DMK did not walk out of the UPA alliance at the centre today over the 2G issue and decided to fight the case legally. After a meeting of the party`s high-level committee, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister expressed `anguish` over
As Egypt prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections later this year, India will be sending some Electronic Voting Machines to that country on a pilot basis. The Egyptian side showed its interest in the use of Electronic Voting M
With more pilots joining the ongoing strike, Air India management on Thursday decided to suspend the bookings for the next five days in order to tackle the situation arising out of the stir. About 200 executive pilots have also join
An interesting battle awaits in Mendha Lekha village in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. This village is set to become the first one in the country to exercise their right to harvest bamboo, a minor forest produce, as granted in
Pushing ahead with the controversial Jaitapur atomic power plant, government today said it has decided to have a stand-alone safety system in the designs of each reactors, two of which are expected to be operational by 2019 and announced a bill wo
The home ministry has sent the report of the Shunglu Committee to Delhi government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and asked them to explain their position on the findings of the panel within a month.
Minutes after the news about Suresh Kalmadi’s arrest came and the Bharatiya Janata Party reacted to it saying that it was a delayed action, Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said: “UPA has let the law take its own course (in corrup
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the backdrop of growing concern over the opposition by locals to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh w
Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has bagged the prestigious Srishti Good Green Governance Award for 2010. The award was conferred on RSP in recognition of its eco-friendly efforts to reduce pollutants and green house gas emissions and effluent d
The Supreme Court today quashed levying of Airport Development Fee (ADF) by private airport developers in Delhi and Mumbai on international and domestic passengers. A bench of justices Cyriac Joseph and A K Patnaik set aside the policy of
A high power committee comprising heads of various probe agencies and specialised departments has been constituted to monitor the investigation and steps taken to bring back black money stashed in foreign banks, government told the supreme court o
The Delhi government has decided to set up a separate agency to maintain street furniture, new pavements and green stretch developed in the run up to last year`s Commonwealth Games amid complaints about their inefficient upkeep. The agency
Women panchayat leaders gathered in New Delhi to raise their voice against the government’s inaction on the fast-depleting groundwater resources in the country. In most parts of the country, underground water is either not drinkable or can&r
A group of civil society activists here today staged a dharna demanding removal of Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan from the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill. Demanding an independent inquiry into the allegations of corrup
Sports minister Ajay Maken on Monday said the Indian Olympic Association would be asked to elect a new president in case incumbent Suresh Kalmadi is arrested by the CBI and threatened intervention by the Ministry if the IOA fails to act.
The diktat by a local panchayat in Uttarakhand`s Haridwar district prohibiting women from taking up jobs has been withdrawn. "Women in Godawali and Sarai villages of Haridwar district have started going to work in factories in
Goa government on Monday said that Lokayukta Bill, introduced in the state legislative assembly in 2003, would be withdrawn as it was suffering from "legal infirmity" and various union ministries had raised objections. State law
Suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma has alleged that during the 2002 riots he received a call from Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi`s office asking him to tell his brother, IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma, to not take action against rioters.
The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has pulled up the Uttarakhand government for wasteful, avoidable and unauthorised expenditure to the tune of Rs 223 crore in the Maha Kumbh Mela. Based on the CAG report, a criminal complaint has b
