Captive Collector needs medication
RAIPUR: Abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is ‘safe’but needs medicines, Maoists on Tuesday night said and proposed the name of human rights activist and academic Hargopal as anoth
er mediator for talks with the government. They also maintained that they have not extended the deadline for meeting their demands. The IAS officer, who was abducted on April 21, is an asthma patient.
Singhvi stays away from Parliament
NEW DELHI: After giving up his position in a parliamentary committee and the Congress party over an alleged sleaze CD, Rajya Sabha member Abhishek Manu Singhvi chose to stay away from Parliament, even though the budget session resumed on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, party sources say that Singhvi is also likely to lose his party posts, includ- ing that of AICCs legal and human rights department.
3 more months for 2- G auction
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the central government three more months till August 31 to fulfill all requirements and auction 122 2G licenses which were cancelled by it in February. An apex court bench of Justice G. S. Singhvi and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan, while extending the time, observed that the government was aware that something was wrong and this could have been avoided if a little effort was made.
Govt to free diesel prices, but not LPG
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said it has agreed in- principle to deregulate diesel prices, but is not considering similar proposal for the cooking gas.
While petrol prices are market- linked, the government fixes the rates of LPG, kerosene and diesel, which results in a large budgetary expenditure on subsidies.
