The Election Commission has slapped show cause notices on 15 political parties including main opposition BJP, RJD and JD(S) for failing to furnish details of expenses incurred by them during the last Lok Sabha elections. The parties
Expect normal monsoon rains this season. This is the forecast by the top weatherman for the country which faced an unprecedented drought last year. "The long range forecast for the 2010 south-west monsoon season is that the rai
Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have left behind their northern counterparts as far as the devolution of power from the state to the panchayat is concerned. The panchayati raj ministry’s latest report on Panchayat Empowerment &
A Madhya Pradesh government`s action plan for the medical rehabilitation of the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy seems to have been turned into money-spinning venture by corrupt officials, NGOs allege. “While the Supreme Court monitorin
The BJP on Friday appeared divided with some leaders demanding resignation of union ministers Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel over the IPL issue while the party restrained itself saying "clinching evidence" is required before seeking any m
Railways is facing a huge crunch of coaches, wagons and engines. Only 31,815 wagons have been produced since 2007 against the need of 62,000 wagons, as per the 11th Plan requirement (2007-08 to 2011- 12). Similarly, 9,788 coaches have been p
Rejecting the charges that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were allowed to be used in India by flouting guidelines, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that Indian girls were being used as guinea pigs for the trial of anti-cervical c
IFFCO has proposed to set up a farmers` training institute in Orissa. Farmers would be trained on best crop practices, fruit preservation, fish farming, dairy and poultry, maintenance of agricultural equipments and bee keeping in the proposed inst
The central administrative tribunal (CAT) has turned down a plea by Delhi`s government doctors to set aside a move to allow members of central health services to work in Delhi health services. The CAT told Delhi administrators doctors welfare asso
Customers of BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, which distributes power in south and west Delhi, can now pay their electricity bills at a nearby Oxigen-enabled retail outlet. All they have to do is use ‘OxiCash’- a cash-based online paym
Over half of this year’s plan budget of the union ministry of urban development has e been utilised by just two projects - the Commonwealth Games 2010 and the Delhi Metro. The ministry’s standing committee recently submitted t
Here`s the story from The Times of India Praful Patels daughter pulled out scheduled AI flight for IPL Manju V | TNN Mumbai: A
The CBI has arrested Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai and two others for allegedly taking a Rs 2 crore bribe to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab, an offence described as grave by a court. Special CBI judg
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGs) is winning kudos from all quarters. On Wednesday, it was the G-20 labour ministers` summit in Washington that praised it, while on Thursday it was the turn of the BJP-led oppo
Faizabad police had intelligence that an attempt could be made to harm the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, Anju Gupta, an IPS officer who was a personal security officer of BJP leader L K Advani in Ayodhya, told a special court on Friday.
The government on Friday approved Rs 15,000 crore capital infusion in public sector banks (PSBs) in the current fiscal, a move that will increase the lending capacity of the banks by Rs 1.85 lakh crore. For the year 2010-11, a sum of Rs 15,
Government on Friday did not rule out setting up of a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to probe into the IPL controversy with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee saying a decision would be taken after "due diligence." "It (a
People of Beit Jala, a Palestinian village, have probably not read Arundhati Roy`s 32-pager call to arms. She, on her part, probably does not know what they are up to. The Beit Jala people, according to a BBC
A project of Rs 473 crore for promotion of use of renewable energy in Ladakh was approved by the cabinet committee on infrastructure on Friday, a press release from the ministry of new and renewable energy said. Thirty small/ micro hydel p
In coming 20 years, India needs to invest $2.2 trillion (Rs 97.35 lakh crore) on its cities to meet the urban infrastructure demands, the global consultancy firm McKinsey says in its latest report. The study further states that 40 percent of India
