Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh has hit out the Bharatiya Janata Party and the CPI(M), saying the political parties averse to the India-US nuclear deal continuing the "agenda" of instigating people to oppose the first nucle
The government is bringing an ordinance to constitute an extraordinary anti-corruption mechanism in deference to a five-point agenda for "a battle against corruption" enunciated by Sonia Gandhi in her inaugural presidential address to th
All modern sense of gender equality must come to naught now for a supreme court judge, a woman no less, has listed the marriage of her two unmarried daughters as `liabilities". Or has it? She has listed the marriage of her two unmarri
An embarrassed Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday defended party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and its MP and former law minister Ram Jethmalani, saying they were only responding to the "call of duty" that does amount to any indiscipline
To bring down the high maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rate in India, there is an urgent need to strengthen the health workforce at the community level. This idea was brought forward by various experts from the health sector at the ope
Unfazed by growing opposition to Jaitapur nuclear power plant, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday refused to review the conditional environmental clearance given to it and asked "interest groups" not to use environment as a
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has expressed surprise over home minister P Chidambaram`s assessment of the law and order situation in the state, saying it was far from an impartial overview. Bhattacharjee also took stro
The Orissa government has found two state-run public sector undertakings among 13 mine lessees indulging in illegal mining, official sources said. The state government is processing a show-cause notice likely to be served against its own p
Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ducked an appointment with Telangana committee chairman justice (retd) B N Srikrishna. Chidambaram cancelled his appointment at noon and flew off to the Naxalite-hit Gadchiroli in Maharashtra for inspection.
Addressing a lecture organised by the Mumbai police on Media Ethics and Police-Media relations on Tuesday, N Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu, said that the media-police relationship is in good shape but generalisations by the media where police
State owned companies` initial public offerings (IPOs) have been more beneficial for investors` in the past decade than private companies, which tend to price their offers at steep valuation. A study of 243 IPOs that were listed between 2001 and 2
In a bid to give a boost to the sunrise sectors of animation, gaming and VFX (visual effects imagery), the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is involving players from the industry in a big way in evolving a policy that helps them realise their
The Centre is in a tizzy over an imminent release of the 5-member justice (retd) B N Srikrishna committee report on carving a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, three days ahead of the promised submission to the Home Minist
The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC), headed by the primr minister, has approved the empanelment of 52 IAS officers of the 1991 batch as joint secretaries to the government of India. V Vidhyapati of the karnataka cardre, a direc
The final stages of the long due cabinet reshuffle are underway. Sources close to UPA chairperson Sonia gandhi and prime minister Manmohan Singh have revealed that the two leaders held initial consultations with the members of the Congress core gr
The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has submitted its report on Swan Telecom`s alleged connection with Reliance Communication (RCom) to the telecom department (DoT). Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid told the reporters at a book launc
The Delhi government may soon provide new home for HIV positive children, who are orphans, for their growth in a healthy, non-discriminatory environment. The Delhi State AIDS Control Society (DSACS) under the Delhi government and National
Opposition leader in the lok sabha and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Monday took a thinly-veiled dig at her fellow party senior and public accounts committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on Twitter, raising questions on the mandat
Intellectuals and activists, including Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy, have stepped up protests against the “shocking” imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen and demanded immediate hearing of his appeal after granting him bail.
Delhi`s bus cluster scheme will debut on 32 routes in South Delhi in end of January, state transport minister Arvinder Singh said on Monday. A private transport firm, Star Bus Service, will be rolling out 50 cluster buses (seating capacity of 35 p
