To enable RBI to focus on its supervisory function and avoid clash between its regulatory and ownership roles, a bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha to transfer shareholding of the country`s central bank in the National Housing Bank to the Centre
In a development that will boost the fight against black money menace, Switzerland has agreed to provide details of secret bank accounts of individuals sought by India even on the basis of limited information. Under a mutual agreement reac
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar`s nomination to Rajya Sabha is perfectly valid under the provisions of the Constitution, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today. "That is not our reading of the Constitution provision. I think the Con
Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and 13 others have been slapped with a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate(ED) for their alleged involvement in the Adarsh housing scam. "An ECIR (Enforcement Case Inform
There is nothing new in former civil aviation secretary MK Kaw’s twin revelations in his recently released book, “An Outsider Everywhere – Revelations by an Insider” – that it was former civil aviation minister CM Ibr
Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Monday as TRS members raised slogans for Telangana statehood, a demand which was endorsed by leader of the opposition Sushma Swaraj who asked the government to list the steps taken by it on the issue. A
The Centre`s project of providing bio-metric identity cards to traditional fishermen as part of stepping up surveillance in coastal areas has been almost completed in Goa, a senior Government official has said. State Fisheries direc
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday arrived on a three-day visit of his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, the first after his party`s dismal show in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The Congress general secretary will meet party wo
Nupur Talwar, mother of murdered teenager Aarushi, on Monday surrendered before a special CBI court in Ghaziabad following a Supreme Court directive to her to do so in the twin murder case of her 14-year-old daughter and domestic help in Noida fou
The government is contemplating to reduce working hours of women under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) works "very soon". Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said this in the Lok Sabha that i
Canon India has launched a new range of MFDs of imageRUNNER 1700 series and document scanners to strengthen its stand as the market leader in India in document management space. The imageRUNNER 1700 series which includes imageRUNNER 1730,1730i, 17
There seems to be a quite unease prevailing on the fifth floor of the annex building of Uttar Pradesh secretariat these days. The obvious reason is the existence of multiple power-centres which have upset the equilibrium delicately balanced among
Government on Friday announced that the Comptroller and Auditor General will audit the fund allocations under the National Rural Health Mission in the wake of the multi-crore NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi A
Dentist Nupur Talwar on Friday failed to get any relief from the supreme court, which refused to stay the non-bailable warrant (NBW), issued against her by a special Ghaziabad court for evading it to face trial in the twin murder case of her daugh
Maoists on Friday asked Chhattisgarh government to clarify its stand on their demands for release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, and expressed their inability to extend the deadline without receiving a clarification in this regard.
In a huge embarrassment to BJP, its former president Bangaru Laxman was convicted on Friday for the offence of accepting Rs one lakh as bribe from a fake arms dealer in a fictitious deal eleven years ago. The long arm of the law caught up
Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar says the Bofors case must be treated as closed and BJP should learn that truth cannot be unveiled by resorting to "character assassination and downright lies". Describing the Bofors case as a
Even after two year of implementation of the Right to Education act, some states are yet to make rules. And those who have made rules, are not in uniformity with the model rules prepared by the centre. Andhra Pradesh’s and Arunachal
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday assured Trinamool Congress that the government would do everything possible to bail out debt-ridden West Bengal, as party MPs sought a three-year moratorium on interest payment. A day after they plac
The Delhi high court on Friday said that veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari can be compelled to give blood sample for DNA test in the paternity suit filed by a youth claiming to be his biological son. Setting aside a single judge bench`s S
