: Speaking at a massive rally here, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said the Centre was discriminating against his state by denying the special status for which he had made repeated pleas and promised to fight till it was granted. Flanked by JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav, Kumar told the 'Adhikar' rally, at the culmination of months-long "Adhikar Yatras", at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna that the...
04:26 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Convenor Bhartuhari Mahtab on Saturday alleged coal blocks were allocated to different companies without consulting the states concerned. "The Centre allocated coal blocks arbitrarily without consulting the coal-bearing states," Mahtab said after reviewing coal block allocations in Odisha. Mahtab, a BJD MP, claimed PAC came to know that while the state government recommended one coal block in favour of one company, the Centre allocated...
08:41 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Washington: The last of NASA's retired spacecraft Atlantis slowly covered its historic last journey to its final resting place after the US space agency ended its 30-year shuttle program in 2011. The shuttle made its 15.8 kilometres journey on Friday from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, permanently to a visitor centre where it will be put for public display in a $100 million hall due to open in July. Accompanied...
04:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: For more than a decade, politics in Gujarat has been synonymous with Narendra Modi. With the Assembly elections due in a few weeks, the scenario seems to no different. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongman, who has ruled Gujarat with an iron hand since October 2001, has swatted all opposition with such ruthlessness that today there is no virtually no leader in the state capable of challenging him....
09:10 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh has traditionally seen a straight contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress and the 2012 Assembly election are going to be no different with the two involved in a bitter battle. The state will vote in a single phase on November 4, and the counting of the votes will take place weeks later, on December 20 along with Gujarat. Even though the final...
09:05 PM, Oct 29, 2012
San Francisco: Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centers where an intricate maze of computers process Internet search requests, show YouTube video clips and distribute email for millions of people. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled Wednesday at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/ . The site features photos from inside some of the eight data centres that Google Inc. already has running in the US,...
11:07 AM, Oct 18, 2012
San Francisco: Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centres where an intricate maze of computers process Internet search requests, show YouTube video clips and distribute email for millions of people. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled on Wednesday at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/ . The site features photos from inside some of the eight data centres that Google already has running in the US,...
07:01 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police's Economic Offences Wing on Monday began its probe into the alleged financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Minister Salman Khurshid. It started collecting documents at various levels, "including state, divisional and district headquarters as a part of the investigation", Director General EOW, Subrat Tripathi told PTI. When asked about the details, Tripathi said it was neither a raid nor a search. "How can...
02:15 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Bhopal: The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and their families are back on a protest. They claim that the Bhopal Memorial Hospital, specially set up for the victims, is on the verge of closure. The hospital built to take care of the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy is itself in the need of rescue. In 2010, following a CNN-IBN report, which showed administrative apathy, the union government took...
09:52 AM, Oct 10, 2012
An outbreak of encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh has so far claimed the lives of 400 children this year. Many more are fighting for survival. CNN-IBN found that nearly Rs 3350 crore that was sanctioned by the government to battle the outbreak hardly reached those who needed it most. The Akhilesh Yadav government has now promised swift action, especially after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) summoned senior ...
10:09 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Backing Centre's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has defended FDI in retail by saying that the decision will help farmers prosper by removing middlemen from the supply chain and generate new jobs. He said, "A whopping 60 to 70 per cent of all Indian perishable products eventually rot because of lack of proper storage facilities. This will change once FDI in...
08:34 AM, Oct 05, 2012
