After the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) of Delhi University set an almost unachievable target of 100% for students with a non-commerce background, the principal of the college, P C Jain, told Governance Now he doesn`t find anything irra
A day after Swami Nigamanand breathed his last after fasting for more than two months at Haridwar to save the Ganga, environment minister Jairam Ramesh shrugged off the centre’s responsibility in the matter. At a conference in the c
In an apparent move to corner chief minister Narendra Modi, the Congress in Gujarat on Tuesday moved an application before the Nanavati Commission seeking direction to the police to provide wide ranging police records between February 27, 2002 and
Moving a step forward to split the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Delhi Government on Tuesday approved a bill for division of the civic agency into three smaller bodies. The bill along with a proposal for trifurcation of
Some pages from files pertaining to the controversial Adarsh Housing Society have gone missing from the city-based state headquarters of the ministry of defence, the judicial panel probing into the high-rise scam was told on Tuesday.
Police personnel in Himachal Pradesh have been asked not to mention their surnames or caste in official communications. All officials have been advised not to use their surname or caste while addressing each other in all official an
A bill seeking to empower the West Bengal government to return land in Singur to farmers was passed by the Assembly on Tuesday amidst a walkout by members of the opposition left parties. The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Developmen
In the first-ever audit of any intelligence agency in India, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a Rs 450-crore purchase scam of Israeli unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) lying as junk with the Hyderabad-based National Technical R
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday directed her ministers to find ways to tackle child labour. She directed her minister of women and child development Prof. Kiran Walia, minister of education Arvinder Singh Lovely, minister of labour and in
Defence minister A K Antony on Tuesday discounted the possibility of Kargil-type operations in Arunachal Pradesh as apprehended by a minister of the state, saying the situation on the border was under constant monitoring and changes were being upg
In the last week of April, I participated in a seminar organised by a group of civil society members. They have long been demanding that the age of children covered under the Child Labour Prohibition and Rehabilitation Act – 1986 be increase
LeT used videos of the 2002 Gujarat riots to motivate David Headley, a co-accused in the 26/11 attacks, to carry out "jihad" against India, indicating how the incident is being used as a major recruiting tool by the banned Pakistani mili
Describing the rise in inflation to above nine percent as "upsetting", the Prime Minister`s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) on Tuesday pitched for further tightening of the monetary policy by the RBI at its next review, which is due on
More than 30 teachers were detained on Tuesday when they staged a protest march to demand release of sixth pay commission arrears and regularisation of Rehbar-e-Taleem (education volunteers) teachers. Among those detained included t
An all-faith meeting on eradication of child labour was held here as part of the `child labour week.` The meeting was held on Monday which was organised by a voluntary organisation on the theme of eradicating child labour by educati
A newly-married woman allegedly committed suicide after being harassed for dowry by her in-laws, police said here on Tuesday. Nitu (25), consumed poison yesterday night at her residence in Sanda village, they said. Pa
Taking a step forward against illegal human trafficking in the state, an `Anti Human Trafficking` police station was opened here on Tuesday. "The police station will work to rehabilitate women and children, who have been pushed
Media persons in Mumbai on Monday marched in protest against senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey`s murder. Marching from the Press Club in the city to Mantralay, the protestors carried posters of Dey and placards. Meanwhile, the involvement of
Police beat up protestors belonging to the Dalit community during an agitation in Hisar, Haryana on Monday. The protesters were agitating outside the District Collectors office against the bail given to some of the accused in the infamous Mirchpur
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday accused union home minister P Chidambaram of having got himself elected in the 2009 general elections through "fraudulent" means. "His position in the union council of mi
