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Parl update - The Houses` agenda for 02.08.10

The following is the Parliament schedule for August 2, 2010 Lok Sabha 1. Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2010 2. Securities and Insurance Laws (Amendment and Validation)

Bulletproof vehicles for Delhi Police soon

The Delhi Police is going high tech.  The six armoured bullet proof vehicle will soon be added in its fleet, which it will be purchasing before the Commonwealth Games. GA_googleFillSlot("ht_story_top_l

Parl tame and trotting the line as price-rise impasse ends

The week-long logjam in Parliament over the issue of spiralling prices ended today with both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha resuming their normal functioning. The stalemate ended after the opposition gave up its demand for a moti

Guj focuses on soil health programme

In a bid to help farmers of Gujarat to get better agricultural yield, the state government has undertaken a massive drive to issue Soil Health Cards (SHCs) containing details on various properties of the soil. The SHCs, which are gi

West Bengal passes clinical establishment bill

Private hospitals and nursing homes in West Bengal will no longer be able to refuse treatment to patients with the passing of West Bengal Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2010 in the Assembly on Thursday. Under th

New mining bill likely in current session

The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill of 2010 is likely to be introduced in the current session of parliament. A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met here on Friday to finalise it.

Philanthropy suffers a heart attack at AIIMS

Not many patients thronging the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country’s premier government-run hospital and medical college, get to hear of Vishnu Sureka. Even fewer among them would connect him to a Delhi High Court d

Games cash siphoned off. National prestige, Mr Kalmadi?

The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is embroiled into yet another controversy of money laundering unearthed by the British authorities trailing huge sums coming into a bank account of a dubious one-man company of the Indian origin person,

India to take giant strides in economic growth

The country is set to double its economic growth in six years, making it past the two-trillion dollar mark, believes Ramdeo Agrawal, co-founder and director of Motilal Oswal Securities Pvt Ltd. He was speaking at a seminar – India: Towards a

IRDA not to concern itself with cashless treatment

There seems to be no end to the suffering of individual health-insurance policy-holders, stuck in a row between the public health insurance companies and select hospitals, as the insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (

Rs 1 crore threshold for HC commercial division: panel

Government`s plan to set up commercial divisions in high courts to settle high value litigations has received a setback with a parliamentary select committee recommending several changes in the Bill, including reducing the threshold limit from Rs

Register CWG-works corruption cases: CVC to CBI

The Central Vigilance Commission has asked the CBI to register a corruption case against certain MCD officials in connection with irregularities in a tender issued for a Commonwealth Games project worth several crores. Official sources sai

SC allows Hockey India elections

The Supreme Court today allowed the Hockey India to hold elections for its executive body but restrained it from implementation of the results. A Bench comprising Justices Altmas Kabir and A K Patnaik stayed the Bombay and the Delhi High C

No normalcy in J&K yet: PC

Acknowledging that situation in Jammu and Kashmir is "not yet" normal, the Centre today made it clear that it was committed to hold quiet dialogue with all shades of opinion in the state and said "we are willing to hold talks with o

Corporate India bats for Keshub Mahindra

Corporate India stood strongly behind the chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, Keshub Mahindra while debating the role, responsibilities and liabilities of independent directors at the ASSOCHAM organized national conclave on corporate governance.

Wonder why food is rotting? Check liquor industry`s balance-sheets

Food grains worth Rs 58,000 crore are rotting away as they are not stored properly, when the country is reeling under a double-digit inflation in food prices. But there`s a silver lining: at least liquor manufacturers could benefit from this heigh

Citizen bodies to advise J&k local governance

The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to constitute Citizens Advisory Councils (CAC) at divisional and district levels to promote peoples` participation for the return of peace in the Valley. "The government has issued d

New Navy warship awaits fin min approval

The defence ministry has sent a naval project for building four new guided missile destroyer warships to finance ministry for clearance, before it goes to Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for final approval. Defence ministry offi

Def min cancels tenders for choppers for coast guard

In a major setback to coast guard`s plan to upgrade its capacity post-Mumbai attacks, the defence ministry has cancelled a tender for hiring eight helicopters for transport and evacuation operations after going through the year-long selection proc

TRS riding high in AP bypolls

The Telugu Rashtra Samiti (TRS) won three more seats of Sirpur, Chennur and Mancherial among the 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where bypolls were held on July 27. In Mancherial, TRS candidate defeate

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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