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  • Teachers recruitment scam Interim bail to six accused

    The Delhi High Court Thursday granted interim bail, on health grounds, to six people convicted in the 2000 Haryana teachers appointment scam. Justice Siddharth Mridul granted bail to six convicts for six weeks on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs.25,000 each along with two sureties of like amount before the trial court. On May 21, former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala (78), ...

  • Suspend two officials for illegal detention Himachal court

    The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday directed the state government to suspend and initiate disciplinary proceedings against its two officials for illegal detention of a man over alleged threat of breach of peace in 2009. Hearing a petition of Suresh Kumar of Jubbal in Shimla district, Justice Rajiv Sharma ordered the officials - District Revenue Officer Sidharth Acharya and Additional ...

  • Government exempts excise duty on indigenous goods sold at duty-free shops

    In a bid to promote exports, the government Thursday exempted excise duty on indigenously produced goods sold at duty-free shops (DFS) at international airports. "Government issued notification today (Thursday) so as to allow excise duty-free sale of goods manufactured in India to international passengers or crew arriving from abroad at the DFS located in the arrival halls of international ...

  • Ranbir stays away from social-networking sites

    Having accepted the fact that rumours about his private life are "part and parcel" of the film industry, "Barfi!" star Ranbir Kapoor Thursday maintained that he would stay away from social-networking sites to shield his off-screen life. "My personal life should be on guard. I will not keep it open. I am not on any social networking sites and I won't be there also," Ranbir told reporters at a ...

  • Sports minister lauds amputee Everest climber Arunima

    Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh Thursday congratulated Arunima Sinha for climbing the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. Arunima, a former national level volleyball player, had lost her right leg after being thrown off a moving train by some hoodlums. She created history Tuesday by becoming the world's first female amputee and first Indian amputee to summit the Everest. "Congratulations ...

Movie Review

Ghosts of Mars

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starts out as a fairly effective sci-fi horrorshow, then quickly devolves into a mindless action movie that involves a small group of survivors machine-gunning hordes of possessed zombies. Carpenter, who cowrote the screenplay with Larry Sulkis, has an interesting central idea (even if it is lifted in part from Mario Bava's 1965 pulp thriller Planet of th ... ...

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  • Thursday Delhis hottest in May in 10 years

    The maximum temperature in Delhi touched 45.7 degrees Celsius Thursday, the highest for the month of May in the last 10 years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Thursday's maximum temperature was six notches above what is average for this time of the season. The second highest temperature recorded in the month of May in the last 10 years was when the mercury touched 45.4 degrees ...

  • BJP demands FIR against Sheila Dikshit

    The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday demanded that a first information report (FIR) be filed against Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds for "political purpose". "A report by the Delhi Lokayukta (ombudsman) must me made the basis for lodging an FIR against Sheila Dikshit. There is a criminal case of breach of trust," BJP leader Vijender ...

  • President arrives in Shimla for three-day visit

    President Pranab Mukherjee was accorded a ceremonial reception by Governor Urmila Singh and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on his arrival here Thursday on a three-day visit. He was given a guard of honour by the Rajput Regiment at the Kalyani helipad near here. This is his first visit to the hill state after becoming president. Mukherjee will address the state assembly here Friday. Official ...

  • Bookies lose Rs.35000 crore after police crackdown

    With a pan-India crackdown on betting rackets, Delhi bookies have suffered a whopping loss of Rs.35,000 crore as most of them have either wind up their business or have gone underground after the spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The business was worth Rs.50,000 crore at the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but within a week, with the arrest of three Rajasthan Royals ...

  • Iraqi water minister meets Indian counterpart

    Iraq's Water Resources Minister Mohanad Salman Al-Sady Thursday met his Indian counterpart Harish Rawat to discuss proposed memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the area of water management between the two countries. An official release said the two sides discussed draft of MoU, avenues for training of Iraqi engineers and experts in India and exchange of information relating to water ...

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