Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, said to be India's richest woman, was on Friday asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to vacate within 15 days her government accommodation, which she had been occupying unauthorisedly.
The court said that if Jindal failed to vacate the government bungalow within the stipulated time, the estate officer here would complete eviction proceedings within six weeks.
Jindal, a legislator of the ruling Congress in Haryana and mother of industrial tycoon and high-profile MP Naveen Jindal, has been occupying a ministerial bungalow in Chandigarh's upscale Sector 7 even though she ceased to be a minister in 2009.
She has been listed by a leading publication as the country's richest woman as she lords over a huge multi-billion steel and power sector empire being the chairperson of the Jindal group. Her name also figures among the Top-100 richest people in the world....
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02:50 AM, Apr 27, 2013
An 11-year-old girl brought a hand grenade to her class in an Australian school for a 'show and tell' activity on Wednesday, prompting evacuation of over 500 students and teachers. Police were called to Hunter Christian School in Sydney after a teacher discovered the girl had brought a "pineapple" hand grenade, a model of weapon used in the World War-II and the Vietnam War. ...
11:45 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New York: New York and New Jersey ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and low-lying coastal areas already devastated by deadly Superstorm Sandy as a smaller but still powerful Nor'easter approached from the Atlantic Ocean. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed parks and beaches and temporarily halted outdoor construction ahead of the storm, which was pelting the Washington area with ice pellets on Wednesday and whipping up seas as...
10:50 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New York: Sandy split New York City in two. The massive storm left people damp, miserable and in the dark in the lower part of the city. Yet in much of the rest of Manhattan, life was almost normal, albeit without some of the usual urban comforts. Almost every street below Times Square in the city's Midtown district lost power on Monday night after an explosion at a Consolidated Edison...
06:40 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama delivered a sober warning to millions in the path of Hurricane Sandy on Monday, declaring that even though food, water and generators have been moved into position, "this is going to be a difficult storm" with long-term power and transportation outages possible. In a direct appeal to those who live in harm's way, the president said, "Please listen to what your state and local officials are...
12:31 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New York: The New York Stock Exchange will close its trading floor Monday as Hurricane Sandy barrels its way up the Northeast, but Big Board trading will continue electronically. NYSE Euronext said Sunday it is putting in place its contingency plans beginning Monday and will announce later when the trading floor will reopen. The New York Mercantile Exchange, a commodity futures exchange, also will be shutting on Monday its trading...
07:18 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Guwahati: The Indian Air Force has evacuated over 400 flood-affected persons across Assam in the past 20 days as relief helicopters and transport planes are on round-the-clock standby. Air Commodore PE Patange of the Eastern Air Command said besides airlifting 400 marooned persons from various parts of the state, the IAF also airlifted dozens of tonnes of relief materials for distribition. Patange told reporters that a disaster management cell was...
02:32 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Tokyo: Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas killed at least 15 people in Japan as the storm moved northward past the country on Sunday. At least 43 others are missing, local media said. Evacuation orders and advisories have been issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan, Kyodo News agency reported. NHK TV footage showed a bridge that had been swept away after intense rainfall, which caused...
04:18 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Phoenix: Authorities ordered more evacuations on Sunday as crews battling a pair of wildfires in Arizona and on the New Mexico border faced extremely high winds that drove flames across containment lines and toward populated areas. The new evacuations were near the southern Arizona city of Sierra Vista, where the Monument fire had already forced nearly 7,000 people to flee 2,600 homes. At least 44 homes have been lost. Winds...
08:52 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Santiago: An erupting Chilean volcano sent a towering plume of ash across South America on Monday, forcing thousands from their homes, grounding airline flights in southern Argentina and coating ski resorts with a gritty layer of dust instead of snow. Booming explosions echoed across the Andes as toxic gases belched up from a three-mile-long fissure in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex - a ridge between two craters just west of...
07:35 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Vienna: Radiation measured at a village 40 km from Japan's crippled nuclear plant exceeded a criterion for evacuation, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, the latest sign of widening consequences from the crisis. The finding could increase pressure on Japan's government to extend the exclusion zone beyond 20 km (12 miles) around the Fukushima power plant, which has leaked radioactive particles since it was hit by a huge earthquake...
07:46 AM, Mar 31, 2011
Tokyo: It seemed too good to be true. A young man pulled alive from the rubble on Saturday eight days after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Hours after the man made international headlines on Saturday, a glimmer of hope in Japan's worst tragedy since World War Two, Japanese media offered a mea culpa, withdrew the story and dashed hopes of a "tsunami miracle". The man, in fact, had been in...
12:21 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Several hundred have boarded the INS Jalaswa and Air India flights and are on their way back home. ...
07:50 AM, Mar 11, 2011
Over the next twenty four hours, 2400 persons will come home in 8 special flights, from Libya and Egypt. ...
08:33 AM, Mar 10, 2011
New Delhi: More than half of the Indians living in Libya have been evacuated. The mission safe homecoming is coming to an end soon. But what the Indians went through left a deep impact on them. The tears just don't stop for Shaheen Iqbal, who escaped gunbattles in the Libyan town of Zawiya, where her husband Dr khurshid Iqbal worked as a professor. How I spent the night with my...
10:18 PM, Mar 07, 2011
CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar brings you the latest on the process of evacuation of Indians from Libya. ...
09:40 AM, Mar 07, 2011
CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar was the first Indian reporter to reach the Libyan capital of Tripoli. ...
11:35 PM, Mar 05, 2011
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Thursday said two Air Force IL-76 heavy-lift transport aircraft would be sent to Libya to evacuate Indian nationals stranded in the trouble-torn country. "Ministry of Defence has dispatched two naval ships including INS Jalashwa, which can carry more than 1000 passengers. We are also sending two IL-76 there," Antony told reporters after inaugurating a naval seminar here. Speaking on the occasion, Navy Chief...
05:28 PM, Mar 03, 2011
Home Secretary Nirupama Rao says Operation Safecoming is moving quite satisfactorily. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 01, 2011
