President Pratibha Patil has given her assent for a supreme court inquiry into charges of financial mismanagement against controversial Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli. Official sources said the president`s assent came on a reference ma
The supreme court had castigated the CBI in October for letting the 2G probe dry in its vaults, saying it had "done nothing" for over a year. The agency, after all, had been entrusted with the probe in 2009 while the spectrum stink wa
It has been more than a year since the project worth Rs 6, 000 crore to build a convention centre in West Delhi’s Dwarka area, was scrapped. However, the Delhi development authority (DDA), the civic agency concerned with the project, is unpe
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has been asked to hire 1,000 Blueline buses that are being removed from the roads. The transport department has asked the DTC to hire those buses which are
Dissing all theories of foreign countries arming the maoists, a new report says that the mining industry in the pockets of the country is helping the insurgents procure explosives. The report released on Wednesday goes on to say that such collusio
Not content with various monitoring bodies created to keep an eye on the implementation of the sundry welfare schemes, the top babus of the rural development ministry have deputed themselves as the final ombudsmen and will monitor NREGA, Indra Awa
Army authorities in Pune accused a central bureau of investigation (CBI) team, which had recently conducted a "surprise check" at its Command hospital, of "faltering in procedure" and "sensationalising" the raid and s
Unlike the health ministry, the supreme court on Tuesday took a step forward in ensuring stricter measures for better public health and ordered a ban on the sale of chewing tobacco in plastic pouches from March 2011. A bench of justices GS
Turning the heat on former Telecom Minister A Raja in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam, CBI today carried out searches at his, his brother`s and his mother-in-law`s residences in Delhi and Chennai besides carrying out raids at the premises of four
The food security bill might just remain a distant hope, even though UPA chief Sonia Gandhi wants to hurry it through the Parliament halls. The government bull-dozed the national advisory council (NAC) efforts to put the bill on a
Bhuvan Kumar has been living a night shelter for three months now. His squatter on Bengali camp in Delhi’s Kidwai Nagar area, was demolished in the wake of commonwealth games (CWG) 2010. Bhuvan says that he and people living in neighbouring
The NDA today said it was ready for a five-day special session to compensate for the loss of work due to the current deadlock in Parliament provided the government concedes to the Opposition demand for JPC probe into the 2G spectrum issue.
The government today exuded confidence that inflation, which remained high during the course of the year but has started declining, will fall to about 6 per cent by March end from over 8 per cent currently. "Inflation is coming
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in hiding for nearly a week, was arrested here today on suspicion of rape after surrendering over a Swedish warrant, a move described as an attack on the freedom of press by his whistle-blower website
After examining the first report submitted by the three-member group of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has sent "some" of its recommendations to the state for necessary action. "Action has been initiat
The Bombay high court today stayed the directive of the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to Lavasa Corporation to stop construction of a township in a hill station in Maharashtra, calling the order "drastic" passed withou
After land scams rocking the BJP government in Karnataka, the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu is now facing charges of misuse of discretionary powers in allotting prime land to scores of people, including MLAs, politicians and top bureaucrats.
In a landmark judgment which will have far-reaching effect on Uttar Pradesh administration, the Allahabad high court has directed the enforcement directorate (ED) and directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) to coordinate with the Central Bureau
On the back of faster economic expansion in the first half, the government today said the growth rate could cross 9 pc in the current fiscal itself and revert to the pre-crisis levels. It is estimated that growth in 2010-11 will be 8.75 pc
The central government finds itself in a piquant situation. Having flouted all norms and bulldozed objections from the leader of opposition, Sushma Swaraj, in appointing PJ Thomas to the constitutional office of the central vigilance commissioner
