FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) is organizing a two day programme on publishing industry. "PubliCon 2011: The Business of Publishing", scheduled on 28-29 Sept at FICCI, New Delhi, acknowledge the potential
Prime minister Manmohan Singh says there need not be any fears in Bangladesh over the issue of offering transit facilities to India for getting easy access to the country`s landlocked northeast. Ahead of his two-day visit to Bangladesh sta
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday refused to say anything on her opting out of prime minister Manmohan Singh`s two-day visit to Bangladesh from Tuesday. "I have nothing to say," an official told reporter
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is examining a finance ministry report on complaints against K M Abraham, a former member of capital market regulator Sebi, by a sitting member of Parliament. "We have got
A high-level committee, appointed by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in the aftermath of the Fukushima incident, has expressed satisfaction over prevailing measures for safeguarding nuclear reactors, even as it proposed "back-up&quo
Though India has made substantial progress in containing tuberculosis (TB), its huge population poses a challenge in efforts to check the spread of the disease, a top World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Sunday. "India has
In order to launch an attack on the Modi-led BJP government in the run up to Gujarat assembly elections due in December 2012, Gujarat Congress has decided to raise corruption as its main poll-campaign issue. Party sources said that
Amid a raging debate on the issue of clemency for killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the main investigator in the 20-year-old case D R Karthikeyan says that he will be happy if the death penalty of the three accused is commuted to life sentence. Wit
Even as team Anna member and Magsaysay award winner, Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped with an income tax notice to pay up 9.4 lakh rupees for breach of service terms, Arvind has refused to pay the amount. In support of Kejriwal who is figh
Lok Sabha will drop impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen, originally scheduled for on Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had with law minister Salman Khurshid and parliamentary aff
Mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy and managing director of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC) B V Srinivas Reddy were arrested on Monday by CBI after searches at their premises allegedly led to seizure of over 30 kg of gold
"Khuda haafiz, Abba," were Shehla Masood`s last words to her father as she left for the state secretariat around 10 km from her house – A-100, Kohe Fiza Colony, an upscale locality in old Bhopal. Little did her father realise that
President Pratibha Patil has referred to department of justice the resignation of Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen five days before the Lok Sabha was to take up an impeachment motion against him as it was not in proper form.
A motion will be moved in the Lok Sabha on Monday seeking an extension of term for the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) looking into 2G spectrum allocation scam till the next budget session. The JPC`s decision to seek extension c
BJP today raised questions over the notices sent to civil society activist Arvind Kejriwal and Yoga guru Ramdev, saying the Government should come clear on whether they were intentional or mere coincidental. "It is very amusing
Irom Chanu Sharmila, the ‘iron lady’ of Manipur, is back in the limelight. For a few weeks now, in fact. Certain media houses and public intellectuals resurrected her ever since Anna Hazare went on a fast at the Ramlila Grounds.
At a recent function in New Delhi, Amartya Sen observed that it wouldn’t be right to say there has been a decline in our democracy because “we have enormously more power to make society better than we are led to believe”.
The 71-year old former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, who was the textile minister in the UPA-I government but lost elections in 2009, was on Friday given the reigns of the Congress campaign in the Gujarat Assembly elections slated ne
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea of Maharashtra government against the acquittal of two accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. A bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam, however, made it clear to the state government t
The Supreme Court today asked the Delhi Police to trace the source of money used to allegedly bribe some parliamentarians ahead of a confidence vote in Lok Sabha in 2008. While asking police to trace the source of the funds, a bench
