form panel to clear poll scripts: EC to pb
New Delhi: The Election Commission has asked Prasar Bharati to set up a committee to approve scripts of political parties’ election publicity on Doordarshan and AIR, following complaints that there were “considerable deviations” in the wordings cleared by the two public broadcasters during the Bihar polls. In a recent letter to Prasar Bharti, the Commission said some political parties have brought to its notice that in certain cases “on submission of the same transcript to All India Radio and Doordarshan by political parties, there were considerable deviations between the scripts as approved by AIR and DD.
CBI files case against logistic company
New Delhi: CBI has registered a case against a logistic company for allegedly cheating Union Bank of India to the tune of Rs 38.53 crore by diverting the loan amount, a claim strongly refuted by the company. CBI sources said the agency has registered the case against CRS logistics at Anand in Gujarat, its Directors — Deepak Chandrakanth Shah and Jagdish Shah — and another firm Rishita Autocraft.
SC rejects jallikattu review petition
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to review its 2014 order banning the bull taming sport of Jallikattu and bullock cart races across the country. A Bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and PC Ghose, sitting in chambers, dismissed a bunch of review petitions filed by temple bodies and private organizations supporting Jallikattu as a traditional religious ritual. However, the review plea of Tamil Nadu Government is yet to be heard by the court.
greenfields wins 50th youth parliament
New Delhi: Greenfields Public School, Dilshad Garden, Delhi has won the 50th Youth Parliament Competition, 2015-16 for Delhi schools and was presented with Pandit Motilal Nehru Running Parliamentary Shield on Thursday. Delhi Tamil Education Association Senior Secondary School, Sector-4, RK Puram, New Delhi stood first among the new entrants in the Youth Parliament Competition, organized by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Bratin Sen Gupta, former Member of Parliament felicitated the winning team with the Shield at a function organised in the Parliament library Building.