The third meeting of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) was convened by the prime minister in the national capital on Tuesday. Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanada, one of the exper members, was absent as he has been on a fast protest to put pressu
Chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi on Tuesday said he doesn`t see online voting becoming a reality in near future while state funding of elections in the country will first require certain key reforms in the electoral process. "
Buoyed by the results in Delhi civic polls, BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday attributed the victory to good governance given by the party saying it has emerged as a strong alternative to the "corrupt" Congress. The BJP vict
Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered a police probe into the leak of CAG report, which the opposition termed as an attempt to put a pressure on a constitutional body. The assembly witnessed four adjournments, amidst pandemonium, as th
Vodafone today threatened to drag the government to international arbitration over retrospective tax legislation under the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between India and the Netherlands. Dutch subsidiary Vodafone International
Congress and Left members today demanded in the Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee meeting that CAG should quantify the exact loss incurred by the government till now in the Reliance India Limited-run KG Basin project. In the PA
The Centre today expressed deep concern over the "dismal" rate of conviction in cases related to atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and favoured joint action with states to ensure justice to the victims. U
BEML Chairman and Managing Director V R S Natarajan today appeared before the CBI as the agency had asked him to come for giving clarifications pertaining to procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain trucks to the Army. CBI source
Maharashtra Government today tabled the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, which allegedly indicts senior politicians from the state, in the Legislative Assembly amidst demand for a probe by PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal into its "l
Warning that time was running out to preserve the Ganga, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today pulled up state governments for tardy performance on sewage treatment and asked them to take action against industries polluting the river.
The dream of having a Metro Rail in the second capital of Maharashtra is gradually taking shape. The Union Urban Development Ministry has assigned the job of preparing a detailed project report (DPR) to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporat
After a gap of three years, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today slashed short term lending rate by 0.50 per cent to 8 per cent, a move that will reduce the cost of home, auto and corporate loans. The reduction in the repo rate at
Telecom regulator TRAI today recommended that it should be entrusted with the function of issuing unified licences and a one-time non-refundable fee of Rs 15 crore be levied for a national-level licence. TRAI, in its recommendations
Former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi on Monday strongly defended the rail budget he had presented last month and over which he had to resign later and said given a chance, he will present the same budget again.
The Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta, retd Justice N K Malhotra, has sought details of the companies of Nasimuddin Siddiqui`s son Afzal Siddiqui from the Registrar of Companies in Kanpur and Delhi. Afzal, against whom complaints of land-grab
Britain has assured India that it will continue to allow post-study work-experience permits to students, provided they get appropriate jobs commensurate with their qualifications or degrees, India`s Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has
Before the proposal of allowing foreign airlines to buy stakes in domestic carriers is taken up by the cabinet, prime minister Manmohan Singh is likely to consult senior ministers to build a consensus on the contentious issue, sources said.
The Congress is facing tough times. In Delhi, a state it has been ruling for three terms, the civic bodies are set to be retained by the BJP. On Tuesday, early results placed the BJP in lead in all three divisions of the municipal corporation of D
As finance minister of union cabinet, Pranab Mukherjee forgot to elaborate about the much awaited 12th five year plan during his budget speech in parliament, which is aimed to strive for “more financial inclusion”. Instead, he chosen a
United by their opposition to the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre, Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Odisha, Narendra Modi and Navin Patnaik, on Monday met their Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa here to mount pressure against the Cent
