Friday,
May 9,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Venu back,
Ramadoss refuses to go away New Delhi, May 8
In a setback to the government, the Supreme Court today struck
down a law used to ease out noted cardiologist P. Venugopal as
Director of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS) after a bitter row with health minister
Anbumani Ramadoss.
Dr P. Venugopal with well-wishers after he
re-assumed charge as director of AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday. — Tribune
photo by
Mukesh Aggarwal
Olympic
torch lights up Mount Everest Beijing,
May 8
Live television footage
showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially
designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags Thursday
on the top of Mount Everest.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court
has asked the Punjab government to tell it what it proposes to do with
its tainted police officers. Taking a serious view of their continuation
on plum postings in alleged violation of the Punjab Police Act, 2007, a
Division Bench today ruled that propriety demanded their removal or
transfer.
40
die as bus falls into Chenab river Udhampur, May 8
At least 40 persons, including six
of a family, were feared killed and five others injured when an
overloaded video coach rolled down the river Chenab at Wardha village,
about 15 km from Kishtwar town, this afternoon.
Setu Project Look for
alternative route, SC tells Centre New Delhi, May 8
The Supreme Court today told the
Central government to explore the possibility of taking an alternative
route to complete the Rs 2,400-crore Sethusamudram canal project so that
the Ram Setu is not damaged.
HC
quashes case against M.F. Hussain New Delhi, May 8
The Delhi High Court on Thursday
quashed criminal proceedings against noted artist Maqbool Fida Hussain
for allegedly hurting public sentiments by painting obscene pictures of
Hindu goddesses. “The matter (allegation) is baseless.
The
13th chief of the Shiromani Panth Akali Budha Dal (Panjwan
Takhat) and 90- year- old legendary Nihang leader Baba Santa
Singh died at Rajindra Hospital here around 4 pm after
prolonged illness. Baba
Santa Singh had hogged limelight when he had agreed to
undertake “kar sewa” of Akal Takht building in Amritsar
after ‘Operation Bluestar’ in 1984 and subsequently, had
drawn wrath of several Sikh organisations for his act.
Baba Santa Singh
1857
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