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3000 Special Police Officers to counter Naxalite menace in Orissa
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 10:23 am
Bhubaneswar, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced to recruit another 3000 special police officers, primarily from the tribal areas in the Naxalite affected areas to counter the left wing ultras menace in the state.
Mr Patnaik said these 3,000 special officers would be recruited in addition to 2,100 special police officers already [...]
Newspaper office ransacked, 6 employees wounded
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 10:17 am
Gulbarga, Six employees of a Kannada daily, Samyukta Karnataka were injured when a group of people belonging to a particular community attacked the office to protest the publication of a news item here, this evening.
Police said more than 50 youths came to the office in a procession and forced their way in.
They hit [...]
Deranged children rescued from flooded Ashram
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 10:11 am
Kapurthala The district administration today rescued 15 deranged children from the Sukhjit Ashram near a railway station following flooding of the premises.
SDM Anupam Kler who supervised the rescue operation told UNI all the children were safe and were shifted to a safer place in a dharamshala.
The administration took the help of a [...]
CII welcomes the state budget
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 10:09 am
Hyderabad, Welcoming the State Budget for 2009-2010 presented by Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K Rosaiah today, CII Chairman Harish Chandra Prasad, said ”this is a people’s budget”.
The Chairman, CII AP, hailed the Budget for giving priorities to Agriculture, Industrial promotion, Infrastructure, Education and Health, which reiterates its focus on Inclusive growth.
However, the CII [...]
Man drowned, body found
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 10:04 am
Udupi, A 65-year-old person who had gone for picking up sea shells in the river was washed away in the Suvarna River water at Harady village in Bramhavar in Udupi taluk yesterday.
According to police Manjunatha Suvarna, who had gone along with his wife and daughter in a boat, stepped down from the [...]
MPEOW raids on govt college, transport office
By chennaivision at 24 July, 2009, 1:12 pm
Indore, Madhya Pradesh Economic Offences’ Wing (MPEOW) authorities conducted raids on a government art and medical college and the district transport office and seized important documents.
Official sources said raids were conducted on the college yesterday in connection with an alleged scholarship scam, while a few documents pertaining to a case were seized from the [...]
Girl injured in blast
By chennaivision at 24 July, 2009, 10:45 am
Imphal, A girl sustained injuries when a blast occurred at Hopeson Chothe at Lamphel Sana Keithel, Imphal West, last night.
Police today said the bomb, lobbed by suspected militants, exploded near the kitchen of the Taxation Commissioner’s house.
His daughter, Awaila (16), was wounded in the blast, police informed.
The girl was admitted to the Regional Institute [...]
Major fire at CSIR; 2 killed
By chennaivision at 24 July, 2009, 10:21 am
New Delhi, Two people were roasted alive and three suffered grievous burns after a major fire broke out on the third floor of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) building here this evening.
Five people were trapped inside the building and taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, where two were pronounced brought dead, fire [...]
IMC pension scam echoes in MP Assly
By chennaivision at 23 July, 2009, 5:06 pm
Bhopal, The Madhya Pradesh Assembly today witnessed heated exchanges between ruling and opposition members over the alleged Rs 38 crore pension scam in the Indore Municipal Corporation.
While replying to supplementary raised by Ms Kalpana Parulekar (Cong), Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur said irregularities in pension schemes had been reported in other civic bodies. [...]
Pun Govt nominates members of Distt Committees
By chennaivision at 23 July, 2009, 4:44 pm
Chandigarh, The Punjab Government today nominated two members of the District Level Planning Committees of Fatehgarh Sahib and Barnala.
A spokesman of the Chief Minister’s office said here that Mr Lal Chand Jindal and Mr. Dheeraj Kumar had been nominated as the members of the District Level Planning Committee of Fatehgarh Sahib and Barnala.
