An amendment bill is likely to be tabled in the next session of the assembly in February.
The chief secretary said that as the state is witnessing heavy rains over the last three days, the collectors should be on high alert and take all steps to prevent loss of life, cattle or damage to any property.
When the IAF veterans' bail petition came up for hearing, in an unprecedented move, senior serving and retired Air Marshals and Air Vice Marshals rallied behind the accused officers and appeared before the court to give sureties for each, something that has never happened ever before.
The Yamuna river gets polluted due to bathing by floating population, throwing flowers, garlands and other worship material as well as the industrial affluent.
A Delhi Court on Friday dismissed the bail pleas of alleged middleman Christian Michel in connection with alleged AgustaWestland scam related corruption case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate.
Michel, extradited from Dubai, was arrested by the ED on December 22 last year.
Lalu, who is in his late 70s and suffers from multiple ailments, had been awarded sentences by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in fodder scam cases.
A mix of grief and terror has engulfed this nondescript village in central Bihar which has lost one of its residents, a 30-year-old street vendor, to militants' bullets in Jammu and Kashmir.
The court, however, did not allow Vadra, brother-in law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, to go to London.
"Darr to lagta hai par bhook say zyada darr lagta hai (I am scared but I fear hunger more than death)," he said as he pointed to his kids adding "back home we won't be able to find two square meals".
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected a plea filed by Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi against Sabarmati Ashram redevelopment project, after the state government assured that it will "not touch" three key attractions situated in the one-acre area.
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Angry protesters allegedly forced the two vehicles to stop and set them on fire.
A head constable was among four people killed and at least 50 others, including several paramilitary and Delhi Police personnel, were injured as violence spiralled over the amended citizenship law in northeast Delhi on Monday.
The government is undertaking a comprehensive modernisation programme to prepare the police and paramilitary forces of the country for newer challenges of terrorism, cyber crime and border security, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
CBI officials booked for graft by the central probe agency were not only receiving regular kickbacks for compromising investigation, but were also acting as conduits to bribe their peers on behalf of companies accused of siphoning off crores of public money from banks, the FIR against them alleges.
The ED named former Air Force Chief S P Tyagi, his two cousins, lawyer Gautam Khaitan, two Italian middlemen and Finmeccanica in its chargesheet.
Michel was arrested in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to India on December 4.
'Sharma was sent to Lucknow for a purpose, but he has merely been adjusted in the party hierarchy because the chief minister refused to induct him into his government. He was secretary in the Central government and was holding a much higher office than the state ruling party's vice-president' Virendra Singh Rawat reports.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in the case.
Some parties, including the Congress, also demanded immediate sacking of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra, following Samyukt Kisan Morcha's allegation that his son was travelling in one of the vehicles involved in the incident.
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Prem Murti Pandey bought 25 tonnes of onions, load them onto a truck and hit the road.
The court put various conditions on Khaitan, including that he will not tamper with the evidence or try to contact or influence the witnesses and join the investigation as and when called.
Twenty-four people, most of them attending a funeral, were killed and 17 others injured when the roof of a shelter at a cremation ground in Uttar Pradesh's Muradnagar collapsed on Sunday, police said.
On December 7 last year, the agency had carried out raids at Vadra's offices at Delhi.
Authorities suspended two teachers, apparently in an immediate damage control exercise.
In his plea, Michel said the investigation regarding him was over and no useful purpose would be served by keeping him in further incarceration.
The court reserved its order for Thursday.
Rajendra Pal Gautam, who is social welfare minister in the outgoing government, retained the Seemapuri seat by a whopping margin of over 56,000 votes against LJP's Sant Lal.
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The court took note of Michel's submission alleging mental torture inside the jail and directed Tihar jail authorities to produce the CCTV footage and reports by Thursday based on which he was shifted to a high-security ward.
Taking a serious view of the alleged abduction of Gonda district's chief medical officer by a minister, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday shifted top district officials including the district magistrate, the superintendent of police and the CMO and handed over the probe to the divisional commissioner.
The court asked them to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh with one surety of the like amount.
A local court today sent six youths arrested on the charge of gang-rape of an 18-year-old girl to two-day police custody.
Amethi, Guna, Rohtak.... These were believed to be easy seats to win but as they say in politics, anything's possible. This election has seen a few family bastions fall and one could attribute it to the TsuNaMo that has swept the country.
A single-judge bench of Justice Arvind Kumar Tripathi turned down the application of Talwar who had moved the high court after her plea for bail was rejected by a special CBI court at Ghaziabad earlier this month.
It was also decided in the meeting to enhance police-MLA coordination in the national capital and also reactive peace committees with representatives of all sections of society, religions and eminent local citizens, an official said.
The Indian army is likely to add a new Nuclear-Biological-Chemical suit to its artillery which would prove effective against any kind of dangerous weapons or chemicals and protect the soldiers from any kind of negative effect.
