Tuesday,
December
29,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Tharoor �tweet� earns rebuff from Krishna Home Ministry will not budge on two-month gap
New Delhi, December 28
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor appears to be in trouble yet again for his �tweeting� habit.
He was snubbed publicly by his senior and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for his controversial remarks on the recent changes in the visa norms
introduced by the government in the wake of sensational disclosures in the case pertaining to terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain
Rana.
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Country
needs Cong to overcome challenges: PM New Delhi, December 28
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today
said the country was facing �big challenges� like regionalism,
terrorism, Maoist insurgency and communalism and the Congress alone had
the capability of tackling all these.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union ministers Pranab Mukherjee and AK Antony
at the 125th Foundation Day function of the Congress in New Delhi on Monday.
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All
police complaints to be treated as FIRs New Delhi, December 28
Faced with repeated public
complaints about non-registration of cases by the police, the Home
Ministry has decided to issue a circular to all states asking them to
ensure that all complaints received at the police stations should be
treated as FIRs.
Japan
asks India to sign CTBT Tokyo non-committal on
civil nuclear cooperation New Delhi, December 28
As the Prime Ministers of India and
Japan held informal talks this evening on bilateral ties, Tokyo
expressed the hope that India would sign the comprehensive test ban
treaty (CTBT) while it remained non-committal on cooperating with New
Delhi in the civil nuclear energy field.
From
Russia with love 2,757-km oil pipeline to
Asia-Pacific Moscow, December 28
Russia, the world�s largest crude
exporter, today launched a 2,757-kilometre �strategic� pipeline that
will supply oil to energy-hungry China and the Asia-Pacific region in
its bid to reduce dependency on problematic European markets.
Ruchika Case PIL seeks
action against school Chandigarh,December 28
A public interest litigation(PIL)
petition seeking, among others, action against the management of the
city-based Sacred Heart School for having expelled, on flimsy grounds, a
promising tennis player Ruchika in the wake of her molestation in 1990
by senior Haryana cadre IPS officer SPS Rathore, has been preferred in
the Punjab and Haryana High Court here.
CBI officer�s revelation gives new twist to Rathore tale Charge of Abetment to Suicide
Chandigarh, December 28
The revelation by a former CBI Joint Director RM Singh that former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore had managed to get the charge of abetment to suicide dropped from the CBI chargesheet by influencing his senior colleagues has added a new dimension to the controversy over the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.
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