Army Chief Gen V K Singh will have a meeting with Defence Minister A K Antony to discuss procurement projects for the Army, their first official meeting days after his letter to the Prime Minister on the poor state of defence preparedness got leak
After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee`s strong opposition, her Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa on Monday asked the Centre to put on hold formation of NCTC which is sought to be "steamrolled" into existence. In a le
Even as the government of India has made a token response on clean-up of the river Ganga, the World Bank (WB) has a word of advice to New Delhi. It has asked the government to take the matter seriously and hold active consultations from different
Rajendra Pal Singh, a retired bureaucrat, is tipped to be the next chief of the national highways authority of India (NHAI), according to highly placed sources. Singh retired as secretary of the department of industrial policy and p
Two years since the Right to Education Act has been implemented, the annual average dropout rate at the primary level has dropped from 9.1 in 2009-10 to 6.9 in 2010-11. Also, more than 4.96 lakh classrooms and 6 lakh teachers posts have be
World Bank on Friday expressed its willingness to support the proposal of BRICS nations to set up a Development Bank to insulate their economies from the ongoing economic problems, rising oil prices and currency volatility. "In
The national highway authority of India will rake in money from tolls — something that have been a losing proposition for the highway authority so far. Through e-tendering, NHAI is set to get Rs 270 crore from two projects alone with ten oth
The strike threat by a major chunk of Air India`s over 28,000 employees from Monday was called off on Friday with the ailing national carrier promising to clear all their salary and other dues by June. "We received their (strik
The National Green Tribunal order suspending environmental clearance to Posco is not a setback to government`s green policies, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Friday, asserting that "very strict and transparent" procedure
The CBI on Friday registered a case in connection with the supply of all-terrain Tatra trucks through state-owned BEML to the Army and called for questioning Vectra group Chairman Ravi Rishi who is a majority stake holder in Tatra. CBI sou
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any order on a plea for clemency to Balwant Singh Rajoana, awarded death penalty for assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. A bench of justices T S Thakur and Gyan Sudh
The BJP on Friday demanded Defence Minister A K Antony`s resignation, upping the ante against Government over the controversy surrounding Army Chief`s allegation that he was offered bribe for clearance of Tatra truck contracts. Rais
The BJP on Friday cast aspersions on the government on the Army chief controversy, saying there seems to be something "fishy" and demanded that the Centre should stop "harassing" Gen V K Singh and instead look into the issues r
The Centre was asked on Friday by the Delhi High Court to clarify if the March 5 press release with allegations against former Lt Gen Tejinder Singh was issued by the Government or by the Army officials in their individual capacity.
Over Rs 2 crore was on Friday seized allegedly from a car owned by the younger brother of an independent Rajya Sabha candidate, a recovery which comes on a day when polls for the Upper House are being held in Jharkhand. "The cash was
Members of the civil society have questioned supreme court’s directive to the government asking it to implement the controversial river linking project in a time bound manner and to appoint a high powered committee to plan and implement it.
Last few days have seen a heated debate, both inside parliament and outside, on army chief Gen VK Singh’s sundry letters and comments. The debate, in which politicians cutting across party lines, security experts and media persons have taken
Even after two years of the right to education (RTE) being enacted, schools in Delhi lack the basic sanitation — a key provision of the universalisation of education law. Child Rights and You (CRY) conducted a survey of 318 toilets in 44 gov
India on Friday test fired the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile with certain new systems from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off Odisha coast. The test comes two days after defence scientists conducted a similar trial from
Goa`s new BJP-led Government has decided to review the universal mediclaim scheme, which was approved last year and handed over to ICICI Lombard Ltd for implementation. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has proposed to increase the he
