district administration here has fixed the price of various food articles on sale at shops and hotels at Pampa, Sannidhanam, Vadasserikkara and various other base camps during the two-month Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrimage season.District Collector T.T. Antony has said that steps have been taken to check fleecing of pilgrims during the pilgrim season.Action, including criminal proceedings and cancellation...
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police officials are ina fix after home secretary (HS) Ram Niwas raised objections to sub-inspector(SI) Sarwan Singh being given a clean chit in a departmentalinquiry.The probe against SI Sarwan Singh began in 2003 when he wasarrested by CBI for accepting bribe near Manimajra. Though the inquiry officerhad declared Sarwan guilty of accepting the money, the decision was kept pendingtill the finalization...
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Years of litigation before the motor accident claims tribunal (Mact) may soon be history.Asking the state to follow a model devised by the Delhi high court, the Bombay high court on Thursday said FIRsfiled after road accidents must be sent directly to the tribunal to avoid separate filing of claims by those affected.The court said the move would bring about uniformity in proceedings. Besides, chief...
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Uttar Pradheh chief minister Mayawati today challenged in the Supreme Court the decision of the Allahabad High Court to issue her notice for resumption of criminal proceedings against her in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam. Ms Mayawati's petition was mentioned before a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and B Sudershan Reddy which decided to hear it on November 16. The BSP chief was issued a notice...
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far placed ten officials, including the former Managing Director of Orissa Rural Housing Development Corporation, for their alleged involvement in corruption.State Housing Minister Badrinarayan Patra told the state Assembly yesterday that the vigilance inquiry was going on against 13 people in connection with the scam.Criminal proceedings had been initiated against former executive director(finance)...
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District Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi instructed the civic authorities of Pithapuram to set weekly and monthly targets to bill collectors to recover different tax dues on time.He has also ordered the municipal commissioner Munneswara Rao to initiate criminal proceedings against any officer or employee who swindles people’s money. Addressing a review meeting on development activities in Pithapuram...
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many as 300 students of the University of Mysore, whose marks cards had declared them pass although they had failed to clear many subjects, have surrendered their marks cards to the university following the unearthing of a scam. The scandal allegedly involving 946 papers of 464 students came to light following an inquiry in a case.After the University Syndicate decided to annul the results of students...
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The current power crisis in Orissa, which was a power surplus state till a few months back, is the fallout of the lapses of the officials of the state energy department, according to the Anti Corruption Youth Forum (ACYF).Power crisis apart, the forum has pointed out that the state government is set to lose around Rs 1,000 crore over the next five years due to the lackadaisical attitude in restoring...
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Bhartiya Janta Party has urged the Governor N N Vohra to use his office in putting down to rest the recent administrative commotion raked up by the present incumbency over ‘quiet diplomacy that has given air to separatists’ upsurge in the valley’.This it has said in reference to the alleged ‘anti-India activities being carried out in Kashmir University by the present Vice Chancellor Riyaz Punjabi by...
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is with these words that the Supreme Court (SC) of India directed the Vakola police to register a first information report (FIR) against DGP (acting) A.N. Roy on November 16.But the police are yet to act on it. The SC had allowed for criminal proceedings against Roy for allegedly ordering the detention of activist Raj Awasti without checking authenticity of documents produced. Awasti had complained...
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