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Pranab lauds CAG for shifting from 'routine compliance audit' to 'more macro perspective'

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Last Updated : Oct 13 2012 | 12:03 PM IST

Saturday

New Delhi: Realty major DLF rejects allegations that it had given unsecured loans to Robert Vadra as a 'quid pro quo' for favours and said it had transparent dealing with him as an individual entrepreneur.

Varanasi: Samajwadi Party says it will continue to oppose the UPA government's "anti-people" policies but support it in a bid to keep the "communal forces" at bay.

New Delhi: Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddah unleashes "a series of wilful and malicious acts of mental torture, threat, blackmail and stress" on former air hostess Geetika Sharma which led to her suicide, Delhi Police says in its charge sheet filed in a court here.

Sunday

Jammu: In yet another truce violation, Pakistani troops fire at Indian forward posts in Jammu and Kashmir's Sambha
sector prompting BSF jawans to retaliate effectively.

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Chandigarh: Amid outrage over a string of rape cases in Haryana, Khap panchyats in the state have come out with a bizarre suggestion that the marriageable age limit should be done away with claiming it will check such crimes while the ruling Congress saw a "conspiracy" in the incidents.

Panaji: Enhancing lethality of its fire power, the Navy successfully test-fires a highly-manoeuvrable version of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a warship off the Goa coast.

Monday

Ahmedabad: Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who completed 11 years in office, dared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fight with him in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.

New Delhi: Amid government attack on CAG for allegedly going beyond its mandate, President Pranab Mukherjee lauds it for shifting from "routine compliance audit to more macro perspective" but cautions that any attempt to overreach would lead to dissonance in the system.

Tuesday

Chandigarh: Haryana government rejects Arvind Kejriwal's charge about a nexus between state officials and DLF and that the land meant for setting up a hospital was released in favour the realty major.

Jind (Haryana): Visiting a village in Haryana to console a Dalit rape victim's family, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today pitched for stringent punishment to the perpetrators even as she rejected a Khap Panchayat's demand to reduce marriagable age of girls to 16.

New Delhi: In an alarming trend, girl child numbers in India have shown a sharper decline than the male children in the decade beginning 2001, leading to a skewed child sex ratio.

Wednesday


Chandigarh/Katihal(Har): As Haryana witnessed another rape, the 15th in a month, Former Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala backs the idea of Khap panchayats to marry of girls early to curb such crimes, citing a Mughal era practice.

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu urges the Supreme Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and 6 others for alleged "brazen, wilful and deliberate defiance" of the apex court's order to release 9,000 cusecs of water to the State from Cauvery basis.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decries creation of "mindless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism" on the corruption issue and promised to strengthen the anti-graft law by including corporate failure to prevent bribery as a new offence besides other steps.

Thursday

New Delhi: The much anticipated meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee decides that Tamil Nadu Should get 8.85
tmc of water over the next fortnight, but Karnataka maintains that it would not accept it.

New Delhi: With the arrest of three terrorists belonging to banned Indian Mujahideen, Delhi Police claims to have solved Pune blast in August and also averted terror strikes in the national capital and Bihar during upcoming festive season.

Mumbai: Fans throng residence 'Jalsa', waited for hours singing songs from his films as hundreds of well-wishers today greeted megastar Amitabh Bachchan on his 70th birthday.

Friday

Lucknow/Gonda: Uttar Pradesh Minister Vinod Kumar Singh resigns following allegation of abducting Gonda Chief Medical Officer, who made a dramatic appearance at his office soon after.

New Delhi: Overruling stiff opposition by the Air Force, Government allows the Army to have its own attack helicopter units, meeting its long-time demand.

Chandigarh: In fresh embarrassment for ruling Congress in Haryana, which is already on the backfoot over growing incidents of rape, a state leader sparks outrage by claiming that 90 per cent of the cases involved "consensual sex".

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First Published: Oct 13 2012 | 12:03 PM IST

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