Not since they went looking for Private Ryan or, more somberly, the Rwanda massacres have so many armed and trained soldiers been ambushed and killed in one fell swoop as did happen in India on bloodsoaked Wednesday. The massacre of as many as 90
The union cabinet has approved divestment in the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) to mobilise a total of RS 16,000 crore through both further public offers (FPOs) and sale of government equity, home minister P Chidambaram said here on
Solar power will now illuminate more than 3,000 villages in Orissa under the Remote Village Electrification Programme (RVEP). The programme is being implemented by the Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA), according to a report in Bu
The Union cabinet will meet on Thursday to discuss a strategy to take on the Maoist rebels in the country. The meeting comes in the backdrop of Tuesday`s massacre of 76 CRPF personnel in Chattishgarh`s Dantewada district. Home minis
Reliance Industries (RIL) on Wednesday said it has commissioned the country`s first one-megawatt (MW) solar plant to power a stadium to be used in the upcoming CommonWealth Games. The company`s solar energy initiative, RIL Solar
IT Minister A Raja today welcomed any suggestion that would strengthen cyber laws and enhance online information security, a day after reports of Chinese hackers cracking into sensitive Indian government department websites. "We amend
The Congress seems to be negotiating with Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh to get a Rajya Sabha berth for Captain Satish Sharma. Since Sharma`s term would expire shortly, he has to be elected from the Rajya Sabha. If Ajit Singh`s RLD si
The chewing tobacco or the gutka industry must be regulated alongside maintaining stringent checks on the sale and consumption of cigarettes in the country to check tobacco related diseases, said Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the World
Students of Delhi Technological University (DTU) decided on Wednesday to suspend their agitation for a few days to give government some time to consider their demands. "We will attend classes till Friday and will decide further action
In more trouble for N D Tiwari, the Delhi High Court directed the veteran Congress leader to file a response on why DNA test should not be conducted on him to ascertain the allegation made by a man claiming to be his biological son. The co
The visiting US treasury secretary Timothy F Geithner on Tuesday said Washington will closely work with New Delhi to promote a more balanced and greater economic cooperation between the two nations. "The whole focus (of the meeting) w
Government’s ambitious rural employment project Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) has come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court which today said money was not reaching real beneficiaries and in many cases goi
K VIjay Kumar is being tipped to become director general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to boost the morale of the troopers in the aftermath of the bloodbath in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. A political decision at the highest level
Operations against militants, including the ULFA, would continue until they gave an assurance to abjure violence in the state, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said today. "There are reports of the ULFA and other militant outfits recr
The Maharashtra government has announced that an expert committee will be appointed under the chairmanship of the Governor to carry out the review of Key Performance Indicators of universities. Grants to the various universities and colleg
The CAG has pulled up Jammu and Kashmir`s social welfare department for failing to successfully implement its flagship schemes in the state. Financial mismanagement, non-adherence of eligibility criteria, lack of monitoring and proper plan
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has said that states lacked sufficient resources to implement the Right to Education Act, 2009 and demanded that the Centre meet the expenses on it cent per cent. `The states lack sufficient resources to i
Taking their bilateral relations to a new level, India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to establish a hotline between Prime Ministers of the two countries. The agreement was signed by external affairs Minister S M Krishna and hi
The Delhi Industrial Development, Operation and Maintenance Bill, 2010, passed last week by Delhi assembly, was unlawful and illegal, Ved Prakash Gupta, chairman of MCD’s Master Plan-2021 implementation committee, said on Monday. The
A day after the Chhattisgarh bloodbath, the question is what next, how to tackle the Maoists who are at war with the state. While many strategies are being suggested, a key element -- of blocking their finances -- is overlooked. That is the ar
