Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has said her ministry has taken up the matter of new visa regulations that curtails tourists stay in the country with the external affairs ministry following complaints from a few states. "I know i
Affirming his commitment to women`s empowerment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that his government was moving towards providing one-third reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures. Opening a wome
Help is at hand for those who had to run around to report for missing children. It is now just a click away with Delhi Police launching an exclusive website on juveniles on Saturday. The website -- www.dpjju.com -- is
The Assam government is waking up to the need for setting up a separate time zone for the Northeast, something that existed during the British rule but discontinued once the country gained independence. The issue was raised in the A
Telecom Minister A Raja is reluctant to cut down BSNL staff by 100,000 as has been suggested by a prime ministerial panel set up to go into restructuring of the public sector undertaking. In a letter to the PMO Raja cautioned that r
Malnutrition is a shame for India, the prime minister has repeatedly stressed. But beyond making such statements very little has been done to provide nutrition to hungry children of the poor. Now Karnataka has made a start in that direction.
God! Men!! This is your space: Sipping the tea, flipping the morning papers, that`s the time when we are consumed by the affairs of the world. When we are at our contemplative best. Ideas hit us like bolts of lightening. So if you h
When it comes to devolution of power from the states to the panchayats, Congress-ruled states are way behind others. This is revealed by the rural development ministry`s latest report. According to the report, BJP-ruled Madhya Prad
Snuggled on a corner bed in a hospital ward, 12-year-old Munna is fast asleep. After spending a week in the hospital, he can now walk and move his hands easily. His helper from Asha Kiran, the home for mentally challenged where Munna lives, says s
Maoists have plans to overthrow the Indian democracy through their armed struggle and want to control the government by 2050, Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai today said. Addressing a seminar on "Left Wing Extremism Situation in I
The Gujarat police has guns but no bullets to fire from it, Minister of State for Home Amit Shah said in the state assembly, while replying to a question pertaining to police modernisation. "We have been asking for bullets for
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday quashed a government order awarding a road construction contract worth Rs.121 crore to Maytas Infra. The bench comprising Justices G Raghurama and Ramesh Ranganathan gave the order on a petiti
Putting the onus again on the government to take an initiative, Maoists on Friday said they will not suspend their movement and it was for the central government to respond. Referring to the arrest of military operations leader Venk
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday admitted his government`s failure on the sugar front which led to a steep rise in prices of the commodity and said ways and means need to be explored to see that crisis does not recur. "I
Several prominent civil society activists have come forward to appeal to the central government to respond to the Maoists’ offer of ceasefire and engage them in talks. They also asked the centre to stop the security offensive immediately, in
The much-awaited tiger census in the Sunderbans, where DNA sampling would be made for the first time to establish the number of big cats, has begun. Tiger scat will be collected for DNA sampling which is a foolproof method to establ
Days before Women`s Day, an Indian-origin woman has collaborated with Nobel Peace Prize nominee James Garrow to launch a global campaign against the malpractice of female foeticide and infanticide in India. People from six countries
Over two lakh women were victims of sexual crimes in the country during the period 2006-08. On an average, 191 women every day were either victims of rape, sexual harassment or molestation in the three years from 2006. As per the la
Foreign tourist arrivals in India witnessed a 3.3 percent drop last year, the government said on Friday, and cited terrorism, global meltdown and swine flu as the possible reasons for the decline. "In 2009, the Foreign Tourist
The Gujarat assembly on Friday witnessed a high drama after the ruling BJP proposed breach of privilege motion against Congress leader Arjun Modhvadia following his allegations of corruption in a land deal for building a hotel in Surat.
