02.23 pm - Speaker Meira Kumar rejects move for adjournment motion saying price-rise is a sensitive issue and may be discussed in any form other than the adjournmnet mottion. 01.13 pm - Rajya Sabha adjourn
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday signed the files to promote 43 IAS officers of the 1980 batch as additional secretaries to the Government of India. On Tuesday the prime minister consulted his aide TKA Nair and c
The metro line from Central Secretariat to Jahangirpuri remained disrupted for almost one-and-a-half hours on Tuesday following some technical snag. The panto (device installed on the engine of the train from where power is supplied to the
Furious with National Sports Federations for not complying with its tenure and age limitation guidelines, the sports ministry today threatened to deny annual recognition to NSFs which refuse to fall in line. In a written reply to a
The Orissa government today began land acquisition for the proposed Rs 51,000 crore Posco steel project in Jagathsinghpur district, even as a central team termed the process as "illegal" saying that the Forest Rights Act had been violate
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi today hit back at former sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar for his scathing criticism of the upcoming event, saying the senior Congress leader`s comments are "irresponsible"
The Central Vigilance Commission is examining all construction work related to Commonwealth Games being undertaken by civic agencies following complaints of alleged large-scale corruption. The anti-corruption watchdog has also decided to f
Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, a retired IAS officer of J&K cadre, is heading for a World Bank assignment post retirement. He has been named one of the three members of the World Bank`s first Appeals Board set up ea
The Delhi High Court today said the government should not associate itself with the election in Hockey India (HI) due tomorrow as it is a private body and held that Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) is the only recognised body for the sport in the co
Targeting to check the double digit inflation, RBI today hiked its short-term lending and borrowing rates by 0.25 per cent and 0.50 per cent respectively, a move that could put pressure on banks to make auto, home and commercial loans expensive.
15.25 p.m. Lok Sabha adjourned till 11.00 am on 28/07/2010. 12.25 p.m. Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2 p.m. after uproar over price-rise in House. Opposition wants discussion on price-rise, say
Central Information Commission chief Wajahat Habibullah believes that the formulation of a new commission or body is not needed to protect the RTI activists across the country from attacks. “Social audits can be of great help (in preve
The government signed 16 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with private solar power project developers on Sunday. These memorandums will enable the developers to generate 84 MW of solar energy by 2013. This was done under the migration scheme of t
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depots will soon have to do without government handholding. The transport authority is aiming at cutting its losses - believed to be at Rs 30-40 crore a month - by making them earn their keep. Each
The Supreme Court today admitted a petition to examine the acquittal of JMM chief Shibu Soren in connection with the murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994, in which the CBI has chosen not to challenge the exoneration of former Jh
The CBI today filed an application in a court here to interrogate former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, in jail. Shah, facing murder and extortion charges in the fake encounter case, was
Hinting at a hike in its key rates tomorrow, the Reserve Bank today said it would continue exiting from its easy money regime to check double-digit inflation, while ensuring stable economic growth. "Given the risk to inclusive growth
The Rajya Sabha is likely to sit up to 8 pm from Tuesday to discuss and dispose of numerous bills and other legislative business. There are consitutional amendments, replacing ordinaces with the bills. An announcement is likely to be made on Tuesd
CBI has summoned two retired IPS officers, who had at one point of time headed the probe into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case as chiefs of state CID, and questioned one of them. G C Raigar and O P Mathur, who have already
The Supreme Court today asked the Army to produce before it the government notification which debars women officers from getting permanent commission in the armed forces. A bench comprising Justices J M Panchal and Gyan Sudha Misra
