Delhi is mulling a move from the lottery system for admissions in schools at the nursery level. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit is learnt to have come out against the drawing of lots to admit children in schools at a meeting with education minister
Under attack from opposition parties and NGOs back home, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday admitted to "nuancing" of the Indian position that it will not accept internationally legally binding emission cuts. He said th
A day after the supreme court favoured the probe into 2G scam covering the time since 2001, the government today announced setting up of a one-man panel to look into the spectrum allocation procedures and policies during 2001-2009, a period that i
The government is deliberating the formulation of a comprehensive national competition policy so that the businesses across the sectors could be deterred from indulging into unfair competition practices, which they apparently do to cope with th
Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad urged the scientists here on Wednesday to translate technologies from various disciplines of biological sciences into forms of treatment which can benefit patients. He was speaking at the consultative committee of
The government on Thursday turned the heat on the NDA and other parties by mooting a JPC on Parliament stalling by the opposition over their demand for a JPC to probe the 2G scam. “Look at the scam that has been caused due to obstruc
Tata group chairman, Ratan Tata, in a strongly worded letter, has replied to the open letter written by the Rajya Sabha MP and former mobile promoter Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar in his open letter published on December 8 had
President Pratibha Patil has given her assent for a supreme court inquiry into charges of financial mismanagement against controversial Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli. Official sources said the president`s assent came on a reference ma
The supreme court had castigated the CBI in October for letting the 2G probe dry in its vaults, saying it had "done nothing" for over a year. The agency, after all, had been entrusted with the probe in 2009 while the spectrum stink wa
It has been more than a year since the project worth Rs 6, 000 crore to build a convention centre in West Delhi’s Dwarka area, was scrapped. However, the Delhi development authority (DDA), the civic agency concerned with the project, is unpe
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has been asked to hire 1,000 Blueline buses that are being removed from the roads. The transport department has asked the DTC to hire those buses which are
Dissing all theories of foreign countries arming the maoists, a new report says that the mining industry in the pockets of the country is helping the insurgents procure explosives. The report released on Wednesday goes on to say that such collusio
Not content with various monitoring bodies created to keep an eye on the implementation of the sundry welfare schemes, the top babus of the rural development ministry have deputed themselves as the final ombudsmen and will monitor NREGA, Indra Awa
Army authorities in Pune accused a central bureau of investigation (CBI) team, which had recently conducted a "surprise check" at its Command hospital, of "faltering in procedure" and "sensationalising" the raid and s
Unlike the health ministry, the supreme court on Tuesday took a step forward in ensuring stricter measures for better public health and ordered a ban on the sale of chewing tobacco in plastic pouches from March 2011. A bench of justices GS
Turning the heat on former Telecom Minister A Raja in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam, CBI today carried out searches at his, his brother`s and his mother-in-law`s residences in Delhi and Chennai besides carrying out raids at the premises of four
The food security bill might just remain a distant hope, even though UPA chief Sonia Gandhi wants to hurry it through the Parliament halls. The government bull-dozed the national advisory council (NAC) efforts to put the bill on a
Bhuvan Kumar has been living a night shelter for three months now. His squatter on Bengali camp in Delhi’s Kidwai Nagar area, was demolished in the wake of commonwealth games (CWG) 2010. Bhuvan says that he and people living in neighbouring
The NDA today said it was ready for a five-day special session to compensate for the loss of work due to the current deadlock in Parliament provided the government concedes to the Opposition demand for JPC probe into the 2G spectrum issue.
The government today exuded confidence that inflation, which remained high during the course of the year but has started declining, will fall to about 6 per cent by March end from over 8 per cent currently. "Inflation is coming
