When the summer is at its peak, it is shocking to note that more than 8000 anganwadi centres located across Orissa lack drinking water facilities within 250 meters of the centres. In an affidavit filed in Orissa high court pertainin
Warning of tough times ahead, the RBI on Tuesday raised the key short term lending rate and savings bank rates by 50 basis points and advised the government to hike petroleum prices as soon as possible in line with the ruling global crude prices.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is averse to dilution of the income tax department’s power to tap phones of suspected tax evaders. In an exclusive interview with Governance Now (read the full interview in the May 1-15 issue), CBDT c
Acting against illegal commercial establishments, the MCD on Monday sealed 38 units in east Delhi, a drive undertaken following a directive from the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee. The 38 shops in Madhu Vihar in Sahada
The Delhi high court has issued contempt notices to nine office-bearers of Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA). In the court proceedings on Monday the court lambasted the pilots union and the Air India management for not coming to a soluti
The Pawan Hans helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu and four others remained untraced for the third day on Monday. Congress on Monday expressed concerns and said that the government is making all possible efforts to l
The Delhi high court on Monday asked Air India pilots to call off the strike and resume work. A division bench of justices B D Ahmed and Beena Birbal, while hearing a plea for initiation of contempt proceedings against the pilots who have not perf
The Delhi government claimed to be the first state to implement the right to free and compulsory education (RTE) act. But even after a year of its implementation the state government is yet to notify the rules. National Commission for Prot
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has approved a self regulatory guidelines and complaints redressal mechanism” for all non news channels, including general entertainment, children, special interest channels. In a release afte
Congress on Monday said that US` Osama operation proves that Pakistan has been harbouring terrorists from diiferent outfits - a line India has steadfastly held to since three decades. Reacting to news reports of Osama bin Laden`s death, p
The stalled Posco project in Orissa got a final forest clearance from the ministry of environment and forests on Monday. In an order, union environment minister Jairam Ramesh said, “In view of the state government’s latest communicatio
The Air India pilots` strike entered the sixth day on Monday even as 90 percent of the airline`s services remained crippled. Agitating pilots have refused to budge before their demands are met even after the Delhi high court`s order on Wednesday a
In 2008, `Jihad From Hindukush To Armageddon`, a work of fiction published from New York accurately predicted that Osama Bin Laden (OBL) would be taken in 2011. The details vary a
The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction and life sentence of ten Delhi Police officials including an Assistant Police Commissioner for killing two businessmen in a fake encounter in 1997. A bench of justices H S Bedi and C K P
India today said the killing of global terrorist Osama bin Laden was a matter of grave concern as it proved that terrorists belonging to different groups find sanctuary in Pakistan. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said in a statem
Almost 10 years after the 9/11 terror strike, al Qaeda mastermind and world`s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden was today killed by US forces after being hounded in a special operation in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Bin Laden, 54,
The Maharashtra government would disburse grants of various state-sponsored financial assistance schemes through biometric system from May 1. The scheme would be launched on Maharashtra Day by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, at Bh
Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee today ridiculed the demand for a judicial inquiry by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his party into the "political conspiracy" behind the arms drop in Purulia 16 years ago.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today directed the CBI, which is investigating high-profile 2G and CWG scams, to thoroughly investigate these cases, produce quick results and act without fear to bring to book those guilty. "The h
When it comes to the senior citizen health insurance in India, there are hardly any insurance companies who cover senior citizens at broader length and the Indian insurance sector blames it on government lackadaisical approach. “We are not s
