Bhutan gas supply to resume Aug. 1
The supply of subsidised gas and kerosene to Bhutan, which was suspended a month ago, will be restored on August 1. The suspension of the supply had caused much dismay in the Himalayan kingdom and had even become a poll issue in the recently held elections there.
Royals pulled up for fake gold sale by official
The amicus curiae for Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple Gopal Subramaniam has pulled up the royal family for going soft on the temple administrative officer who had been taking money for appointments to various posts in the temple and found selling fake ornaments to unsuspecting devotees.
Charges against Meiyappan by late Aug.
The Mumbai crime branch is set to submit the chargesheet against Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan and 19 other accused in the IPL betting scandal in the last week of August, the police said on Tuesday. The officials claimed that there is sufficient technical evidence to nail Meiyappan in the betting case.
11 schoolkids killed in mishap in Rajasthan
Eleven children were killed and 25 injured on Tuesday morning after a school van they were travelling in collided with a truck in Rajas-than’s Hanumangarh district.
CWC go-ahead to Telangana
A new state of Telangana will soon become a reality. This became clear after the UPA and Congress Working Committee on Tuesday unanimously decided to split Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad will become the common capital of the two states for the next 10 years.
Blow to Srini: HC calls BCCI’s probe ‘illegal’
After the Mumbai police refused to give a clean chit to his son-in-law Gurunath Mieyappan on Monday, BCCI president-in-exile N. Srinivasan was dealt another blow Tuesday. The Bombay high court held that the BCCI’s two-member panel probing the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal was “illegal and unconstitutional”.
Vidarbha, Gorkha demands intensify
The decision to create Telangana is all set to open up a Pandora’s box. Demands for separate statehood, which have so far been simmering, could now gather momentum.
Life sentence for Shahzad in Batla case
Suspected IM terrorist Shahzad Ahmed, convicted in the 2008 Batla House case, was Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for killing police officer M.C. Sharma and injuring two other policemen.
RBI keeps status quo, banks may raise rates
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday left key policy rates unchanged, but top bankers said they might have no choice but to raise interest rates after about a month.
Dawood, Shakeel & 37 more face ‘fix’ charges
The Delhi police special cell on Tuesday filed the chargesheet in the IPL-6 “spot-fixing” case. A total of 39 people, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, his close aide Chota Shakeel, cricketers Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and S. Sreesanth, were named as accused in the 6,000-page chargesheet, of which eight accused are in judicial custody, 21 are on bail while 10 are still absconding.