Politbureau member, Brinda Karat has demanded the government to repeal the Land Acquisition Act of 1894. The CPI (M) leader made this demand while addressing a gathering of people affected by the state government`s land lease of 2,780 acre
Terming the prevalent situation in Jammu and Kashmir as a complete "constitutional breakdown", Awami National Conference (ANC) today demanded imposition of Governor`s rule and resignation of chief minister Omar Abdullah. &
The Telugu Desam Party has demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government prevail upon the Centre to make the government of Maharashtra remove all the gates that have been illegally installed on the controversial Babli project across river Godavari.
In conventional Indian history, myths often replace facts and form popular perceptions. The obvious reason is that what passed off as history (primarily medieval) was nothing but a concoction of myths and convenient facts by bards and sycophants.
"We welcome the work of finance and energy ministers in delivering implementation strategies and time-frames, based on national circumstances, for the rationalisation and phase out over the medium term of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies tha
India and the US have agreed to set up four working groups to advance cooperation and establish common goals between two countries in health sector. In a meeting with the union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad last week US health se
India as well as countries in the Himalayan river basins - China, Bangladesh and Nepal will suffer huge depletion in water availability on per capita cubic metre basis, says a report. “India is going to face per capita decline
To prevent the kind of air space violations done by Chinese helicopters in Jammu and Kashmir last year, the Indian Air Force is planning to deploy radars along its mountainous frontiers in northern and eastern parts of the country. "T
Unhappy over the delay in implementation of an interest subsidy scheme on education loans for poor students, government convened a meeting of scheduled commercial banks and sought to know the problems faced by them in carrying out the scheme. The
To woo the pulses farmers to sell their produce to the procurement agencies, the government has announced a Rs 5-a kg incentive to the growers, on top of the higher support price that it had announced last week. The incentive of Rs
If you are incensed with the government for its failure to clean up the toxic site of the Bhopal gas leak in more than 25 years, think again. Maybe the government`s hands were tied. Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid suggested as much when
Mediclaim policyholders, who are not satisfied with the service of their existing service providers, will be able to switch to another insurer soon without any change in the premium outgo. However, this facility will be available to those
Uttar Pradesh unit of BJP will launch a three-day agitation from July 1 to protest against the price rise of petro-products. "After successful state-wide protests held on June 26 against the Congress on price rise issue, we will be st
After about two months of nervously guiding a battered Maruti around my colony in the early hours of the day, I decide it’s time for the first step – a learner’s licence. The Sheikh Sarai Road Transport Office, the one me
A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the ruling Left Front, CITU and frontal organizations of CPI-M to protest against the hike in petroleum products crippled normal life in Tripura today. Shops and markets were closed and vehicles went off the
Breaking new grounds in their bilateral relationship, India and Canada today signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first Indian
Eyeing more than nine per cent growth rate for Indian economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said exciting opportunities await India and Canada for mutual cooperation to raise their bilateral trade three-fold to 15 billion dollars within the
A meeting of all political parties was held here on Sunday to discuss the issue of sharing of Krishna river water, which was before the Tribunal for the adjudication of surplus water available under scheme-B. The meeting was convened follo
Aalam thought his life would change for the better when he met a construction labour contractor in his village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district six months ago. The contractor asked him if he was interested in working in Delhi. He was told that
“It`s an undeclared emergency we are living in today and its far worse than that imposed in 1975,” writer and activist Arundhati Roy said here today. She was addressing an audience of writers, activists, lawyers, researc
