With the Union cabinet on Thursday lowering the age limit from 60 to 65, more people living below poverty line can now avail of the old age pension.
Maqbool Fida Husain, India’s well known artist passed away at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London due to heart attack by 2:3o a.m local time on Thursday. He was 96.
Germany’s Health Minister has said that there is reason to be cautiously optimistic that an outbreak of a deadly new strain of E.coli has peaked.
The outbreak has so far left 24 dead, infected 2,400 and left hundreds with a complication that attack the kidneys.
Maruti Suzuki Employees Union, a union formed just last Friday went on strike demanding recognition from India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) at its Manesar factory. But the company had other plans as it retrenched 11 workers mostly from the unrecognized trade union. MSIL chairman emphasized that the union was not registered and thereby it could not be recognized.
Ten supporters of yoga guru Baba Ramdev have been arrested on charges of rioting, causing damages to public property and obstructing public servants from discharging their duties while they were being evicted from the Ramlila grounds.
Papalal who is a painter for Hindu Gods and Goddesses for temples in the city of Hyderabad and his wife Jayashree, took a 4years old orphan Muslim girl who was the victim of the bomb blast which took place in the city on 2007. Papalal was working near to the area were the blast took place and he found the girl near Gokul Chat centre blast site.
The Delhi high court on thursday rejected a plea to indict Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani in the 2G spectrum case. The judge along with imposing a fine of Rs.10,000 also said that the case lacks any substance and is not in compliance with law. He added that these kind of cases wastes a lot of court’s precious time and should be strongly condemned with hefty fines. The petition claimed that the CBI knowingly are not looking into the matter and are protecting the persons. It requested the court’s direction to the CBI to indict them. This is not the first time a court has slapped a fine on a third party to the case. On May 25 there was a similar case where it requested the inclusion of companies like Airtel and S-Tel of corrupt practices and the court levied a fine of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner.