A State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project, which will connect more than 5,000 offices across Rajasthan upto the block level, was inaugurated by the chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday. The CM inaugurated the project while delivering the ina
Based on the reports of second administrative reforms, the government has taken the initiative of open and transparent governance by accepting e-governance reforms, said V Narayansami, minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pension
“Allahabad stampede: Toll mounts to 36, UP govt orders inquiry” ran a typical headline of a national daily to announce that a stampede at the Allahabad railway station on Sunday evening claimed 36 lives. An inquiry has been ord
After Kolkata, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is all set to launch an educational programme for sex workers and their children in Gujarat. "Deliberations are on... We are gearing up to launch the programme in July. The
Railways today said a probe will be initiated into the railway station stampede here, which left 36 dead, once it is through with the task of clearing the rush of Kumbh pilgrims. Alok Johri, general manager of the north central railway zon
Madhya Pradesh has been conferred upon the prestigious National e-Governance Gold Award for 2012-13, for its `Sparsh Abhiyan` aimed towards the disabled and the aged. The state will receive the award at Jaipur during the two-day 16th Natio
Afzal Guru’s execution has alienated the Kashmiri people far more than any other event in at least a decade. It has shaken the faith of people in India’s systems of justice, legal and political. It has hugely increased the feeling ther
Indian Overseas Bank has completed 76 years of operations in February 2013. From being the smallest bank to be nationalised in 1969 and the tenth largest nationalised bank in 2010, IOB is now the seventh largest nationalised bank in the co
The Congress seems to lack the cognitive ability to discern that toughness in governance cannot be demonstrated only by flash executions of convicted terrorists. But that`s exactly what it wants to convey through the hangin
Now that Afzal Guru has been hanged, buried, the press conferences addressed, and clarifications made and sought — respectively by the UPA government and the BJP — it’s time to get back to the core question: why now? Read
The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) remained critical of the UPA government, questioning the delay of over five years in hanging parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Addressing a press briefing within hours of Guru`s hangin
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah appealed to the people of his state to maintain peace in the aftermath of the hanging of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on Saturday morning. Addressing media persons, Abdullah said there
Among the opposition, the Shiv Sena was the first to come out in full support of the move to hang parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on Saturday morning. Sanjay Raut, Sena spokesman, told media persons that home minister Sushilkumar Shinde must
The UPA government does not look at electoral considerations when it comes to national security, said information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari, shortly after JeM terrorist Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday. Addressing a press me
Afzal Guru, convicted in the audacious attack on Parliament in 2001, was today hanged in Tihar Jail, in an operation shrouded in secrecy. "Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 AM," Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said shortly
Having been constantly attacked by the UPA government for exposing massive scams in the past couple of years– 2G, CWG, Devas-Antrix deal and coal block allotment etc – the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vindo Rai is now
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is likely to finally visit the UK. Earlier, he had to cancel this trip soon after the US refused him visa. His third victory, however, is prompting all to take a second look at him. Envoys of the western countr
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has apparently come round to accepting Narendra Modi as the BJP`s prime ministerial candidate for 2014. Or has he? At an RSS-VHP meet at the kumbh mela on Thursday, he indeed made several comments on this hotly debated topi
