India has finally gained membership to the Financial Action Task Force, a global body that chalks policies to counter financial frauds and provides members access to information on suspicious transactions in countries including Switzerland, China,
India has finally gained membership to the Financial Action Task Force, a global body that chalks policies to counter financial frauds and provides members access to information on suspicious transactions in countries including Switzerland, China,
It will be raining complaints this monsoon at Delhi`s railways offices if the inadequate arrangements to prevent waterlogging in tracks are to continue. Waterlogging cause circuit failures because of which the signal continuously flashes the
Yet another life has been lost over water. A 22-year-old man was killed in Govind Vihar, northeast Delhi on Sunday in a brawl between neighbours over a water tap that had been sealed by the Jal Board, according to news reports. The incident occurr
Bids for the Bandra-Versova and the Haji Ali-Nariman Point links, part of an ambitious plan to reduce travel time to downtown Mumbai by leveraging on the adjoining Arabian Sea, will be invited by April 2011, a senior Government official said.
Coming in defence of 10th class SSC board students, Shiv Sena today said it will move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order striking down the `best of five` system for junior college admissions in Maharashtra. Sena E
The Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) is under tremendous pressure from some UPA allies to get their MPs included in the Indian delegation to the UN General Assembly annual meet beginning September 24. They have been lobbying so seriously that
For Vijay Singh, a 27-year-old tabla player, Moolchand is where he came close to losing his life and most definitely lost his livelihood. He lost his left arm in an accident at the underpass. A truck ran over his arm when he fell from his scooter
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has expressed deep concern over health and environmental hazards caused due to ship breaking at Alang in Gujarat and other places in the country. The premier national agency
No, I don’t get it. Not at all. This whole exercise of blaming men almost always when a woman (more so if she is a celeb) commits suicide; and of accusing them every time a relationship goes sour. Are we being fair to them? Or, are we being
Justifying the hike in oil prices Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said it was an all important step to meet under-recoveries of oil marketing companies (OMC). Interacting with the media in Mumbai on Monday, Mukherjee said, &ld
Mobile services in north Kashmir and SMS service in the entire valley have been blocked on the instructions of the state government following incidents of violence, an official said today. "We blocked the SMS service on the instructio
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a "more favourable attitude" towards the extradition of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson to stand trial in India in the Bhopal ga
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group firm, Reliance Infrastructure, today signed an agreement with Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to construct the 3.3-kilometre Worli-Haji Ali Sea Link. It also involves paying MSRDC R
The first meeting of the group of ministers on inclusion of caste categories in the census is likely to be held on July 1. The GoM headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, has as its members union law minister M Veerappa Moily, HRD min
The nation was shocked after a Bhopal court`s verdict on the 1984 gas tragedy. There was no justice for the victims, people said, hoping the government would still do something. And the government did: it revived a Group of Ministers on this issue
Miffed at the states bypassing the panchyati raj institutions in preparation of the NREGS labour budget, the rural development ministry has asked the state governments to attach a certificate of approval from PRIs failing which the funds will not
A local court today asked the CBI to file a report before it by tomorrow on investigation into the alleged multi-crore Railway recruitment scam. The Judge of the Special Court for CBI cases, gave the orders while hearing a petition
* Fuel prices to impact inflation, but it will be absorbed:FM Print Print STAFF REPORTER 17:50 HRS IST Mumbai, Jun 28 (PTI) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the the hike i
After introducing Tamil as the medium of instruction in Engineering education, Tamil Nadu government proposes to extend it to medical courses, chief minister M Karunanidhi said today. "The (Higher Education) minister had announ
