The government has decided to involve the civil society in the implementation of the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS). The rural development ministry, which is overseeing the scheme, has put up on www.nrega.nic.in
Minister of Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai has met officials of the special purpose vehicle (SPV) of the North East Mega Food Park, which is setting up the Mega Food Park at Nalbari in Assam, and took stock of the progress of the pro
People worried about rising sugar prices have some good news from the government, which says the the sweetener is costing a bit less now. The government has said the retail sugar price in Delhi has declined from Rs.47 on January 15 to Rs.4
Preparations have started for the Population Census 2011 with the formal notification of the government`s intent to conduct the census with March 1, 2011 as the reference date. Ajay Maken, minister of state in the home ministry, stated thi
Remember the hue and cry last year when Montblanc launched a series of pens with Mahatma Gandhi`s image? The German firm has now apologised and given its assurance to a court that it will not sell those pens, according to a report. Montbla
Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries above the age of 40 can now get routine health chech-ups done at two of the CGHS dispensaries in R.K. Puram, south Delhi. A pilot project for preventive health check-ups was launched on
* No increase in passenger fares and freight tariffs * Service charges on e-tickets reduced * E-ticket vans to be extended to Government Medical College Hospitals, Courts, Universities, IT hubs, IITs and IIMs * SMS updates of
Mamata Banerjee`s Railway Budget for 2010-11 has no increase in the passenger fares of any class or category of trains. Freight tariffs have also remained the same. Service charges for e-tickets and freight charges for food-grains will be re
The government says the Commonwealth Games, to be held in Delhi in October, is likely to generate a net revenue of about Rs.80 crore. The quantum of revenue likely to be generated dur
The deficiencies in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA in the four years of its implementation are mainly procedural in nature, the minister of state for rural development Pradeep Jain Aditya informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. It
In a move that would ease prices of sugar, the Uttar Pradesh government has lifted a nearly three- month ban on import of raw sugar into the state, official sources said today. "Cane Commissioner Sudhir M Bobade has written a l
Even as anti-naxal operation involving over 60,000 central security personnel is underway, naxal affected states like West Bengal and Orissa top the list of states with less than sanctioned strength of IPS officers. While the sancti
Department of telecom has announced the schedule of 3G auction beginning tomorrow. The notice inviting applications for the auction will be issued tomorrow, with the last date of submission of application to be 19th March’2010. A moc
RD ministry has commissioned 20 studies in January 2010 to assess the success in the implementation of NREGA after four years of its launch, the Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain Aditya informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee set the tone for her budget declaring that she preferred social responsibility to economic viability, amidst expectation of goodies for West Bengal. She said her government stood for inclusive growth. She a
The central government’s flagship job guarantee programme NREGS has glitches at the delivery point with delay in payments to beneficiaries being the common grievance. To iron this out the ministry of rural development, the noda
A chartered plane coming from Karachi and flown by two Belgian nationals made an unscheduled landing at the IGI airport here without clearance from the ATC due to some technical problems, officials said today. The incident happened
Activists, including Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, have come out in support of environment minister Jairam Ramesh`s decision to put on hold Bt Brinjal pending further study. Interestingly, the support comes amidst growing discontent wit
On Monday, when the government came under severe attack in parliament on spiralling prices, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said fiscal measures had been taken to cool down inflation and that several of them would continue in the next fiscal too
The centre has ruled out allowing states to import pulses as it fears that presence of more players in the global market will lead to exorbitant rise in prices in the international markets. "The government decided that permitti
