IRCTC Gyanodaya Express starts 3rd trip
New Delhi: After two successful trips in 2012, IRCTC kicked off its third trip of the Gyanodaya Express on Monday. IRCTC in association with the Delhi University embarked, in 2012, on a first of its kind unique project, “Gyanodaya Express - An Educational Train Journey” to impart quality education and assist nation building by carving overall personalities and help explore hidden talents in students. This train covers Amritsar, ludhiana, Chandigarh and Kurukshetra.
Kripashankar DA case: sc stops monitoring
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stopped further monitoring of the investigation into the alleged disproportionate assets case against former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members. With the case pending in Court since last year, the bench of Justices Hl Dattu and MY Eqbal ordered the status reports filed in sealed cover by the state investigating agency to be handed over to the State Government, which then would deposit the same with the trial court hearing the case.
TMC, left walk out from Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress and left parties staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha on Monday to protest against price hike of petrol and diesel over the weekend. Earlier, the TMC members said the Government has declared war on people by hiking prices. BJP said the prices were increased even as parliament session was on and a debate on price rise was inconclusive.
BJP leaders protest jaitley speech cut
New Delhi: BJP leaders including M Venkaiah Naidu, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Najma Heptulla on Monday raised strong objection against deletion of certain portion of leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley’s speech on Friday last in the Rajya Sabha on economic crisis. They claimed that the Rajya Secretariat had issued an advisory to the media about the deletion and said “it is grossly inappropriate.” Chairman Hamid Ansari said he will look into the matter but the BJP members raised a din leading to a short adjournment of 15 minutes.
‘Avoid patronage in IC appointments’
New Delhi: Information commissioners should not be appointed as “means of distributing patronage” but based on their competence and belief in the Right to Information, Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra said.
‘AAP to contest all seats in Haryana’
Rohtak: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday has said his party would contest all Assembly seats of Haryana after playing a significant role in the forthcoming Delhi Assembly elections. The AAP would offer its tickets to those who have clean image and tickets of those candidates would be cancelled even a day before the polls if against whom any proof of corruption is found. Addressing a gathering in Bahadurgarh, he said the AAP had entered into politics to bring an effective change in the corruption-ridden system by ensuring the significant contribution of common men for this social cause.