-The Economic Times Rajan Mittal resigned as director of Bharti Retail last November, barely weeks after the Enforcement Directorate launched a probe into a controversial $100-million investment by Walmart Stores in Cedar Support Services, the holding company of the retail venture. A Bharti spokesman said Mittal had resigned from the board last year to "take out time for his other commitments" and has been replaced by Bharti Group's general counsel and...
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Warrants against 19 policemen
-PTI Bhadoi (UP): A court here has issued non-Bailable warrants against 19 policemen in a 31-year-old fake encounter case, officials said here on Saturday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ram Swaroop Saroj on Friday issued non-Bailable warrants against 19 policemen and fixed April 30 as the next date of hearing. The police claimed to have killed one Devendra Singh in an encounter in the Gopiganj area here on April 4, 1982. Later the State government, on...
More »Rise in power tariffs shifts debate to quality- Kirthi V Rao and Utpal Bhaskar
-Live Mint Tariffs reach at least Rs.4 per unit in many states, finds analysis, amid efforts to Bail out state discoms Indian domestic consumers in 16 states are paying at least `4 per unit for power and in some cases even more, according to an analysis, thus giving the lie to the long-held axiom that raising tariffs is nearly impossible in India given the political compulsions. The finding also shows conclusively that...
More »CBI arrests ex-Gujarat ACP in Ishrat fake encounter case
-The Hindu The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested former Gujarat Assistant Commissioner of Police N.K. Amin in connection with the fake encounter killing of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others. Amin was recently freed on Bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case by the Bombay High Court on health grounds. On Thursday, he was arrested from the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad where he was undergoing treatment. Ishrat...
More »Girl cries molestation, HC gives bank officer Bail says, 'holds high post' -Mayura Janwalkar
-The Indian Express Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory Bail to a senior bank official accused of molesting a teenage girl, saying that "he is a high-profile person and has been exposed to humiliation already". Joginder Singh, a deputy general manager with the Oriental Bank of Commerce, was booked by the police for allegedly molesting a 16-year-old girl in the lift of his residential building in Vile Parle on...
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