Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal today assailed the Centre for the recent hike in the prices of DAP and Urea by Rs 30 and Rs 24 per bag respectively. This hike speaks volumes of Congress-led UPA government`s "insensitivity&qu
Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani terrorist sentenced to death in the Mumbai terror attack case, has got a new identity with the jail authorities labelling him as Qaidi No C-7096. The number is allotted to maintain record of convicts and henceforth h
Vehicular traffic was hit in several parts of the three southern Orissa districts of Kandhamal, Gajapati and Rayagada during a bandh organised by Maoists today. The red rebels put up a road blockade at Pangalighati, near Daringibadi in Kan
Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan today asserted that the CPI (M)-led LDF government was committed to rehabilitating all landless people in the State. "The government is determined to speed up the ongoing rehabilitation of the l
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today claimed that naxalites did not target the common people, except those who "spied" on the outfit. "The naxalites never target common people as we have observed during past several years, b
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will celebrate the first anniversary of its second consecutive term in office tomorrow after a sweet and sour year marked by misses and hits in governance and its deft management of uncertainties of coalition
Inflation of commodities used by agricultural and rural labourers fell to 14.96 per cent in April, lower by 81 basis points for farm labourers and 56 basis points for rural labourers over the previous month. The Consumer Price Index
The Punjab government today gave nod to an integrated urban development plan to change the face of urban areas in a time bound manner. Accelerated and Integrated Urban Development Plan was approved at a high-level meeting presided o
The training duration of National Cadet Corps (NCC) would soon be increased from present two years to three years, NCC Director General Lt Gen R K Karwal said today. "At present we have a two-years training programme for the cadets. W
The CBSE Class XII results saw a dip in the success rate of students this year, with 79.87 per cent of those appearing in the board examination clearing it as against 81 per cent last year. Over seven lakh students appeared in the Class XI
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday sought to dispel fears about faculties of Indian universities joining foreign institutes after they set campuses here. "I know my faculty is patriotic and passionate about India and I
Asking paramilitary forces to tackle violence with "patience, tact and understanding", union home minister P Chidambaram today stressed that the right to use force should be exercised responsibly. In dealing with violence, he sai
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has given credence to the feeling that at least some of the "police encounters" are fake. As many as 27 encounters out of 1,846 cases the panel investigated turned out to be stage-managed.
The government`s wheat procurement has hit a record 31 million tonnes, almost six million tonnes more than last year, putting pressure on it to relax the three-year-old export ban on selling the surplus to neighbours. Export of the
The declining value of Euro will not affect Indian foreign exchange reserves as Euro was only a small component in forex, RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty said today. "We are not much concerned. Dollar is strengthening against all
Countering the allegation that it has been illegally favouring some powerful politicians, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has defended the rules that allow allotment of flats in Mumbai to MLAs and MLCs. “So
The Reserve Bank has instructed all banks to extend a helping hand to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, RBI deputy governor K C Chakrabarty today said but asked the enterprises not to seek concessional credit. `MSMEs should not to ask f
Yet another meet has come and gone with nothing much to shout about as the 50th National Open Athletics Championship did not rise to the expected level, with the Commonwealth Games round the corner Much was expected from the athletes, many
Rejecting Orissa government`s formula of excluding 300 acres of private land from the proposed Posco site area near Paradip, CPI today demanded that the entire site be shifted elsewhere and an official statement made about its overall impact on th
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the multi-crore fraud in Satyam Computers, today said it had completed 90 per cent of investigation into the case and was now focusing towards fund diversion aspect, if any by the Satyam accused.
