In a dire need to bring down the infant and maternal mortality rates in India, the health ministry from June 1 will launch a new programme where all facilities to pregnant women who seek services from a government health facility will be free of c
A low intensity explosion took place outside Delhi high court on Wednesday at around 1: 30 pm. Initially, reports suggested that the radiator of a car had exploded due to heat. However, the police later confirmed that a low inten
As part of its investigations into the alleged fake encounter of Maoist leader Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey, a CBI team visited the site of the incident in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh ON Tuesday. The CBI team, led
If you were waiting to read "Close Encounters with Niira Radia", you will have to wait. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed the publication of the book by lawyer R K Anand. The reason for the stay: the 2G spectrum allocation scam in
With the deadline to finish the drain desilting work approaching closer, the BMC has managed to complete merely 58 per cent of the job, a BMC leader said adding that the remaining work will be completed by month end. According to th
Within a few months of the Mumbai terror attacks, Kashmiri, who has now emerged as mastermind of 26/11, met Headley, and asked him to go to India again to do surveillance of the National Defence College in New Delhi and a number of Chhabad Houses
BJP today described as "irrational, unrealistic and unacceptable" the government benchmark for an individual to fall under BPL category and demanded that the amount be raised higher to put more people in the list of beneficiaries.
Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu today sounded confident the government will achieve its fiscal deficit target, but said if the number comes under pressure from factors like rise in commodity prices, it will have to go for reforms such as dereg
Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal has said that the higher education system in India should be freed from "inspector raj" and the government is coming out with a law to deal with the practise. He also said a voluntary disclos
Twenty-four students from underprivileged sections, of the total 30, have this time made it to the IIT-JEE from the `Super-30` founded by mathematics wizard Anand Kumar. With this the total number of Super 30 students, having qualif
IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Tuesday requested the Nanavati Commission to defer his deposition till he gets legal support, alleging that he was being subjected to a "slander campaign" by the Gujarat government. The panel consisting of Ret
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi today urged Governor Devanand Konwar to give his assent to 14 new bills adopted by the state legislature, specially four finance bills without delay as the state was facing the threat of losing performance gran
The truth should at last come out as the beleaguered state-run carrier has finally decided to do the reality check on the order it placed in 2006 for 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners worth almost $4 billion. Deep in red, Air India has now woken up to con
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today alleged that the DMK was linked with the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in an "indirect way." "That has been our basic charge since a long time. We hav
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked income tax department to gear up for implementation of Direct Tax Code (DTC), which will replace the 50 year old Income Tax Act, from April next year. DTC Bill is under examination of Pa
The home ministry is struck with yet another mole sitting in a high-profile post of a joint secretary and allegedly involved in taking kickbacks in construction of border roads. Home minister P Chidambaram, however, acted fast in sh
Terming environment minister Jairam Ramesh`s controversial remarks about IIT faculty as "unfortunate", minister of state for science and technology Ashwani Kumar today said government scientific and technological institutions have done I
Demanding release of tribals lodged in various Orissa jails without delay, Maoists-selected mediators today accused the state government of not keeping its promises made in the agreement during abduction of the then Malkangiri district collector R
Coal and iron ore mining are the biggest "threats" to elephant corridors in central India, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said today and maintained that a way of extracting mineral resources without devastating the tusker population
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced a mammoth five-billion-dollar credit to Africa for various development projects, reflecting India`s growing ties with the resource-rich continent. Singh also declared an addi
