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Green Tribunal top on Jairam agenda, NEPA tabling in August

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has  said that soon National Green Tribunals would be set up in the country after Parliament gives its nod. "The discussion of setting up National Green Tribunal has already began in the Parliam

ITI Ltd registers record turnover, up by 271 pc

Telecom company ITI Ltd has recorded the highest turnover in its history, registering Rs 4732.43 crore for the year ended March 31, 2010,a huge jump of 271 per cent compared to the previous year`s turnover of Rs 1741 crore "The provis

Environment ministry not stalling highway work: Ramesh

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that his ministry is not acting as a blockade on the construction of national highways in the country. "Ministry of environment and forests has cleared 98 percent national highway projects,

Matrimony and membership has politicians worried

Sun TV diplomacy Union textiles minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran has been found gifting expensive HDTV sets and DTH antennas to his ministerial colleagues, opposition leaders, and dear friends, ostensibly to help th

Alcohol, sports not a good mix: sports minister

Sports minister M S Gill has hit out at the Indian Premier League organisers for serving liquor inside stadiums during matches, saying sports and alcohol should never be mixed. "Sports and liquor should never be mixed. I am surprised,

Corporate contribution needed in providing healthcare - Prez

President Pratibha Patil sought to get the corporate sector involved in providing healthcare to citizens saying that it is a core objective of corporate social responsibility. While inaugurating the Action Cancer Hospital here oN Saturday,

Dairy body asks Centre to protect milk-farmers

Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing federation (GCMMF) has appealed to the Central Government to protect the interests of milk farmers in Gujarat and other parts of the country. The GCMMF consists of dairies in Vadodara, Panchmahals, Surat

Elderly get less strenuous NREGS jobs in Kerala village

Setting an example for local bodies in the country, a gram panchayat in Kerala`s Wayanad district has come out with a novel scheme to provide social security to senior citizens by providing less strenuous jobs under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural E

Thackeray flays Sania, says she is no longer Indian

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today lambasted tennis star Sania Mirza for deciding to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and said she is no longer an Indian. The 84-year-old Sena supremo also said that had Sania been truly Indian at he

Sonia gives more responsibility to Rahul

Sonia Gandhi has appointed Rahul Gandhi as member of the Jawahar Bhavan Trust as she prepares to devote more time to the National Advisory Council (NAC). With this appointment, applicable from March 15, the young MP will run the Rajiv Gand

No move to buy Russian spacecrafts: ISRO

India has not made any offer to Russia to purchase Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to undertake the country`s own human space flight slated for 2015-16, a top space department official said. "No, that`s all what the newspapers write," India

Consumer forum holds bank responsible for illegal fund transfer

In a significant ruling, district consumer complaints redressal forum has held HDFC bank responsible for unauthorised fund transfer in an internet banking transaction. In the order dated March 25, the forum directed the bank to pay a custo

India joins 135-strong countries-with-RTE club

With the Right to Education Act coming into force, India has joined the league of over 130 countries which have legal guarantees to provide free and compulsory education to children. According to the UNESCO`s `Education for All Global Moni

US undecided on Headley-access for India: Blake

Noting that the US is committed to share full information with the Indian government on Headley-Rana case, a top Obama administration official has said that no decision has been taken on giving Indian intelligence agencies access to David Coleman

Indian varsities spark tie-up interest in US

With a law on the anvil to allow operation of foreign education providers in India, a top consortium of research institutions from the US has evinced interest in collaborating with Indian universities. A delegation of Committee on Institut

Over three lakh cases pending in Bombay HC - RTI

Over three lakh cases are pending in the Bombay High Court, according to an information revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The details, dated till December 31, 2009 were given after local social worker Omprakash

DTU students take protest online

Delhi Technological University (DTU) students have now taken their protest online. Second year students of DTU have launched a website called www.savedce.in. Students say that the website will help them to take their protest to another level. Alon

India suffers from organ donation deficiency

More than 25,000 donors are needed for 1,000,000 transplants of various organs every year in India but the number of donors is abysmally low despite the Human Organ Transplant Act in place in India. Board of management chairman at Sir Ganga Ram Ho

Pesticide-free veggies on Commonwealth Games menu

During the Commonwealth Games, players and visitors will have an opportunity to relish pesticide-free vegetables of high quality, as farmers here prepare to cash in on the higher demand during the event with a bit of help from the Indian Agricultu

Gadkari`s price rise posers to the Prime Minister

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has posed 14 qustions on price rise in a letter to the Prime Minister. Here are the questions ad verbatim - 1. Where have things gone wrong? 11%  inflation in India is highes

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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