Green spoke in Vedanta’s mining plot
Govt cancels environment clearance to Orissa project
New Delhi, August 24
In a significant decision that may affect the future of similar projects in the country, the Centre on Tuesday struck down the multi-crore Vedanta mining project in Orissa citing serious environment and tribal rights’ violations.

Nation page: Jairam gave no indication of Vedanta rejection: Patnaik

Arunachal ex-CM held for Rs.1,000-cr PDS scam
Guwahati, August 24
Special Investigation Cell of the Arunachal Pradesh Police today arrested former Chief Minister Gegong Apang from Itanagar in connection with a multi-crore Public Distribution System (PDS) scam in the hill state.


CM Gegong Apang

CET impersonation: J&K minister’s daughter booked
Jammu, August 24
The police today booked seven aspirants for the Combined Entrance Test (CET) for the MBBS/BDS courses, including a daughter of Congress Minister G.M Saroori and a son of former National Conference (NC) Minister Ram Pal, on a charge of fraud and criminal conspiracy in the impersonation case. Though sources claimed that the case had been handed over to the CBI for further investigation, neither any senior bureaucrat nor any police officer confirmed this.

Foreigners ‘swallow’ Rs 6.6 cr diamonds, arrested
Mumbai: Diamonds worth nearly Rs 6.6 crore on display at an international exhibition here were stolen and three Mexican nationals, including a woman and a Venezuelan, were held at the Dubai airport today for their suspected involvement in the heist.

Give IWF loan to pay dope fine, OC told
New Delhi, August 24
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has directed the organising committee of the 2010 Commonwealth Games to give an "interest free loan" of Rs 1.75 crore to the Weightlifting Federation of India (WFI) to enable it to pay the balance amount of penalty to the International Weightlifting Federation, which has slapped a fine of $5, 00,000 on the WFI “for violation of anti-doping rules by Indian players in the month of November, 2009”.

As schools reopen in Ladakh, a leap of joy

As classes resume in tents, this Class II student of the Government High School in Basgo village, some 45 km from Leh, has a spring in his step. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari

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Govt misleading courts: Armed Forces Tribunal
Chandigarh, August 24
In two separate scathing indictments, the Chandigarh and Kochi benches of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) have taken the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to task for misleading various courts with outdated rules and for not placing actual facts before the judicial fora. This had led to verdicts based on inapplicable provisions of law.