press note on ex-raw officer quashed
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed a 2008 Press note posted on the Press Information Bureau website that a woman lawyer and former RAW officer Nisha Priya Bhatia had some mental problems saying she had already been acquitted of the charge of attempting to commit suicide outside the PMO here.”We quash the press note issued on August 19, 2008,” a bench of justices Dipak Misra and UU lalit said.
rlys planted 45 lakh saplings till oct 2014
New Delhi: The Indian Railways has fixed a target of planting 75 lakh saplings in 2014-15. Till October 2014, about 45 lakh saplings have been planted on approximately 1,548 hectares of Railway land, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha informed lok Sabha on Monday.
govt may reduce EPF threshold limit
New Delhi: A proposal to cover all the companies having more than 10 employees under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) scheme is under consideration. “A proposal to reduce threshold limit for coverage under Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 from 20 to 10 employees is included in the proposed comprehensive amendment to the Act,” Minister of State for labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya informed lok Sabha.
Harichandan is new Odisha cong chief
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday appointed Prasad Harichandan as the new chief for the faction-ridden Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, replacing Jayadev Jena against whom dissidence had been brewing.
ASG rao resigns due to ‘personal reasons’
New Delhi: Additional Solicitor General l Nageswara Rao has resigned from his post citing “personal reasons” in a letter addressed to law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Monday.
11,000 amity students get degrees, diplomas
New Delhi: Over 11,000 qualified Graduands of various programmes received degrees, diplomas and medals during the three day 10th convocation of Amity University last week.