Bihar government would ask nationalised banks to open branches in all the villages having a population of over 2000, deputy chief minister S K Modi said. There were 9213 villages with population of more than 2000 which did not have
Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Tuesday demanded that the centre should hold talks with the Naxals, saying if it can have a dialogue with Pakistan then why the government cannot have deliberations with the Maoists. "Naxals ar
We might not see any new constructions like the Akshardham temple and the Commonwealth Games Village coming up on the Yamuna river floodplains in New Delhi. The ministry of environment and forests has ordered the constitution of an expert group to
Gujarat agriculture minister, Dilip Sanghani, on Tuesady said, that fall in the cotton prices was due to "anti farmer" export policies of the central government. "The union textile ministry is trying to protect the te
On Tuesday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar asserted that his government wanted that the agriculture sector be fully freed from corruption. Referring to report of scandals in issuing Kisan Credit Cards in Muzaffarpur, Kumar said w
To ensure better working conditions for women in armed police forces, the government has come out with a fresh set of guidelines for deployment of such personnel in Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Indo-Tibetan Border Pol
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Maharashtra Urban Development Department (UDD) secretary T C Benjamin will be questioned for the second time
The new IT rules 2011 notified by the government last month have become a subject of criticism not only from civil society organisations on privacy concerns but also from the industry for making the intermediaries liable for the user-posted conten
India`s triumph in the cricket World Cup and Anna Hazare`s crusade against corruption - two things that could make an epoch of the first half of this year. But where is the Bengali bhadrolok (BB) in all this? Is the absence of the BB accid
Karnataka today witnessed protests and rallies statewide with the ruling BJP demanding immediate recall of Governor H R Bhardwaj and Opposition Congress seeking dismissal of B S Yeddyurappa-led government. BJP activists burnt effigi
With uncertainty over South Korean major Posco`s USD 12-billion steel project in Orissa ending, there could be good news in store for the much-delayed global steel giant ArcelorMittal`s 12 MTPA project in the state. The Luxembourg-b
Lufthansa, a founding member of the Star Alliance, has said Air India needs to complete all formalities to join the global airline grouping before the final deadline of July 31. "The Star Alliance has set the time limit for Air
Republican Party of India (RPI) workers today staged a rasta roko at Zilla Parishad office to protest hike in petrol price. RPI leader Hanumant Sathe, who spearheaded the agitation, said, "The government is not obliging their p
Accepting the civic body`s policy to set up english medium schools in the city, the Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Balak Vidya Vihar Trust which challenged the decision of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to allot a pl
Erode municipal corporation health officials said today that they had destroyed four tonnes of artificially ripened mangoes that was kept in a godown. Corporation officials said they had conducted a raid yesterday in a fruit godown
Jammu and Kashmir government will consider issuing no objection certificate to hotels in the civil lines area of the Valley for four years if the Housing and Urban Development Department assures it to connect all the building for this purpose with
About 400 contract workers, engaged by the city corporation through NGOs to carry out duties such as street light maintenance, sanitation and computer operation, began an indefinite boycott of their work in protest against non-payment of wages for
Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack city bus service here in the satellite township Markat Nagar and new solid waste management facility in the city. Patnaik expressed hope that the services alre
China has outperformed India in tackling the "double-burden" of diseases that includes infectious diseases affecting the poor on the one hand and chronic lifestyle ailments typical of fast urbanisation on the other, a WHO report has said
