Following the prime minister`s reported call to his cabinet colleagues to stay away from any business interest, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today suggested that ministers could hand over their businesses to a trust, as is being prac
The 21 MW windmill project of the Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) at the Maliya Miyana site in Rajkot district will be commissioned by March 2010, a top company official said on Thursday. "In its endeavour to further red
The government on Thursday set up a committee to suggest reforms in the IIT joint entrance examination but did not take any decision on the proposed fee hike in the elite institutes. At a brainstorming session on IITs, chaired by Human Res
Upping the ante in the "Mumbai for all" row, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today ordered party cadres to greet Rahul Gandhi with black flags to mark their protests when he visits Mumbai tomorrow after the unfazed Congress leader stuck
Doctors and medical students from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Delhi held a silent protest in New Delhi on Thursday against the Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) course proposed by the Health Ministry to meet the demands of healthcare profes
Expressing concern over the steep price rise of essential commodities, job cuts and other issues, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) on Thursday announced that it will organise a nationwide Satyagraha on March 5. "The two-day meet of t
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday declared that the government would not go by "climate evangelists" like R K Pachauri but would have its own bodies to scientifically assess impact of climate change on the Himalayan glaciers
A day after an expert group suggested freeing petrol and diesel prices and steep hikes in LPG and kerosene rates to combat the rising input cost, the government hinted on Thursday that it may not accept the report in totality and will protect the
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has assured that the Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) course would provide a community based solution to the public health and would not compromise the quality of rural healthcare. He was address
Terming the move to introduce Bt Brinjal as a "conspiracy" by MNCs, Madhya Pradesh government today said it would not allow GM crops and would pass a legislation, if necessary, to ban them. Agriculture being a state subjec
Amid a row over the elevation of three MLAs of the ruling Congress-led alliance to the rank of chief minister, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Mukul Sangma 0oday asserted that a legislator who was a chief minister in the past cannot be "demot
Reacting to the Bombay high court`s observations on the Thackerays, former IPS officer Julio Rebeiro told Governance Now that the rule of law must be upheld by the government. When it wasn`t done, it amounted to bad governance and forced people to
Food inflation inched up to 17.56 percent for the week ended January 23 on account of rising prices of potato and pulses. The wholesale price-based food inflation was 17.40 percent in the previous week. Potato prices jumped by
The National Election Watch has dug up some interesting facts of the Jharkhand elections held last year. These include, average expenses of candidates were a mere Rs 1.98 lakh, though the election commission has fixed a limit of Rs 10 lakh. From t
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Thursday termed as "Goebbels` propaganda" the raking up the issue of Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad`s visit to his residence here five years ago, saying an anti-Mumbai virus has spread but it would ha
Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewal Energy, is gung-ho about the solar mission and is ready to do whatever it takes to make it a success. He is planning to fully exempt import duties on solar panels and other components and provide
Poonam Singh, a 25 year old Delhi-based environment consultant, more often than not avoids travelling alone on train from Delhi to Patna, her home town. Having heard a number of stories of crime against women on running trains, she does not want t
The Uttar Pradesh government has declared that it will not allow sugar mills to process imported raw sugar until crushing of canes is completed. The state government had earlier deferred import and transport of raw sugar in the stat
Top Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri has refused to apologise for a false claim made in a landmark report by the UN climate change panel headed by him that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035, even as he admitted that the mistake had dama
The central government wants the poor to get self-employed while working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The Rural Development Ministry is considering an initiative to launch a Rural Livelihood Project
