Prime minister Manmohan Singh directed union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar to bring out a report on the state of the agriculture sector in India. Singh wants an annual report to be presented in Parliament every year before the union budget.
City police are likely to apply stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the seven accused, arrested for allegedly murdering senior crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in Powai. According to poli
An attempt by Murli Manohar Joshi to make the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) take up his controversial report on the 2G scam prepared during the tenure of the last committee was on Tuesday strongly opposed by Congress members but the NDA along wi
Former fertiliser secretary S Krishnan is the new chairman of oil regulator Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Krishnan will replace Labanyendu Mansingh, for the post of chairman who will retire on October 11, 2011, on att
Former fertiliser secretary S Krishnan is now the new chairman of oil regulator Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Krishnan will replace Labanyendu Mansingh, for the post of chairman who will retire on October 11, 2011, on
The Delhi high court on Saturday ordere the central board of secondary education (CBSE) to provide for scribes for disabled candiates taking the central teachers` eligibility test (CTET). The court asked the education board to allow visually chall
For over a year, 40-year-old Manju Devi has been shifting in and out of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), struggling with a disease which the doctors in Bihar could not diagnose. Complaining of abdominal pain, Manju first vi
Of the people, by the people, for the people – is a popular line that many in India hold to be a sort of credo for the country’s democracy. Of course, ‘people’ here refers to all the people of the country and not ju
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said inflation poses a major challenge to the Indian economy and projected that the rate of inflation is going to be more than 6.5 per cent this year. "There are problems (with the Indian ec
Tata Motors moves to supreme court against Calcutta high court order on Singur land refusing to stay distribution of land to owners at Singur. In a statement, the company spokesperson said the Tata Motors Limited will raise the matt
To prevent vector borne diseases in the capital, the government will do extensive publicity campaigns, said Delhi health minister A K Walia here recently. The government will take every possible step to maintain proper sanitation and resto
Under attack for spurt in crime against women in Uttar Pradesh, the state government on Monsay said it will launch a special one-month-long drive on July 1 to check atrocities against women. The decision was taken at a high-level me
After a gap of six years, the United States has taken India off the human trafficking `Watch List` for making significant efforts in combating the menace. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the state department has upgraded India
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday strongly refuted observations by US think- tanks, the government and industry that India has gone slow on economic reforms and insisted that a series of reforms are in the process, which will lead to the
The HRD ministry along with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Monday did a round table with the industry experts from the infrastructure and construction sectors on soon to be launched National Voc
Congress on Monday lashed out at senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani over the recent posts he mad eon his blog calling the Congress a `fiefdom` of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said that the posts rev
Madhya Pradesh BJP chief and MP Prabhat Jha on Monday made an unusual request of president Pratibha Patil, seeking her permission to end his life in solidarity with the poor "dying due to backbreaking price rise." His agony is th
The third cut-off list by the Delhi University for undergraduate courses highlighted the fact that students belonging to the other backward classes (OBC) choose prefer off-campus colleges over the much sought-after north campus colleges which keep
On Saturday evening, several civil rights group held a candlelight vigil near Rajghat in solidarity with Irom Sharmila, the iron lady of Mainpur, who has been fasting for over a decade now demanding the repeal of the armed forces s
Shanti Bhushan, co-chairperson of the drafting committee on Lokpal Bill has said that the government has not represented fully the views of the civil society members of the committee while comparing the two versions of the draft - one prepared by
