Twelve people died and four others were injured as dozens of houses caved in following a cloudburst in Uttarakhand`s Rudraprayag district on Friday. A large number of people are feared trapped in the debris and rescue operations have been
Slamming the Centre for hiking the price of diesel and restricting supply of cooking gas, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said his party will hold discussions with other parties on organising a stir to press for roll back.
It was looming right from the day the presidential elections got over. The diesel price hike, announced last night, was in the offing for a while, but what was not expected was the double whammy, of an unprecedented quota system for cooking gas. T
The government-run Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) continues to do business with Tatra Sipox (UK) limited of Ravindra Rishi and even sought a fresh lot of Tatra trucks at the price of Rs 59.6 lakh each in July, two months after the Central Bure
The group of ministers (GoM) on drought, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, has increased the number of days one will get the guaranteed work in the drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (M
Following Justice M B Shah Commission report on illegal iron ore mining in Goa, the state government is apparently non-committal on recovering a whopping Rs 35,000 crore from the mine owners who illegally plundered the resources. In its re
Stepping up their protest against the atomic power plant here, anti-nuclear activists on Thursday stood in sea waters forming a human chain off nearby Indinthakarai coast. Taking a leaf from `Jal Satyagraha` activists in Madhya Pradesh, th
The Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal block allocation has been asked to conclude its work without delay and give its recommendations at the earliest. A direction is this regard was given on Wednesday after Finance Minister P Chidambar
In a major breakthrough, Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a top militant who is suspected to have provided logistical support to hijackers of IC-814 in 1999 and was operating for the last 25 years in the state. Mehrajuddin alias Javed
DGPs and chiefs of central police organisations (CPOs) gather together every year for a conference organised by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which safely passes off as an annual ritual marked by the usual rhetoric from the prime minister and the
Describing the Congress-led UPA government as "scam-tainted", Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday spoke of his party playing a major role in the country after the 2014 election. Explaining his party`s respons
Two days after accepting the demands of the Omkareshwar dam protestors in Khandwa district, the Madhya Pradesh government cracked down on a similar, peaceful protest in Harda. Police personnel forcibly evicted nearly 50 villagers of Badhkhaliya an
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan is likely to approach supreme court next week seeking cancellation of the controversial allocation of coal blocks and an independent probe on the lines of the 2G spectrum allocation case he filed. Bhushan said he is
Industrial production growth rate slowed to just 0.1 percent in July due to poor show by manufacturing, mining and capital goods sectors, reflecting weak economic activity which may prompt RBI to cut interest rate in its mid-quarter policy review.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Wednesday hit out at Congress over the arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi while drawing parallels with Emergency and alleged that the "draconian mindset" of the present rulers is born out of "failure
The Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down a constitutional principle where aggrieved parties can seek from appropriate court the postponement of the publication of court hearings and a decision taken on a case-by-case basis. The court, howeve
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) will this evening discuss raising diesel, cooking gas and kerosene prices but the Oil Ministry is doubtful if a decision would be taken in just one meeting. "Radical decision need to b
This is a piece that first appeared in the July 1-15, 2011 issue of the Governance Now magazine. With a recent report from New Delhi-based Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) nailing corporate largesse as the biggest source of par
An uneasy calm prevailed here on Tuesday with police tightening vigil as anti-nuclear protesters continued with their relay fast at Idinthakari, epicentre of protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear plant, condemning the action against anti-KNPP ac
Non-Resident Gujarati Associations of Tri-State under the leadership of Nikul Patel, Harshad Patel and Mitesh Patel organised a warm welcome to visiting Gujarat Congress leaders Shaktisinh Gohil, Jivabhai Patel and Urmilaben Patel.
