Three Congress candidates today filed nominations for the June 10 biennial elections for the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Hussain Dalwai, former Pune mayor Dipti Chaudhary, and MPCC G
In view of rising number of deaths due to sunstroke in the state, the Orissa Government has again moved the Centre to declare these deaths as natural calamity so that higher compensation could be paid. "We have moved the Centre
The BJP has sought time till tomorrow from Jharkhand Governor M O H Farooq on the possibility of forming the government after the exit of chief minister Shibu Soren last night. BJP state president Raghuvar Das, who met the Governor twice i
Defence minister A K Antony today said the government was "examining all pros and cons of various aspects" of deploying army in anti-Naxalite operations in the country. While making it clear that government had not taken a
Bolstered by a 7.4 per cent growth rate in 2009-10, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today exuded confidence that the economy would expand by over 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal. "... on the whole it is 7.2 per cent plus (in 2009
Government medical colleges with bed capacity of 1,000 can now admit up to 250 students for the MBBS course from the academic session 2011-12, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told The Hindu. “But the raise in the ceiling
President Pratibha Patil today concluded her first state visit to China asking business leaders of the two Asian giants to develop "cooperation" that will address concerns of both sides and realise their true trade potential.
Driven by a robust performance by the manufacturing sector, the Indian economy grew by 8.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2009-10, pushing up the overall growth to a better-than expected 7.4 per cent. The manufacturing sector grew
Three-time Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren resigned on SUnday night after failing to get the support of Congress and its ally JVM(P) ahead of Monday`s trust vote in the assembly that may pave the way for a spell of President`s rule in the sta
While it may be old technology, more precisely seven years old, third-generation mobile technology, popular here and elsewhere as 3G is new in India, is generating quite a buzz with spectrum auctions having concluded barely weeks back. This high-s
I distinctly remember my first day at the office of Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam as its chairman. It was April 19, 2006 and as I walked towards my office a nauseating smell—a mix of stinking toilets and freshly spit tobacco—hit me hard
A union minister is under the scanner for allegedly flouting norms during his foreign visits. A senior diplomat has written to the external affairs ministry about a possible conflict of interest involving the minister. The norm has been that a min
To save fresh water from being flushed down the toilet, the rural development ministry has decided to promote the use of ecological sanitation structures in its Total Sanitation Campaign, an initiative to make the country ‘open defecation fr
The Jhargram train attack that killed 68 people, exposing the vulnerability of railway properties, is the latest of the over 65 Maoist attacks in the past one year. Left-wing extremists have carried out four attacks on railway prope
With Maoists blowing up telephone towers in areas controlled by them, the government has found a unique way of preventing such attacks. The plan now being thought of is to erect the telephone towers within the "safe confines" of
An association of street vendors today threatened to lay siege to the MCD headquarters here on June one to protest their alleged harassment and arbitrary eviction by the civic authority before the Commonwealth Games. The National As
Left parties today condemned the "Maoist sabotage" which led to the train accident in West Bengal, castigated the Railway Ministry for violating safety policies and sought Prime Minister`s intervention to ensure that Railways fulfil thei
Striking a discordant note from his party`s position, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today opposed the idea of including caste in census, saying it would "disintegrate" the society. "My view is that caste census is no
Indian Air Force today engaged four helicopters for relief and rescue operations in the derailment of the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express in West Midnapore district in West Bengal in which over 71 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
Maoists today blasted a landmine at Palamau in Jharkhand, killing a policeman and injuring two others. The ultras triggered the explosion when Jharkhand Armed Police and Palamau district armed police personnel were patrolling on foo
