In a bid to secure the release of Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi, who have been taken hostage by Maoists, the Orissa government on Monday agreed to meet eight of the 14 demands made by the insurgents.
Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar issued instruction on Monday that all 700 women employees should get car drop facilities after 7 pm and 8 pm in winter and summer, respectively. Agreeing to a suggestion from Lok Sabha employees Kumar said that
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the 2G scam. Singh made the announcement in his reply to the president`s inaugural address of this year`s budget session. He said,
The Maharashtra state information commission (SIC) is ailing with lack of funds and staff shortage. Almost 50 posts are lying vacant at seven divisions of the SIC including the office of the SIC chief. There are nine posts lying un
As finance minister Pranab Mukherjee gears up to present the union budget on February 28, non-government organisations Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) & Oxfam India have propsed that the government should invest money ge
The Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) has approved the model concession agreement for tourism sector to be developed in the state on public-private partnership, Gujarat minister of state for finance Saurabh Patel said.
Maharashtra government has decided to open 100 residential schools across the state for students from backward castes from June this year, Maharashtra minister for social justice Shivajirao Moghe said here. "The decision of the
Madhya Pradesh governor Rameshwar Thakur on Monday said the state government will set up special court for early disposal of matters related to corruption. "The state government has also decided to frame laws to attach properti
A Delhi court on Monday deferred till March 4 pronouncement of judgement on the CBI`s plea to drop the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the two decade old Bofors payoff case. Chief metropolitan magistrate Vino
The revival of governance in Bihar under the leadership of chief minister Nitish Kumar has been hailed the world over. Now, the World Bank has acknowledged this in a new book titled `Public Service Delivery in India: Understanding the Reform Proce
How to influence political parties to take decisions which are pro- people? Tell them that if they do not fall in line, they will not get your vote in the next election. That is exactly what the Saboli ward of the Municipal Corporation of
Green NGO Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI) has voiced support for the introduction of the resolution for National Asbestos Awareness Week in the US senate. BANI hopes that the intiative will pave way for the implementation of the Ban Asebstos
The letters that stirred up the latest political controversy - Congress president Sonia Gandhi had written to BJP leader L K Advani protesting the BJP task-force report which contended that the former and her late husband Rajiv Gandhi had accounts
Not caring two hoots about human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and his controversial Foreign Educational Institutions (regulation of entry and operations) Bill, 2010 under scrutiny of a parliamentary standing committee, the All India C
Ten months after a trial court pronounced death for Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive after the mayhem in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, the Bombay High Court upheld the sentence on Monday morning. But even as the due process of law has
Abduction of Malkangiri collector Vineel Krishna by the Maoists should remove any illusion about the real motive of the ultras. For ages, Arundhati Roy, Swami Agnivesh and other apologists like them have been deceiving the world by asserting th
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are very upset over L K Advani`s admission of regret over the party report which named Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her late husband Rajiv Gandhi as account holders in Swiss banks stashing black money.
Delhi’s Patiala House court on Friday, directed the CBI, anti-corruption branch of Delhi Police and Parliament street police station to file an action taken report on the complaints of corruption in the commonwealth games 2010. On No
The CBI has moved the supreme court challenging an Allahabad high court order that dropped charges of criminal conspiracy against top BJP leaders including L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi in the Babri Masjid demolition case. In i
Facing flak at home over black money stashed abroad, India will press for transparency in the functioning of tax havens at the G20 finance ministers meeting in Paris on Friday to unearth "ill-gotten" money lying in such sovereign jurisdi
