Anna Hazare will be meeting Congress President Sonia Gandhi tomorrow to explain the stand of the civil society on the issue of the Lokpal Bill ahead of an all-party meeting on it on Sunday. Hazare has been given appointment at 1600 hrs tom
The justice Dharmadhikari committee, set up to resolve the issue of integration of staff of the erstwhile Indian airlines and Air India into Air India Ltd, has invited the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) to attend its meeting on July 5
While the government is mulling an equity infusion of Rs 1,200 crore into the ailing Air India, it is yet to pay dues to the tune of nearly Rs 800 crore it owes the national carrier for VVIP flights. Out of a billed amount of Rs 1,173 cror
Himachal High court Chief Justice Kurian Joseph today launched a programme for reducing pendency of cases in the High Court and subordinate courts and set targets for disposal of cases relating to undertrials, senior Citizens, minors, disabled and
The enforcement directorate on Thursday issued a showcause notice for attachment of properties valued at Rs 50 crore of Pune stud farm owner and alleged tax defaulter Hassan Ali Khan and his Kolkata-based associate Kashinath Tapuriah in a money la
More than 10 months after USD 9.6 billion-deal was first struck, the Indian government Thursday gave its approval to Cairn Energy for selling its Indian unit to Vedanta Resources, subject to the new owner agreeing to share royalty and pay oil cess
Expressing concern over deaths of 12 babies in a state-run hospital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today regretted that government hospitals badly lacked proper infrastructure and had turned into "dens of vested interests".
Two proposed subsidiaries of Air India (AI)are set to take off by the end of the year. A cabinet note on operationalising the subsidiaries for ground handling and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) has already been forwarded to the cabinet sec
Aiming to provide a legal right on subsidised foodgrains to the poor, Food Minister K V Thomas today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said the draft of the proposed National Food Security Act has been finalised and it will be sent to the pane
Amid security concerns, India has decided to conduct testing and certification of software and hardware of all foreign telecom companies and has initiated the process with Huawei of China. Indian telecom minister Kapil Sibal said th
DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said he was in favour of including the Prime Minister under the purview of the Lokpal bill as it would help the office prove it was not guilty of anything. In a statement, he said the inclusion would cl
Doing away with the provision in the Indian Penal Code which penalises adultery would undermine the sanctity and institution of marriage in the Indian society, the Bombay High Court today observed. The division bench of Justices B H
With rubble and construction wastes clogging drains in many areas, chief minister Sheila Dikshit today directed civic agencies to take urgent steps to remove them so that there is no water-logging during monsoon. Chairing a meeting
Unlike general category students, SC/ST (scheduled castes/scheduled tribes) applicants do not have counsellors to guide them through the admissions process at Delhi University. The university is to blame for this because it is responsible for assi
Kim Davy cannot be extradited to India to face trial for the sensational dropping of arms in Purulia in 1995, in which he is the main accused, with the Danish high court rejecting a plea by the government there. The plea by the Dani
The United States today said it "strongly and vehemently" supports the NSG clean waiver for India and hoped that the civil nuclear deal between the two countries will continue to move in a positive direction. "I want
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has asked the concerned departments to gradually shift government offices to city outskirts in order to decongest traffic. While building new offices, Omar said, the government departme
Kapil Sibal’s two-part article in the Hindustan Times (‘A free-floating entity’ and ‘
Lifting its stay, the Kerala High Court today permitted the UDF government to proceed with allotment of 50 per cent of seats it had reserved under state quota in post graduate courses in self financing medical colleges. The order in
Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran met the prime minister Manmohan Singh at his residence on Thursday. Maran, a leader of Congress`s UPA ally DMK, came under a cloud ever since reports of his involvement in the 2G scam - during his stint as t
