1. Former Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the Louis Berger International Inc (LBI) bribery scam.
2. When I saw coaches of my train plunging into water, I called my daughters and said this might be the last call as the train was sinking, recalls Arun Pandey, 57, who was among several passengers in S-4 coach of Kamayani Express to have come out of jaws of death.
3. Breaching a line rarely crossed in the past, Youth Congress workers held a demonstration that led to a lathicharge and use of water cannons outside the residence of Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, indicating that Congress's confrontation with the Modi government may well outlast the current session of Parliament and cast a shadow on the rest of the 16th Lok Sabha.
4. Chief Justice of India H L Dattu is worried about the huge vacancy in judges posts in high courts caused by the lingering vacuum on appointment of judges to the higher judiciary.
5. A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against former Lalit Modi in a case of alleged money laundering registered against him, dealing a big setback to the former IPL chief who is at the centre of the ongoing political confrontation between the Modi government and its opponents, especially Congess.
6. Aam Aadmi Party MLA, Commando Surender Singh, got into an argument with municipality employees who were clearing the Race Course Road pavement of unauthorized vendors on Tuesday evening and allegedly beat up one of them.
7. Fighting between forces loyal to slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi and fighters-linked to the ISIS is said to be delayed Hyderabad professors Ch Balaram Kishan and T Gopikrishna's release from captivity in Libya.
8. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said PM Narendra Modi's recent 'DNA' barb was an insult to the entire state, attracting accusations from BJP that Nitish's arrogance was the reason why he had conflated an entire population with his partisan ends.
9. The lack of monsoon rains is spelling doom for Telangana on three fronts: First, a drastic drop in paddy cultivation is set to trigger a massive shortage in rice production; second, with their crops more or less destroyed and the prospect of rains in the near future bleak, farmers are resorting to suicides; and thirdly, plummeting water levels at Nagarjunsagar Dam is threatening to disrupt the drinking water supply to Greater Hyderabad.
10. In the last three years (2012-15), 2060 students have dropped out of 16 IITs. In the same period, 2352 students dropped out of 30 NITs. Dropout in IITs has been the highest (757) in 2014-15. Among IITs, the one in Roorkee faced 228 dropouts, the maximum, followed by 209 in IIT, Kharagpur, 169 in IIT Delhi and 72 in IIT Bombay. Dropout in IIT, Roorkee is on the rise. It was 159 in 2012-13 and 188 in 2013-14.
2. When I saw coaches of my train plunging into water, I called my daughters and said this might be the last call as the train was sinking, recalls Arun Pandey, 57, who was among several passengers in S-4 coach of Kamayani Express to have come out of jaws of death.
3. Breaching a line rarely crossed in the past, Youth Congress workers held a demonstration that led to a lathicharge and use of water cannons outside the residence of Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, indicating that Congress's confrontation with the Modi government may well outlast the current session of Parliament and cast a shadow on the rest of the 16th Lok Sabha.
4. Chief Justice of India H L Dattu is worried about the huge vacancy in judges posts in high courts caused by the lingering vacuum on appointment of judges to the higher judiciary.
5. A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against former Lalit Modi in a case of alleged money laundering registered against him, dealing a big setback to the former IPL chief who is at the centre of the ongoing political confrontation between the Modi government and its opponents, especially Congess.
6. Aam Aadmi Party MLA, Commando Surender Singh, got into an argument with municipality employees who were clearing the Race Course Road pavement of unauthorized vendors on Tuesday evening and allegedly beat up one of them.
7. Fighting between forces loyal to slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi and fighters-linked to the ISIS is said to be delayed Hyderabad professors Ch Balaram Kishan and T Gopikrishna's release from captivity in Libya.
8. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said PM Narendra Modi's recent 'DNA' barb was an insult to the entire state, attracting accusations from BJP that Nitish's arrogance was the reason why he had conflated an entire population with his partisan ends.
9. The lack of monsoon rains is spelling doom for Telangana on three fronts: First, a drastic drop in paddy cultivation is set to trigger a massive shortage in rice production; second, with their crops more or less destroyed and the prospect of rains in the near future bleak, farmers are resorting to suicides; and thirdly, plummeting water levels at Nagarjunsagar Dam is threatening to disrupt the drinking water supply to Greater Hyderabad.
10. In the last three years (2012-15), 2060 students have dropped out of 16 IITs. In the same period, 2352 students dropped out of 30 NITs. Dropout in IITs has been the highest (757) in 2014-15. Among IITs, the one in Roorkee faced 228 dropouts, the maximum, followed by 209 in IIT, Kharagpur, 169 in IIT Delhi and 72 in IIT Bombay. Dropout in IIT, Roorkee is on the rise. It was 159 in 2012-13 and 188 in 2013-14.
