Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation on the Right to Education, before it comes in to effect from April 1. Senior officials said the address, on Doordarshan and All India Radio, will be broadcast on Thursday at 7.30 in the
Bihar has become the first state in the country to enact laws for regulating coaching institutes. In the wake of the violent protests by students charging the coaching institutes with duping them, the state government introduced the Bihar
The government is churning out one hazardous bill after another. This time it is a bill called the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and it`s coming up for a vote in a couple of days. The bill lets U.S. corpora
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is in a quandary: some persons are approaching medical and dental colleges, promising approval and recognition for their course and claiming that they are close to the Congress leader. They are not, and hence
After putting up a brave front on the allegations of corruption and bungling in the implementation of the national employment guarantee scheme in her state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has
Bachchan makes Ramesh skip tiger campaign event Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh recently slipped out of a Save Tiger Campaign show quietly. Reason: Amitabh Bachchan, the Congress` latest persona non grata, was to be the chief
Chemical and fertilisers minister M K Alagiri has ordered a preliminary CVC inquiry against Deepak Singhal, a UP cadre IAS and joint secretary (fertilisers), after the allegations that gas allocation prices decided by the bureaucrat led to l
The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Tuesday temporarily removed 13 doctors from its medical records due to complaints filed against them. Out of the 13 doctors, seven are from Delhi, three from Karnataka, two from Tamil Nadu and one from Uttar P
After running a week-long campaign to clean up some ghats of Yamuna, the Art of Living, an NGO founded by spiritual guru Ravi Shankar, is planning to engage corporates in the cause. “We had a lot of corporate partners during the camp
Come April 1, India will kickstart the largest census exercise ever to be attempted in the history of mankind and capture its 1.2 billion population in one single database. More than 2.5 million people will be engaged in the Rs 2,200 crore
A Delhi court today sought a response from CBI for transferring 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases involving Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to some other court in the city. District Judge G P Mittal asked the investigating agency to respond to the p
Maharashtra government is planning to introduce a `one time settlement` scheme to pay off loans availed by cooperative sugar factories in the state. "A one time settlement scheme would be introduced for the cooperative sugar factories
A 50,000 strong melee of workersof the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) will be going on an indefinite boycott of work Wednesday morning in protest ofthe handing over of power distribution in Agra city to a private company. A delegatio
Strengthening of the rural health infrastructure through the National Rural Health Mission has resulted in a whopping 71.6 per cent institutional deliveries across India as compared to only 41 per cent earlier. According to the latest perf
The Bihar government will hike the insurance cover of policemen and homeguard personnel posted in 15 Maoist-affected districts of the state from the present Rs 12 lakh to Rs 13.75 lakh. Director General of police Neelmani told reporters he
While the human resource development ministry has set April 01,2010 as the day when the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) 2009 will begin to be “implemented”, there is little clarity on what the proposed implementation will
In a bid to spread Internet network in rural areas, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has tied up with HCL to provide computer sets in villages on instalment basis. HCL will provide computer sets with initial payment of a over Rs 2000 wi
Indian Railways has taken an initiative to join the `Save Energy` campaign and tackle global warming by distributing 26 lakh Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) lamps to 6.5 lakh quarters across the country. "The Railways are provi
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee, pitching hard for public-private partnership in funding railway projects, on Monday said that she wanted to put up fencing along electrified tracks in the PPP model to increase revenue. "There a
