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
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
