The government today came to the defence of R K Pachauri, head of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is under fire for making controversial claims on melting of Himalayan glacier, saying it had full confidence him and will "figh
Public sector enterprises in Bihar have become white elephants and a big drain on the exchequer, says a survey. The state Economic Survey presented in the Bihar Assembly during the on-going session presented a bleak future for the 5
Apprehending trouble from opposition, the government today deferred introduction in Lok Sabha of nuclear liability bill which is a key step in operationalisation of the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal. "I have a request from Mini
A foreign university aspiring to set up a campus in India will have to deposit Rs 50 crore as corpus fund and cannot take back the surplus generated from education activities here. These tough conditions are part of a bill approved by the union ca
The Gujarat government has said that despite representation by the state, the Centre did not allocate gas for small and medium enterprises of the state from D-6 block of KG basin. In a written reply to the question asked by BJP MLA
The e-office project to be implemented by the Department of Administrative Reforms & PG (DARPG) appears to have been lost in the bureaucratic maze. The project was designed to improve efficiency of the government by autom
Fishermen were asked on Friday not to venture into the sea off this island as part of security measures on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi`s visit to Chennai. The state coastal security grou
In its first public-private partnership (PPP) initiative, the road construction department (RCD) of Bihar will be building a 5.5 km bridge over the river Ganga connecting Bakhtiyarpur with Samastipur. The project worth Rs 1,400 crore is expected t
A parliamentary committee today lambasted the decision to merge Air India and Indian Airlines and asked the government to have separate domestic and international airlines under a single holding company. It also recommended fixing o
In a major boost to women serving in the defence services, the Delhi high court today directed the centre to allow permanent commission to them. Delivering a verdict on a batch of petitions filed by serving and retired lady
The government on Friday assured the Lok Sabha that all concerns related to genetically modified (GM) crops were covered under the Food Safety and Standards Act. The assurance was given by Minister of State for Health and Family Wel
Karnataka high court judge D V Shylendra Kumar continues his lone fight to bring transparency and accountability to judiciary. His latest attempt to call all judges of the high court to a tea party to discuss continuation of Chief J
The government today said subsidised fertiliser was being smuggled out to countries like Nepal and asked state governments to take stringent action. Replying to supplementaries during question hour in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State
The government said today it has the legitimate right to use as much force as necessary to regain control of areas dominated by the Maoists and made it clear that talks with them could only take place if the ultras abjured violence.
With a slew of e-governance projects under way in the centre and the states, do we need a specialised cadre within civil service? Will it improve the set-up and delivery if an IT professional is in charge instead of a bureaucrat from the general c
The ISI continues to maintain links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11, and Islamabad is reluctant to take action against its leaders and its network, several eminent US scholars and experts of South Asia have categor
Expressing dismay that large number of Group C and Group D posts meant for sheduled castes and scheduled tribes have not been filled up in railways, a parliamentary committee has asked the ministry concerned to make concerted efforts to fill the v
Reacting to the SIT`s summons in connection with Ehsan Jaffery murder case in 2002 riots, Gujarat government issued a statement on Thursday night saying that the chief minister would cooperate with the process of law. "The stat
Handloom artisans have found hope - and a reprieve from their hand-to-mouth existence with the government mulling an waiver of all overdue interests and loans of all handloom weavers cooperatives. "The government is examining a
Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell said on Thursday that he was happy with the progress made in the preparations of the Commonwealth Games though the Organising Committee still needed to do a lot of work. He, however, pulled u
