Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said steps have been taken to tame inflation but the government has no magic lamp to bring it down immediately. "You cannot expect that there is any magic wand or like Alladin`s magic lamp t
Congress on Friday made an attempt to draw the opposition into ending the deadlock over a joint parliamentary committee probe into the 2G scam. Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan told the assembled media persons at a press conference
Indians abroad will now be able to register themselves as voters in India under the Registration of Electors (Amendment) Rules notified on Thursday. The government has also published a new Form 6A for enabling the overseas electors to appl
Madras high court on Friday directed the government not to allow any person to draw and sell ground water until the Tamil Nadu Ground water Act was notified. A division of bench comprising justice Elipe Dharma Rao and justice D.Hari
With his government under attack over various scams, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday spoke out against corruption, saying that it strikes at the roots of good governance, dents the country`s international image and "demeans us
The government is mulling over a fast track approval of PSUs` proposals for acquisition of natural resources like oil, coal and mines overseas, without going to the cabinet, a top official said. An empowered committee headed by cabinet sec
Amidst uproar by the Opposition members, Uttar Pradesh governor B L Joshi on Friday addressed the joint house on the opening day of the budget session of the state legislative assembly. As soon as the proceeding of the House started, the o
Federation of Mizoram Government School Teachers (FMGST) today criticised the government for engaging school teachers in the ongoing Census 2011 work to the detriment of the interest of the students. A press statement issued by the FMGST s
Admitting that inflation posed a serious threat to the growth momentum affecting the poor and vulnerable sections, prime minister Manmohan Singh today favoured waiving mandi, octroi and local taxes, which impede the smooth movement of essential co
India is not expecting any "concrete" or "final pronouncement" at the climate conclave in Durban later this year on four key issues, including one pertaining to emission cuts. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, however
The ghosts of the 2002 Gujarat riots continue to haunt chief minister Narendra Modi. The weekly magazine Tehelka claims to have dug up a carefully buried indictment of Modi by the special investigation team (SIT) probing the riots. Accordi
In the last few decades, the negative fallout of the green revolution of the 1960s in Punjab has been continually highlighted in reports of sick soil, declining yields. A new report by Greenpeace blames government apathy for the state of affairs.
The government today told the Supreme Court that once a bureaucrat is given a vigilance nod for appointment as secretary, no further clearance is required for empanelment for appointment as Central Vigilance Commissioner. "Once a pers
The ministry of New and renewable energy is soon going to generate electricity using corn cobs. After successful projects of electrification through rice husk the villages in Bihar will see electricity generation using corn cobs. Sources in
Lalita, a shy 15-year-old girl is a household name in and around Sherpur village nearly 60 km from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. For two years, she was the lone student in her village’s government girls’ middle school, which has since beco
Ten days after a child molestation case by a senior resident doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) made headlines, the health ministry and the AIIMS administration finally sacked the accused doctor on Wednesday night based
The commonwealth games organising committee (OC) spent Rs 33 lakh to save its image which was tarnished in the wake of corruption allegations. On November 10 last, the OC issued advertisements in 21 newspapers carrying details of its expen
With the changing technology in medicine the curriculum of the medical courses taught in the country should also change, said All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director Dr RC Deka here on Tuesday. “The doctor-patient r
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said growing corruption was paving way for a shift towards anti-Congressism in national politics but parried a question on whether he was ready to lead any such opposition move. "The situation i
Railways today said they could do nothing to avert the mishap involving ITBP job aspirants in Uttar Pradesh as repeated announcements made to discourage them from travelling atop trains proved ineffective. "Travelling atop trains is u
