‘Awareness, support can prevent mental illness’

NEW DELHI - Awareness and community-support at an early stage can help prevent the onset of mental illness, experts suggested Saturday.

Israel names former official to UN flotilla panel

JERUSALEM - A former official of the Israeli foreign ministry has been chosen to represent his country on a UN panel investigating the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May, local media reported Saturday.

Disabled group demands sacking of swimming coach, official

NEW DELHI - Irked with a swimming coach and an official of a sporting body, the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) has written to Sports Minister M.S. Gill to sack them ahead of the Swimming World Championship Aug 15-21.

NGO backs public boycott of Mumbai taxis Aug 12

MUMBAI - Action for good Governance and Networking in India (AGNI), an NGO that works with government agencies for transparency, Saturday announced support to a public boycott of autorickshaws and taxis Aug 12 to protest against arbitrary fares and misbehaviour.

Book five Uttar Pradesh ministers, court tells police

LUCKNOW - Five Uttar Pradesh ministers, along with five others, are likely to be booked by police after a local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district ordered action against them over a blasphemous article published in a journal.

Court rejects IFFCO’s plea for refund from railways

GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat High Court has rejected the Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative’s (IFFCO) suit seeking refund from the railways in a dispute related to alleged delay in providing rakes for transportation of its goods.

FIR cannot be encyclopaedia of incident: Apex court

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court has said that a first information report (FIR) was not an “encyclopaedia” that would contain the minutest details of an incident and it was not necessary to mention therein all the evidence on which the prosecution proposes to rely during the trial.

Gujarat told to hike pay of labour court judges

GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to hike salary of judicial officers in labour courts by Sep 9 and comply with a Supreme Court order on the issue.

Priyanka Chopra is new Unicef national ambassador

NEW DELHI - Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has been appointed the national ambassador of Unicef and she will support it in promoting child rights, officials said Saturday.

CBI takes Amit Shah into custody

GANDHINAGAR - The Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) took former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah into its custody following the order of the Gujarat High Court that granted two-day custody of Shah to the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

No overtime under industrial disputes act: Court

GANDHINAGAR - A state government employee is not entitled to claim overtime or other benefits under the Industrial Disputes Act, the Gujarat High court has ruled.

US bans child adoption from Nepal

KATHMANDU - The Barack Obama government has halted the adoption of abandoned children from Nepal indefinitely due to growing allegations of child trafficking and falsification of documents, often in connivance with government authorities.

Sohrabuddin case: CBI reaches Sabarmati jail to question Shah

GANDHINAGAR - The investigating agencies reached the Sabarmati jail on Saturday morning to commence the interrogation of former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, following the order of the Gujarat High Court that granted two-day custody of Shah to the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.