New Delhi: The government on Saturday announced a new law to deal with unfair practices in sport amid damaging allegations of spot fixing in the Indian Premier League competition. “The government of India has decided to enact a standalone legislation to deal with unfair practices in sport. The government is committed to bring this law as soon as possible,” Law Minister Kapil Sibal told... 

NEW DELHI: Following the Op Bluestar memorial at Golden Temple Amritsar, the Shiromani Akali Dal SAD controlled Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee DSGMC has now planned to build a memorial at Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib in the heart of the national capital. Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib also houses the DSGMC office. Sources told Jago Punjab Jago India JPJI that the DSGMC management working right under... 

NEW DELHI: The annual general meeting and elections of office bearers(s) for the term 2013-2017 of Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India was allegedly illegally held earlier yesterday at Jaipur. The federation has been headed by Janardhan Singh Gehlot , who has been the president of the federation for the past 21 years. The players and well wishers of the sport were surprised and saddened to learn the... 

NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. “Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation,” a Delhi Police official said. Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan was the first to accept his role in spot-fixing during questioned by Delhi Police while... 

WASHINGTON: India’s leading pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy shares slipped 3 percent on Tuesday morning after the pharma major said it and its affiliates have agreed to settle all alleged civil violations of the False Claims Act with the US and the company’s US subsidiary is pleading guilty to criminal charges related to violation of the Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act and other criminal statutes. Ranbaxy,... 

New Delhi: A chargesheet has been filed against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The court says prima facie charges of rape, unnatural sex, abetment of suicide, conspiracy, forgery under the IPC and IT act have been made out against Kanda. Kanda and Chadha have been chargesheeted under section 306 (abetment to suicide), 120 B (criminal... 

NEW DELHI: Impressive annual confidential reports (ACRs) of the state civil\police services officers will not be enough for them to get inducted into the elite All India Services like IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service. They will now have to appear in a competitive written examination, which is to be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), annually. Deciding to change in the scheme... 

BANGALORE: The final tally of the Karnataka Assembly polls has finally come in, while the BJP and JDS are tied for second place with 40 seats each. BS Yeddyurappa’s KJP has only managed 6 seats and its safe to say that he is not going to be a kingmaker like he hoped he would be. Below are the results: Congress – 121 BJP – 40 JDS – 40 KJP – 6 Others – 16 Nine years after losing power, the... 

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been under attack from the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, today reached out to the BJP leader in Parliament in a bid to win support for the passage of crucial Bills. Soon after Lok Sabha was adjourned, Swaraj was walking towards Central Hall with BJP Parliamentary Party chief L K Advani and other MPs when Gandhi approached her and... 

NEW DELHI: The final results of Civil Services Examination, 2012 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were announced on Friday. A total number of 998 candidates have qualified and have been recommended for appointment including 457 General (including 23 physically challenged candidates), 295 Other Backward Classes (including 9 Physically challenged candidates), 169 Scheduled Castes... 

Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. Apart from them, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister AK Antony and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid are also in the list. Indian spiritual leaders Baba Ramdev... 

Jatinder Preet: Punjabi girls have made big inroads in the southern film industry, with many of them appearing in mainstream Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam movies. While they are working to fulfil their dreams of making it big in the glamour industry, these girls are also bridging the north-south divide through cinema. Navaneet Kaur, a Sikh born and brought up in Mumbai, made a successful career... 

MUMBAI: Hindi film fraternity today mourned the demise of legendary singer Shamshad Begum, calling her death the end of an era in Hindi cinema music. Shamshad Begum died last night at her Powai residence in presence of her daughter Usha Ratra and son-in-law Yog Ratra. Begum was born on April 14, 1919 in Amritsar, Punjab. She made her debut on Peshawar Radio in Lahore on December 16, 1947, captivating... 

NEW DELHI: Facing criticism for checking growing violence cases against women in the wake of horrific gang-rape of a five-year-old in the national capital, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday landed himself in yet another controversy with his ‘rape remarks’ in Lok Sabha. While trying to diffuse the raging protests, Shinde said that such incidents (rape) are taking place not just in Delhi... 

