Новости за 07.04.2016

The exam season is stressful not only to students but also their families.

The Telangana government's much-hyped plan to set up 'country desks' to attract foreign investments has been given a quiet burial.

Congress legislature party (CLP) leader Charanjit Singh Channi has taken on the ruling alliance for a large number of vacancies in the education sector in the state.

A Fazilka court on Thursday held three youths guilty for raping a minor girl and uploading the MMS of the act on a social networking site.

Sources in the security establishment indicated that there were feelers from China that it may tone down its reservations provided some of the references in the proposal to the Pakistani set-up were omitted.

A year after the Punjab and Haryana high court set aside the election of Congress ex-MLA and noted Punjabi folk-singer Muhammad Sadiq from Bhadaur assembly constituency, the arguments on an appeal filed by him in the Supreme Court concluded on Wednesday.

About 122 surveillance cameras have been installed in all coaches of Shan-e-Punjab Express as the railways seeks to strengthen security of passengers particularly women travellers.

A petition filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, demanding probe into the revelations made by former inspector Gurmit Singh Pinki about the killing of Sikh youths in police encounters was withdrawn on Thursday.

Diesel taxi operators here have approached the Supreme Court for stay on National Green Tribunal (NGT) order imposing complete ban on movement of all diesel vehicles used for tourism purpose on Manali-Rohtang route.

The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) here has developed a seminar on “developing skills to manage stress” as it feels the “level of tolerance among students for each other’s culture, tradition, region, religion has shown significant degradation recently”.

It’s the first day of Chaitra month—New Year by the Hindu calendar—and members of Sindhi, Maharashtrian, Kannad and Kashmiri communities are celebrating it each as Cheti Chand, Gudi Parva, Ugadi or Navroh, according to their individual tradition.

After three splinter Akali groups and some other Sikh organizations came together on a common platform on Thursday, they demanded that photo identity cards be made mandatory in the next SGPC elections.

Sahaspur/ Police on Thursday said they had cracked the case of the murder of NIA officer Tanzil Ahmed, who was gunned down in Bijnor last Sunday as he was coming out from the venue of a wedding he had just attended.

In a relief to RTI activists, the Haryana government has reduced the fee being charged to access information under the RTI Act to Rs10 per application from Rs50.

Candidates appearing for Lucknow University entrance examination will have 100 multiple choice questions based on the common 10+2 syllabi of three main boards (UP board, CBSE and ISC) to test their knowledge in subjects of the stream (science, commerce or arts) they have applied for admission to.

A 16-year old girl was found hanging from the ceiling of her house in Gosainganj on Thursday.

Coming out with statistics with regards to electrification work being carried out by Central government, state BJP claimed on Thursday that the work has been done in 1,305 villages of UP.

After breaking into the bank's network on four banking days (March 15, 17, 18 and 21), the group of hackers stole about Rs 1.20 lakh from five different branches of the bank.

Not letting the issue of senior minister Azam Khan's 'speech controversy' die down, governor Ram Naik said in Pratapgarh on Thursday that he had forwarded a letter in this regard to chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.

FIR was lodged on Thursday against Madhu Mishra, the expelled president of Bharatiya Janata Party's Mahila Morcha on the complaint of Dalit rights organisation Ambedkar Mahasabha.

After 99 days of being promoted as principal secretary, Haryana's IAS officer Ashok Khemka was given a new posting on Thursday.

The Haryana government has told the Punjab and Haryana high court that 'there is no protocol for clinical trials of ayurvedic drugs' even as it administers ayurvedic medicines to drug addicts.

In addition to image building for Captain Amarinder Singh as the face of the Congress in Punjab, political strategist Prashant Kishor's team, Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC), has started working on other aspects of the party's campaign too.