Kota, Rajasthan, is both a beacon for the educationally deprived and a cynical place in which 16-year-olds live in Dickensian boarding houses, while teachers drive Audis.
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Complying with the Election Commission's order, the West Bengal government on Wednesday removed seven officials from their existing posts and replaced them with different officials as desired by the poll panel.
The Indian Railways has proposed to introduce a modern coach "Anubhuti" with good ambience in the premier Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains providing higher travel comfort to passengers.
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Top decision-making body, executive council, will be dissolved on April 1.
Vinod Bansal blamed the lawyer of shoddy work.
Lok Sabha members of Parliament named in a television channel expose about corruption in MP Local Area Development scheme have filed their replies to the inquiry committee, set up by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.
Some disgruntled Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Chandigarh greeted Kirron Kher, party nominee for the local Lok Sabha seat, with black flags when she arrived in the city.
Last year, traffic jumped 15 times on Snapdeal's 'Big Sale Day' on Oct 6, when it had clocked Rs 1 crore a minute of sales over 10 hours.
Infibeam appointed Kothari as president, strategy, corporate development, international operations, and investor relations.
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Irrfan, Deepak Dobriyal, Radhika Madan, Ranvir Shorey, Pankaj Tripathi are all lovely, but make little sense in Angrezi Medium's muddled context, complains Sukanya Verma.
Senior party leaders slug it out for tickets in Chandigarh, Kangra
'Big Billion Day' scheduled for October 6 is inspired by flat number where co-founders began their journey.
"The Railway Minister has presented a very responsible, practical and implementable budget," Chidambram told reporters outside Parliament.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to question railway board members, including its chairman, in connection with the Rs 10 crore bribery scandal involving suspended board member Mahesh Kumar and nephew of Railway Minister P K Bansal.
Vicky Nanjappa profiles Narain Rao Manjunath, one of the key accused in the Railways bribery scandal.
His post-operative recovery was being closely monitored by a team of transplant surgeons, endocrinologist, nephrologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist and critical care experts among others.
Investors also appreciate the role being played by the founders; analysts, too, remain unperturbed.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
Every time she takes to the stage, the actress has a bold message to share.
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday stood firm in a local court on his stand of not seeking bail in a defamation case filed against him by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's political secretary for his alleged remarks against her during power tariff hike protests.
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The probe into the bribery scandal that led to resignation of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is expected to be completed within three months, Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha said on Tuesday.
A 'chadar' was on Sunday offered on behalf of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the dargah of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
'The Railway Board -- and every official in the ministry -- functions according to the whims and fancies of the Railway Minister,' former railways minister Dinesh Trivedi tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar in an exclusive interview. 'It is the system that needs to be changed. It has to go from a one person-oriented ministry to an organisation-oriented ministry. The system should be transparent.'
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested one more accused in the railway bribery scandal involving Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew and a board member, taking the total number of those apprehended to nine.
Charging that the government is working for dealers and brokers where every decision is up for sale, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday demanded that Railway Minister Pawan Bansal be sacked for the alleged involvement of his nephew in a bribery scandal.
What is more frightening is the level of radicalisation of Pakistani society, where jail authorities conspire with other convicts to kill an inmate on death row. This represents a dangerous trend in Pakistan's society of delivering instant justice, says Alok Bansal.
In the absence of sanction for prosecution against a railway board member, Central Bureau of Investigation's chargesheet in the railway bribery scam, which cost Congress MP Pawan Kumar Bansal his job as railway minister, may not be filed within stipulated time till July 3.
The top court, which had earlier fixed August 31 as the deadline for completion of proceedings including pronouncement of the verdict, took note of the report filed by special judge S K Yadav in the high-profile case.
The Delhi police on Tuesday filed its charge sheet against four accused persons in connection with Bharatiya bleader Arun Jaitley's phone tapping case.
Days after making an alleged "hate speech" against a minority community, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa was slapped with a criminal case on Friday after electoral officials issued directions for it.
'The $80,000 revenue per employee we will get through quite easily.'
These expulsions are in addition to the 18 expelled immediately after they refused to withdraw from the fray for the assembly polls.
Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will flag off the service after which he will take a ride on the inaugural 6:55pm train to Churchgate
