http://mangalam.com/The best RSS feed you will ever encounterCopyright 2009 http://mangalam.comajith@mangalam.com (AJITH)http://mangalam.com/images/maillogo.gifhttp://mangalam.com/8829Bangalore, May 16 (PTI) Swinging into action a day after filing an FIR against former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in connection with illegal mining, CBI officials today conducted simultaneous raids at the senior BJP leader's residences here and in some other places in the state. A joint team of CBI officials from Hyderabad and Bangalore also raided residences of Yeddyurappa's sons B Y Raghavendra, MP, and B Y Vijayendra as also his

]]>New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveyed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that India's concerns on terrorism have to be addressed and anti-India activities have to be stopped there if the people of India were to support and sustain progress in bilateral relations with Islamabad. During the visit of Zardari to India on April 8, Singh and Zardari had discussed the issue of terrorism and the Prime Minister told the Pakistan President that there was

]]>New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) Strongly favouring nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there would be no compromise on safety of atomic plants and it would be harmful to close the additional source of energy. "It would be harmful for the country to pass an ordinance on denial of nuclear power," Singh said replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha. He was replying to question

]]>Kolkata, May 16 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who will complete a year in office on May 20, has claimed that her government has been able to restore peace in Junglemahal with not a single death reported so far this year. Citing statistics, the chief minister told PTI that in 2010-11 when the Left Front government was still in power in the state, 139 civilians and 35 security personnel were killed in Junglemahal which comprises West

]]>New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) A Raja, the prime accused in 2G spectrum scam, today came to Parliament a day after being released from Tihar jail where he was lodged after his arrest in the case on February 1 last year. Dressed in white shirt and black trousers, 49-year-old Raja got down from his car and entered Parliament. He then went went straight to the Lok Sabha. The former Telecom

]]>Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 (PTI) Three scheduled castes and Tribes outfits have urged the Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to take over the SC/ST welfare portfolio to ensure proper utilisation of funds meant for these sections. The present SC/ST minister P K Jayalakshmi had failed to utilise funds worth Rs 20 crore allotted to the scheduled classes, Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha leader C K Janu, SC/ST development council chairman K K Narayanan and Land Reforms Committee convenor M

]]>Lucknow, May 16 (PTI) Apprehending large-scale irregularities in the allotment of farmhouses in Noida during the Mayawati regime, the Uttar Pradesh government has asked the Noida Development Authority Chairman to conduct an inquiry and submit its report in a week's time. The state government ordered the inquiry yesterday after receiving a note from the Noida Chief Development Officer, Sanjiv Saran in this regard, a senior officer in the Industrial Development Commissioner said here today. Some 150 farmhouses of 10,000 sq

]]>Chennai, May 16 (PTI) Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, who was recently set free by Maoists after 12 days of captivity in Chhattisgarh, today called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and thanked her for urging the Centre to take steps for his release. Menon, an IAS officer from Tamil Nadu, met the Chief Minister at the Secretariat and expressed his gratitude, an official release said. Jayalalithaa had written to Prime Minister

]]>Itanagar, May 16 (PTI): The All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU) has given a call for a 24-hr state-wide bandh on May 18 next in protest against, what they termed as the state government's "failure" to present a white paper on the financial condition of the state. It accused the government of resorting to media statements and hiding the facts as "it is evident that they have not come out with any

]]>Moscow, May 16 (PTI) Defending champion Viswanathan Anand holds the edge going into the fifth game as white in his World Championship match against Boris Gelfand at the State Tretyakov Gallery here. The fourth game was another piece of good preparation by Anand and another indication that Gelfand and his team are yet to even come close to cracking the opening repertoire of the Indian. The Slav defense had

]]>Mumbai, May 16 (PTI) The rupee today fell five-month low by losing 47 paise to 54.26 against the US dollar on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market in early trade on increased capital outflows amid strong demand for the American currency. The rupee had touched a record intra-day low of 54.32 on December 15, 2011. Forex dealers said apart from the dollar's gains against the euro and other currencies overseas on renewed euro-zone worries, a weak opening in the equity

]]>Lahore, May 16 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani should be restrained from using his powers to frame the federal budget for 2012-13 in the wake of his conviction for contempt, demands a petition filed in the Lahore High Court. Justice Umar Bandial of the Lahore High Court yesterday admitted the petition for regular hearing and observed that a larger bench should hear the matter since the points raised by the petitioner are of grave importance. Bandial forwarded

]]>Gurgaon, May 16 (PTI) A local court today granted permission to Gurgaon Police to carry out the identification parade of Suraj Sehrawat, main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which two persons were killed. The Gurgaon Police has also submitted two other pleas seeking court's permission to get Suraj's blood samples and the clothes he was wearing at the time of the accident for further investigation. The court, however, rejected these pleas saying once the identity of the accused

]]>Jaipur, May 16 (PTI) A petition moved by jailed MLA Rajendra Rathore challenging his custody in a fake encounter case was today rejected by a local court here. District and Session Judge P C Jain rejected the application. After hearing the final arguments on the application on May 10, the court had reserved judgement for today. The court also extended his judicial custody till May 19. In the application, Rathore had said that his detention in the case was illegal

]]>Ranchi, May 16 (PTI) Jharkhand Speaker C P Singh was today sentenced to a month's imprisonment in a 2005 case of breach of public order by burning an effigy of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, but was immediately given bail. Chief Judicial Magistrate V K Mishra sentencedSingh to a month's imprisonment under IPC 188 (Disobedience of an order lawfully promulgated by a public servant). The speaker's plea for bail was granted immediately. Singh had burnt an effigy of Sonia Gandhi

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