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January
16,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Vinod
Raju NIA chief New
Delhi, January 15
Radha Vinod Raju, Special
Director-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, has been named as
the Director-General of the newly created National Investigation
Agency (NIA). A 1975-batch IPS officer, 59-year-old Raju, who
heads the vigilance department in the militancy-hit state, will
be the head of the NIA till January 31, 2010, an official
spokesperson said.
J-K,
Haryana lead in war on terror Haryana’s vigilance
chief SC Sinha has been inducted into the CBI as a special
director Chandigarh, January 15
Union Home Minister P
Chidamabaram appears to have reposed special faith in vigilance
chiefs of Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana in tackling terror in
the aftermath of the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. While J& K
vigilance chief RV Raju has been named the first chief of the
National Investigation Agency (NIA), Haryana’s vigilance chief
SC Sinha has been inducted in the Central Bureau of
Investigation as a special director.
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Don’t
roll back ties with Pakistan: Boucher Even
as India threatens to roll back ties with Pakistan, a US official has
cautioned against such a move saying it is in both nations’ interests
to continue moving ahead in the relationship. Assistant secretary of
state for south and central Asian affairs Richard Boucher said in an
interview with this correspondent: “India has to decide what its
outlook is on ties with Pakistan.”
India
losing 1m neonates, 78,000 mothers annually New Delhi, January 15
India is losing one million
neonates annually, 82 per cent of them to birth-related infections
(pneumonia, tenatus and diarrhoea), asphyxia and pre-term birth, finds
the latest UNICEF State of the World Children (SOWC) report released in
the Capital today. Maternal health scenario is even worse, with 78,000
women dying each year from complications related to pregnancy and
childbirth.
More
water for Rajasthan, more power for Punjab, Haryana Chandigarh, January 15
Water from the Himalayas is set to
slake the thirst of the desert fields of Rajasthan this summer with the
Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) releasing five lakh cusecs days of
more water than its stipulated share to the state.
If
wishes were planes, then Punjabis
would ride Jalandhar, January 15
See, ladoos, boondi or barfi —
even liquor and clocks — are fine as offerings in temples and
gurdwaras but what do you do if the tough visa regulations just won’t
let you fly in a state where going abroad is the ultimate dream?
Aeroplane replicas being offered at Gurdwara Sant Baba Nihal Singh Ji Shaheedan at Talhan near Jalandhar. Photo: Suryakant
Some Things Just
Don’t Change 2 From sacred
river to deadly scourge Ludhiana, January 15
Twenty five years ago,
Sukhminderpal Singh, a resident of Bhukhri Kalan village, used to drink
water directly from Budda darya. Today, he cannot even dare to touch the
water of the nullah that has become a scourge for the Punjab’s
industrial capital. Scores like him remember having taken a holy dip in
the stream — which now stinks as it carries sewage, effluents,
biological and solid waste — every Baisakhi.
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New
Delhi, January 15
Even
as India threatens to roll back ties with Pakistan, a US official has
cautioned against such a move saying it is in both nations’ interests
to continue moving ahead in the relationship. Assistant secretary of
state for south and central Asian affairs Richard Boucher said in an
interview with this correspondent: “India has to decide what its
outlook is on ties with Pakistan.”
