Rise in prices of potato, pulses, egg and fruit and vegetables has pushed up food inflation to 17.40 percent for the week ending January 16, from 16.81 percent in the previous week. The measurement is based on wholesale price index.
India ranks 123rd in 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), while Iceland leads the world in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges, the latest EPI index has revealed. Of the newly industrialise
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today warned that inimical forces "both inside and outside India" were trying to stunt the country`s growth and called for defeating the `twin threats` of terrorism and communalism. "Inim
Technology can help improve governance only if efforts are made to bridge the gulf between the policy-makers and the masses. Distinguished participants highlighted this pressing need at a lively debate at the launch of Governance Now magazine and
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched Governance Now, a fortnightly magazine and web portal, at a well-attended inaugural event in the capital today. The chief minister complimented the Governance Now promoters for launching the &qu
In a recent decision, the CIC has ruled that the Bar Council of India and the state bar councils are covered under the RTI Act. An order to this effect was passed on January 11 by one of the centrals information commissioners, A N Tiwari.
The year 2010 will see a big change at the top-level bureaucracy as 43 senior IAS officers holding the rank of secretaries to the Government of India would be retiring this year. This is rather unusual for so many senior level burea
Forget the predictable play on the time-worn cop-and-criminal tale. Come April and you may be able to switch on to an authentic police channel. That is, if a proposal being submitted by Bangalore City Police to the state government is accepted.
Just what is happening to the governance of sports in our country? On the one hand, we have the possible situation of India hosting the hockey world cup without our team participating in it because of rank bad administration. On the other hand, we
Thousands of people have raised a banner of revolt against control of mafias over two prominent rivers of Allahabad- Ganga and Yamuna. Inhabitants of the these river beds have found their livelihood threatened by mafias who have virtually monopoli
The Karnataka high court judge who took on the Chief Justice of India on the issue of declaration of assets has trained his gun at the executive now. In his Republic Day greetings, the judge, Shylendra Kumar writes in his blog post
Inadequate parking space, narrow and congested roads, absence of a sub-way or foot-overbridge to connect popular mall, Great India Place are some of the problems that plague the traders as well as the visitors who crowd Sector 18 market in Noida.
Taking forward the process of reforms in education, the government wants to change the question pattern in examinations at school level to give more focus on testing the intelligence of children, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said that countries like India are emerging as major contributors to global development efforts which has emerged as a key foreign policy tool. “New countries
A local court today reserved till Friday its order on the anticipatory bail sought by former DGP SPS Rathore following registration of two fresh FIRs levelling serious criminal charges against him in a teenaged girl`s molestation case.
Union Cabinet to clear Rs 6,000 crore project........ An innovative programme National Knowledge Network (NKN) with an estimated cost of 6000 crores an ambitious project to connect with gigabit capabilities to connect all Uni
The Union Government is promulgating an ordinance to allow unhindered construction of the Commonwealth Games and Metro Rail projects in the vicinity of the protected archaeological monuments in Delhi. The ordina
The decline in public investment in health and absence of credible social insurance have caused a precarious situation in medicare. The unpredictability of illness requiring substantial money at short notice is impoverishing an estimated 3.3
Karnataka government has offered to set up a Japanese village, or an industrial hub exclusively for Japanese companies, on 1,000 acres of land in Tumkur district, 60 km from capital city Bangalore. The move, announced by V.P. Baligar, prin
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said modern technology and professional management practices should be introduced to preserve the country`s vast historical and archaeological treasures and cultural heritage. He was speaking after
