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
CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharya today accused railway minister Mamata Banerjee of not taking "any initiative" to maintain and modernise the public transport service, especially at Sainthia where two express trains collided early this morni
At least 60 people were killed and over 90 passengers injured when a train in high speed tore through the rear of another at the Sainthia station in Bhirbhum district of West Bengal, after it apparently overshot the signal in the small hours of th
Kerala government would seriously consider the demand for setting up a co-operative university in the state for the control of educational institutions in the sector, co-operatives minister G Sudhakaran said today. Replying to a cal
The decision of the three-member group of ministers (GoM) to allow the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project on Bhagirathi to continue with construction has the civil society up in arms against the ministry again. Professor G D Tripathi, an
In accepting the recommendations of the Planning Commission on the Food Security Bill, the National Advisory Council (NAC) has acknowledged what the government has been saying all along, that food entitlements cannot stretch beyond the food supply
After reaching out to millions of unskilled persons across rural India through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the centre now looks set to bring the tribals in its fold. The rural development ministry has constituted a work
Cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar on Friday assured that his office will go paperless by 2011, at the press conference on teh sidelines of the apex committee meeting on the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). The Apex committee on N
It took two many insults within as many days from the Pakistani foreign minister SM Qureshi for the Indian media to finally conclude on Friday afternoon that India-Pakistan talks had collapsed. But it will take the Indian establishment a lot more
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi`s opinion on ways to resolve the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka "once and for all" through political agreement. "My government will certainly
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has served a notice on the medical university here following a complaint by a teacher that he was denied promotion. Santosh Kumar, who is attached with the Pulmonary
