Medieval Indian folk tales remind us about the impact of the good governance process called tax collection. The king’s soldiers should be as silent as a bee collecting honey from the flower and should not disturb or even hurt the public: tha
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said remunerative energy prices are essential for expanding supplies but at the same time governmental and regulatory oversight are essential. "The government has initiated gas-pricing policy re
The Civil Aviation ministry has said it had constituted a committee to study the problems faced by passengers with disabilities and reduced mobility in undertaking air travel and suggest ways to make facilities more convenient for them. Th
A group of farmers from this district have proposed to form a company to take up agriculture as a business venture at Vasinagar near Usilampatti. The Madurai Model Agri-business company would take shape in a month, according to R Jayaraman
The Gujarat government has inked an MoU with consortium of Japanese and Singaporean companies for setting up the Asia`s largest seawater desalination plant in Dahej. The consortium of Japan-based Hitachi, ITOCHU Corporation and Singapore-b
The Gujarat Assembly was on Friday adjourned for an hour as Congress MLAs stalled the proceedings for the third consecutive day, seeking dismissal of two BJP MLAs accused of watching porn in the House. As soon as the question hour b
Sri Lanka today faced a major embarrassment as the UN`s top human rights body adopted a resolution censuring it for alleged war crimes in the conflict with LTTE as India joined the West in backing the US-sponsored move. In the 47-member UN
Asking scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society to surrender the 31-storey building to the defence ministry, the Bombay high court on Thursday said the structure posed a threat to sensitive defence installations nearby and lessons had to learnt from Mu
Anti-gay law in the country is an offshoot of British colonialism and the Indian society earlier was more tolerant towards homosexuality, the centre today submitted before the supreme court while pleading for decriminalisation of gay sex.
The planning commission will constitute an expert group in three months to revisit the methodology for estimating poverty amid demand for removal of its deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for pegging the poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily per capi
Triggering a virtual rebellion against Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, state health minister D L Ravindra Reddy Thursday sent his resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi "taking moral responsibility" for the par
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has ordered a probe in the alleged corruption in the purchase of mosquito nets from a Swiss multinational, a civil society agency said in a release on Thursday. CVC has handed over the investi
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, insisting on his reinstatement, today expressed happiness over his meeting with BJP president Nitin Gadkari and said he was confident the party leadership will take the "right decision".
Remember how Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee said she had "no objection" to the rail fare hike in the highest classes used by the wealthy when she pushed railway minister Dinesh Trivedi out of office for the across-the-board hike? Her l
Anna Hazare has written a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh requesting his government to accept the agenda put forward by prof GD Agarwal who is on a fast for the past 67 days demanding a `nirmal and aviral` (clean and flowing) Ganga.
Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Thursday condemned media reports of the comptroller and auditor general`s estimate of losses from allocation of coal blocks saying that the CAG report being cited was "fake". Jaiswal said that co
Senior IAS officers Pradeep Vyas and Jairaj Phatak have been placed under suspension pending investigation in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday. While Vyas was the Collector
Talks between Maoist mediators and those of the Odisha government are expected to start soon to resolve the Italian hostage crisis, according to Dandapani Mohanty, one of the two negotiators chosen by the ultras. Mohanty said the Maoists w
Private news-channels usually ignore Parliamentary proceedings, except the unruly scenes and disruptions which are considered ‘newsworthy’ and TRP-feed. The government should make it compulsory for all private news-channels to relay on
The government has lost over Rs 10.7 lakhs crore by not auctioning coal blocks, according to a report in
