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Delhi-based scientist Faiyaz Khudsar,who was not given a visa by the US Embassy for a course on tiger conservation,has been asked by the Embassy to provide police verification from the regional passport office....

US Embassy asks scientist for verification

NEW DELHI: Delhi-based scientist Faiyaz Khudsar,who was not given a visa by the US Embassy for a course on tiger conservation,has been asked by the Embassy to provide police verification from the regional passport office. However,dates for his travel for the course have passed already.

TN to probe Jaya estate construction

CHENNAI: Fresh from a triumphant Tamil meet,Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday initiated a probe into an allegation that AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa was constructing a large tea factory inside her Kodanadu estate premises,violating rules. The estate in Nilgiris district is Jayalalithaas summer retreat.

545 instts okayed by transparent AICTE

NEW DELHI: The AICTE Executive Committee has granted approval to 545 new institutes,including a large number of management and engineering colleges. This approval system was based on a new e-governance-based and transparent method introduced after the entire top brass of the AICTE last year became a subject of CBI investigations.

No women masseurs for men in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The city police have clamped a ban,starting July 1,on employment of women at massage centres which provide services to men. The ban would also be applicable for men,though police have so far not found men giving massage to female customers in the city,Police Commissioner A K Khan told reporters on Tuesday.

Paper apologises for Mamata ad

NEW DELHI: A Bengali daily that had carried an advertisement featuring Mamata Banerjee sporting a rubber slipper has tendered an apology to the Railway Minister after an FIR was lodged against it. Sangbad Pratidin newspaper said the ad was not prompted by financial gains but to celebrate political achievements of Mamata.

Bulletproof jacket: Bail after CBI failure

NEW DELHI: A court on Tuesday granted bail to a senior Home Ministry official and a co-accused,both allegedly involved in the scam involving purchase of bulletproof jackets for central paramilitary forces,due to the CBIs failure to file chargesheet within the stipulated 60 days.

Lecturer held for threat mail to Hooda

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SIRSA: A college lecturer was arrested here on Monday night on the charge of sending threatening e-mails to Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the state Chief Secretary. He was released on bail on Tuesday by a court at Mandi Dabwali. Navdeep is posted as a lecturer in the Electronics Department in Devi Lal Memorial Engineering College at Panniwala Mota in the district.

FIR against MP Dy Speaker

BHOPAL: Deputy Speaker of Madhya Pradesh Assembly Harvansh Singh has been accused of forgery,criminal conspiracy and intimidation by a landowner in Seoni district. An FIR under the relevant sections of the IPC has been registered at the Dhanora police station of Seoni district against Singh,a Congress MLA from Keolari,his son Rajneesh and one Nyaz Imtiaz Ali. In a private complaint in the court of JMFC,Lakhnadon,landowner Mohammed Shah alleged that Ali sold his land to the Deputy Speaker and his son without his knowledge. Once the police probe is over,truth will come out,Singh said.