Everything you need to know about Vijai Nagar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Vijai Nagar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Vocalists Rajsekhar Mansur and Ajay Pohankar and tabla player Sabir Khan were among those presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi's Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) Awards 2012 here, a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said Tuesday.
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) A four-year-old girl was raped by a 20-year-old neighbour when she was alone at her house here, police said Wednesday.
Ghaziabad, Feb 25 (IANS) A neighbour Monday barged into the house of a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader here and shot him dead over a row over a shop, police said.
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is mulling whether Mumbai's Prajakta Sawant could be part of the India squad to Europe for the German Open and the All England Badminton Championships in February-March.
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) A 17-year-old girl was gang-raped here by two unidentified men, police said Tuesday.
Ghaziabad, Jan 11 (IANS) The autopsy of a six-year-old who was found murdered here Thursday morning has confirmed that she was raped before being killed, police said Friday.
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The government has decided to appoint S.K. Sarkar, additional secretary in the department of personnel and training, as the new secretary in the water resources ministry.
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) S.K. Sarkar, additional secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training, has been appointed the new secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources.
New Delhi, Jan. 8 (ANI): S.K. Sarkar, an IAS officer of West Bengal Cadre (1979), presently Additional Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training will take over as Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources.
Shimla, Dec 24 (IANS) Less than 24 hours before his swearing in Himachal Pradesh chief minister for the sixth time, Congress leader Virbhadra Singh got a major reprieve as a Shimla court acquitted him and his wife Pratibha Singh in a three-and-a-half-year-old corruption case.
Shimla, Dec 24 (IANS) Less than 24 hours before taking oath as Himachal Pradesh chief minister for the sixth time, Congress leader Virbhadra Singh got a major reprieve as a Shimla court acquitted him and and his wife Pratibha Singh in a corruption case.
Shimla, Dec 24 (IANS) After Congress's victory in the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's young brigade is all set to figure in the new state government to be headed by septuagenarian Virbhadra Singh, party leaders said here Monday.
Shimla, Nov 16 (IANS) In a major shift, one of the prime witnesses in the corruption case against former chief minister and Congress leader Virbhadra Singh Friday brought an element of doubt in a trial court here.
Shimla, Nov 6 (IANS) A trial court here Tuesday began recording of evidence against former union minister Virbhadra Singh in a corruption case pending against him since 2009.
Shimla/Kaushambhi/Mumbai, Oct.24 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anurag Thakur said on Wednesday that former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Virbhadra Singh has become senile, after Singh threatened mediapersons with dire consequences for asking him questions in connection with a graft case.
New Delhi, Oct.24 (ANI): Former politician and journalist Shahid Siddiqui criticised former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh for threatening mediapersons on Wednesday while rubbishing all graft allegations levelled against him.
Shimla, Oct 17 (IANS) Congress leader and five-time Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh has revealed that he and his family have movable and immovable properties and valuables worth over Rs.30 crore.
Shimla, Sep 21 (IANS) Former union minister Virbhadra Singh may not succeed in coming out clean in the corruption case pending against him since 2009 before the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections with the court fixing six days in November for recording of evidence.
Shimla, Aug 18 (IANS) Elections are due in December and mainstream parties like the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Trinamool Congress are queuing up to test the political waters in Himachal Pradesh.
Panaji, July 31 (IANS) The mushrooming of dance bars and the overwhelming influence of the Russian Cyrillic script in Goa's coastal belt, including in temples, is damning the image of the state, legislators Tuesday said in the state assembly.
Panaji, July 18 (IANS) The Goa government would act sternly against "certain" people from Goa who were inviting Sri Ram Sene supremo Pramod Muthalik to set shop in Goa, the chief minister has warned.
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Virbhadra Singh vowed to fight on after resigning Tuesday, a day after a court framed corruption charges against him and his wife.
