Deputy chairman of the planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said that the panel would earmark more funds for the `Project Tiger`, specially for relocating people from the reserved forests. "If there is a need to relocate p
Smokeless tobacco has already assumed the dimension of an epidemic, said K Chandramouli, health secretary, here on Monday at the first ever consultative meeting by the government on smokeless tobacco. “Smokeless tobacco has already a
Union minister for communications & IT and HRD, Kapil Sibal, here today stated that India is moving towards a new divide wherein the country despite having witnessed the telecom revolution it has
I was wrong. The ministry of information and broadcasting didn’t stand firm after all. Ambika Soni, the I&B minister, bought peace with the news channel licencees she lampoons in private moments. She intervened for the second time
An estimated 67 per cent voters exercised their franchise during the first phase of assembly polls in Assam in 62 of the 126 assembly constituencies. "An estimated 67 per cent polling has been recorded according to latest reports. The
Union law minister Veerappa Moily has ruled out centre imposing a ban on the controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi by Joseph Lelyveld stating that the American author himself has denied writing anything adverse about the leader. Moily said
CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet in the 2G scam at the designated CBI court in Delhi, naming former telecom minister A Raja and some telco heads as the chief conspirators in what is being touted as India`s largest scam. Accusing
Top industrialist Ratan Tata and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia were today quizzed by Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in connection with alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation. Radia, whose tapped phone conversat
The Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA) has opposed the appointment of captain Subodh Nigam as the new executive director (flight safety) and has demanded for a probe into it alleging that he did not possess the required necessary qua
Congress on Friday sent out a cryptic rebuttal of the Shunglu committee findings on CWG irregularities, saying that it neither owned nor refuted the findings. Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the party will study the find
Citing safety reasons, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has raised the issue of Air India`s flight operations to Afghanistan. ICPA has sought clarifications from the management on the issue, asking for immediate withdrawal of flight
TV commercials aimed at promoting employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA do not reach the BPL families, the main workforce under the scheme, and the target audience. Instead traditional media such as street shows and puppet shows are more eff
While India has successfully managed to stem the HIV/AIDS crisis, women in the country and worldwide are fast becoming the most victimised by the disease. HIV/AIDS is getting more feminised, a study by UNAIDS has pointed out. “27 mil
In further embarrassment to Suresh Kalmadi, the Shunglu panel has slammed him for setting up a "sham" Commonwealth Games Organising Committee with much lesser accountability and transparency. The Committee in its 103-page sixth a
A plethora of organisations and institutions, funded by taxpayers, exist to keep the Gandhi legacy alive, but as yet another controversy on precisely this legacy is making headlines. Just where have all those Gandhian organisations gon
The functioning of the Indian intelligence agencies, subject of much criticism in recent years, needs to be reformed, and that is what a private member`s bill, based on a study by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and introduced in the L
Despite a 12 percent rise in the population of big cats in the country, Madhya Pradesh popularly known as the `tiger state` witnessed a decline in their numbers resulting in loss of this coveted status to Karnataka, according to the latest tiger c
Attacking prime minister Manmohan Singh for inviting his Pakistani counterpart to the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today asked if the `special offer of cricket diplomacy` was also app
With the expiry of the March 31 deadline for the Air India management to resolve pilots` issues, Indian Commercial Pilots` Association (ICPA) has announced that its affiliates will be going on a strike soon. The pilots` body had earlier d
The supreme court on Friday directed the government to file the CBI report on the probe into alleged irregularities committed by suspended Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli in running the public broadcaster. A bench headed by chief justice S H
