‘Currently, CSR funding is unequal to the task’ "I don’t think you can force a business to buy CSR credits. It’s not clear to me how funds generated by a CSR credit market wil
Consensus eluded the all-party meeting held here today to break the logjam over the Women`s Reservation Bill with the Yadav trio sticking to their demand for quota within quota and UPA ally Trinamool Congress joining chorus with them. Afte
Information on the attendance of ministers during cabinet meetings is beyond the purview of transparency law, the cabinet secretariat has held. It has said that attendance of ministers during cabinet meetings is exempted from disclosure un
Salt miners in Orissa`s Ganjam district have urged the state government to treat salt sector at par with agriculture and provide them necessary incentives as given to mine labourers. Production of salt had started this year, about a month
Bihar chief minister nitish Kumar has announced the state government`s decision to distribute land among the landless Paswan (Dusadh) community in an election year, a report in the Hindu says. Now, every landless memeber of the community w
In an embarrassment to the Omar Abdullah ministry, ruling National Conference members staged a walkout in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative council on Monday saying that the government was enacting a "policy for the death of Urdu language&quo
In an effort to end the impasse over the Women`s Reservation Bill, an all-party meeting was held on Monday to pave the way for taking up the proposed legislation for consideration in Lok Sabha when Parliament meets on April 15 for the second part
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging Centre`s decision to confer Padma Bhushan on NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal. A Bench headed by acting Chief Justice Madan B Lokur, after going through the original documents
Describing Naxalism as the country`s "first enemy," Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the menace would be completely rooted out in another two or three years. He said Naxalism has assumed gigantic proportions as it had n
One of the highlights of the Assam Public Health Bill 2010 - passed unanimously by the state assembly on March 31 - is that all the government and private hospitals, nursing homes and health centres will now have to provide free emergency treatmen
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the nodal agency for the implementation of the Right to Information Act, has floated a questionnaire on RTI regime that has led some people to wonder if it could be another government attempt at prepari
Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, whose elevation to the Supreme Court was halted, has been asked by the apex court Collegium to go on leave. Highly placed sources said the decision was taken against Dinakaran, who has not
Under a scheme to be announced next month, the government will bear 30 percent of the cost of installing solar panels on household rooftops. The ministry of new and renewable energy hopes that this scheme will help it achieve the target of 1,000 M
Drugs can be fake, degree certificates can be fake, and it now turns out, even government instructions can be fake. For all you know, an official memo, which clarifies that previous instructions were fake, too can be a fake. Centra
Concerned over damage to environment due to rampant mining of minor minerals like sand and marble, a government task force favours bringing them under a strict regulatory regime. If the suggestions are implemented in toto, companies would
In an apparent reference to India, the US on Friday said it wants emerging powers to cooperate with its effort to galvanise international community in imposing sanctions against Iran through UN Security Council. "We are expectin
In a major boost to Gujarat, an environmental sub-committee of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) has cleared raising of dam height from present 121.92 meters to 138.64 meters. However, sources in the state government said though getting
Complaining of lack of powers, the National Commission for Minorities has made a strong pitch for parity with other such panels in the country. In a letter to the secretary of ministry of minority affairs, the commission has said, "It
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Friday said recommendations of two panels on replacing the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, in force in some northeastern states, with a more humane law would soon be placed before the Cabinet.
An Empowered Group of Ministers on food is scheduled to meet again on April 5 to discuss certain aspects in the draft food security bill it had cleared last month. The EGoM on food, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, is meeting o
