Govt to launch website to help tourists during CWG To prevent exploitation of tourists during the Commonwealth Games, the Delhi government will launch a website containing all information needed by them to avoid dependence
The government is planning to start a scheme for providing nutritional support to adolescent girls that aims to benefit about two crore girls in the first phase in next fiscal. The scheme devised by the women and child development ministry
NCP chief Sharad Pawar today told the opponents of the Women`s Reservation Bill to let the measure be passed in its present form and the issue of reservation for minorities and OBCs could be discussed later. "There is no specific prov
BS Meena, a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer of 1975 batch, was on Thursday appointed heavy industries secretary, replacing Satyanarayana Dash (Kerala:73) who retires on March 31. Meena is currently special secretary and financial adviser in the stee
With a view to use Singapore`s expertise in cleaning up the highly polluted Cooum river in the city, Tamil Nadu government today inked a pact with the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE). The Memorandum of Understanding with SCE, an age
For empowering women, Uttarakhand government has increased the gender budget by nearly Rs 200 crore for 2010-11. Concerned over the skewed sex ratio in the state, the state government has earmarked Rs 1417.75 crore for gender budget, meant
In a bid to resolve dispute over harvesting rights along river Yamuna, a local court has directed Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to maintain status quo along the border. Kairana Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sant Kumar directed senior officials of
Maharashtra government has taken up the modernisation of the police force on a war footing, providing them with the latest equipment, advanced weaponry and armoured vehicles, Governor K Satyanarayanan informed the state legislature here on Thursda
Long queues and and a even longer list of ticket-less travellers seems to have spurred the railways` policymakers to go for innovation. The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) has invited tenders for an ICT-enabled unreserved ticketing s
The centre is upset with states delaying wage payment to workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The rural development ministry in its a performance review meeting has come down heavily on states that do not pay wage
The rural development ministry has decided to use information and communication technology (ICT) tools for the effective implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). It has directed all state governments
Determined to go for mining of bauxite in Kalahandi district in a joint venture with Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd (SIL), the Orissa government today said it has no information about reputed companies withdrawing their investment from Vedanta gr
After Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, a Bihar MP was welcomed with a garland of currency notes. But there was a difference since the expelled JD(U) MP Ejaz Ali found the garland in tatters no sooner it was put around his neck today.
The Census 2011 can have more detailed questions on disability, thus identifying more diasbled people, if authorities agree to activists` demand. The census commissioner has at least agreed to consider recommendations from represent
At the home ministry, officials are busy preparing detailed strategies on how to tackle insurgencies in the northeast, how to battle Maoist rebels – and what to do with the growing mounds of wastepaper in North Block. A letter
Work on action plans to bring down pollution in critically polluted areas in Delhi will begin soon, Central Pollution Control Board chairman S P Gautam has said. “The work on studies to reduce the pollution levels in these areas will begin w
If things go the right way, Orissa`s first attempt to harness tidal power for generating electricity would be in the form of a 1,236 MW plant along the creeks in Mahakalpada in the Mahanadi deltaic region. SPI Ports Limited, a priva
Noted social activist Anna Hazare, who is on an indefinite hunger strike here, has said that the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra was wasting people`s money by allowing ministers to spruce up their already well-furnished cabins.
The Karnataka government has booked 78 cases against 113 officials on charges of irregularities and misappropriation of funds in works taken up under NREG scheme, Minister for Rural development Jagadish Shettar infored the state assembly today.
Former CJI Y K Sabharwal was not considered for the post of National Human Rights Commission chief because of "adverse media and other reports" about him, the home ministry has said. Former chief justices R C Lahoti and Y
