The trial of the lone surviving Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people were killed concluded today almost a year after it commenced in a special court which will pronounce its verdict on May 3. In
Despite hundreds of crores available under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Andhra Pradesh government failed to set up any new Community Health Centre (CHCs) and Primary Health Centre (PHCs) in the four year period from 2005-06 to 2008-09, sa
Seeking to revive talks that have been on freeze for almost three years, India today proposed dialogue with Iran to discuss impediments in implementation of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project. Petroleum minister Murli Deora
Maharashtra government has indicated that food prices would reduce further as there has been a good crop yield in kharif season. "A good crop has been yielded in kharif season across the state which would definitely bring down the foo
The government is considering a drop in the cut-off percentage by population in designating a district as `minority concentrated`. Union minority affairs minister Salman Khurshid said on Wednesday that the government is considering a propo
Political posturing has begun over the Central concessional industrial package for Uttarkhand which expires on Wednesday night. Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has claimed that the Centre has curtailed the package, which was origin
Hit by a shortage of officers, the government has decided to hire its retired employees to contribute in the conduct of the mammoth Census exercise covering 1.2 billion residents spread over 35 states and Union Territories. The government
Government today said it is committed to providing reservation to the backward sections among Muslims, a recommendation also made by the Sachar Committee that went into the issue of socio-economic condition of minority communities. "W
Census 2011, the 15th national census will begin from April 1 when Home Minister P. Chidambaram will go to the Rashtrapati Bhavan at 10 am and President Pratibha Patil will fill up the first enumeration form. While census takes place every
The Indian Air Force has alleged that Maharshtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada), the state housing board, has grabbed 49,000 sq m defence land here. The Air Force says Mhada manipulated property records to take over nearly
Rajiv Gandhi assassination lifer Nalini will move the Madras High Court against the Tamil Nadu government`s decision to reject her plea for pre-mature release. 44-year-old Nalini conveyed her decision to her lawyer P Pugazhendhi, who met h
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation on the Right to Education, before it comes in to effect from April 1. Senior officials said the address, on Doordarshan and All India Radio, will be broadcast on Thursday at 7.30 in the
Bihar has become the first state in the country to enact laws for regulating coaching institutes. In the wake of the violent protests by students charging the coaching institutes with duping them, the state government introduced the Bihar
The government is churning out one hazardous bill after another. This time it is a bill called the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and it`s coming up for a vote in a couple of days. The bill lets U.S. corpora
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is in a quandary: some persons are approaching medical and dental colleges, promising approval and recognition for their course and claiming that they are close to the Congress leader. They are not, and hence
After putting up a brave front on the allegations of corruption and bungling in the implementation of the national employment guarantee scheme in her state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has
Bachchan makes Ramesh skip tiger campaign event Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh recently slipped out of a Save Tiger Campaign show quietly. Reason: Amitabh Bachchan, the Congress` latest persona non grata, was to be the chief
Chemical and fertilisers minister M K Alagiri has ordered a preliminary CVC inquiry against Deepak Singhal, a UP cadre IAS and joint secretary (fertilisers), after the allegations that gas allocation prices decided by the bureaucrat led to l
The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Tuesday temporarily removed 13 doctors from its medical records due to complaints filed against them. Out of the 13 doctors, seven are from Delhi, three from Karnataka, two from Tamil Nadu and one from Uttar P
After running a week-long campaign to clean up some ghats of Yamuna, the Art of Living, an NGO founded by spiritual guru Ravi Shankar, is planning to engage corporates in the cause. “We had a lot of corporate partners during the camp
