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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Rail traffic on the busy Lucknow-Delhi route was disrupted Monday after eight wagons of a goods train were derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district, officials said. No one was reported injured or killed in the accident. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Former union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and sitting Rajya Sabha member Naresh Gujral Monday filed their nominations for the March 26 elections to the upper house of parliament after Punjab's ruling Akali Dal named them as its candidates. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Gandhinagar, March 15(IANS) The Gujarat High Court will Tuesday hear the plea of 79 accused in the Godhra train burning case, challenging a designated court's decision to consider the confession of the accused as evidence. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Nearly 2,500 professors and administrative staff of the Jamia Millia Islamia university Monday assembled at Jantar Mantar, a stone's throw from Parliament House in New Delhi area, to press their demand for recognition of the varsity as a Muslim minority educational institution. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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The final arguments in the trial of Pakistani terror accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, and two of his associates are likely to be completed this week. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Activist Javed Abidi, fighting for the cause of specially abled people, believes that awareness and sensitization among disabled people is the biggest challenge for their enumeration in 2011 census. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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United States Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer on Monday expressed hope that the Nuclear Liability Bill would help strengthen trust between the two countries. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Noted advocate Ram Jethmalani on Monday filed an application before the Supreme Court seeking recall of its directions ordering a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the 2002 Gujarat riots incidents. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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A working group set up by the finance ministry to review foreign portfolio investment policy will submit its report in April, a finance ministry official said Monday. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday demanded a relook at the Green Tribunal Bill that aims to address environmental-related issues and grievances, saying it would discourage the people from raising such issues. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Strengthening the economic revival story, financial sectors made a beeline to hire students from Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K). The elite B-school Monday said that a whopping 39 percent of their students got placed in this vertical. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Protection of ancient monuments and archaeological remains climbed a notch higher up the government's agenda with the Lok Sabha Monday unanimously passing an amendment to the law safeguarding such sites. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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In virtually the first-ever action against the arbitrary and illegal decision of a 'Khap panchayat' (community council), the administration in Haryana's Bhiwani district has suspended two village panchayat (council) members, including the sarpanch (headman). |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is unable to understand why she is under fire from various quarters for installing her own statues. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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The Supreme Court Monday ordered the DAV Trust, running hundreds of educational institutions in the country, to pay an interim sum of Rs.10 crore for relief and rehabilitation of victims, killed and injured over 14 years ago in a raging fire at a school it ran in a Haryana town. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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The union cabinet Monday cleared a proposal to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India, a step that is expected to provide quality education in the country and reduce the flow of Indian students abroad. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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A Right to Information (RTI) applicant Monday alleged that two engineers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) threatened to kill him if he pursued his quest for information. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was Monday presented a giant garland of currency notes by her fans from Karnataka. Though the exact value of the garland is not known, onlookers put it in the region of a whopping Rs.5 crore! |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Andhra Pradesh police said Monday that the Maoists were planning to resurface in the state in a big way by carrying out major sensational attacks. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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West Bengal Fire Services Minister Pratim Chattopadhyay Monday said his department would take action against the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for not following the fire safety norms while setting up a temporary gallery for Sunday's T20 match at the Eden Gardens. |
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