Maintaining that "some inflationary pressure" will remain in a growing economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today urged the states to strengthen PDS to enable the government insulate the poor from the adverse impact of inflation.
The government will take five years to eradicate chronic and potentially fatal kala-azar, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed the rajya sabha on Tuesday. "The national health policy target of kala-azar elimination by 2010
While controversies shrouding the last year’s common wealth games still rages, it has now come to the fore that even the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the common wealth games (CWG) organizing committee chairman was not sans some secretive
Normal life in Kashmir was affected partially today following a strike call given by hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference to protest against Delhi Police`s restriction order against its Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani barring him from leavin
A farmer set himself on fire in Rajkot on Monday after he was repeatedly denied information under the right to information (RTI) act. Jabbardan Gadhvi (45) set himself on fire in front of the state revenue office in the presence of 11 poli
Asserting that price rise of some vegetables like onion in the past one month was "temporary", the government today ruled out any possibility of purchasing and managing perishable produce directly from farmers in line with other commodit
The top clergy of Darul Uloom will meet here tomorrow to decide the fate of seminary`s Vice-Chancellor Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, who stirred a controversy by praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, amid speculation that he may be as
31 people were today convicted and 63 others, including the main accused Maulvi Umarji, were acquitted by a special court here in the 2002 Godhra train burning incident that left 59 people dead and triggered violence in Gujarat that had claimed th
In a bid to secure the release of Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi, who have been taken hostage by Maoists, the Orissa government on Monday agreed to meet eight of the 14 demands made by the insurgents.
Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar issued instruction on Monday that all 700 women employees should get car drop facilities after 7 pm and 8 pm in winter and summer, respectively. Agreeing to a suggestion from Lok Sabha employees Kumar said that
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the 2G scam. Singh made the announcement in his reply to the president`s inaugural address of this year`s budget session. He said,
The Maharashtra state information commission (SIC) is ailing with lack of funds and staff shortage. Almost 50 posts are lying vacant at seven divisions of the SIC including the office of the SIC chief. There are nine posts lying un
As finance minister Pranab Mukherjee gears up to present the union budget on February 28, non-government organisations Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) & Oxfam India have propsed that the government should invest money ge
The Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) has approved the model concession agreement for tourism sector to be developed in the state on public-private partnership, Gujarat minister of state for finance Saurabh Patel said.
Maharashtra government has decided to open 100 residential schools across the state for students from backward castes from June this year, Maharashtra minister for social justice Shivajirao Moghe said here. "The decision of the
Madhya Pradesh governor Rameshwar Thakur on Monday said the state government will set up special court for early disposal of matters related to corruption. "The state government has also decided to frame laws to attach properti
A Delhi court on Monday deferred till March 4 pronouncement of judgement on the CBI`s plea to drop the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the two decade old Bofors payoff case. Chief metropolitan magistrate Vino
The revival of governance in Bihar under the leadership of chief minister Nitish Kumar has been hailed the world over. Now, the World Bank has acknowledged this in a new book titled `Public Service Delivery in India: Understanding the Reform Proce
How to influence political parties to take decisions which are pro- people? Tell them that if they do not fall in line, they will not get your vote in the next election. That is exactly what the Saboli ward of the Municipal Corporation of
Green NGO Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI) has voiced support for the introduction of the resolution for National Asbestos Awareness Week in the US senate. BANI hopes that the intiative will pave way for the implementation of the Ban Asebstos
