Noida Authority`s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer SK Dwivedi on tuesday held meeting with authority officers and directed them to speed up distribution of hiked land compensation. Dwivedi inquired about the progress of high court o
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered notice to railway authorities on a PIL petition challenging a recent circular making certain changes in rules relating to booking of tatkal tickets. When the petition filed by a city advocate came u
Kerala is planning to invite global EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) bids for the Rs 7,800-crore Vizhinjam Port by March and also expects to get the environment impact assessment (EIA) report by June, a top state government official
Poor visibility owing to fog led to a nine vehicle pile-up on the Noida Expressway in the wee hours on tuesday. The incident took place near sector 132 on Pari Chowk to Noida stretch when a truck hit a car around 3 AM, police said.
Bringing prime minister in the ambit of Lokpal with adequate safeguards and change in mode of appointment of CBI director could be among the provisions the government is looking to incorporate in the Lokpal Bill to be introduced in parliament,
BJP on tuesday decided to move a privilege motion against home minister P Chidambaram accusing him of showing "disrespect" to parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier.
The union cabinet is likely to clear the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) bill on Tuesday, sources in the HRD ministry said. It would then be introduced in parliament soon. Currently, universities operate under
A public interest litigation filed in Bombay High Court today has sought Centre`s intervention in the case before a Russian court, where a ban on Bhagvad Gita has been demanded. Petitioners, Vijay Dave, an IIT alumnus, and Rasendu N
In the wake of an uproar over a move to ban Bhagwad Gita in Siberia, Russia has expressed sadness over the development, saying it is "inadmissible" that a holy scripture is taken to court. "It is strange that such eve
India has strongly taken up the demand for banning Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, which a group linked to the Christian Orthodox Church has described as `extremist`, with the Russian authorities, Indian ambassador to Russia Ajai Malhotra said.
My story doesn’t start with the pandemonium in parliament over the Bhagwad Gita, but seven weeks before that. In the third week of October, I received a call from my friend in Russia Bhakti Vigyana Goswami. Goswami who heads Iskcon i
Nearly 50 lakh children are still engaged as labourers across the country, labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge informed the lok sabha on Monday. He, however, made it clear that the number of child labourers in the country was declining.
To check illegal spending in the upcoming assembly elections in five states, the Election Commission (EC) has asked Income Tax department to report to it all instances of cash movement through airports. The EC has asked the I-T department
CBI, which is probing the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, has seized from the headquarters of Madhya Pradesh tourism in Bhopal, some documents related to a five-star hotel project, opposed by her. CBI sources said in Bhopal on Monday
In a surprise move, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Monday expelled her close aide V K Sasikala and her husband M Natarajan besides 10 others from the party`s primary membership. The drastic action against Sasikala, who had enjoyed absolute
Government and the BJP on Monday reached a broad agreement on the Companies Bill and the Pensions Fund Regulatory Development Authority Bills paving the way for their passage in this session of parliament. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee
For the Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, civil aviation is a very “sensitive sector”. He was speaking after taking charge of the civil aviation ministry on Monday. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief was inducted into the union cabin
A move is afoot to extend the session of parliament by three days from December 27 to 29 after a five day break from December 22, when it was scheduled to conclude, to facilitate adequate time for consideration of the Lokpal Bill. The Lokp
Nothing, it seems, moves our elected government as political expediency. Note the alacrity with which the government moved to clear the food security bill and induct RLD leader Ajit Singh into the cabinet on Sunday in sharp contrast with its vacil
A pilot project with Melbourne University of Australia has begun to help treat mentally-ill poor people. The project in collaboration among Melbourne University and Ranchi-based Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP) and Ranchi Institute of
