Hours after Desai said that the draft is ready to be submitted to the state government, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the Uniform Civil Code will soon be implemented in Uttarakhand.
Two persons were rescued after the incident that occurred at 4.50 am in Shahbaz village, they said, adding that before the building collapsed, the authorities managed to evacuate 52 residents.
Immigration officials at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport detained mine owner and Karnataka MLA Santosh Lad on Thursday morning while he was on his way to Dubai. Lad, who represents the Kalaghatgi constituency in Dharwad, was wanted by the Delhi Police in connection with a cheating case.
An anonymous call threatening to kill Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch A B Vajpayee have prompted security agencies to conduct searches in the National Capital Region to identify the caller, sources said on Wednesday.
Outlining the contours of its ambitious plan to curb pollution through odd-even number plate formula, Delhi government on Sunday said odd-numbered cars will be allowed to ply on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while even-numbered vehicles will run on the other days -- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The CBI on Tuesday carried out searches at 20 premises of DDA and CPWD officers besides that of a private firm in connection with alleged irregularities in laying of synthetic turf for lawn bowl event during the Commonwealth Games.
The central government's Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi said a significant increase in the number of "fire points" was observed over Punjab (around 3,000), Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, which is likely to impact the air quality of Delhi-NCR and other parts of northwest India.
The city's air quality index will fluctuate between the higher end of the "poor" category and the lower end of the "very poor" category, it predicted.
The sources said the CBI raids started early in the morning and are focussed on four companies, which had acted as the Indian arm for the same number of international firms. The contracts were bagged by consortium of foreign and Indian firms.
The prime minister also underlined the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific for the Pacific island nations and said India respects the sovereignty and integrity of all countries.
There are conflicting reports about the magnitude of the earthquake that shook Delhi and its adjoining areas. While the Indian Meteorological Department measured the quake at a scale of 4.9, the United States Geological Survey put the magnitude at 5.2 on the Richter scale.
In the backdrop of some localities in the national capital region removing mobile towers on the ground that they pose radiation hazards, cellular operators on Monday refuted these allegations, describing them as "having no scientific basis".
'Last year, Diwali came in November when winter had set in, when there was high humidity and fog in the air.' 'But this year Diwali has come in October and there is no high humidity in the air.'
Days after a young girl was abducted and raped outside Sahara Mall on Gurgaon's MG Road, Rediff.com's Priyanka finds that little or nothing has changed along the darkly-lit stretch.
Satyam Computer Services on Friday said it would invest $75 million in 2006-07 to augment its infrastructure and was looking at a location in the National Capital Region to set up a new development centre.\n\n
The fundamental construct of India's neighbourhood policy still needs to be what Vajpayee postulated, Manmohan Singh embraced, and Modi energised. It's just that we need to junk domestic politics and excessive religiosity, while acquiring much humility and a renewed respectfulness towards our neighbours, recommends Shekhar Gupta.
Pollution levels in Delhi and satellite towns shot up again on Sunday morning, with the air quality bordering the 'severe plus' category at several places.
A Delhi Police team searched for the murder weapon at a forest in Gurugram using a metal detector on Saturday, but returned empty-handed after one-and-a-half-hours, sources said.
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If Saudi Arabia, with just two Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, can create a huge tourism-based ecosystem beyond oil, Ayodhya is sure to become the world's hottest religious tourism site in less than a decade, predicts R Jagannathan.
The men asked her for directions towards a location. As she was responding, they pulled her into the car and drove away.
The agency's latest action, under Prevention of Money Laundering laws, had been taken against the borrower company and its two group companies, which owe the investors Rs 922 crore (Rs 9.22 billion), sources said.
'Had a very fruitful meeting with Iranian defence minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami in Tehran. We discussed regional security issues including Afghanistan and the issues of bilateral cooperation,' Singh said in a tweet.
The Delhi high court on Monday issued a notice to separatist leader Yasin Malik, who is currently serving a life term, on a plea by the National Investigation Agency seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case.
The Indian government sources said Muizzu, in the meeting, brought up the issue of Indian military personnel present in the Maldives for operating aircraft for medical evacuation and to counter drug trafficking.
Mercury breached the 45 degree Celsius mark on Friday in the national capital, a day after the city witnessed the hottest day of the season with the maximum temperature being recorded at 44.7 degree Celsius.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games tickets will be finally available in retail outlets across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) from Wednesday.
Very few countries in the world, like the US, China, Taiwan and the United Kingdom, have police academies and government feels that the University will certainly bring in professionalism in the force.
One can no longer get these facilities at high-end hospitals in Delhi, National Capital Region and in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
According to J L Gautam, Operations Head of National Centre for Seismology, "The earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale at a depth of 190 km hit Hindukush mountain region at 3:58 pm."
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While Solicitor General Tushar Mehta during the hearing claimed that the stubble burning only contribute 10 per cent of the air pollution, senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for the petitioners seeking action to curb air pollution, pointed out that the Centre's Sunday meeting had recorded a finding that stubble burning is responsible for 35-40 per cent in Delhi air pollution.
Because of oversupply and rising vacancy levels in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, among others, rentals are expected to remain stagnant in the next six months or see a further fall of 10-15 per cent.
The Air India Group has started vacating its offices, which are currently being operated from government-owned properties, from this month, as part of its strategy to consolidate workspaces across the country. The loss-making Air India and its international budget arm Air India Express were taken over by the Tata Group on January 27 this year, after successfully winning the bid for the airline on October 8, last year. Besides these two airlines, Tata Group also holds a majority 51 per cent stake in Vistara, its joint venture airline with Singapore Airlines (SIA), and a 83.67 per cent stake in budget carrier, AirAsia India.
A high-velocity dust storm hit the national capital and regions of Haryana and Rajasthan. The storm, with a wind speed of 70 kilometres per hours, hit Delhi around 11.20 pm on Monday, an official at the Safdarjung observatory said. Here's a glimpse of the storm and all that it brought along with it.
If state and central governments came together, Kejriwal said that within 5 years, all government schools in the country could provide best education to students.
Speculation is rife that Neelam had not committed suicide but had been murdered since she had started blackmailing some politicians
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