India plans to provide affordable electricity to all households in the next five years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday. "The Government of India aims to provide 24x7 electricity to all households in the country and affo
Foodgrains production in 2012-13 will be lower than last year`s record output of 257.44 million tonnes but availability would be sufficient to meet domestic demand, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday. Addressing the Economic
The issue between the Army and the IAF for controlling attack helicopters was a "family problem" and the government was in the final stages of finding a solution for it, Defence Minister A K Antony said here on Tuesday. The Army
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said he intends to work with CAG to erase the impression of adversaries in an attempt to restore trust and confidence in all institutions. Addressing a Comptroller and Auditor (CAG) conference here
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met the family of a Dalit teenaged girl, who immolated herself after being allegedly gang-raped in this district, and said perpetrators of such "barbaric" crimes must be severely punished.
Over 100 abortion centres in Thane have been asked to close down by health authorities after they were found to be violating regulations, officials said on Monday. Along with this, 319 sonography centres (private as well as government ones
Cutting across party lines, Congress and BJP leaders from Karnataka on Monday met prime minister Manmohan Singh to voice concern over the decision of the Cauvery River Authority asking the state to provide Tamil Nadu with 9000 cusecs of water dail
Taking a serious view of alleged use of human beings as guinea pigs for clinical trials by drug companies, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the centre and various states governments to reply to the allegation. A bench of justices R M Lodh
The relative grading of officers` annual confidential reports during their promotion is not a personal information and should be made public, the Central Information Commission has held. Chief information commissioner Satyananda Mishra sai
The group of ministers (GoM) on Land Acquisition Bill on Monday remained divided over the issue of retrospective acquisitions and the consent required from land owners with agriculture minister Sharad Pawar saying two-three meetings are required t
Cautioning that absence of economic reforms will slow down growth, Indian finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday said political parties may oppose but should not obstruct decision making. "Every government is entitled to lay down po
“Dear PM, the Special Cell is a group of licensed marauders,” Irshad Ali wrote to the prime minister when he was lodged in Tihar Jail. Ali’s emotional letter to the PM was a narrative of the harrowing experience he underwent at t
YSR Congress leader and Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan Reddy will have to be in jail for some more time with the Supreme Court on Friday dismissing his bail plea in the alleged multi-crore disproportionate assets case against him. A b
As Kingfisher Airlines extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday said the debt-ridden company will have to satisfy airline regulator DGCA on safety before it gets permission to fly again.
A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Friday declined to accept any fresh material other than what has been submitted by the expert panel on the controversial Mullaperiyar Dam row between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The apex c
A recent supreme court order on information commission appointments at the states and union level has come under criticism from RTI activists and legal experts. A two-member bench, of justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar, on September 13 held
Backing Centre`s decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the decision will help farmers prosper by removing middlemen from the supply chain and generate new jobs. Addressing the national executive
Armed with a letter written by Manoj Jayaswal to allot 26 percent shares of AMR Iron and Steel Private Limited, a Jayaswal Group company, "free of cost" to the Lokmat Group of Congress MP Vijay Darda, the Central Bureau of Investigation
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi may field some Muslim candidates in the coming Assembly elections for the first time to present his secular face with an eye on the prime ministerial chair. Not a single Muslim was fielded by the Bharatiya Jana
Hopes of ailing Kingfisher Airlines resuming operations on Friday faded on Thursday with last ditch efforts by the management to persuade striking engineers and pilots to return to work failing to end the deadlock over the issue of non-payment of
