The bosses of SBI, Union Bank and Central Bank have been driving down to their offices everyday to take stock of the biggest loan drive ever undertaken for MSMEs, discovers Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Rediff.com journalists Vaihayasi Pande Daniel and Rajesh Karkera attend an emotionally-charged ceremony marking the killing of Jewish Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivka Holtzberg in the attack on Chabad House during the 26/11 carnage. They also attend a parallel ceremony, mourning slain NSG commando Gajendra Singh.
The five-judge Constitution bench said that it is the devotion which makes a woman to visit a temple.
"The right to enter a temple is not dependent on a legislation. It is the constitutional right," the bench said.
The verdict is likely to be pronounced before October 2 this year as Justice Misra would be retiring as CJI on that day.
Bringing an end to the furore over naming the bridge, the Public Works Department issued a resolution on Wednesday naming the sealink after the former prime minister.
The apex court had on August 29 taken note of the alleged controversial remarks of Khan that the gang rape case was a "political conspiracy".
The terror strike at the German bakery in Pune's Koregaon Park locality has rekindled concern for the safety of Israelis and Jews in the country, but community members have said that the bombing will not scare them away.
NDTV has challenged the constitutional validity of the provision of the Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act which was attracted against it.
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The plant had been kept shut in violation of the order of the NGT and a subsequent interim order of the top court.
Air India vacates posh Berkeley Square space, will it leave Nariman Point?
Two National Security Guards personnel, including an officer, were on Friday were killed and six other commandos injured during operations against terrorists in Mumbai, the first casualties suffered by the elite force during the siege.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday said there is no hostage-like situation at any hotel where people have locked themselves in their rooms for safety after the attack by terrorists on Wednesday.
'Since I felt there could be more, I had told the local authorities to screen every hostage carefully, since we felt that some could have been staying as guests.' Former NSG director general J K Dutt in an exclusive interview.
At a reception on Thursday organised by the Canadian Confederation of Chabad Luvabitch, an Orthodox Jewish organisation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his 'deepest sympathies to the Chabad Lubavitch family and all those who mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg." The Rabbi and his wife were killed by terrorists at Nariman House in Mumbai during the terror siege in November last year.
During terror attacks in Mumbai, Caesar saved several lives when he sniffed out two hand grenades left by the terrorists at the busy CST railway station.
"The restoration work started last Saturday after we were awarded the contract on Tuesday. We have been asked to complete the work before November 26 as they are going to hold some candle light vigil," the construction in-charge told PTI. The five-storey building, also known as Chabad House in Colaba in south Mumbai, stands as a mute testimony to the two-day terror siege with walls of its rooms and passageways pockmarked by hundreds of bullets and splinters from grenades.
Cyclone Nisarga slammed Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph, making landfall at 12.30 pm at Alibaug near Mumbai. The process was completed by 2.30 pm, a senior India Meteorological Department official said. Alibaug witnessed wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour. It weakened into a 'deep depression' late on Wednesday evening, the IMD said.
It's been seven years since 10 Pakistani terrorists arrived by sea route and opened fire indiscriminately at different sites in Mumbai, killing 166, including 18 security personnel, and injuring several others, besides damaging property worth crores.
Fire brigade officials said the fire broke out on the ninth floor of Mittal Towers.
Supreme Court committees have suggested stringent action against the organisers of events which lead to vandalism and damage to public property during strikes and political rallies. Two committees -- headed by a former apex court judge K T Thomas and senior advocate Fali S Nariman -- submitted their detailed reports before a bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat.
Six months after their successful commando operation in Mumbai, the National Security Guard is training its personnel on new modules to hone their urban warfare and specialised operational skills to thwart terror attacks in future.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested during the terror attack on Mumbai in November 2008, on Friday told a special court hearing the 26/11 terror case that he was not aware of the attacks at Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi, Nariman House and Leopold Cafe in Mumbai. "I also do not know the people who had fired and exploded bombs at these places on November 26, 2008," Kasab said in reply to questions put to him by Judge M L Tahiliyani.
A communication goof-up between Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines and its banker saw a cheque of Rs 12,975 bounce, much to the embarrassment of the country's largest private carrier, which promptly arranged a bank draft for the recipient.
Indiabulls plans to redo the main Mantralaya building, the administrative building opposite to it and around 50 row bungalows, which currently house judges and ministers, to make way for a few iconic buildings of seven-star category.
Paa director R Balki recalls the era when writers like Salim-Javed controlled the film.
Headed by a Parsi, the Mumbai-based Paranjoti Academy Chorus belted out Hindi and Marathi carols for President Pratibha Patil this festive season.
The Israel government today slammed an Israeli rescue group for alleging that Indian commandos may have inadvertently killed one or more Jewish hostages during the Nariman House operation, saying the "irresponsible" comments could cause considerable damage to bilateral ties.
Solomon Sopher, friend of the slain Holtzbergs, tells us of the condolence meeting held in memory of the couple on Monday morning.
Now that the anti-terrorist operations at the Taj, Trident, and Nariman Bhavan have ended, rediff.com spoke to hospital officials to find out the status of the dead.
All ranks and file of the elite force gathered at NSG headquarters in Palam to pay their tributes to the slain hawaldar, who was a member of NSG's 51 Special Action Group.
Till a few days ago, executives at the banks that have been designated points of presence to register subscribers and receive contributions, did not even know about the scheme.
The former armyman -- identified as Sajid Mir -- has turned out to be Headley's handler in Pakistan and was tasking the American to learn praying like Jews so that he could conduct a recce of Jewish Centre Nariman House in Mumbai and the premises of a newspaper in Denmark, official sources said in Mumbai on Wednesday.
A year after terror ripped apart Chabad House, Matthew Schneeberger walks down the lanes of Nariman House to gauge the mood at the Jewish centre.
Constitutional experts on Saturday attacked Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami's decision to suo motu recommend removal of Navin Chawla as Election Commissioner, saying the move has created a 'crisis' and its timing just ahead of the elections could make people believe there is 'some motivation'.
Kurla alone will add office space that is three times that of Nariman Point.
Anand Bhatt argued that they were all guests, innocent people who had merely come to dine. Why kill these people, he argued.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday favoured exploring the possibility of scientifically and "politically" viable solution to the controversial Sethusamudram project but the Centre questioned the religious grounds being raked up to block the venture.
The apex court said political parties will also have to upload reasons for selecting candidates with pending criminal cases on their website.
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