Madhya Pradesh government has imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the 12 government doctors who had been found to have conducted drug trials on children and mentally challenged persons in Indore. The action followed a report by the state me
The cabinet committee on political affairs (CCPA) is meeting on Wednesday afternoon with a lot of items on the agenda. It will consider the petrol price hike option, the controversy over the army chief`s age, proroging parliament and summon
The third day of parliament`s winter session in 2011 finds a place in the annals of governance in India for all the wrong reasons. Despite the Rajya Sabha working overtime, the government`s callous handling of the debate on the Lokpal bill in the
Amid a war of words between government and opposition, prime minister Manmohan Singh on new year`s eve said it was "unfortunate" that the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill could not be passed by the rajya sabha and asserted that the government w
More than anything else, dignity seems to be in short supply the world over. Take dignity as a sum total of basic human rights, or the freedom to shape one’s future, and you will see why the world is angry, why the just concluded year witnes
To step up surveillance and reduce the time needed for detection of fake drugs, Gujarat Food and Drugs Control Administration (GFDCA) is developing `Quick Detection Kits`. The project, taken up in collaboration with department of health an
Terming education and good health for children as an "investment" for the future, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday gave example of his life as a young student to highlight the need for ensuring livelihood security for the people.
The union budget will be presented after the completion of elections in five states, but the government has not yet decided the final date of presentation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. "We have not yet decided the tim
The supreme court on Monday agreed to hear the bail petitions of A Raja`s former private secretary R K Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, accused in the 2G spectrum case, and issued notice to CBI on their pleas. A ben
The board of directors of Air India on Friday gave its approval to the memorandum of understanding regarding the pay structure of the pilots of the erstwhile Indian Airlines signed between the management and the Indian Commercial Pilots` Associati
In the last five weeks, India’s self-regulation regime on TV content has emerged without clothes. RTI activist Devashish Bhattacharya, tipped off by a column I wrote in The Pioneer, produced hard evidence that TV18/Colo
Team Anna on Friday sought to tear into government on the Lokpal Bill alleging that it engineered the high drama in rajya sabha as it did not have the intention to set up a strong anti-corruption ombudsman. Putting the blame squarely on go
Panch Parmeshwar, a short story by Hindi literary stalwart Munshi Premchand, captures the soul of Indian sense of justice. Its protagonist, Jumman Shaikh, is full of anger for his friend-turned-foe Alagu Chaudhary. Incidentally, he is cho
Vowing to "expose" the government on the Lokpal Bill issue, the BJP today demanded that it should quit and hold fresh elections as it had "lost" majority in both Houses of Parliament. "The government has lost a maj
Private banks will have to wait for a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) nod before they are allowed to open accounts for the huge MNREGS workforce in the country. The request from some of the states is lying with the bank. “It is informed
BJP leader Murali Manohar Joshi on Friday alleged Congress never wanted the Lokpal bill to be passed by Parliament. "The government`s intention was not right since the beginning and the Congress itself did not want the Lokpal bill to
Government on Friday projected the BJP as the villain in rajya sabha`s failure to pass the Lokpal Bill on Thursday night and accused it of choreographing the fiasco but refrained from blaming key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress which had moved
Angry at the "undemocratic act" of scuttling voting on Lokpal Bill, BJP today launched an agitation against the government accusing it of "murdering" democracy by orchestrating events in Rajya Sabha last night as per a "pr
Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today appeared to raise questions over rajya sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari`s conduct during the debate on Lokpal Bill in the upper house. "In everyone`s life there come moments where one can rise above. This
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into Maharashtra government`s decision to sell a land plot measuring over one acre, occupied by the army in suburban Kandivli here, to a private company. The case is simila
