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Thanks to CWG, monuments will have more parking, toilets

Much like the rest of Delhi, 46 monuments across the city are being dressed up and made more tourist friendly ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has chalked out a plan to upgrade facilities, for parking for i

Panchayat is the third P in PPPP

The government has added one more P to the PPP model -- Panchayats -- to establish direct linkages between rural economy and the industry. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has been implementing a scheme of Rural Business Hubs (RBHs) with thi

Broad outline of Gorkhaland talks finalised

The Home Ministry today held detailed discussions to decide the broad contours of the fifth round of tripartite talks on Gorkhaland issue starting from March 18 where Gorkha Janmukti Morcha may bargain hard for regional authority having powers sim

Stay on Gujarat cement plant

The Gujarat High Court today ordered a stay on all construction activities at the Nirma Ltd`s upcoming cement plant in Mahuva taluka of Bhavnagar district while hearing a petition by farmers opposing it. A division bench of Chief Ju

9-10% growth achievable: FM

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today exuded confidence that the economy will soon return to 9-10 percent growth, but said that double-digit inflation and excessive borrowing were major challenges. "We shall have to move towa

Coming soon: BJP`s `shadow cabinet`

The Bhartiya Janata Party on Tuesday decided to set up shadow standing committees on political, economic, and strategic and foreign policies to help the party`s MPs in effective participation in the parliamentary standing committees that will be s

SC panel raps PDS for `corruption`

The Supreme Court-appointed vigilance committee has slammed the public distribution system (PDS) in the country for "rampant corruption, black marketing and diversion involving a vicious cartel of bureaucrats, fair price shop owners and middl

Definition of rape not being diluted, says PC

Rejecting suggestions that government was diluting the definition of rape, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said moves were afoot to widen the term to include all kinds of sexual assault. "We are not going to dilute the definition of

Definition of rape not being diluted, says PC

Rejecting suggestions that government was diluting the definition of rape, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said moves were afoot to widen the term to include all kinds of sexual assault. "We are not going to dilute the definition of

Power to become costlier in Punjab

Power is set to cost more in Punjab following a proposal by Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal to increase the electricity duty by 3 per cent in his Budget for 2010-11, presented in the assembly today. Badal, in budget estimates for the

Punjab`s revenue mobilisation seen at Rs 2,600-2,700 cr

The Punjab government would be able to mop up only Rs 2,600-2,700 crore against a projected revenue mobilisation of Rs 4,000 crore, State Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said here today. "When we minutely scrutinised the report submitt

Green Tribunal to ensure implementation of Environ laws

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh today hoped that the bill on National Green Tribunal (NGT) would ensure speedy and effective disposal of civil cases relating to violation of forest and other similar laws. The Bill was introduced yesterd

Gadkari goes for 234-strong jumbo national executive

The new national executive of the Bhartiya Janata Party announced here on Tuesday by its president Nitin Gadkari has only 121 members, including 40 office-bearers, but for all practical purposes it has the jumbo strength of 234 because of the list

Gadkari names his team

BJP general secretaries: Vasundhara Raje, Ananth Kumar, Vijay Goel, Arjun Munda, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Dharmendra Pradhan. BJP vice presidents: Hema Malini, Najma Heptullah, BS Koshiyari, Kalraj Mishra, M A Naqvi and Shan

IT dept just might wake up and smell Maya`s hard cash garland

The Income Tax department will probe the source of funding and ownership of the money for the garland made of currency notes presented to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati at a rally in Lucknow. The department will check the sou

IITs, IIMs hail foreign university bill

Higher educational institutions, including IITs and IIMs, today hailed the government`s go ahead for a bill to allow entry of foreign education providers in India and sought to allay any threat posed by the institutions from abroad.

Data services market projected to reach nearly Rs 10000cr

India`s data centre services market is projected to reach nearly Rs 10,000 crore by the end of 2011, a compounded annual growth rate of 22.7 percent over the two-year period 2009-11, according to research and advisory firm IDC India.

Agriculture ministry aims for higher seed production

In order to meet the growing demand for quality seeds, the Agriculture Ministry has signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with National Seeds Corporation Limited (NSC) and State Farms Corporation of India Ltd. (SFCI) for 2010-11.

Forget corporates & politicos, even govt is paying for news

Corporates are doing it, political leaders are doing it, but even the government is doing it: paying cash for getting publicity in newspapers and TV channels. The only difference is that the government pays and yet fails to get anything in return.

No meals on superfast wheels, Railways doesn`t care for you

Kumud Mishra, travelling by train from Delhi to Forbesganj in Bihar, was waiting for the train to halt at some station so that he could get a cup of tea. Sanjay Kumar Sethia, who was to  reach Forbesganj the following evening, got down at Tun

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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