While India touts its youth population as its biggest resource, the condition of adolescent girls in the country in the world, according to a Unicef report. "Almost 47 percent of the girls in the age group of 11 to 19 years are underw
Around this time last year, union home minister P Chidambaram was leading the charge against the dreaded Maoists, described as the “biggest threat” to the internal security of the country by no less than the prime minister himself on m
Keeping with an interim order passed by the Supreme Court in connection with the disbursement of funds of Harshad Mehta Group (HMG),the Bombay High Court has directed the custodian of assests of the late stock broker to release Rs 1995.66 crore to
The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed the plea of veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari seeking waiver of cost of Rs 75,000 imposed on him during the hearing of a petition of a 31-year-old man claiming to be his biological son. "The r
Air India will fly two planes to Tripoli on Friday night to start evacuating about 18,000 Indians stranded in strife-torn Libya. "Air India has decided to fly two planes - one from Delhi and another from Mumbai - to Triploi to evacuat
Do Indian budgets ever consider children? No, according to different civil society groups working on children rights. Different surveys say India is home to one-fifth of world’s children, but their condition needs a lot of introspect
Even as the proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC) is yet to come into effect, India Inc. has raised fresh reservations over the revised DTC draft which is sans special benefits the corporates enjoy under the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act. Acco
Gujarat witnessed the highest number of strikes and other forms of labour unrest in recent times on account of various financial and disciplinary issues, the economic survey said on Friday. The survey said total man-days lost due to labour
For the third successive year, the Railway Budget for 2011-12 spared the passengers of any increase in fares and proposed no hike in freight rates while introducing 56 new trains, including nine non-stop Duronto trains and three Shatabdis.
India is likely to grow at 9% in 2011-12, up from 8.6% in 2010-11, as per the pre-budget economic survey presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in Lok Sabha. Inflation remains the key concern, or the `dark cloud` on the Indian econ
Former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Friday appeared before the CBI in connection with the 2G case and said the real issue involved kickbacks and not the policy pursued for spectrum allocation. Before he went into the CBI headquarters w
In the first such case, Delhi Lokayukta today recommended the removal of PWD Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan from the council of ministers for trying to protect a leading resort in a tax evasion case. Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin`s order ca
As global crude oil prices soar with violent anti-establishment protests in major oil-producing nations in West Asia and North Africa, especially Libya, India`s industrial sector may take a adverse hit as the country imports 70 perecnt o
A Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the 2G spectrum allocation issue, being dubbed by the opposition as the biggest scam in independent India, was set up today amid charges and countercharges between the government and the opposition.
In a rare gesture, prime minister Manmohan Singh crossed over to the opposition benches in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and spoke to opposition leader Sushma Swaraj and BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani for two minutes after his reply to the motion of t
In yet another example of government’s attempt to sabotage the right to information (RTI) act, Arunachal Pradesh chief secretary has turned down the request of the state information commissioners to avail perks and allowances which at par wi
Seeking to clear the air on the controversy over allocation of S-Band spectrum, prime minister Manmohan Singh today said the deal to allocate transponder frequency on two satellites to the Indian arm of a US firm never came to his office for appro
A day after the arrest of two of his close aides, sacked Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Wednesday accused the investigating agencies of "targeting" only the OC when government officials were also part
People from across the globe are condemning the Human rights violations of Srilankan government. And civilized society is fighting hard to establish the justice to the tamils. Killing of nearly 3,00,000 innocents, war crimes, ongoing slaughter o
Internal and external security agencies, intelligence bureau and research and analysis wing, should have professional and democratic framework that would enable the bodies to work more effectively, a draft report prepared by experts said.
