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
The Centre proposes to establish educational tribunals to adjudicate litigations between students and institution managements, HRD minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday In some cases, he said, disputes between students and teachers of privat
The Tamil Nadu government is taking all efforts to start a seperate Siddha department in Primary Health Centres in the state, deputy chief minister M K Stalin said on Friday. In his address at a conference on Tamil medicine, he said the st
The US has said India is committed to the Nuclear Liabilities Bill and that it was up to the Government there to figure out how to move forward in the wake of the Opposition objections to some aspects of the controversial legislation. The
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee`s office has lodged a complaint with Delhi Police against a Bengali TV news channel for continuously flashing her personal mobile number claiming that it affected her working and posed a security threat to her.
In a move aimed at ensuring proper conduct of MLAs, Delhi assembly has decided to form an ethics committee on the lines of Rajya Sabha to prepare a code of conduct for its members and monitor their activities. Speaker Yoganand Shastri said
Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said the results of tiger census will be available by November. "This time the tiger census is being conducted in a more scientific manner while earlier it was based on pugmarks
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that soon National Green Tribunals would be set up in the country after Parliament gives its nod. "The discussion of setting up National Green Tribunal has already began in the Parliam
Telecom company ITI Ltd has recorded the highest turnover in its history, registering Rs 4732.43 crore for the year ended March 31, 2010,a huge jump of 271 per cent compared to the previous year`s turnover of Rs 1741 crore "The provis
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that his ministry is not acting as a blockade on the construction of national highways in the country. "Ministry of environment and forests has cleared 98 percent national highway projects,
Sun TV diplomacy Union textiles minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran has been found gifting expensive HDTV sets and DTH antennas to his ministerial colleagues, opposition leaders, and dear friends, ostensibly to help th
Sports minister M S Gill has hit out at the Indian Premier League organisers for serving liquor inside stadiums during matches, saying sports and alcohol should never be mixed. "Sports and liquor should never be mixed. I am surprised,
President Pratibha Patil sought to get the corporate sector involved in providing healthcare to citizens saying that it is a core objective of corporate social responsibility. While inaugurating the Action Cancer Hospital here oN Saturday,
Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing federation (GCMMF) has appealed to the Central Government to protect the interests of milk farmers in Gujarat and other parts of the country. The GCMMF consists of dairies in Vadodara, Panchmahals, Surat
Setting an example for local bodies in the country, a gram panchayat in Kerala`s Wayanad district has come out with a novel scheme to provide social security to senior citizens by providing less strenuous jobs under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural E
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today lambasted tennis star Sania Mirza for deciding to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and said she is no longer an Indian. The 84-year-old Sena supremo also said that had Sania been truly Indian at he
Sonia Gandhi has appointed Rahul Gandhi as member of the Jawahar Bhavan Trust as she prepares to devote more time to the National Advisory Council (NAC). With this appointment, applicable from March 15, the young MP will run the Rajiv Gand
India has not made any offer to Russia to purchase Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to undertake the country`s own human space flight slated for 2015-16, a top space department official said. "No, that`s all what the newspapers write," India
