Brushing aside recent stepped up rhetoric from Pakistan, India today said it was ready to discuss all issues with Islamabad, including Kashmir. "Everything that they want to discuss and everything we want to discuss with them w
With advertisers hard to come by, oil PSUs have been roped in to bailout public broadcaster Doordarshan - the official telecaster of the 12-day Commonwealth Games. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and other sta
The Office of the Labour Commissioner, Delhi, does not have any record of the cases in which laborers were injured or died while working on the Commonwealth Games sites. The labour commissioner’s office has given this information in reply to
Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) slammed the delhi government for the mess in the commonwealth games accusing of ignoring its advice. "The current Commonwealth Games mess can partly be blamed to the fact that the Delhi governm
With advertisers hard to come by, oil PSUs have been roped in to bailout public broadcaster Doordarshan - the official telecaster of the 12-day Commonwealth Games. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and other sta
The Supreme Court today slammed the Centre for its failure to coordinate with state governments and union territories for actual implementation of juvenile law aimed at reforming and protecting minors. The apex court expressed its d
In the midst of debate over development vis-a-vis environment protection, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the solution does not lie in stopping mining projects but in properly compensating people who are displaced. &quo
Australia, the top notch sporting nation in the Commonwealth which won 222 medals in the previous Games, today confirmed participation in next month`s Games in Delhi as did neighbouring New Zealand, giving a boost to the event. Thei
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed all those involved in Commonwealth Games preparations that everything should be done to ensure success of the mega sporting event, Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan said today.
Pharma major Dr Reddy`s Laboratories has opposed the parliamentary Standing committee recommendations on increasing the number of drugs under price control and cap on profit margins of all medicines. "Price controls in the long
The Union Cabinet today approved the proposed National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, which envisages to make UIDAI a statutory body. The Bill proposes to constitute a statutory authority to be called the National Ide
The other day I came across Munnabhai after a long while. In his late 50s, Munnabhai is a fruit vendor. His fruits are famous for their freshness in the entire Darya Ganj area of central Delhi. Munnabhai is also known for his warm nature. He share
With the August 29 Bihar policemen hostage crisis fresh in mind and poll boycott call given by Maoists besides the criminal background of some candidates, Bihar goes to a six phase assembly election from October 21. Of the 243 assembly con
Ahead of talks with defence minister A K Antony, his US counterpart Robert Gates says he wants removal of restrictions on export of American high -technology items to India and that this contentious issue was high on their agenda. Simultan
Maoists blew up a building housing the office of a farmers` organisation and set afire a community hall in Jhargram sub-division of West Midnapore district early Friday. Police said that a large group of ultras raided Bandhgora village a l
Though Supreme Court`s decision to postpone the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya title dispute brought a sigh of relief, political leaders have divergent views on the issue. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Sunderlal Patwa, who
The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed charges against two investigative journalists for conducting a sting operation to expose the cash-for-query scam involving members of parliament in 2005. Justice S N Dhingra set aside the trial court
New Zealand`s Olympic Committee (NZOC) will take another day before deciding whether to participate in the troubled Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Delhi. But its Prime Minister John Key indicated that the country will not pull out of the event despit
Commonwealth Games (CWG) Federation chief Mike Fennell on Friday inspected the Games Village here and said "considerable improvements" have been made even as embattled organisers continued their sprint against time to complete preparatio
In a bizzare incident, a `pooja` was found performed inside the state-run civil services academy here on Thursday night, apparently on behalf of a senior official of the institute to surmount hard times he had been passing through.
