India`s nuclear plants may soon get some additional safety features, including more provisions to add water to the reactors to deal with over heating of the core, a condition that led to the Fukushima nuclear accident. The measures are par
The planning commission will submit its approach paper on the 12th five-year plan to the prime minister on April 21. The approach paper will discuss the goals for the upcoming plan period - double digit growth and inclusive growth. It will a
The first meeting of the newly-constituted joint committee comprising ministers and civil society activists to draft the Lokpal Bill will be held on Saturday. To be held on April 16, the meeting will be chaired by finance minister Pranab M
Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit chaired a high level meeting on Wednesday to review the Lancet Study showing alleged presence of superbug (NDM-1 gene in cholera and dysentery bacteria) in the samples of drinking water taken from Delhi.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) pitched for a model of corporate governance more suited to the Indian companies and stakeholders. Usha Narayanan, executive director of the board, informed at an Assocham event here on
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare today charged "political and criminal forces" of trying to dilute the nationwide movement against graft by defaming and criticising the campaign for a comprehensive Lokpal Bill. "Some pol
Days before the joint drafting committee meets for the first time to prepare a stronger Lokpal bill, government today said members should come with an open mind and refrain from drawing lines beyond which they would not retreat. &qu
Five fastest growing economies, including India, today vowed to oppose trade protectionism as they agreed to coordinate their positions in the multilateral fora, including the G-20 and climate change negotiations, to uphold the interests of develo
Five corporate honchos, who have been named in the charge sheet in the 2G spectrum case, on wednesday moved bail pleas in a Delhi court which asked the CBI to file its replies. "The CBI is granted time to file reply and put up the mat
Four funerals were held simultaneously in Ireland, Kenya, Canada and The Netherlands. A cricket bat and a white cricket ball were dispatched to ashes and an eulogy to greed read out at the ceremony. The tragic circumstances which surround
An FIR has been lodged against some Congress workers on charges of attacking policemen and loot, police said here. A case has been lodged by incharge of Wazirganj police station Pankaj Singh alleging that Congress workers attacked p
Voicing confidence that his party will win the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, DMK president M Karunanidhi today hinted at a possible coalition government, a key issue said to have been raised by long-time ally Congress as a post-poll arrangement.
The Election Commission today ordered Suspension of a Deputy Superintendent of Police and two Inspectors in this district "for not effectively performing their duties." Police said the tahsildhar of a EC flying squad and m
The US has reminded Pakistan of its "special" responsibility to bring perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice and asked it to do so "urgently". "There`s an international responsibility to coop
The supreme court today questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. A five-judge special
Tamil Nadu recorded about 25 per cent polling and Kerala an impressive 45 per cent till 1 PM in today`s closely fought assembly polls which largely remained peaceful. In Tamil Nadu, polling got off to a brisk start at 8 am reaching the 25
To put pressure on the government prior to the supreme court hearing on the ban on plastic sachets of smokeless tobacco packets on Wednesday, directors of 16 regional cancer centres in India wrote letters individually to prime minister Manmohan Si
Veteran Gandhians and activists have written to Anna Hazare, saying that claims of rural development made by Gujarat under chief minister Narendra Modi were false and the noted anti-corruption crusader needs to correct his statement about the BJP
In a bid to speed up its probe, the CVC has asked the chief vigilance officers of government departments to prepare a list of officials who were allegedly involved in corruption while executing Commonwealth Games related projects. It has a
Japan has reportedly decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the maximum seven on an international scale from the current status of five. The Nuclear and Industry S
