The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended six officials of civic agencies for gross negligence following road cave-ins and waterlogging at several sections of the newly-built Ram Path in Ayodhya.
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested two more officials and a businessman on Friday morning in connection with the Rs 8000-crore National Rural Health Mission scam. The three arrests were made at the CBI headquarters, where the accused were brought a day earlier for interrogation. P K Jain, former general manager of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam Construction and Design, was arrested on Thursday shortly after he was questioned by CBI sleuths in New Delhi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned some officials of Uttar Pradesh for questioning in connection with alleged irregularities in utilising Rs 10,000 crore funds allocated under the National Rural Health Mission. It was likely to place some of them under arrest.
In 2009, the company was blacklisted by the then Andhra Pradesh government after two labourers were killed when a trench dug for sewage pipe caved in
The challenges authorities face in cleaning Ganga and other holy rivers in Varanasi.
'Though the river is cleaner than what it was five years ago, a lot more needs to be done.'
The Sensex ended above 27,000 for the first time while the Nifty topped 8,100.
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