Chandigarh, November 30: It is a sort of an epitome of architectural efficacy. Engineers in Punjab’s Mohali have set their sight on erecting a 10-storey building in the next 48 hours. Work to accomplish the unprecedented feat started on Thursday. Businessman Harpal Singh, who conceived the project, claimed that the “building will be an energy efficient model with one sample floor fully furnished.”
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New Delhi, November 29: The Oil Ministry will raise the cap on supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) to 9 cylinders per household in a year provided the Finance Ministry agrees to give an additional Rs 3,000 crore in 2012-13. Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily today first met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and then held a two-hour long brainstorming with heads of the three PSU fuel retailers on the
November 29: The 'real' Sonia Gandhi, a young mother of two children, that veteran journalist and columnist Tavleen Singh knew from mingling in Delhi's influential social circles in the mid-70s was a woman partial to expensive shahtoosh shawls and fur coats and one who fervently stated that she would rather see her daughter and son beg on the streets than allow them to join politics. Singh, who
New Delhi, November 29: The four-day logjam in Lok Sabha over the FDI in retail ended today with Speaker Meira Kumar allowing a discussion on the subject under a rule that entails voting. "I have received 30 notices for discussion on FDI in multi-brand retail under Rule 184. I have admitted the motion to allow the discussion. The date and the time will be decided later," the Speaker announced in
New Delhi, November 29: Amid the raging debate over freedom of expression in the social media and the recent arrests of young citizens who chose to speak their mind in cyberspace, officials are meeting in Delhi today to review controversial sections of the Information Technology Act. The Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee will be in a huddle to consider if section 66A of the Act is too draconian
New Delhi, November 29: The freedom of airlines to charge public at their whim may soon be over with the Aviation Ministry planning to announce a more rationalised fare structure in a fortnight and keep a strict vigil on sudden and unexpected rise in airfare. In the long run, the Ministry is also planning to have a regulatory mechanism to monitor fares, implying the demand and supply mechanism to
Ahmedabad, November 29: An affidavit filed by the police in a court in Surendranagar district says that a police team used AK-47 assault rifle, among other weapons, to fire on protesters from a Dalit community at Thangadh on September 23. Three youths had died in the incident. Inspector General of Police Anil Pratham told PTI that “one AK-47 rifle was used in the firing, in addition to a carbine
Palghar, November 29: A 19-year-old boy detained by the police in Palghar near Mumbai for a derogatory Facebook post against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has been released this morning. The police said his Facebook account appeared to have been hacked and they are investigating this. The brother of the boy, who is now back home in Palghar, has confirmed that the Facebook
New Delhi, November 28: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today came in for praise from Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju for his government's "strong step" against two police officers who had arrested two girls for their Facebook comments last week. Katju wrote a letter congratulating Chavan on "your strong step in suspending the police officers who arrested the girl who
New Delhi, November 28: Zee News has called the arrest of its senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia for alleged extortion of steel tycoon and Congress MP Naveen Jindal as an attempt by the party-led government to gag the media and cover up the coal scam. "After 65 years of independence, the present Congress-led government is pushing the media to not speak the truth and gag it. It