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Kejriwal hits back Centre New row sparked between LG Najeeb Jung and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over order notification cancelling the appointment of Krishna Saini as the chairman of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC). CM Arvind Kejriwal directly hits at Centre and LG for “big conspiracy.” The Delhi governemnt and LG Jung have not good terms and Kejriwal always targets Centre for conspiracy agaisnt the AAP governemnt.  Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal have cancelled the LG's order and alleged that removal of Saini was part of a conspiracy to increase power tariff in the capital to benefit the discoms. Kejriwal said Saini would continue as DERC chief as LG did not consulted with CM or power minister Satyendar Jain before ordering his removal.  “It's sad that he (Jung) is cutting salaries of people, stopping mohalla clinics, closing schools. He has turned governance into a joke in Delhi. Does he intend to shut down Delhi” Kejriwal asked at a pr...

Train between Nagpur-Secunderabad will run with speed of 160 km/h General Manager of Central Railway (CR) Akhil Agrawal on Thursday denied any possibility of running bullet train from Nagpur. However, the GM assured that work of high-speed corridor from Napgur to Secunderabad is under progress. Addressing a press conference at DRM office, Agrawal said that trains are running with max speed of 100 to 110 km/h on Nagpur-Secunderabad route. The speed will increase upto 160 km/h after completion of the project. However, he denied any sanction for bullet train from Nagpur.  General Manager of CR Akhil Agrawal inaugurating CCTV surveillance system at Ajni Loco Shed while DRM Brijesh Kumar Gupta and others were present.  On the topic of development of Nagpur railway station, the GM said that many works have been sanctioned for Nagpur station including increasing length of existing platform, new Foot Over Bridge (FoB) at Itarasi end and parking slot at West gate. Eight ...

Traffic Control Branch and Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Friday conducted a meeting of traffic advisory committee at Swagat lawns. Stakeholders including members of transport and autorikshaw organisations, NGOs working for creating awareness, vigilant citizens and students attended the meeting and submitted their views to streamline traffic on city roads.  Issues like proper stoppage for Star buses, private buses, autorikshaws were discussed and many citizens appealed the authorities to provide designated places for stoppage. Harishchandra Pawar, office-bearer of Nagpur Zilla Auto Chalak Malak Sanghatana said, autorikshaw drivers are ready to operate with meter tariff and authorities should take steps in this regard. He also threatened to taken out morcha against operation of Ola and Uber within city limits.  DCP (Traffic) Smartna Patil addressing the stakeholders while Deputy RTO Ravindra Bhuyar, Assistant RTO Rupkumar Belsare, Dr Anil Laddhad and others look on. ...

Why Govt banned only NDTV for Pathankot telecast? It looks like simple decision of BJP government to ban transmission and re-transmission of NDTV for a day for disclosing sensitive information during Pathankot terror attack. But it is not simple as it looks like.  One and only aim of the government is to teach a lesson to all those who are uttering words against government. If not, then why ministry of Information and broadcast have punished only NDTV. NDTV Ban When Pathankot attack took place, not only NDTV but all news channels were revealing “sensitive” information which they probably get from sources of Indian Air Force officers (as IAF officers only aware about demography of the airbase). When rest of the media also did cover the terror attack and all such reports available in the public domain,  the inter-ministerial  banned only NDTV.  News24’s show Sabsey Bada Sawaal’s reporter, for example, said in a January 4 broadcast that there were 22 combat ai...

By Dheeraj Fartode Posing as policemen, four tricksters duped an elderly woman of her gold ornaments worth Rs 60,000 at Ram Nagar square on Monday by dishing out a lie that robbers had murdered and looted an aged woman in the area. According to police, 68-year-old Sukanya Hari Rao, a resident of Plot No. 53, Flat No. 8, Makarand Apartment, Hill Road, Gokulpeth, was walking towards home from a lane. Two men in civil dress approached her and said “did you know that a woman -- Laxmi -- was murdered in the area by robbers for gold ornaments. It was published in newspaper.” Apparently the lady disbelieved them, but to make their story more reliable, the men stopped a youth (probably part of their drama), who was walking behind them. They slapped him and forcibly removed his gold chain and put it in his pocket. Sensing trouble, Sukanya started walking away from the spot. A fourth person appeared on the scene and approached Sukanya. He showed his identity card and introduced himself a...

GST High power GST council of India on Thursday announced a 4-tier GST tax structure of 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%, with lower rates for essential items and the highest for luxury and de-merits goods that would also attract an additional cess.  A member of GST council said that the slaps have been decided to keep inflation under check. The council decided to keep essential commodies in zero rate slab.  Finance minister Arun Jaitley said about Rs 50,000 crore would be needed to compensate states for loss of revenue from rollout of GST, which is to subsume a host of central and state taxes like excise duty, service tax and VAT, in the first year.  However, economic experts have different view on the Jaitley’s comment. “There would be more than 1 lakh crore revenue losses for states after implementation of GST,” said Shobha Prasad, a financial expert. The 4-tier tax structure agreed to has slight modification to the 6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent slab that were under discussio...

Dear Zindagi (Dear Life) revealed its first song, Love You Zindagi...., to coincide with superstar Shah Rukh Khan's 51st birthday. The songs is beautifully made and it recorded 1 million hits on Google in a day. The songs was trending on tweeter on third rank on Thursday. The songs is all about life. You don't  find life cooped up inside offices or job circles. You find it while floating a paper boat in a puddle, you taste it while cycling on a tree-lined road, you experience it during midnight conversations with friends and family. Dear Zindagi Alia also posted a message for her co-star befre the release of the song. She wrote on social media, “To the man who rules hearts…controls minds and has an enviable soul…happy birthday @iamsrk you. Dear Zindagi (English: Dear Life) is an upcoming 2016 Indian drama film directed by Gauri Shinde and produced by Gauri Khan, Karan Johar, and Gauri Shinde under the banners of Red Chillies Entertainment, Dharma Productions, and...