The supreme court last week edged out "eminent people" from heading information commissions under the Right to Information Act. It ordered that only sitting or retired justices of high courts and SC would be appointed as chief informa
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday questioned Arvind Jayaswal, Director AMR Iron and Steel Private Limited, in connection with alleged irregularities in allocation of Bander Coal block in western Indian state of Maharashtra to the compa
The government will take more policy steps in the next one-and-half months to revive growth, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said while appreciating the RBI`s initiative to unlock Rs 17,000 crore of banking funds through reduction in CRR by 0.25 pe
A 26-year old CITU activist on Monday attempted self-immolation here protesting the proposed visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to India, police said. Shouting slogans against Rajapakse, Vijayaraj, an unmarried autodriver of N
Taking a cautious stance, the Reserve Bank of India on Monday cut CRR by 0.25 per cent - the percentage of deposits banks keep with central bank - but refrained from reducing lending rates in view high inflation. The RBI decision, which co
In a politically sensitive debate, facts are normally distorted, manipulated, even massaged, to present blatantly wrong inferences. This happens across the globe, as is evident from the current presidential election campaign in the US. The Republi
The Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) on Saturday denied any hand of Congress President Sonia Gandhi`s political secretary Ahmed Patel in the allotment of coal blocks. The denial came on a cover story in Mumbai Mirror on Saturday that Prime Mi
The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till September 28 the bail plea of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the alleged multi-crore disproportionate assets scam being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Friday served a criminal defamation notice on Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for implicating him in the allocation of a coal block to BJP Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti by the BJP-rule
Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has strongly supported the hike in diesel prices and said the government needed to take a lot of tough decisions such as this to achieve an 8.2 percent growth rate during the 12th five-yea
The supreme court has issued notice to the centre on coal block allocations and has asked the govt what action it proposes to take against illegal allotments and those allottees who breached the contract. The apex court has asked the coal
Last week when oil minister S Jaipal Reddy shed tears of true remorse while saying that “difficult and painful” decisions need to be taken, the common man could see it coming. But the intensity of it was wholly unanticipated. Now, afte
Twelve people died and four others were injured as dozens of houses caved in following a cloudburst in Uttarakhand`s Rudraprayag district on Friday. A large number of people are feared trapped in the debris and rescue operations have been
Slamming the Centre for hiking the price of diesel and restricting supply of cooking gas, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said his party will hold discussions with other parties on organising a stir to press for roll back.
It was looming right from the day the presidential elections got over. The diesel price hike, announced last night, was in the offing for a while, but what was not expected was the double whammy, of an unprecedented quota system for cooking gas. T
The government-run Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) continues to do business with Tatra Sipox (UK) limited of Ravindra Rishi and even sought a fresh lot of Tatra trucks at the price of Rs 59.6 lakh each in July, two months after the Central Bure
The group of ministers (GoM) on drought, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, has increased the number of days one will get the guaranteed work in the drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (M
Following Justice M B Shah Commission report on illegal iron ore mining in Goa, the state government is apparently non-committal on recovering a whopping Rs 35,000 crore from the mine owners who illegally plundered the resources. In its re
Stepping up their protest against the atomic power plant here, anti-nuclear activists on Thursday stood in sea waters forming a human chain off nearby Indinthakarai coast. Taking a leaf from `Jal Satyagraha` activists in Madhya Pradesh, th
The Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal block allocation has been asked to conclude its work without delay and give its recommendations at the earliest. A direction is this regard was given on Wednesday after Finance Minister P Chidambar
