Breaking the shackles of the past, the government on Wednesday said it is ready to accept participation of private players in internal security area but asked them to spend at least 5-7 per cent of their profits in R&D to get cutting edge tech
Not ruling out "strong measures" to deal with Somali pirates, the defence ministry on Wednesday said all steps would be taken to safeguard the ships transiting in piracy-hit areas of Indian Ocean region. "I think as a dete
The city police today told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches last year.
Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee`s acclaimed book on cancer, `The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,` has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category. According to the Pulit
Union Minister Kapil Sibal today said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should not insist on setting up of a Central university at Motihari in East Champaran district but should provide more options about location of the proposed varsity being fun
The prime minister`s office has been directed by the central information commission (CIC)to provide details of expenditure incurred on PM`s relatives accompanying him on visits abroad, rejecting the argument by the PMO that it did not have such re
The rural development ministry has notified the draft rules pertaining to the audit of its rural employment guarantee scheme NREGS. Following the notification, the scheme comes under the ambit of comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India.
Experts in the Bamboo industry have welcomed forests and environment minister Jairam Ramesh`s initiative on ending monopoly of the forest department on bamboo trade in the country and making it available without any restriction to tribals, who hav
An income tax appellate authority here has upheld the order of central public information officer (CPIO) not to provide a copy of NHRC chairperson and former CJI K G Balakrishnan`s I-T returns to an RTI applicant. Disposing off an appea
With the promotion of 202 senior army officers hanging on the line, there is a sense of anxiety amongst them if the ‘flawed promotion system’ in place since 2009 would be corrected this time. The outcome of the promotion boards
The bandh called by opposition Shiv Sena in coastal Ratnagiri district to condemn the police firing on anti-nuclear power project demonstrators in Jaitapur turned violent today with a mob ransacking a district hospital and torching buses.
Lauding Anna Hazare for his fight for a Jan Lokpal Bill, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today said the Gadhian activitist should however have politicians on his side, saying that he was surrounded by `NGOs who are bogus.`
With an aim to catch fraudsters early in their sinister designs, Sebi will soon set up a forensic accounting cell to identify any bungling in the books and regulatory filings of listed firms and market entities. At the same time, th
The prime minister`s office has given the nod to questioning of Puducherry lieutenant governor (LG) Iqbal Singh by the enforcement directorate for his alleged links with suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan. Sources said the clearance
Teachers of a public school in Modinagar staged a protest on Tuesday against the police inaction over the assault of their colleague in the school premises. A physics teacher, who is admitted a city hospital here, was assaulted by a
Aviation regulator DGCA, which has come under the scanner over the fake pilot licenses issue, has stripped one of its top officials off his responsibilities following charges against him of influencing an airline to employ his daughter, who had fa
A former bureaucrat has said that most business houses "maintain" MPs to influence government policies or decision making in their favour. "Some of the large industrial houses also fund politicians who are in the oppo
The Maharashtra government is planning to appeal in the supreme court against a Bombay high court bench ruling that jobs should be given to project affected people (PAPs) on the basis of merit and candidates will have to appear for competitive exa
The supreme court on Tuesday deferred its hearing on the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults in private. A bench headed by justice G S Singhvi adjourned the matter without specifying the da
An eight-member team of experts from Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) today visited Nirma cement plant being opposed by farmers on various grounds in Mahuva taluka of the district following Supreme Court orders. The team, c
