The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre on why there should not be a complete ban on the use of plastics in the country which at present is limited to tobacco products. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly issued
Sending out a stern message against the destruction of public property and transport system during agitations, the supreme court on Monday said state governments would have to pay for the loss incurred to Railways and general public on disruption
Former deputy secretary in Maharashtra government and an accused in the Adarsh Society scam, P V Deshmukh, today approached the Bombay high court seeking for CBI to defreeze his bank accounts. Deshmukh and his family`s bank accounts in Vij
The corporate affairs ministry (MCA) is taking steps to book companies evading the statutory annual filings. The companies dodging both form 20B and 23AC/23ACA since 2006 i.e. 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 (i.e. failing required filings) will
In a major victory for the members of the civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of MGNREGA, the government has revoked the amendment carried out in December 2008 that barred any outsider to participate in the
Come Wednesday, Delhites can call on a MCD hotline to register complaints regarding overflowing garbage dumps in their localities. The civic agency is collaborating with Gramvaani - a community media enterprise based out of IIT-Delhi - to use inte
The flow of Nabard refinance in Jharkhand has been declining over the last three years, according to the Jharkhand Economic Survey 2010-11. As indicated in the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development`s (Nabard`s) Jharkhand Stat
The high-powered review committee on nuclear power safety, newly set up by the atomic energy regulatory board (AERB), soon after the Fukushima nuclear incident following severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan, will have its first meeting here on M
Chhattisgarh should learn from the Andhra Pradesh government on how to get rid of Maoists as its failure to curb the "menace" is affecting neighbouring states now, union law minister Veerappa Moily said on Monday. "The Chhat
The supreme court on Monday flayed the government for not probing into specific sources of black money stashed in banks abroad and asked the centre to apprise it of its investigation into the threat to national security posed by it. The ap
Environmental activists led by Medha Patkar have requested the central government to put the Hyderabad metro rail project under "green scanner" as it may potentially cause harm to heritage sites and the Musi river in the city.
The tiger population in the country has risen to 1706 compared to 1411 in 2006 -- a 12 per cent increase that excludes the big cats of Sundarbans, the latest Tiger Census said today, thanks to sustained conservation efforts. Environment mi
Imagine if an archive is created of US cables exposed by WikiLeaks, how would it interest scholars like Amartya Sen? The Nobel laureate may have discovered the “argumentative Indian” after studying the tradition of dialectics in ancien
While it is common knowledge that polls at various levels in a democracy spur rampant graft, chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi painted a far grimmer picture on Friday calling elections "the biggest source of corruption" on Friday.
Jats demanding reservation in government jobs have decided to withdraw their three-week-long agitation that badly hit train traffic in parts of north India after talks with Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The breakthrough cam
Prime minister Manmohan Singh-appointed Shunglu committee will submit another three reports on alleged irregularities in Commonwealth Games related projects by March 29. The reports will highlight several inadequacies on part of government
In the November 16, 1966 edition of The New York Times, J Anthony Lukas began an article titled ‘The Week of the Cow: Many in India Think Cabinet Shifts After Riot May Hurt Prime Minister’ with: “The proverbial bull in the china
Home Minister P Chidambaram today "denounced" diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks after he came under attack in Parliament over his reported comments in one of them that India would have made more progress if it had only Southern and
Noting that Wikileaks cables were a "sad and revealing" commentary of where Manmohan Singh and Congress have landed the country in, CPI(M) has said Americans were willing to for the UPA government to do everything to win the trust vote s
Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway is looking at direct entry into the growing insurance sector and is keenly watching the developments regarding further opening of the sector to foreign investment. The US conglomerate Berkshire Hathawa
