In what could be a first, a top central government bureaucrat said that the recovery of illegal wealth was crucial to the fight against graft. P K Misra, the secretary of the department of personnel, said on Friday that such property was the "
Seeking to downplay UPA ally Trinamool Congress opposing the creation of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), government today said it would take steps to resolve the issue. "The government will talk to them. The prime minist
Blaming women for the state of sanitation in rural India, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said that it is women who prefer mobile phones over toilets – a reference to the well-known piece of statistics that India has more mobile
Amid complaints that schools were manipulating nursery admissions under economically weaker section (EWS) category by taking advantage of the sole distance criterion, some of them have now opted for Google Map to make the selection "fair and
Holding non-Congress governments responsible for lack of development in Uttar Pradesh in the last 22 years, prime minister Manmohan Singh today said only Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, can change this "bad situation" and
Stating that the existing 24X7 monitoring of industries for effluents in Tamil Nadu would be extended across the country, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan today also favoured increasing penalty for violators. Mooting self-regulation
Intensifying his offensive on the issue of National Counter Terrorism Centre, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said state governments would not tolerate Centre`s "authoritian" and "draconian" order on powers and funct
The plan for creation of the ambitious national counter-terrorism centre (NCTC) has come under attack from non-Congress chief ministers, including ally Trinamool Congress, but the centre rejected criticism that it would infringe on the states` pow
Text of Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha`s letter to the prime minister regarding the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre: “You are well aware of my strong commitment to supporting all measures and efforts taken f
Pulok Chatterjee’s perceived closeness to 10 Janpath is of little use in a clash of egos right at the top of bureaucracy. Cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth has scuttled a proposal to grant Chatterjee, principal secretary to the prime ministe
The Congress Core Committee is meeting today to discuss ally Mamata Banerjee’s objections to the National Counter Terrorism Centre. P Chidambaram’s ambitious project, to be launched from March 1, has run into rough weather with several
The Delhi high court has asked the Delhi government-appointed administrator probing the Arya orphanage sexual abuse case to submit an investigation report within a week. A division bench comprising chief justice A K Sikri and justice Rajiv
The country`s richest civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, appeared headed towards a hung House, going by early trends and results. Counting for 10 municipal corporation polls held yesterday and elections to 27 zilla parishads a
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has asked prime minister Manmohan Singh to "review and withdraw" the order on organisation, function, power and duties of the newly constituted National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) under the
There are more than 26,000 cases pending with the central information commission (CIC). At various state-level commissions, the figures could be worse. It is a measure of the success of the RTI revolution, but now this very success can smother it.
Thousands of farmers from several villages in the district today dumped paddy on a road in front of the Collectorate here, irked by the government`s reported indifference to meet their demands. The farmers rallied under the banner of Feder
The NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh has turned murkier with another health official found dead under mysterious circumstances, the fifth victim in the last one year after the alleged bungling of over Rs.10,000 crore of central funds surfaced.
Government today said that CBI chief A P Singh`s statement on black money stashed abroad was based on the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on black money. "I have spoken to the CBI Director and he told me that he
The public enterprises selection board (PESB) has given its assent to the appointment of 1986-batch IAS officer S Narsing Rao as the chairman and managing director of Coal India Limited (CIL). According to highly placed source in the ministry of c
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association`s (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes in Union Carbide till 2000. IOC al
