Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed to the opposition to allow smooth functioning of the parliament during the budget session, saying all issues agitating them could be debated on the floor of the house. But he kept quite whe
President Prathibha Patil speech did not reflect UPA-II`s seriousness on Telangana. Since it is the UPA-II which set up the Justice Srikrishna Committee to look into statehood demand for Telangana, it is a mystery why the issue didn`t figure in he
President Pratibha Patil’s address to the joint session of parliament in Hindi has not gone down well with the DMK’s MPs. They met the speaker and formally lodged a protest. They said the English translation of the speech was not
Ahead of the foreign secretary- level talks, India today said it is ready to explore a "meaningful" relationship with Pakistan if it seriously addresses the threat of terrorism and stops terror acts against this country. G
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee today strongly condemned the beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with his counterpart in Pakistan. SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar told P
“I have been standing in this queue for the past-one-and-a-half hours. The lady at counter number 36 (the ticket counter meant for physically disabled) has been sitting idle, but when I requested her for a ticket, as the queue for ladies is
Keeping the Commonwealth Games in mind, the NDMC is setting up a park-and-ride facility at the Safdarjung Airport in the national capital, which will have space for 3,000 cars and 600 buses. The parking lot will be a key aspect in t
Is government under pressure from the United States to cancel fat defence orders to the European companies and go for purchases from the American firms? The question is being raised after Defence Minister A K Antony recently struck
A slew of bills including one for setting up an equal opportunity commission and another on checking corruption in the judiciary and for ensuring accountability among judges will be tabled during the budget session of parliament beginning today.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present Budget 2011 on Friday, amid speculation that excise duty may be raised as part of a partial rollback of the stimulus measures. However, direct tax rates are not likely to be tweaked for
A community-led programme on adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health needs would soon be developed by the health ministry. Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in New Delhi on Saturday. He was speaking at the release of a s
Only fourteen percent of 1.3 million schools have computers while 86% of these schools have electricity, Arun Mehta, professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) stated here on Friday.
Jaismine Kaur’s six-year-old daughter is studying in prepatory class in a Delhi school. She is paying Rs 1,400 as monthly fee. The school increased the fee last year after approval from the Delhi Government. Kaur is now worried if the school
With HRD Minister Kapil Sibal suggesting that fees or teachers` salaries in private schools cannot be regulated by government, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said she will meet him to discuss the issue and arrive at clear-cut guidelines
Several experts believe the government has been following a flawed method of cleaning up the Yamuna. So when Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit reiterated recently that the river would not be cleaned up by the time Commonwealth Games are held, th
Shakeel Ahmed has a simple query but he has been waiting for two hours at the enquiry counter of New Delhi railway station. He just needs to find out the status of his train to Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh. But there is nobody across the win
The Maharashtra government unveiled its e-police complaint system at the 13th national conference at Jaipur on Friday. With the launch of this e-gov initative the residents of Maharashtra will be able to register a police complaint
Disagreeing with the suggestion of the Prime Minister`s advisory panel, India`s Chief Statistician Pronab Sen said on Friday there is no case for immediate withdrawal of stimulus as the economic recovery is not broadbased. "I t
Communication Minister A Raja said on Friday that the mobile number portability, which would allow users to switch service providers without having to change their phone numbers, would be launched in the first week of May. In the fi
The Prime Minister`s economic advisory panel has warned that inflation could go beyond rising food prices next fiscal and advised the central bank to be prepared for such an eventuality. In its economic review for 2009-10, the PM`s
