Tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahay will meet prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday to seek his intervention in reducing taxes in the tourism sector. Sahay along with senior officials including four secretaries from the ministries of fi
AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa, DMK president M Karunanidhi, his son M K Stalin and DMDK chief Vijayakanth spent far less than the limit set by the election commission for poll-related expenses during the April 13 assembly elections. Though the
Goa director general of police (DGP) Aditya Arya`s move of seeking a CBI inquiry into the Balli incident, even as the chief minister assured a judicial probe into the happenings at the tribal agitation, has irked the state government. Stat
The Calcutta high court on Wednesday refused to hear ex-parte Tata Motors` petition challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011. Justice Saumitra Pal, while taking up the petition filed by the Tata Motors, directed
Bank employees across the country will strike work on July 7 to protest against the government decision to dilute its equity in the banks and giving foreign investors additional voting rights. "We are against any such activitie
The election commission of India is considering introduction of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) to make the voting system more verifiable. On July 25, the commission will conduct a field trial of VVPAT in a simulated election in 36 poll
All the self help groups (SHGs) in the country would be able to get credit at seven per cent, at par with crop loans, union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday. "The union government has t
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) has donated over 3750 textbooks to five colleges in Kozhikode district as part of its corporate social responsbility (CSR). The books were distributed by Kozhikode MP M K Raghavan
A girl, student of LLB first year, was allegedly eve teased and manhandled by some unruly boys in Rajasthan University campus when she was returning to her hostel after writing an exam. The university administration on Tuesday appoi
The central information commission (CIC) has directed the prime minister`s office (PMO) to make public "charges of corruption" levelled against former telecom minister A Raja along with views of various officials on them expressed in the
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said on Tuesday that the state government had proposed before the union government to set up a dedicated bank for women self help groups so as to improve their financial condition. R
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the union health secretary, drug controller general of India, chief secretary to the government of Andhra Pradesh and district magistrate, Hyderabad over unauthorised drug trials on
The monsoon session of Parliament has been delayed. It is now scheduled to start on August 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs (CCP
BJP on Tuesday announced that the party would launch a four-day agitation from June 23 against the UPA government`s alleged inaction in combating corruption, black money and the "barbaric dictatorial attitude" of the government.
In a bid to ensure transparency in administration, Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government would bring out a "white paper" on the "precarious" financial situation and make salary payments to all its employees through bank
A Muslim organisation here has taken a strong exception to the depiction of Prophet Muhammad in a class IV book of the ICSE board. The founder of Sunni Markaz, Syed Maulana Hashmi Kichachauvi, said the Prophet has been depicted in l
Punjab is all set to launch an ambitious scheme from July 1 to empower girls by providing them free education up to class 12. Punjab has taken this step to encourage the poor families to educate their girl child without feeling any
Ruling out handing over the investigations into murder of senior journalist J Dey to CBI, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that Mumbai police would crack the case soon. "If the High Court orders the
A fresh biotech graduate from IIT-Kharagpur is overly elated at the prospect of earning more than half a lakh every month at a reputed software firm; Saurabh Kumar of NIT Durgapur, a first year undergraduate in computer science says that he would
Criticising the decision to exclude CBI from the ambit of RTI, activist Arvind Kejriwal today accused the government of not bringing it under an independent Lokpal to "arm twist" political leaders opposed to it. Ahead of the fina
