Sting Op: CBI rejects fresh plea of Govt
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday rejected fresh notification of Uttarakhand Government withdrawing an earlier request to probe sting operation against Chief Minister Harish Rawat. The agency had registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) in the sting case following a request from the State Government when it was placed under President's rule and further notification from the Centre. The agency has also summoned Rawat for questioning.
Panel for debate on sub judice matters
New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel has made a strong pitch for discussing even sub judice matters in the House except cases of individual culpability and also favoured delaying real time live telecast of proceedings by few minutes to check telecast of any unparliamentary language. The General Purposes Committee of the Rajya Sabha headed by Chairman Hamid Ansari at its meeting deliberated on issues like discussing sub judice matters in the House.
App for free lectures by IIT faculty members
New Delhi: Aiming to combat the "menace of coaching industry", the HRD Ministry is coming up with a mobile app and portal containing free lectures by IIT faculty members on various subjects and previous years' question papers of entrance tests to these prestigious engineering institutions. HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said it has also been decided that the questions in the IIT-JEE entrance test would conform to Class XII syllabus. She was speaking at an event organised by Education Private Society for India (EPSFI).
Delegation leaves for Taiwan
New Delhi: A two-member Indian delegation, including senior BJP leader Vijay Jolly, left for Taiwan on Wednesday to attend the inauguration of the 14th term of President and Vice-President at Taipei. Prof Madhav Das Nalapat, Director Department of Geo Politics, Manipal University is the other member to attend the historic event of Taiwan's First Women inauguration ceremony. Chung Kwang Tien, Representative Taipei Economic & Cultural Centre (TECC) in India hosted a farewell dinner early this week.
Change in vaccination to bring world closer
New Delhi: Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, on Wednesday said, implementing a monumental change in vaccination that is expected to bring the world closer to eradicating all types of polio, in the WHO South-East Asia Region have switched from using the traditionally used trivalent oral polio vaccine (TOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (BOPV) that protects against the remaining wild poliovirus strains. Vaccine switch, follows global certification of eradication of Type 2 wild poliovirus last year. The switch aims at drastically reducing the rare risk of children getting paralysis by oral polio vaccine.