New Delhi, July 7: The Supreme Court today refused to stay Lt. Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag’s elevation as army chief from next month.
“There is no reason why we should stay. Let the matter come in the normal course, we will hear it,” a bench headed by Justice T.S. Thakur said, declining to entertain a plea for the stay. The court said it would hear the plea by Lt. Gen. Ravi Dastane, who has challenged Suhag’s appointment, in the second week of September. Suhag is due to take charge on August 1.
Beijing (PTI): India inaugurated its biggest yoga summit in China on Monday. Around 1,500 yoga practitioners participated in the event. The six-day summit is taking place at Yunnan Province’s Dali city.
Jabalpur (PTI): Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a “letter petition” filed by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh seeking a CBI probe into an exam scandal in the state. Dismissing his request to treat the letter as a PIL, the court said: “Courts are not arenas for political wrestling.”
New Delhi (PTI): Thai Airways International Limited has been directed by the apex consumer commission to pay Rs 11 lakh to an export firm for “deficiency” in service while delivering goods to Myanmar in 2008. The airline was held guilty of handling over the airways bill to the buyer instead of the consignee.
Ahmedabad (PTI): Domestic violence is on a rise in Gujarat with 7,812 cases registered last year, an increase of 1,154, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Gujarat ranks seventh in the number of such cases being registered and 25th in terms of conviction with a conviction rate of 2.30 per cent.
Panaji (PTI): Goa’s tourism industry recorded a 12.5 per cent rise in domestic tourist arrivals last year, its highest rate of growth, a senior official said. Over 26 lakh Indians visited the state in 2013, Pamela Mascarenhas, deputy director of tourism department, said.
New Delhi, July 7 (PTI): Almost all Indian airlines, barring Jet Airways, IndiGo and GoAir, suffered losses in 2012-13 with Air India suffering the highest loss of Rs 5,490 crore, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
While SpiceJet registered a loss of Rs 279.8 crore, Jet’s low-cost subsidiary JetLite recorded a loss of Rs 246.8, minister of state for civil aviation G.M. Siddeshwara said in reply to a question.
New Delhi (PTI): The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to pay Rs 3 lakh to one Sanjay Sharma, who was wrongfully confined to prison by an erring police officer.
New Delhi, July 7 (PTI): The marksheets of the 2013 civil services examination have been put up on the website of the Union Public Service Commission. The results of the exam were declared last month.
didates who appeared in the examination can log on to the website — www.upsc.gov.in — to access their marksheets. The marksheets will be available online till August 19, an official said.
New Delhi (PTI): The government may impose an anti-dumping duty of up to $2,042 (Rs 1.2 lakh) per tonne on Chinese electrical insulators to protect domestic players from cheap imports. The directorate general of anti-dumping and allied duties has said the insulators have been exported from China below the normal cost.
New Delhi (PTI): The government has cited “increasing number” of state and central legislations, vacancies of judges and adjournments among factors responsible for pendency of over three crore cases in courts across the country.
Shimoga (PTI): Farmers in Karnataka’s Shimoga district organised “weddings” of donkeys and frogs as part of age-old customs to appease the rain god. The villagers, shaken by the inordinate delay in the onset of the monsoon, also offered special prayers and food to the rain god.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the responses of the Centre and states on a PIL seeking a ban or regulation of battery-operated e-rickshaws. Calcutta-based Bibhash Karmakar has said in his PIL that the e-rickshaws are being run without any rules and regulations and sought a CBI inquiry into their spurt.
New Delhi (PTI): The number of working children in the age group of 5-14 has declined in the country from 1.26 crore in 2001 to 43.53 lakh in 2011, labour and employment minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed the Lok Sabha on Monday.
