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
Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Friday after opposition uproar over demand for dismissal of home minister P Chidambaram in the wake of allegations against his son Karti`s investments in a telecom company. As soon as the Lok Sabha met,
As negotiations between Maoist- handpicked mediators and those of the Chhattisgarh government resumed on the second day to end the hostage crisis involving abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, Naxals on Friday made fresh demands for the relea
Dear Madam President: Sorry to be a kill joy, but pray take a look at what the eligibility criteria for your nominated members to the Rajya Sabha says? While you have the best legal brains available to you, we mere m
Twenty-five years after the Bofors revelation, little has changed in the shady world of defence deals, where a well oiled and entrenched system of commission and middlemen continue to dictate government decisions, Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and actress of yesteryear Rekha are among four eminent persons who have been recommended for nomination as members of Rajya Sabha. 39-year-old Tendulkar, who has brought many a laurel to the country thr
Work on commissioning the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is progressing in full swing and once commissioned, the second one will commence operations in six-eight months, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Sreekumar Banerjee said on
