NEW
DELHI/PATNA, Dec 20:Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today
received a jolt ahead of the Assembly elections when an
FIR was filed against him on charges of attempting to
bribe the electorate and his party RJD was threatened
with derecognition by the Election Commission in the wake
of controversy over his distribution of money to some
people near Patna on Saturday..........more
A migratory bird lands among others on an island of the
Satragachi wetland, 20 kms south of Kolkata on
Monday.(UNI)
JAMMU,
Dec 20: To
ascertain the problems of displaced people from Kashmir
languishing in various camps here for last 15 years, a
two member Inter-ministerial team led by Sushma Chowdhary
a senior IAS Officer in J&K Cadre and Principal
Advisor in Planning Commission visited the migrant camps
of Muthi, Purkhoo and Mishriwala today..........more
JAMMU, Dec 20: The State is likely
to witness a harsh winter in terms of the
electricity supply. With imports from
Northern Grid and other resources and
State’s own generation declining,
the Government today pressed panic
buttons with Chief Minister Mufti Mohd
Sayeed and Deputy Chief Minister Mangat
Ram Sharma speaking to Union Power
Minister P M Sayeed in New Delhi and
Union Power Secretary R V Shahi holding
an emergency review meeting here with the
Power Development Department (PDD)
officers......more
NEW DELHI, Dec 20
:Had the
previous NDA Government, after
amassing troops for ten months on
the borders with Pakistan, taken
some strong action in the wake of
the December 13 attack on
Parliament, the then Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
would have emerged as Lord Shiva,
former Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah said
today.........more
JAMMU, Dec 20:In another
milestone in education sector, the
University Grants Commission (UGC) has
sanctioned "career oriented
courses" in 11 degree colleges of
the State, which would start from the
academic session in March-April next
year.......more
MUMBAI, Dec 20:The
Maharashtra Police suffered a jolt today
with the arrest of Director General of
Police (Housing) Rahul Gopal by the State
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on charges
of corruption.........more
NEW DELHI, Dec 20:Jammu
and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed today met Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and discussed the follow-up action
on the economic package announced for the
State and the latest security
situation........more
NEW DELHI, Dec 20:Asserting
that it was "distressed" for
being blamed for disruptions of
proceedings in the Lok Sabha, the
opposition NDA today decided to meet
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to vent their
"complaints"............more
SRINAGAR, Dec 20: Over a dozen
houses and a place of worship have
suffered minor to extensive damage in a
powerful explosion at the residence of a
Hizbul Mujahideen militant in Pulwama
district.......more
JAMMU, Dec 20: The Police
Headquarters today ordered attachment of
SP (Operations) Jammu Deepak Singh
Slathia and Sub Divisional Police Officer
(SDPO) Bakshi Nagar Tanveer Jeelani to
the office of IGP Jammu in connection
with the interview of former Miss Jammu
Anara Gupta conducted by the electronic
channels inside the Women Cell police
station.......more
