The Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government on Thursday presented budget for 2010-2011 with estimated revenue receipt of Rs.49,476.53 crore while state`s annual plan size has been fixed at Rs.29,500 crore clocking an increase of 25.5 percent in the a
The Justice Srikrishna Committee on Telangana will start consultations with political parties and other stakeholders on the contentious statehood demand from the first week of March, the panel said on Thursday, and hoped it would be able to find a
Opposition Congress on Thursday walked out of the Gujarat assembly when Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala started reading his budget speech sitting on his chair. This was the second time that the Congress walked out of the assembly in a day.
Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji on Thursday said the state`s earning from revenue in 2009-10 is higher than projected in the last year`s budget and emphasised on ensuring that all departments spend the money allocated to them under differ
A BJP legislator along with veteran Gandhians and hundreds of farmers from Mahuva taluka in Bhavnagar district were detained on Thusrday from near Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad ahead of a rally organised to protest the cement plant coming up in Ma
Against the backdrop of the two-month long agitation by teachers demanding payment of arrears, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced a six-month long ban on strikes in all 12 state universities and 460 government-aided degree colleges
A school teacher on Thursday completed 14 years of protest outside the District Magistrate`s office in Muzaffarnagar demanding freeing of government land worth Rs.90 crore, which had allegedly been grabbed by political mafias and said he will cont
The Karnataka government proposes to set up a 40 square km integrated information technology city -- an IT investment region based on central guidelines -- near Bangalore International airport. In his address to the joint session of the Ka
The government has, despite financial stress, accepted the 13th Finance Commission`s recommendations to increase states` share of the central taxes to 32 percent, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. "Despite the fiscal
India Thursday asked Pakistan to hand over 26/11 attack mastermind and founder of Lashker-e-Taiba Hafiz Saeed and seven others besides some other militants of Indian Mujahideen and Khalistan for their role in other subversive activities. S
Opposition on Thursday sought to puncture the economic growth story, charging the government with "failure" to check the price spiral and demanded a parliamentary probe into a "scam" in essential commodities like wheat, rice, p
State-run National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has taken up a Rs.50,000-crore expansion programme, a top company official said. "We have taken up the third-phase expansion project to increase capacity. The expansion will be comp
The government plans to spend USD 10 billion on the national e-Governance programme, a senior government official has said. "The government has committed about USD 10 billion to this programme, of which composite of some investment is
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, whom the CBI has failed to arrest despite a non-bailable warrant against him in anti-Sikh riots cases, is "missing" for the past one week and his Personal Security Officer (PSO) has been suspended.
Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash, who faces charges in the Sukna land scam, has said that Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor had not applied his mind before changing his decision to initiate court martial proceedings against him. He also said the fres
Accusing the UPA government of failing to act firmly against terrorism originating from Pakistan and Naxal threat, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said indecisiveness on these challenges has become a major threat to the nation. The government
After a 14-month hiatus, the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Thursday for structured talks with an aim of ending the chill in the relations caused by Mumbai attacks. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao headed the I
Enthused by reforms and the strong fundamentals, the Economic Survey on Thursday predicted that India would bounce back to a high nine percent growth in 2011-12 on the way to becoming world`s fastest growing economy in four years. The docu
The 13th Finance Commission has asked the government to adopt a "calibrated" strategy for withdrawing stimulus measures provided to spur the economy in the wake of the global economic crisis. Although the Economic Survey has favo
The pre-budget Economic Survey, presented in parliament on Thursday, favoured providing further stimulus for the exports sector, arguing that the recovery prospects in global markets are still fragile. It said that despite some impr
