New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday gave the prestigious Govind Vallabh Pant Shield to Alok Johri, General Manager of North Central Railway at Railway week function in Mumbai. The award is based on different criteria of efficiencies like revenue earnings, goods traffic, punctuality of trains, asset utilization and reliability, public complaints, their redressal etc.
plea of Dec 16 gang-rape accused turned down
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down the plea of a December 16 gangrape accused to shift the trial outside Delhi but it agreed to hear his plea for moving him out of Tihar Jail for allegedly being tortured there. "We are issuing notice on the limited prayer of shifting him to another jail," a bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said. The court passed the order on a plea filed by Mukesh submitting that he is being tortured in the jail and fair trial is not possible in the capital.
global temperatures far from Stable: PM
New Delhi: Voicing concern over "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was "nowhere in sight" and pitched for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. Singh, inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions to mitigate climate change.