Bank employees across the country will strike work on July 7 to protest against the government decision to dilute its equity in the banks and giving foreign investors additional voting rights. "We are against any such activitie
The election commission of India is considering introduction of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) to make the voting system more verifiable. On July 25, the commission will conduct a field trial of VVPAT in a simulated election in 36 poll
All the self help groups (SHGs) in the country would be able to get credit at seven per cent, at par with crop loans, union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday. "The union government has t
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) has donated over 3750 textbooks to five colleges in Kozhikode district as part of its corporate social responsbility (CSR). The books were distributed by Kozhikode MP M K Raghavan
A girl, student of LLB first year, was allegedly eve teased and manhandled by some unruly boys in Rajasthan University campus when she was returning to her hostel after writing an exam. The university administration on Tuesday appoi
The central information commission (CIC) has directed the prime minister`s office (PMO) to make public "charges of corruption" levelled against former telecom minister A Raja along with views of various officials on them expressed in the
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said on Tuesday that the state government had proposed before the union government to set up a dedicated bank for women self help groups so as to improve their financial condition. R
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the union health secretary, drug controller general of India, chief secretary to the government of Andhra Pradesh and district magistrate, Hyderabad over unauthorised drug trials on
The monsoon session of Parliament has been delayed. It is now scheduled to start on August 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs (CCP
BJP on Tuesday announced that the party would launch a four-day agitation from June 23 against the UPA government`s alleged inaction in combating corruption, black money and the "barbaric dictatorial attitude" of the government.
In a bid to ensure transparency in administration, Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government would bring out a "white paper" on the "precarious" financial situation and make salary payments to all its employees through bank
A Muslim organisation here has taken a strong exception to the depiction of Prophet Muhammad in a class IV book of the ICSE board. The founder of Sunni Markaz, Syed Maulana Hashmi Kichachauvi, said the Prophet has been depicted in l
Punjab is all set to launch an ambitious scheme from July 1 to empower girls by providing them free education up to class 12. Punjab has taken this step to encourage the poor families to educate their girl child without feeling any
Ruling out handing over the investigations into murder of senior journalist J Dey to CBI, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that Mumbai police would crack the case soon. "If the High Court orders the
Criticising the decision to exclude CBI from the ambit of RTI, activist Arvind Kejriwal today accused the government of not bringing it under an independent Lokpal to "arm twist" political leaders opposed to it. Ahead of the fina
Under an integrated child development scheme (ICDS) of the Delhi government, 778 children and eight pregnant women enrolled in the scheme died in 2010. This information was obtained from the women and child department of the Delhi governme
Only 1,628 of the total 3,243 Indian police service officers in the country have filed details of their immovable property returns (IPR), as per the home ministry website. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 324 defaulters.The state has 335 o
India faces an annual shortage of twenty lakh units of blood, said health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the end of world donors’ week at the Indian Red Cross Society here. Encouraging the youth to get themselves recruited at the neare
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said intelligence agencies had investigated reports of bugging in his office and found nothing during the probe. Commenting on the possible breach of security in his office and that of his aides
In a unique verdict, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that shouting by a person on his death bed cannot fit into what can be called as a "dying declaration". A division bench comprising AH Joshi and UV Bakre wa