Navjeevan Gopal: AMRITSAR: Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, now 48, had once studied mechanical engineering at Guru Nanak Engineering College, Ludhiana, and later taught there. He is often referred to as “Prof Bhullar” in Punjab. He became a wanted man after an attempt on the life of then Chandigarh Senior SP Sumedh Singh Saini (now Punjab DGP) in 1991. During the police hunt for him, his father,... 

PUNE: A court in Pune has awarded the death sentence to alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Himayat Baig in the 2010 German bakery blast case, calling it the ‘rarest of rare’ case. Baig fainted in court on hearing the verdict. Baig is the first alleged IM operative to be awarded the capital punishment in a terror case in India.  He had pleaded to the court that he is innocent and shouldn’t... 

NEW DELHI:  Ignoring a cease-and-desist warning publicly issued by the BJP over the weekend, Mr Nitish Kumar, who is the Chief Minister of Bihar, took another swipe at BJP leader Narendra Modi this morning, suggesting that the buck stops with the government of Gujarat for the communal riots of 2002. Mr Modi was serving his first term as chief minister of Gujarat when hundreds of Muslims were killed... 

NEW DELHI:   Bharti Airtel today said its customers travelling to the US can have up to five hours of free incoming calls and make outgoing calls for Rs 20 per minute through special international roaming packs. Apart from USA, the Company has launched international roaming packs for countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, UAE and UK, the Company... 

The Supreme Court today delivered its judgment on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s plea for commuting to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to him for the September 10, 1993 bomb attack on the then Youth Congress president M.S. Bitta. A Bench comprising Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya gave its verdict, which rejected the commuting death sentences on account of the long delays in... 

NEW DELHI: In a major setback for Congress leader and former union minister Jagdish Tytler, a Delhi court on Wednesday ordered that his role in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots be re-investigated. The Karkardooma court which ordered the re-investigation set aside the order of a trial court which had accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closure report of 2009 that had given a... 

Navtan Kumar: NEW DELHI: Tejashwi Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s cricketer son, hopes to score big in politics. Though he was “introduced” to politics around four years ago, it is only now that he has started getting deeply involved in the political affairs of the RJD, especially the Youth RJD. From 20 April, he will travel all across Bihar as part of... 

NEW DELHI: Ruling out early general elections, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the government will complete its agenda for 2013 and then go to polls. “There will be no early elections. Elections will take place on time in May, 2014,” Chidambaram said at an hour-long press conference. 

He was asked to comment on reports of some ministers being drafted for party work by Congress.... 

NEW DELHI: BJP National Secretary Vani Tripathi was attacked by five men in New Delhi even as hundreds of vehicles passed by without stopping to help her. Yesterday’s incident happened close to the spot of December 16 gangrape. Vani was attacked by five men while driving home near Greater Kailash locality in busy South Delhi on Thursday night and nobody came to her help. This kind of insensitive... 

NEW DELHI: A month after two Punjab Police constables were caught on camera brutally thrashing a young woman in Tarn Taran, the Supreme Court today slammed the state government for not taking corrective action. Taking a strong note of the incident, the court directed the Punjab government to provide security to the woman. The top court, however, said that instead of state police, the woman should... 

To, All the Chairpersons, Human Rights Commission In The Republic of India Sir, PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY- PREVENTION OF TORTURES  It is a matter of pleasure for all of us that protection of Human Rights Act has been enacted to protect the human dignity. But sheer violation of human rights continues, and the Country registers about 9000 custodial deaths and more than 100000 cases of violation of... 

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan forwarded expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s letter, seeking pardon for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, to the state Home Department on March 28, a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said today. On March 26, Singh and Jayaprada had met the Governor to seek pardon for Dutt, who already served 18 months, after being sentenced to five years’ imprisonment... 

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday got an invitation to visit the US as a delegation comprising of some American Congressmen met him in Ahmedabad. The invitation is a shot in the arm for the BJP leader who has in the past been denied a visa by the US administration over his alleged involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots. After meeting the US officials, Modi tweeted, “I spoke... 

MUMBAI: As the nation dresses up in myriad hues of the festival of colours, the Bollywood film industry too joined in to wish all a very happy and colourful Holi. Amidst the usual wishes, the plea for a waterless and safe Holi was visible in what celebs had to say about the festival. Celebrities from Amitabh Bachchan to Madhuri Dixit took to the blogging site Twitter to wish their fans and followers... 

