The rural development ministry in collaboration with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is set to introduce biometrics-based identification to check the on-site corruption in the NREGS. A committee comprising officials fr
Expressing concern over the killing of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, the CPI(M) today asked the government to immediately start the process of political dialogue with all shades of opinion and stop "excessive reliance" on administrativ
Andhra Pradesh government today strongly condemned the police lathi-charge on TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and other legislators by Maharashtra police. "I strongly condemn the lathi-charge on Chandrababu Naidu and others b
A week-long budget session of Nagaland assembly began here today with opposition Congress members resorting to a novel way of protest demanding actions against what they called "corrupt ministers and parliamentary secretaries in the state&quo
Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu today said that the central government should intervene in the ongoing Babhli row and find a reasonable solution. "It is high time that the the Centre intervenes in the matter and calls a meeting of bo
A new wholesale price index (WPI) series is likely to start from next month, R P Singh, secretary, department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) said on Tuesday. The industry secretary said the department is ready with new inflation index a
Curfew was clamped in Sopore town on Tuesday and restrictions imposed of the movement of people in the rest of the Kashmir Valley in view of the tense situation after a youth was killed in alleged firing by security forces in Baramulla.
Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu along with his supporters was today forcibly shifted to Aurangabad from here amid tight security. Police cane-charged some TDP activists, who tried to prevent the move. He wa
Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy`s controversial `Odarpu yatra`, Telugu Desam Party`s (TDP) yatra to Maharashtra over Babhli barrage issue and the coming byelections in Telangana have heat up political temperature in Andhra Pradesh.
The home ministry appears not to share the suspicion of railway ministry that today`s train accident in West Bengal could be a case of sabotage. Officials in the home ministry said preliminary reports do not indicate that the accident in B
Steel minister Virbhadra Singh seems to be environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh`s next target as the ministry of environment and forests is set to reject to Steel Authority of India Limited`s request for renewing its lease on the Chiria
Leader of Lok Sabha and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday hosted a luncheon meeting for BJP leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in a customary practice. Mukherjee also discussed the bills to be introduced in
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that he would be happy with the economy growing at 8.5 percent this fiscal, steering clear of endorsing the IMF`s optimistic figure of 9.5 pc. Upon being asked about the IMF figure at the s
One more railway accident, and once again preciouslives lost. We blame it, once again, on human failure or conspiracy if not the system. While there`s no final word on what led to the disaster on early Monday morning, what we know for sure is that
Rail and road services were today disrupted due to a bandh called by TDP to protest the arrest of their party chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who began a hunger strike against Maharashtra government stopping his visit to the controversial Babhli barrag
No record was found in Hanumanganj police station here about who had given bail to former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson and two others soon after the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly was informed today. In a wr
Railways today cancelled three trains from Howrah and diverted as many in view of the train accident in Sainthia, which has claimed 60 lives. The cancelled trains include the Howrah-Amritsar and Howrah-Rampurhat-Howrah passenger, ac
Stepping up its protests against the BJP government in Karnataka for its "failure" to check illegal mining and to press for their demand for a CBI probe into the issue, Congress today announced it would embark on a "Bellay chalo&quo
Charging Karnataka governor H R Bhardwaj with `excessive interference` in the
Authorities today lifted curfew from Sopore town and restriction on movement of people across Kashmir Valley but life continued to remain disrupted due to a week-long shutdown called by the separatists. The situation in Batmaloo in central
