Congress on Friday sent out a cryptic rebuttal of the Shunglu committee findings on CWG irregularities, saying that it neither owned nor refuted the findings. Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the party will study the find
Citing safety reasons, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has raised the issue of Air India`s flight operations to Afghanistan. ICPA has sought clarifications from the management on the issue, asking for immediate withdrawal of flight
TV commercials aimed at promoting employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA do not reach the BPL families, the main workforce under the scheme, and the target audience. Instead traditional media such as street shows and puppet shows are more eff
While India has successfully managed to stem the HIV/AIDS crisis, women in the country and worldwide are fast becoming the most victimised by the disease. HIV/AIDS is getting more feminised, a study by UNAIDS has pointed out. “27 mil
In further embarrassment to Suresh Kalmadi, the Shunglu panel has slammed him for setting up a "sham" Commonwealth Games Organising Committee with much lesser accountability and transparency. The Committee in its 103-page sixth a
A plethora of organisations and institutions, funded by taxpayers, exist to keep the Gandhi legacy alive, but as yet another controversy on precisely this legacy is making headlines. Just where have all those Gandhian organisations gon
The functioning of the Indian intelligence agencies, subject of much criticism in recent years, needs to be reformed, and that is what a private member`s bill, based on a study by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and introduced in the L
Despite a 12 percent rise in the population of big cats in the country, Madhya Pradesh popularly known as the `tiger state` witnessed a decline in their numbers resulting in loss of this coveted status to Karnataka, according to the latest tiger c
Attacking prime minister Manmohan Singh for inviting his Pakistani counterpart to the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today asked if the `special offer of cricket diplomacy` was also app
With the expiry of the March 31 deadline for the Air India management to resolve pilots` issues, Indian Commercial Pilots` Association (ICPA) has announced that its affiliates will be going on a strike soon. The pilots` body had earlier d
The supreme court on Friday directed the government to file the CBI report on the probe into alleged irregularities committed by suspended Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli in running the public broadcaster. A bench headed by chief justice S H
The Madras high court on Friday permitted serving of notice to the information and broadcasting ministry, central board of film certification and Chennai police, seeking revocation of a CBFC certificate for Tamil feature film "Sattapadi Kuttr
The union cabinet on Thursday is believed to have discussed the International Cricket Council`s request to exempt the World Cup 2011 from income tax. Based on that request, the finance ministry with the approval of sports ministry and the
Sulaiman Bhimani, an interior designer, lost his workshop cum office at Juhu Gulli, Mumbai, to road widening. In 2005, Maharashtra Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) allotted him a 225 square feet tenement at Somanigram,
The Circular No.1 of 2011 issued on Thursday by the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) provides for abolition of the condition/requirement for obtaining prior approval by foreign investors from the foreign investment promotion bo
India`s population is now pegged at 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million in the last 10 years, according to the provisional 2011 Census report released today. The population comprising 623.7 million males and 586.5 million fe
If Gandhi were alive, he would have surely opposed the ban his biography by Joseph Lelyveld’s, “The Great Soul”. The campaign was launched by union law minister M Veerappa Moily, who said the centre would consider
Relaxing the rules for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country, the government on Thursday decided to permit the issuance of equity to overseas firms against imported capital goods and machinery. Furthermore, the norms for overseas
India`s industrial sector, according to United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), is quite energy efficient - despite being one of the ten worst polluters among industrial nations of the world (according to an unrelated research)
The conflict between the Air India management and a section of protesting pilots has further intensified with the Indian Commercial Pilots Association firing yet another directive against the airline`s top brass. The chief executive commit
