With the present Income Tax Act proposed to be replaced by the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) next year, the I-T department is planning to introduce a host of services related to processing of tax returns and refunds in the current fiscal. The de
Sunday`s stampede at the New Delhi railway station was explained away as a `trip-up` by the following evening. But as anyone who has boarded or deboarded a train there would tell you, the tragedy remains a case of too little for too many. From spa
Four CRPF personnel were today killed and two injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals at Lalgarh in West Bengal on the second day of their bandh called in five states. The blast comes a day after union home minister P Chidambaram asked
Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Tuesday strongly favoured bringing NGOs, autonomous organisations, societies and trusts within the purview of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). He said that this move was necessary for ensu
The Maharashtra government wants to link the country`s largest container port Jawaharlal Nerhru Port Trust (JNPT) to the ambitious Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor project and said it would make suggestions to the DMIC Development Corporation on t
West Bengal Suspected Maoists triggered a landmine blast on a railway track near Jhargram in West Midnapore district today, injuring two drivers of a goods train and leaving the engine of the freight train damaged.
All Central Universities and Deemed to be Universities will need to have at least one teacher for every 10 students for their post-graduate programmes in science and one for every 25 students at the undergraduate level, as per new regulations of t
CPI-M today demanded central intervention in Manipur to resolve the ongoing crisis arising out of the state government`s decision not to allow the NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah to enter into the state. "The Centre should im
The six new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like hospitals coming up in various parts in the country will have energy efficient buildings. Speaking to Governance Now, Ajay Mathur, director general of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BE
National solar mission will soon step out of the shade, with the guidelines for the same being scheduled for a June-end release, according to Deepak Gupta, secretary at the ministry of new and renewable energy. Speaking at a press conferen
High alert has been sounded in Naxal-infested districts of Maharashtra in the wake of a deadly attack by Naxals in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh in which they blew up a bus killing 31 people, police said today. "The securi
The Delhi government has cleared the file on the mercy petition of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru and sent it to the Lieutenant Governor`s office, four years after its opinion was sought on the issue by the Centre. "
Is the home minister fighting the “biggest internal security threat” with a hand tied to his back? That is the question being raised once again after the latest Dantewada massacre, when the security forces urgently needed quick logisti
Advocating a hard-line approach against Maoists who are out to destroy democracy through violence, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday came down heavily on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Digvijay Singh for advocating
The area under production of world`s best brand of rice -- basmati -- is decreasing with farmers taking to cultivating alternative varieties in the Jammu area, R S Pura Rice Growers Association (RSPRGA) said today. The progressive b
After fatwas by Darul Uloom Deoband that it was un-Islamic for women to work in close proximity of men in offices and for her family to accept her earnings, an Islamic seminary here has said that education for Muslim girls was not only important,
When Arundhati Roy met a child, acting as a messenger for Maoists, she wondered if he was the biggest security threat to the Indian state. But don`t stretch that forced irony to any children sitting in a bus carrying special police officers (SPOs)
Ending a three-week long political impasse in Jharkhand, the BJP and JMM today reached an agreement on sharing power on rotational basis with a BJP-led government to take over within a week. "We have decided that BJP and JMM wi
In view of the two-day bandh called by the Maoists in five states, Railways today stepped up vigil across its network, especially in Bihar and Jharkhand, and cancelled some trains besides imposing speed restrictions on trains plying after sunset.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh today disfavoured use of air force in dealing with naxalism, a day after home minister P Chidambaram said he was trying to "convince" the Cabinet on providing air support to anti-naxal operations.
