"We welcome the work of finance and energy ministers in delivering implementation strategies and time-frames, based on national circumstances, for the rationalisation and phase out over the medium term of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies tha
India and the US have agreed to set up four working groups to advance cooperation and establish common goals between two countries in health sector. In a meeting with the union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad last week US health se
India as well as countries in the Himalayan river basins - China, Bangladesh and Nepal will suffer huge depletion in water availability on per capita cubic metre basis, says a report. “India is going to face per capita decline
To prevent the kind of air space violations done by Chinese helicopters in Jammu and Kashmir last year, the Indian Air Force is planning to deploy radars along its mountainous frontiers in northern and eastern parts of the country. "T
Unhappy over the delay in implementation of an interest subsidy scheme on education loans for poor students, government convened a meeting of scheduled commercial banks and sought to know the problems faced by them in carrying out the scheme. The
To woo the pulses farmers to sell their produce to the procurement agencies, the government has announced a Rs 5-a kg incentive to the growers, on top of the higher support price that it had announced last week. The incentive of Rs
If you are incensed with the government for its failure to clean up the toxic site of the Bhopal gas leak in more than 25 years, think again. Maybe the government`s hands were tied. Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid suggested as much when
Mediclaim policyholders, who are not satisfied with the service of their existing service providers, will be able to switch to another insurer soon without any change in the premium outgo. However, this facility will be available to those
After about two months of nervously guiding a battered Maruti around my colony in the early hours of the day, I decide it’s time for the first step – a learner’s licence. The Sheikh Sarai Road Transport Office, the one me
Breaking new grounds in their bilateral relationship, India and Canada today signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first Indian
Eyeing more than nine per cent growth rate for Indian economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said exciting opportunities await India and Canada for mutual cooperation to raise their bilateral trade three-fold to 15 billion dollars within the
A meeting of all political parties was held here on Sunday to discuss the issue of sharing of Krishna river water, which was before the Tribunal for the adjudication of surplus water available under scheme-B. The meeting was convened follo
Aalam thought his life would change for the better when he met a construction labour contractor in his village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district six months ago. The contractor asked him if he was interested in working in Delhi. He was told that
“It`s an undeclared emergency we are living in today and its far worse than that imposed in 1975,” writer and activist Arundhati Roy said here today. She was addressing an audience of writers, activists, lawyers, researc
A battered, old van stands on one of the busiest streets in Delhi. For those not in the know, this could be just any other old van, plying the streets till it is actually condemned. But inside, a blind man is being readied for a trial. Sar
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today met chief minister Ashok Chavan to express his party`s concern for lakhs of 10th class pass students whose fate is in limbo after the Bombay High Court struck down the government`s `best o
"In the urban third world, poor people dread high profile international events—conferences, dignitary visits, sporting events, beauty contests, and international festivals—that prompt authorities to launch crusades to clean up
An Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today met for the second time in less than three weeks to decide on raising fuel prices, but Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was absent again. Banerjee and
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah is exploring possibilities of intervening to stop the hanging of parliament terrorist attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, fearing it would create new complications in the state like those created by h
Manveer Kaur`s misfortune exemplifies, in a horribly extreme manner, the misfortune of Maqboolpura neighbourhood of Punjab`s Amritsar district. A domestic worker, she has been wodowed twice, having lost her successive husbands to drug abu
