Small sugar prices weakened at the Vashi Wholesale market here today due to lack of demand from stockists coupled with lower retail offtake. Meanwhile, medium sugar variety ended stable in the absence of worthwhile buying.
With food inflation ruling at uncomfortable level, petroleum minister S Jaipal Reddy today ruled out freeing of diesel prices from government control, saying the move was not politically and practically feasible. "It is not pos
Expressing concern that the black money stashed in banks abroad might have originated from arms deals, drug trafficking and smuggling, the Supreme Court today asked the government as to what action it had taken against individuals and firms having
As the country is facing energy deficiency, the ministry of power has planned cost-effectiveness mechanism focusing on the eight designated industrial sectors, with an investment requirement of Rs. 30,000 crore over three years under an energy eff
“What we say a man ‘knows’, should, in strict psychological language be what he ‘discovers’ or `unveils’; what a man learns is really what he discovers, by taking the covers off his own soul, which is a mine o
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today indicated major changes in the organisational set up of the Youth Congress and party`s frontal students` wing NSUI saying office-bearers would hence forth be elected directly by members of these organi
In view of the bitter experience with a private partner on the Airport Express Metro Line, which has been delayed significantly, the DMRC has shot down the planning commission`s proposal to develop metro projects in 50 cities under a Public-Privat
Faced with a financial crisis, Railways have put on hold all PPP projects including proposed plants at Kanchrapara in West Bengal and Madhepura and Marhora in Bihar. Railways have to commit approximately Rs 8,000 crore per annum for
Over 80,000 gazetted officers in Maharashtra today went on a cease work to protest the killing of additional district collector Yashwant Sonawane by the oil mafia. "We have not announced the protest as a strike but we are shunning wor
At 0655 Dubai time on Wednesday January 26, I switched on the television. There was the pomp and the ceremony, the garlands and the splendour in the grass. India`s narcissistic annual salute to itself set to music once again but
In a brazen act, an additional district collector was today burnt alive in broad daylight at a roadside eatout at Manmad in Maharashtra`s Nashik district by the local mafia during raids to uncover illegal hoarding of kerosene and petrol.
More than two lakh people from across the country have come together to voice their support for the Right to Education, through the Awaaz Do campaign by UNICEF for out-of-school children. People are exchanging ideas on the campaign`s
In a fresh crackdown on BJP activists, four senior party leaders were today detained at the airport here immediately after their arrival for participating in hoisting of the national flag at Lal Chowk on Republic Day tomorrow. Three BJP ML
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) will go ahead with most of the provisions contained in the draft RTI rules which were put on its website in December last. Documents available with Governance Now show that the DoPT has rejec
India, which has witnessed numerous terror attacks and still remains a potential target for such strikes, faces significant money laundering and terrorist financing risk, the IMF has warned. The International Monetary Fund in its report &q
Onion prices crashed to Rs 5-20 a kg in wholesale markets of the national capital today on the back of improved supply, but retail prices of the vegetable remain high at Rs 40 per kg. Retail prices of onions have been hovering at the same
CPI-M today formally decided to forge an alliance with AIADMK to fight coming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, saying the need of the hour was to bring all secular and left democratic forces under one umbrella to defeat the DMK-Congress combine.
The Reserve Bank today upped the inflation projection to 7 per cent by March-end, from the earlier estimated 5.5 per cent and warned against a possible spill over of high food and energy prices to a more generalised inflation. Earlier, the
Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily has said that delivery of justice in all cases will not exceed three years, once key reforms planned by the government are instituted in the judicial system. “Unless you clean the pol
