In Madhya Pradesh, villages continue to reel under long load-shedding, but Minister of State of Energy (Independent Charge) Rajendra Shukla promises to make the electricity crisis a thing of the past – just wait till 2013. "Madh
Sending a strong message that she was fully behind the government on fuel price hike, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today praised Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for deft handling of the Union Budget. "We have many essentia
A day after locking horns with Manmohan Singh during the Presidential Address debate, senior BJP leader L K Advani today said the prime minister had breached parliamentary propriety by making "false" claims that enhanced pension announce
That if the Prime Minister doesn`t want to tell Advani and Parliament what secrets he is talking with the US on Pakistan because Advani did not tell Manmohan and Parliament what secrets Jaswant Singh talked with Strobe Talbott,
The government`s plan of constructing new ports and expanding existing ones to support an expected increase in traffic is likely to create a huge demand for capital and maintenance dredging in India, a top official has said. "T
While state governments accuse the center of niggardliness in releasing funds for numerous development schemes, it turns out most states end up not utilising the money. Himachal Pradesh is the only state that has utilised all the re
The budget allocation for the Department of Information Technology has increased from Rs 2,802 crore to Rs 3,067 crore. A meagre increase of about 9 percent, pitifully smaller than the tall claims of Rs 50,000 crore mentioned by a senior gov
Pulok Chatterjee on Tuesday paid courtesy calls on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi amid speculation that he is likely to return to Delhi in September and occupy a key position in UPA II. Chatterjee,
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a verbal duel when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened repeatedly and rejected BJP leader L K Advani`s charge that US pressure was behind India`s decision to talk to Pakistan. During the deb
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the prescribed stipulations to avoid contamination of soil and traditional crops were adequate and there was no proposal to ban field trial of genetically modified crops. "There is
The Delhi cabinet has approved the development and management of industrial estates under the PPP model. The Department of Industries has been keen to upgrade infrastructure in the existing industrial estates and develop a sustainable fra
Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A. B. Bardhan has demanded that the self-draw of lots by some cooperative societies in Dwarka sub-city of Delhi should be regularised and accepted and no penal action be taken against the membe
A total of 2,157 panchayats out of 3,243 in Himachal Pradesh have been made open defecation free (ODF) so far and a sanitation drive was in full swing in the rest, state Panchayati Raj minister Jairam Thakur told the assembly today.
Here`s a simple question: guess how much power Punjab can generate in just two years if (a) it has an aggregate power demand of 9,000 MW today, but (b) after all these years, it has managed to build up generation capacity of 6,900 MW? Your answer
An unrelenting opposition today kept the pressure on the government in the Rajya Sabha on the spiraling prices alleging a scam in sugar imports, a charge rejected by Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. Pawar, who was replyin
The Budget session started some 10 days ago, but parliamenthas not been able to conduct quesiton hout as the chair has been forced to adjourn the house after calling the first question due to continuous pandemonium on one or the other issue. As a
The centre has lifted the suspension of licences of three public sector vaccine units that were closed in 2008 for failing to comply with good manufacturing practices (GMP). The order will come into effect immediately, reported The Hindu. The lice
Children below the age of seven years should not be allowed to participate in reality shows on television channels, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended. The recommendation would be forwarded to th
Agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan has said that increasing farmers` income per hectare was as much of a concern as improving yield per hectare. "The National Farmer`s Policy is unique because it shifts focus from land to its tiller,"
The Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered one of its best ever production performances in February this year. The steel plant made 1,82,007 lakh tonne of Hot Metal in February 2010 by utilising 118.6 percent capacity whi
