The defence ministry has sent a naval project for building four new guided missile destroyer warships to finance ministry for clearance, before it goes to Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for final approval. Defence ministry offi
In a major setback to coast guard`s plan to upgrade its capacity post-Mumbai attacks, the defence ministry has cancelled a tender for hiring eight helicopters for transport and evacuation operations after going through the year-long selection proc
The Telugu Rashtra Samiti (TRS) won three more seats of Sirpur, Chennur and Mancherial among the 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where bypolls were held on July 27. In Mancherial, TRS candidate defeate
A national cancer grid has been proposed by the department of atomic energy (DAE) to introduce uniform standards of care and reduce patient flow to its `mother` hospital in the city and is likely to get approval at the atomic energy commission mee
With as many as six of its IAS officers figuring in the list of 45 empanelled for appointment as additional secretaries at the centre, Gujarat tops the list, followed by four from Uttar Pradesh, and three each from Rajasthan, Bihar and the union t
Among the shames we name for a superpower India, illiteracy tops the list. So, we should welcome the human resource development ministry`s renewed efforts to push for adult literacy. In this media-centric age, the ministry is plannin
In 2009, the state ex-chequer shelled out Rs.1,16,62,101 as the electricity bill of the prime minister’s residence, 7, Race Course Road. That is not all. The The electricity consumption and therefore, the bill amount has been increasing by a
Assuming charge as the new chief election commissioner, S Y Quraishi today said the poll panel would accord priority to restricting the role of money power in elections which has become a major challenge. Quraishi, the 17th CEC, sai
Even as controversy surrounds the Commonwealth Games for alleged corruption and tardy progress in construction of projects, prime minister Manmohan Singh today expressed satisfaction over the preparations for the mega event and said it will be a s
Greenpeace is not stepping back in its fight against the Tata group over the Dhamra port project which, the green group says poses a threat to turtles. Facing legal ac
The biometric system of attendance at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) Kasturba hospital for women and children has added to the woes of the nurses working there. According to senior nurses in the hospital, who did not want to be n
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and MPs, led by party president Nitin Gadkari and BJP Parliamentary Party chairman L K Advani, on Thursday marched to the Rashtrapati Bhawan and petitioned president Pratibha Patil for her immediate intervention to c
Mani Shankar Aiyar is keeping his mouth tightly shut after leaving everyone talking about his views on the Commonwealth Games. On Thursday, he announced his vow of silence till the event is over on October 14. While he pretended to
The Delhi government will now connect the youth through internet. The government on Thursday launched a web portal http://www.youthportal.in/ under the Bhagidari initiative in partnership with the Electronic Youth Media Group, a youth engage
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canada-based manufacture of BlackBerry, has once again assured the government that it will address Indian security concerns – just as it did two years ago. The home ministry this week threatened
With the expenditure on the Commonwealth Games already larger than the Games promise to be, the Central Vigilance Commission has stepped in to sniff out corruption. Prompted by mounting complainst of graft in the CWG expenditure, th
The city police and the railway protection force (RPF) personnel are maintaining extra vigil over the up and down tracks between dense forest in Salekasa and Darekasa section during the Martyrs Week observed by the Maoists, official sources said t
Barely an hour after it decided to hike value-added tax on petrol "up to 35 per cent" today, the Punjab government made an abrupt volte face and announced that the decision was being deferred. "The cabinet gave approval to a
The CBI today issued summons to Geetha Johri, the investigating officer in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and killing of his wife Kausarbi, and asked her to appear before the agency by August 10. Johri, who had headed the
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a CB-CID probe into the alleged fake order regarding revision of the pay scale of the employees under the sixth pay commission, an official spokesman said here. "The CB-CID has bee