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) The BJP rejected the charge of Virbhadra Singh, who resigned from the union cabinet Tuesday, that its state government in Himachal Pradesh hatched a conspiracy to frame him in a corruption case.
Shimla, June 25 (IANS) Two days after union minister and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh celebrated his birthday and 50 years in politics, a court here Monday framed corruption charges against him and his wife Pratibha Singh.
Shimla, June 25 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded the resignation of Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium enterprises and former Chief Minister of Himachal Predesh, Virbhadra Singh, after a lower court framed corruption charges against him on Monday
Shimla, June 25 (ANI): A lower court in the city framed corruption charges against Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium enterprises and former Chief Minister of Himachal Predesh, Virbhadra Singh, on Monday.
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Virbhadra Singh Monday refuted the charge of corruption against him, terming it a "concocted case" and a conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Himachal Pradesh.
Shimla, June 25 (IANS) A court here Monday framed corruption charges against union minister and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh.
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) A woman employee and her husband were among six people arrested for looting the home of a lawyer here, police said Saturday.
With its vast participation and massive appreciation, now Surajkund fair will be known as International Surajkund Fair in future.
Shimla, May 31 (IANS) An audio cassette purportedly containing Union minister and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh's voice while referring to some monetary transactions from industrialists was played as part of evidence in a trial court here Thursday.
Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) The Haryana government has transferred 35 top Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in a major bureaucratic reshuffle, an officical spokesperson said here Sunday.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) With summers in full swing and the mercury heading north, doctors advise that apart from drinking lots of water, a special summer diet consisting of light and healthy food would ensure a cool mind and body.
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Friday said the Indian Express report on the government getting spooked by an army movement highlighted a 'deep' trust deficit in the establishment.
New Delhi, Mar 28 (ANI): Water secretaries of India and Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to work for an amicable solution to Tulbul Navigation/Wullar Barrage project.
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Buoyed by the common resolve of their leaders to intensify their dialogue, India and Pakistan Wednesday concluded their two-day talks to resolve differences over the Tulbul navigation project in Jammu and Kashmir with New Delhi agreeing to provide additional technical date for the early settlement of the dispute.
Udham Singh Nagar, Dec 7 (ANI): Bird lovers flocked to Haripura Water Park in Udham Singh Nagar District of Uttarakhand as hundreds of migratory birds from abroad took over the marshland.
Gaya, Nov. 14 (ANI): Army Chief General VK Singh formally inaugurated a newly raised Officers Training Academy (OTA) here on Monday.
Dhaka, Sep.6 (ANI): India and Bangladesh on Tuesday fell short of arriving at a mutually acceptable accord on the sharing of river waters that pass through the two countries.
Dhaka, Sep.6 (ANI): India and Bangladesh on Tuesday signed three agreements after over nearly two hours of bilateral talks here.
New Delhi, July 1(ANI): Union Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid will participate in the Singapore International Water Week starting from Monday.
New Delhi, June 14 (ANI): Union Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid will soon visit Bangladesh on the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Ramesh Chandra Sen during which he is expected to discuss issues related to water resources.
Gurgaon, Mar 22 (ANI): Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid today laid the foundation stone of the Office Complex of National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) at Gurgaon, Haryana.
New Delhi, Feb.4 (ANI): The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) today signed a US 14.5 million dollar project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with the Government of India for the phase-out of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the country.
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) An eight-year-old boy was burnt to death after a fire broke out in a slum cluster here, a fire brigade official said Friday.
Ghaziabad, April 21 (IANS) Incensed after catching his wife and his father in a clinch, a man bludgeoned his father to death here Tuesday, police said.
Ghaziabad, March 25 (IANS) A 32-year-old father of five allegedly threw two of his minor daughters into a canal here, police said Wednesday.
New Delhi, Mar 21 (ANI/Business Wire India): The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in association with Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) celebrated World Forestry Day 2009.
New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): The National CDM Authority (NCDMA) in the Ministry of Environment and Forests took a further step in applying the principles of e-governance by launching a new website today.
