The Planning Commission on Tuesday said the biggest challenge before India is to improve investment climate, and the initiative taken by the government in setting up a review panel on GAAR has sent the right signal.
Far from being ideology-driven, the Maoist movement is a levy-based movement, the rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday. The minister was delivering the inaugural edition of the Governance Lecture series, `Saranda and the Au
The current gloomy market scenario dictates the need for a more “investor-friendly” land acquisition bill, the rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday. Elaborating on the more “investor-friendly&rdquo
A year after the Saranda Development Plan (SDP) was rolled out in Jharkhand, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh announced the commencement of a similar development plan in another region in the same state. Called Saryu Development Pr
Maruti Suzuki India is understood to have decided on resuming partial production at its violence -hit Manesar plant by next Tuesday. "Almost all the assessments have been completed and partial resumption of the Manesar plant is likely
Security measures were tightened in Manipur in view of Wednesday`s Independence Day boycott call given by major insurgent organisations with police forces intensifying roving patrol at the capital complex here to intercept the movement of armed ul
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday ended his fast on the sixth day of protest against black money and declared that he will launch a big movement against Congress before the Lok Sabha polls Home secretary RK Singh on Tuesday said that
The issue of violence in Mumbai over Assam riots stalled proceedings in the Lok Sabha for the second consecutive day on Tuesday as opposition members stormed the Well demanding dismissal of Maharashtra government, leading to adjournment of the Hou
"In one joint meeting of BSD and GHSR, one DOC woman com (comrade) had cried against the decision to arrest 3 women squad members, those were wishing to go home during Christian festival. In my presence there, Com Manoj/Bhaskar CCM (central c
Delivering the inaugural edition of the Governance Lecture series, `Saranda and the Audacity of Hope: An experiment in Grassroots Governance’, union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh said that he is appreciative of the magazine&rs
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday led the Rajya Sabha in felicitating Hamid Ansari on his second term as Vice-President and Chairman of the House saying his re-election was a tribute to his qualities. When the House met for the day,
A judicial probe has been proposed into the riot-hit areas of Assam. “A three member judicial team with a retired supreme court judge should investigate the situation and submit a report in three to six months time,” said Shabnam Hashm
Absconding former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda on Monday moved the Delhi High Court for anticipatory bail in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, four days after his bail plea was dismissed by a lower court. Appearing for Kanda, senior a
Ignored by the government, Yoga guru Ramdev on Monday decided to take his protest on black money and corruption to Parliament and vowed to oust Congress in the next Lok Sabha polls. "The government has become completely deaf. We have
At the time of writing, “people editors,” ordinary folks like us who create a “trend” on Twitter, have forced Fareed Zakaria to the top of the India feed. Curiously, and not-so-curiously as well, Zakaria is
A fact-finding team that returned from a three-day visit to the riot-hit areas of Assam recommended a judicial probe into the riots. The team members were Shabnam Hashmi, senior activist, Anhad and member, National Integration Council, Ga
Many say that NGOs or societies (registered organizations) deliver services that the corporate sector cannot deliver; they raise awareness among the people; deliver services that government agencies can’t. In short, their contribution cannot
In outrageous remarks, PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav, uncle of the UP Chief Minister, told officials that they can steal a little of public money if they work hard but they should not behave like dacoits. As BJP and others lashed out at
The parliamentary standing committee on agriculture has recommended shutting India`s doors to genetically modified (GM) crops in a report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Committee chairperson Basudeb Acharia said that the concerns reg
The national green tribunal has allowed filling up of the Maheshwar dam reservoir up to 154 mt on a "trial basis" for a period of three months on the condition that the project does not result into submergence of villages and agricultura
