Rahul cancels 2-day visit to TN, Kerala
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has cancelled his two-day visit to Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which was to commence on Tuesday, as he is suffering from high fever. “Unfortunately I have been down with high fever since Sunday and the doctor has advised rest for the next two days,” the 45-year-old Congress leader said on micro-blogging site Twitter late last night. “My apologies to the ppl of Puducherry, Tamil Nadu & Kerala for missing this opportunity of being with them on 10th &11th May as planned. “Shall keep everyone updated about the rescheduled visits,” Rahul said in his tweets.
MSY raises concern over cow in lS
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav rears 1600 cows. He said this during Question Hour in the lok Sabha as he raised his concern over cow slaughter and the declining number of the bovine, an issue dear to the saffron outfits. Yadav said he wanted to raise an “important question relating to declining number of cows”. “It is an important matter...People steal cows, cut them and sell it in the US...The number is falling,” said Yadav. However, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, sitting next to Yadav, reminded him that the question relating to livestock was over.
HC Chief justices, judges transferred
New Delhi: Chief justices of two high courts and judges from three high courts, including one from Delhi, were on Tuesday transferred. Chhattisgarh High Court Chief Justice Navin Sinha has been transferred to the Rajasthan High Court, while Tripura High Court CJ Deepak Gupta has been named as Sinha’s replacement, a law Ministry statement said.The Rajasthan High Court at present is being headed by Acting Chief Justice Ajay Rastogi. Meanwhile, Justice Tinlianthang Vaiphei, a judge of the Gauhati High Court has been sent to the Tripura High Court, while Delhi High Court judge Ved Prakash Vaish has been sent to the Meghalaya High Court. Also, Justice Satish Kumar Agnihotri, a judge of the Madras High Court has been posted to the Sikkim HC.
grant licenses to 8 Maha dance bars: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Maharashtra Government to grant licenses to eight dance bars within two days and asked them to give an undertaking that they would not engage employees with criminal antecedents near the dance area. “It is directed that an undertaking shall be given by appellants who have filed application that they shall not engage employees in the bar and dance area whose names have been mentioned in the affidavit given by the State.
‘Remove workshop’: speaker on dharna
New Delhi: Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Tuesday sat on Dharna at Jhilmil, Shahdara, demanding removal of a workshop run by East Delhi Municipal Corporation. Goel who sat on dharna alongwith residents welfare association,
has also written to East Delhi Municipal Corporation commissioner Mohanjeet Singh demanding to shift this workshop from the area.