Asaram’s aide sent to judicial custody
Jodhpur: A local court on Thursday sent Shilpi, a key aide of Asaram Bapu and co-accused in the case of alleged sexual exploitation of a teenage girl, to eight-day judicial custody.
5.0 magnitude quake jolts Sikkim
Shillong: An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted Sikkim on Thursday, Regional Seismological Centre sources said here. The epicentre of the quake was at a place in Sikkim whose latitude and longitude were 27.4 degree N and 88.5 degree E respectively, sources said.
reject Rajan report: Kerala to Centre
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala’s Congress-led UDF Government has asked the Centre not to accept the Raghuram Rajan Committee report evolving new formula for devolution of funds to States. In a letter written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Chief Minister Oommen Chandy urged the Union Government to reject the committee’s recommendations on the ground that the proposed method would be totally against the provisions of the Constitution and the concept of fiscal federalism.
Meet in Goa on India’s nightlife industry
Panaji: Nightlife industry players from across the country are meeting in Goa to discuss various issues affecting the industry at the ‘Nightlife Convention 2013’ beginning on Friday. The first-of-its-kind gathering holds significance against the backdrop of various pressing issues, like time restrictions to name a few, plaguing the nightlife in metros.
UP to give `2l each to Uttarakhand victims
lucknow: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav clarified that at least 1,600 people from Uttar Pradesh
were reported missing during Uttarakhand disaster and the State Government has sent the complete list to the neighbouring hill State. “It is now clear that almost 1,600 people from UP were reported missing during Uttarakhand disaster. The Government has decided to give `2 lakh as compensation to the each of the family members of those reported missing,” Yadav said here on Thursday. He said that UP Government not only condoled the death of people but also sympathises with the family whose near and dear and still missing.
Assam Police fires in air to control mob
Rangia: Police fired in the air to disperse a mob that attacked Rangia police station in Assam’s Kamrup district today following the death of a person handed over to police by people in connection with an alleged chit fund fraud case.
Protesting the death of the person belonging to their village Pitambarhat Bajali, over 100 people blocked the main road, gheraoed the police station and pelted stones at the building injuring a police personnel there and a journalist nearby, police said.