Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Cobrapost expose: Banks, insurance firms suspend 15 employees

Cobrapost expose: Banks, insurance firms suspend 15 employees

Cobrapost expose: Banks, insurance firms suspend 15 employees

The government on Tuesday said public sector banks and insurance companies have suspended at least 15 officers and employees on money laundering allegations as exposed in a sting operation by an investigative website Cobrapost. "So far, 15 ...
Antony non-committal if India would withdraw from Chumar

Antony non-committal if India would withdraw from Chumar

Defence minister AK Antony on Tuesday remained non-committal whether India had agreed to withdraw its troops from a key post in Chumar area in Ladkah as was being demanded by China. "I will just say that the two sides have agreed to have status quo ...
Food Security Bill to prove costly for government

Food Security Bill to prove costly for government

By Jo Winterbottom. NEW DELHI | Tue May 7, 2013 10:20pm IST. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government may soon pass the National Food Security Bill to give millions more people cheap food, fulfilling an election promise of the ruling Congress party that ...
Mumbai NSUI chief caught dancing naked, suspended

Mumbai NSUI chief caught dancing naked, suspended

Mumbai: Suraj Singh Thakur, the Mumbai unit chief of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), has been suspended for allegedly dancing naked at a party function in the Mumbai suburb of Kandivli last month. Reports, Tuesday, said Thakur was ...
Land transfer pact with Dhaka will pave way for secession: AGP

Land transfer pact with Dhaka will pave way for secession: AGP

Opposing the bill providing for transfer of certain territories of Assam to Bangladesh, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Tuesday said this will start a “secession movement” in the state and not in the interest of the country. “If the government is giving away land ...
NIIT changes business model to boost revenue

NIIT changes business model to boost revenue

As part of its new strategy, NIIT on Tuesday announced the opening of a 'cloud campus' to provide education in non-IT space. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint. New Delhi: Computer education company NIIT Ltd will focus on new courses, including management, ...
Devinder Bhullar

Devinder Bhullar's wife moves SC for stay on his death sentence

New Delhi: The wife of 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday for a stay on the execution of his death sentence. The Supreme Court says that she will have to approach the same bench that delivered the ...
Parameshwara sure of Cong win, Shettar foresees hung House

Parameshwara sure of Cong win, Shettar foresees hung House

On the eve of counting of votes, all three major political parties were hopeful of getting the people's blessings to emerge as the biggest winner in the State, while the Congress was exuding more confidence than others. The Congress, going by the exit polls ...
Wont allow political interference in Presidency University: Mamata Banerjee

Wont allow political interference in Presidency University: Mamata Banerjee

The West Bengal government today assured the Presidency University that no political interference would be allowed in the premier institution and there would be an impartial probe into the vandalism there. "The chief minister (Mamata Banerjee) has assured ...
BJP using govt funds on

BJP using govt funds on 'Vikas Yatra' in Chhattisgarh: Cong

Opposition Congress today said Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh's 'Vikas Yatra' has been launched with political motives and accused the ruling BJP of using public money to promote itself ahead of the Assembly polls. State Congress General ...