Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu today sounded confident the government will achieve its fiscal deficit target, but said if the number comes under pressure from factors like rise in commodity prices, it will have to go for reforms such as dereg
Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal has said that the higher education system in India should be freed from "inspector raj" and the government is coming out with a law to deal with the practise. He also said a voluntary disclos
Twenty-four students from underprivileged sections, of the total 30, have this time made it to the IIT-JEE from the `Super-30` founded by mathematics wizard Anand Kumar. With this the total number of Super 30 students, having qualif
IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Tuesday requested the Nanavati Commission to defer his deposition till he gets legal support, alleging that he was being subjected to a "slander campaign" by the Gujarat government. The panel consisting of Ret
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi today urged Governor Devanand Konwar to give his assent to 14 new bills adopted by the state legislature, specially four finance bills without delay as the state was facing the threat of losing performance gran
Following the many horrendous setbacks from political circle, public life at large in India is confronting the serrated edge. Domino effects of corrupt nexus among politicians-corporate and most odiously of media chocking every tint of idealism an
India is a democratic country where each and every person has a right to elect their representative and live life as they want. But Is India really democratic? Is India really growing? Is India really rising? All these questions alw
The truth should at last come out as the beleaguered state-run carrier has finally decided to do the reality check on the order it placed in 2006 for 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners worth almost $4 billion. Deep in red, Air India has now woken up to con
Salt labourers in Orissa`s Ganjam district today demonstrated against stoppage of salt production by private entrepreneurs saying it jeopardised their livelihood. Several salt labourers from various villages in Ganjam block staged p
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today alleged that the DMK was linked with the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in an "indirect way." "That has been our basic charge since a long time. We hav
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked income tax department to gear up for implementation of Direct Tax Code (DTC), which will replace the 50 year old Income Tax Act, from April next year. DTC Bill is under examination of Pa
The home ministry is struck with yet another mole sitting in a high-profile post of a joint secretary and allegedly involved in taking kickbacks in construction of border roads. Home minister P Chidambaram, however, acted fast in sh
Terming environment minister Jairam Ramesh`s controversial remarks about IIT faculty as "unfortunate", minister of state for science and technology Ashwani Kumar today said government scientific and technological institutions have done I
Demanding release of tribals lodged in various Orissa jails without delay, Maoists-selected mediators today accused the state government of not keeping its promises made in the agreement during abduction of the then Malkangiri district collector R
Coal and iron ore mining are the biggest "threats" to elephant corridors in central India, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said today and maintained that a way of extracting mineral resources without devastating the tusker population
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced a mammoth five-billion-dollar credit to Africa for various development projects, reflecting India`s growing ties with the resource-rich continent. Singh also declared an addi
After a meeting with DMK chief M Karunanidhi, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the arrest of Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum case would not have any impact on the ties between the two parties but insisted that the government would not inte
The Shiv Sena-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has denied permission to the Bal Thackeray-led party to hold its annual Dussera rally at Shivaji Park here. Sena activist Diwakar Borkar had written a letter to the G-Nort
Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today said instructions have been issued to complete handing over 40,000 houses by this month-end to beneficiaries of "Aasare" scheme, designed for rehabilitating flood-affected villages in north
Punjab revenue department has taken several steps that bode well for women in the state and are people friendly. To make revenue matters people friendly and free from cumbersome procedures, which caused undue harassment to the publi
