Shyam Saran on Friday resigned as Special Envoy on Climate Change and wrote to Prime Minister. And it was accepted by the PM. Saran retired as foreign secretary before joining the PMO as a special envoy. He worked under M K Narayana
Ahead of the budget, Prime Minister`s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) today made a case for a partial roll back of stimulus by way of raising excise duties and reducing expenditure - which would automatically help reduce the fiscal deficit.
Government schools across Delhi are not adequately prepared to implement the Right to Education Act 2009, which is yet to be notified. This is the finding of a committee formed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) t
Mumbai Police Commissioner D. Shivanandan has issued a circular directing all police stations to promptly take cognizance of complaints lodged by activists and concerned citizens. According to the circular, when an activist makes a
The Prime Minister`s Economic Council (PMEAC), headed by former RBI governor C Rangarajan, has come out with a bitter truth. It is the government`s monetary policy which is giving a wing to the inflation and the government should better reduce the
The Prime Minister`s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) expects the economy to grow by over 7.2 percent during the current fiscal and exceed 8 per cent in 2010-11, thanks to increased economic activity. "We are making an initial
India will soon start producing 5,000 more postgraduate doctors every year. The Centre on Thursday gave the go-ahead to raising the number of postgraduate seats across 148 state government medical colleges. Nearly 4,000 seats will be added
The rattling of my window panes reverberates even today. For many in Sarojini Nagar, even after five years, a sound of a cracker brings back to memory the dreaded pre-Diwali blasts that rocked the market in 2005 turning the festive season into a m
Here is the full text of a petition letter from Saleem Kidwai, Nivedita Menon, Mary John, V. Geetha, Shilpa Phadke and 13 other teachers and academics from universities across India. The petition has been published in the Hindustan Times and s
Two housewives here have challenged an amendment to the Income Tax Act under which those with investments even below the limit to attract income tax were required to furnish a Permanent Account Number (PAN) alongwith form 15G to avoid unnecessary
Even as Mumbai continues to be on the radar of terror groups, the state police is busy protecting the VIPs. According to the response to an RTI application, more than 1500 policemen provided security cover to VIPs or were on bandobast duties.
The government on Thursday decided to raise the retail price of urea by 10 percent and allowed manufacturers to fix the rates of DAP and MOP fertilisers. The decisions, a part of new nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) scheme approved by t
No international conference, seminar or workshop will be allowed in India henceforth without security clearance and scrutiny of the participants by the home ministry and the organisers will have to submit request for clearance at least six weeks b
Come Saturday, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will be seen appealing to Mumbaikars on their TV screens to use water judiciously, as the city is facing one of its worst water crisis, top civic officials said. Municipal Corporation o
The public grievances minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday suggested that government services being provided through common service centres (CSCs) be made available free of charge for all citizens. The department of administrative
Unnoticed by the press, India has concluded its first tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) complying with OECD standards in the fight against tax havens. The information was shared by the finance ministry with visiting Organisation for Econom
"IT services need to be taken to villages, and its success will be measured in real sense when children in villages start saying `Ka se Kamputer and not Ka se Kabotar’", said Minister of State for IT Sachin Pilot at the
The Delhi high court on Thursday refused to give interim relief to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, facing threat of arrest in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. A K Pathak, the judge, refused to restrain the CBI from arresting him till Monda
The supreme court on Thursday questioned the presence of paramilitary forces inside the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad. The court directed the Andhra Pradesh government to explain by Friday under whose instructions th
The government today permitted ONGC and GAIL to pick 12.5 per cent stake in a pipeline that China is building in Myanmar, and allowed them to invest $ 1 billion more in fields that will provide gas to be shipped to China through the pipeline.
