26 lakhs looted at petrol pump
Unidentified armed robbers struck at a petrol pump at Sector-35 in Noida, escaping with Rs 26 lakh after tying up and gagging the cashier and two others on Monday.
According to the Noida police, five men armed with guns and iron rods barged into the first floor office of Bharat Petroleum pump, located in Sector-35, around 7.30 am and rounded up the cashier.
‘No other officers summoned’
Even as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) probes the alleged transfer of information —— from the computer of an Indian Army Major posted in the Andamans ——- to a computer in Pakistan, the Indian Army on Monday sought to dismiss speculation that a few senior Army officers were likely to face questioning by the NIA in the case. “No other Army officers have been summoned for questioning by the NIA,” senior Army sources said on Monday.
Inter-caste couple found dead in city
In a suspected case of honour killing, a teenage couple belonging to different castes was found dead with multiple stab injuries in north-west Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar area on Monday.
FIR on 70 for missing operations
The state government has filed FIRs against 70 government employees who have not reported for Census work despite being relieved form their parent departments.
According to Anil Sagar, district magistrate of Lucknow, the decision to lodge FIRs against erring employees worked wonders and employees of Lucknow Development A
It’s Sheila who should apologise, says Gupta
A day after Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit slapped a legal notice on Delhi BJP chief Vijendra Gupta for defamation and asked him to apologise, Mr Gupta said it should be the chief minister who should apologising and not him.
Valley shuts down to protest youth killing
Kashmir Valley was shut on Monday to mourn and protest the June 11 killing of a Srinagar student in police action against a group of stone-pelting anti-India protesters which he reportedly was not a part of. During the strike called by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, irate mobs clashed with police and CRPF at more than a dozen places in summer capital Srinagar and in the towns of Sopore and Anantnag leaving scores injured.
Jat strike off, water supply resumes tonight
A day after the agitating jat leaders cut off the water supply to the city, the crisis deepened in south and east parts of the city. Though the agitators called off their protest on Monday morning, normal water supply to the city is expected to be resumed only by Tuesday evening, as the treatment plants, Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi, went dry on Monday.
DGCA monitors operations of AI Express
On the heels of the Mangalore air-crash, the DGCA is monitoring several aspects of the functioning of Air India Express including monitoring of flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules for flight crew, number of pilots on the regular roll of Air India Express, the number of officers in the airline posted to oversee operations, safety and training aspects as well as the current number of mechanics working with the airline. Air India Express is the low cost carrier of Air India.
Anand snubs Topalov comments
Viswanathan Anand dismissed Veselin Topalov’s comments about seeking assistance from former champions Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik during the world championship tie. The Bulgarian, after losing 5.5-6.5 in the summit clash, had reportedly said that Anand should not have been proud in taking help from people who were ‘arrogant’ in their behaviour towards him.
Restore Kanak Bhavan to family: SC
In the ongoing tug-of-war between the Rajasthan government and Jaipur’s erstwhile royal family over the acquisition of certain properties of the latter, the former royals won major relief from the Supreme Court on Monday as it directed the state to restore the possession of Kanak Bhavan to the family.