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Unhappy with the Delhi Police's interim report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked them to come out with a full enquiry report on the Jamia Nagar shoot-out in the capital within six weeks' time.
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up Delhi Police over leaking to the media the confessional statements of three alleged terrorists involved in the Delhi serial blasts.
Poznan (Poland), Dec 12 (IANS) India is not worried about the lack of any breakthrough at the Poznan climate change summit as 'this was going to be a stocktaking exercise anyway' and would help take the process from 'discussions to negotiations', a top Indian official said as the summit wound to a tepid end here Friday.
Poznan (Poland), Dec 12 (IANS) 'Developed countries, occupying so much of the carbon capacity of the earth's atmosphere, must deliver on significant emission reductions,' Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests Vijai Sharma said here Friday.
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) To share the pain of the Mumbai carnage victims, residents of Jamia Nagar in south Delhi Saturday ogranised an evening of 'peace', in defence of 'non-violence and love' and to abhor 'hate and violence'.
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday demanded invoking the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against those accused in the Sep 13 serial bombings in Delhi.
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Restoring the faith of the people is a major challenge before the police force, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday while exhorting police officers to avoid stereotypes that might enlarge 'fault lines in our society'.
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Delhi Police's elite anti-terrorism wing Special Cell has gravely misused custodial detention of the accused in the Sep 13 serial blasts in the capital, a human rights group said Tuesday.
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Celebrated writer Arundhati Roy has joined the chorus of people demanding a probe into the Jamia Nagar incident in the capital last month, though she does not think the shootout in which two suspected terrorists were killed was a 'fake enounter'.
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Residents of Jamia Nagar say they will give vent to their anger over the police shootout in the area last month by voting out the sitting Congress legislator and ushering in a candidate of their choice in the Delhi assembly polls Nov 29.
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The city is undergoing a transition and in two years Delhi will become a world class capital, promises Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as she prepares for another election.
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday denied media reports that it had given a clean chit to the Delhi Police in the Sep 19 Jamia Nagar shootout in which two suspected terrorists were gunned down and said it has not yet received a report from the police on the incident.
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Contrary to some media reports, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday confirmed it had not yet received any report from Delhi Police on the Jamia Nagar shootout in which two suspected terrorists were killed last month.
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Amod Kanth, who is now chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Child Rights, said the commission has issued notice to Delhi Police for 'picking up' some juveniles for interrogation in Jamia Nagar after the Sep 19 shootout and holding them back for hours.
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Inspector M.C. Sharma, who was killed in a shootout with suspected terrorists in Jamia Nagar here Sep 19, was with the Special Cell and was not going to be transferred, Delhi Police clarified Sunday, responding to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's remarks.
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Droves of people dressed in new clothes made their way through the clamouring traffic in Jamia Nagar's narrow streets to share presents, meet friends and celebrate Eid, but somehow the real spirit that has marked this festival every year was missing this time.
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Droves of people dressed in new clothes made their way through the clamouring traffic in Jamia Nagar's narrow streets to share presents, meet friends and celebrate Eid, but somehow the real spirit that has marked this festival every year was missing this time.
Now that it is getting clear each day that Jamia Nagar encounter, like many fake encounters in this country, has something fishy about it, the role of police,
New Delhi, Sept 20 (ANI): Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Saturday condoled the death of Delhi police inspector M.C. Sharma.
New Delhi/ Ghaziabad, Sept 20 (ANI): It was an uneasy calm in the 'encounter lane' of Jamia Nagar here today, a day after the Delhi Police's Special Cell killed two militants, including the alleged mastermind of Delhi blasts, Abu Bashar.
New Delhi, Sept 19 (ANI): Two HuJI militants were killed and one was apprehended in a police encounter at Jamia Nagar in New Delhi today.
New Delhi, June 26 (ANI): The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment Rahul Sarin, IAS (JH:74), presently Special Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions as Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
