Soon the sarpanch, the ward member, mukhiya and other panchayati raj functionaries will be able to track funds flowing to panchayats online, send emails, view information on the internet and use the e-panchayat application. The panchayati
HIV/AIDS in north India is an epidemic in waiting as the number of injecting drug users (IDUs) is on a rise in this part of the country, said the civil society members working on HIV at the consultation meeting for north India here on Tuesday.
After the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) of Delhi University set an almost unachievable target of 100% for students with a non-commerce background, the principal of the college, P C Jain, told Governance Now he doesn`t find anything irra
A day after Swami Nigamanand breathed his last after fasting for more than two months at Haridwar to save the Ganga, environment minister Jairam Ramesh shrugged off the centre’s responsibility in the matter. At a conference in the c
In an apparent move to corner chief minister Narendra Modi, the Congress in Gujarat on Tuesday moved an application before the Nanavati Commission seeking direction to the police to provide wide ranging police records between February 27, 2002 and
Moving a step forward to split the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Delhi Government on Tuesday approved a bill for division of the civic agency into three smaller bodies. The bill along with a proposal for trifurcation of
Some pages from files pertaining to the controversial Adarsh Housing Society have gone missing from the city-based state headquarters of the ministry of defence, the judicial panel probing into the high-rise scam was told on Tuesday.
Police personnel in Himachal Pradesh have been asked not to mention their surnames or caste in official communications. All officials have been advised not to use their surname or caste while addressing each other in all official an
A bill seeking to empower the West Bengal government to return land in Singur to farmers was passed by the Assembly on Tuesday amidst a walkout by members of the opposition left parties. The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Developmen
In the first-ever audit of any intelligence agency in India, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a Rs 450-crore purchase scam of Israeli unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) lying as junk with the Hyderabad-based National Technical R
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday directed her ministers to find ways to tackle child labour. She directed her minister of women and child development Prof. Kiran Walia, minister of education Arvinder Singh Lovely, minister of labour and in
Defence minister A K Antony on Tuesday discounted the possibility of Kargil-type operations in Arunachal Pradesh as apprehended by a minister of the state, saying the situation on the border was under constant monitoring and changes were being upg
LeT used videos of the 2002 Gujarat riots to motivate David Headley, a co-accused in the 26/11 attacks, to carry out "jihad" against India, indicating how the incident is being used as a major recruiting tool by the banned Pakistani mili
Describing the rise in inflation to above nine percent as "upsetting", the Prime Minister`s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) on Tuesday pitched for further tightening of the monetary policy by the RBI at its next review, which is due on
An all-faith meeting on eradication of child labour was held here as part of the `child labour week.` The meeting was held on Monday which was organised by a voluntary organisation on the theme of eradicating child labour by educati
A newly-married woman allegedly committed suicide after being harassed for dowry by her in-laws, police said here on Tuesday. Nitu (25), consumed poison yesterday night at her residence in Sanda village, they said. Pa
Taking a step forward against illegal human trafficking in the state, an `Anti Human Trafficking` police station was opened here on Tuesday. "The police station will work to rehabilitate women and children, who have been pushed
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday accused union home minister P Chidambaram of having got himself elected in the 2009 general elections through "fraudulent" means. "His position in the union council of mi
The strength of students in government schools in Kerala has declined this academic year, a trend linked to the demographic transition of the state seen as a role model for population control. Statistics of the first head-count of t
Two days after he ended his fast, yoga guru Baba Ramdev was discharged on Tuesday from a city hospital and said he did not commit any "sin" by demanding action against corruption and would continue his campaign for return of black money
