Amid grim global situation and high domestic interest rates, prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the country`s economic growth is likely to slow down to 7-7.5 per cent this fiscal from 8.4 per cent last year. "...growth
The Orissa high court on Friday upheld the January 19 notification of the state election commission, saying the step taken by it to keep the election of lower rung panchayat members above party politics was within its constitutional ambit.
Ahead of rail budget, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi met prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday seeking adequate financial support for the modernisation of the national transporter. Trivedi had prepared a blueprint for railways modernisa
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday urged regulators to keep in mind the larger interest of the general public before fixing electricity tariff rate. The electricity regulators should keep issues like transmission, distribution l
In the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, India today said the principle of "equity" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be the "bottom line" of negotiations on climate change. "I would like to reiterate on
A short answer to those who find the 2G verdict shocking, unfair or lacking in foresight: all those adjectives are correct but should be applied to the UPA decisions, and not to the court ruling on them. Another short answer to thos
The campaigning for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly election is becoming dirtier as the polling day nears. The chief electoral office of the state had seized nearly Rs 31 crore and more than 2 lakh litres of liquor throughout the state with ju
The murky controversy over the damning debar (since withdrawn) on former Indian space research organisation (Isro) chief and secretary of department of space (DoS) G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists is blamed on its current chief Dr K Radh
Army Chief Gen V K Singh seems to have won the first round in the legal battle on the age row with the Supreme Court on Friday saying the manner in which his statutory complaint was rejected by the Government "appears to be vitiated".
BAIF institute of rural development became the only NGO this year to receive a government award for capacity building of Mahatma Gandhi national rural guarantee scheme (MNREGS) beneficiaries. The NGO worked along with the government of Karnataka i
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing in the ongoing stand-off between Army chief General V K Singh and the government over his age till February 10. It has given the government time to consider if it wants to withdraw its orde
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing in the ongoing stand-off between Army chief General V K Singh and the government over his age till February 10. It has given the government time to consider if it wants to withdraw its orde
Three persons were killed and over 50 injured when a passenger train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing in Assam`s Kamrup (Rural) district today. The driver of the earth-cutting vehicle a
Two-year-old Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS here, has shown signs of improvement and taken off ventilator on Friday. Doctors said if she responds positively for another few days, they will be able to conduct another life saving
“In the obituary to Homai Vyarawalla (January 30), her year of birth has been wrongly mentioned as 1949. The correct year of her birth is 1913. The error is regretted.” - India Today, February 6, 2012 I w
Senior bureaucrat Pradeep Shukla, one of the prime accused in the national rural health scam, may soon be arrested by the central bureau of investigation for non-cooperation, sources said on Thursday. According to sources, despite repeated
The central government’s flagship welfare scheme the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme (MNREGS) will undergo several changes in the near future. Union rural development mini
Aiming to take railways to the next generation, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Thursday his department has prepared a blue print envisaging Rs 14 lakh crore investment in the next 10 years. "The present railway system has out
Dismissing the view that the supreme court`s judgement cancelling 122 2G licences was an indictment, telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the government will move forward in the issue after regulator TRAI make its recommendations.
With the seizure of a large quantity of cash and liquor during elections in Uttarakhand, state authorities have now sought advice from the election commission in this regard. The commission had seized nearly Rs 1.5 crore and 14,000 litres