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal began his indefinite hunger strike at the Rajghat here on Saturday against increased power and water bills in the national capital. Kejriwal said the lives of the common man have become miserable due to the rampant corruption. “The price of electricity and water has been increased in Delhi only because of the corruption. The government was... 

Dr Ashwini Kumar, Hon’ble Minister for Law and Justice, 18, Ashoka Road, New Delhi 110001 Sir, JUDICIAL REFORMS- SURVEY AND FEEDBACK FROM PUBLIC  As your kind honour is aware that the Indian Judiciary has not served the dreams of citizens in general even after independence though there may be stray cases of judgments to quench appetite for cheap popularity.  The magistrates issue warrants against... 

NEW DELHI: The creditability of the UPSC is on stake today. UPSC had notified adding English paper of 100 marks in merit for civil services. This move of UPSC is ‘to be put on hold’, stated Minister of Personnel in the parliament. He announced that the said notification shall be in abeyance. Issue of neglect of Regional languages rocked Lok Sabha proceedings on Friday, 15th March 2013, when the... 

NEW DELHI: Mrs. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Member Parliament from Bathinda today slammed the Congress led UPA Government for irrelevant budget presented recently and said that once again UPA Government has with its budget proved how disconnected it was with the issues that plague the people of our country including Price rise, corruption, joblessness, inaccessibility to quality or adequate health and educational... 

NEW DELHI: Former IAF chief S P Tyagi today became the first Air Chief to be booked by the CBI, along with 12 others, for alleged cheating, corruption and criminal conspiracy in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP helicopter deal and searches were carried out at 14 locations including his residence. The former Air Chief, his cousins–Sanjeev alias Julie, Rajeev alias Docsa and Sandeep, European middlemen Carlo... 

NEW DELHI: BJP leader LK Advani has said the mood of the people is against the Congress and simultaneously disillusioned with his party. He faulted the party’s handling of Karnataka affairs in the wake of corruption allegations against the then Chief Minister Y S Yeddyurappa in 2010, in a veiled criticism of Nitin Gadkari who was the party president at that time. “In the last few years,... 

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH, March 4: Raninder Singh the president of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), Raninder Singh, today got an overwhelming support from across the country getting 517 votes out of 843 for the authorisation to nominate members to the general house. He won by a margin of 193 votes with his opponents managing 324 votes only. On behalf of Shiromani Akali Dal SAD Bikram Majithia... 

NEW DELHI: Union Public Service Commission UPSC, country’s apex body to select Babudom, learnt to have restructured the criteria for fresh Civil Services exams, and the file for final approval has been lying in the Prime Minister’s office. After the PM puts his stamp of approval UPSC would issue notification for the Civil Services exam 2013. Messed up with overhauling the Civil Services exam criteria... 

NEW DELHI: The premier body of India for selection of top Babudom, UPSC, which is known for its quality and strict schedules, appear to be taking too much time on finalizing Civil Services Examination 2013. Earlier the speculations were that this year there shall be complete overhaul of this examination and UPSC was to declare the Civil Services 2013 examination notification on 2nd of February 2013. However,... 

HYDERABAD: Counter-terrorism investigators probing the twin blasts in Hyderabad’s busy Dilsukhnagar shopping area on Thursday have found “useful CCTV footage”, while seeing an Indian Mujahideen (IM) imprint on the terror attack. “The CCTV footage is being analysed to spot the people who planted the bombs,” a senior investigator who did not want to named said on Friday. ”There... 

JAMMU: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia was barred from entering Jammu on Thursday. A police official said that his presence could lead to “law and order” problems. Togadia was sent back after his flight from Delhi landed. He was to attend several programmes in the Jammu region during a two-day visit. ”Law and order reasons necessitated the action,” a police... 

MUMBAI: Out to woo Indian businesses and students, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced his country would introduce same-day visa services for investors and said there would be no limit on the number of students from here studying there. “We have the biggest visa operations anywhere else in the world right here in India. I announce that we are going to introduce for businesses...