The union law minister Veerappa Moily has said that as many as 5067 Gram Nyayalayas (village-level courts) would be set up in the country in the near future. Moily was here to deliver a lecture on Ramayan at a religious function organised
Black money parked in tax havens abroad will be taxable income under the Direct Taxes Code Bill, the centre told the supreme court today, spelling out a host of measures to retrieve it. The government also informed the apex court that it h
The surest way to occupy the Raisina Hill edifice is to cook food and wash utensils for the top Congress leader, Waqf Amin Khan, Rajasthan`s minister of state for panchayati raj has suggested. Khan says he`s got living proof - president Pr
We, the 38* undersigned Nobel laureates, respectfully express our astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist and human rights advocate, 61-year-old Dr. Binayak Sen. We note tha
Under attack over an alleged scam in allocation of scarce S-band spectrum, the Isro on Tuesday announced that it has already initiated the process to terminate the deal with Devas Multimedia and claimed there was no financial loss to the governmen
Under attack over an alleged scam in allocation of scarce S-band spectrum, the Isro on Tuesday announced that it has already initiated the process to terminate the deal with Devas Multimedia and claimed there was no financial loss to the governmen
Even as Indian Airlines pilots threaten to strike work from February 11 over the issue of pay parity, the Air India (formerly NACIL) management has deferred their salary remittances for the thgird time this month. Now, the pilots would be
In a development that has huge financial implications for existing as well as new operators, telecom regulator Trai has recommended fixing the price for 6.2 MHz of pan-India start-up 2G spectrum at Rs 10,972.45 crore, more than six times the prese
Trashing the report on 2G scam by justice Shivraj Patil, former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Tuesday accused union minister Kapil Sibal of trying to save A Raja by functioning as his advocate. "Telecom minister Kapil Sibal is an a
The Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSA) undertook before the court that a new panel sans industry insiders will be constituted to look into harmful effects of soft drinks, after the supreme court on Tuesday deemed it illegal. The court obse
It is unusual to profile a man six years after he passed away. But thanks to your editor, you see here a remembrance of Hari Dev Shourie, who in our view has few equals in his dogged representation of the faceless Indian. We have a common
The deadline for the introduction of Delhi`s bus cluster scheme has been shifted again. Now, the cluster buses can be expected on city streets by the end of February and beginning of March. The new deadline was announced on Monday, deferri
After apparently dithering on funding Delhi metro`s phase III, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to extend financial assistance to the project that envisages adding 105 kilometre to the existing 200 km network.
Delhi government has revised circle rates for registration of valuation of lands and immovable properties in the capital. The new rates will come into force with effect from February 8, 2011. “The revised rates shall be tak
With attempts at drawing the authorities` attention to their wage issues failing repeatedly, the pilots of the Indian Airlines (IA) have threatened to keep flights grounded in protest from February 11. The Indian Commercial Pilots Associat
The ropeway project in Girnar wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat which has been in limbo since September 1995 has finally been given in-principle clearance from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). However, the environment minister Jairam Ra
The rural development ministry has constituted a committee to restructure the district rural development agencies (DRDAs), the body responsible for implementing myriad rural development schemes at the district level. With the onset of a nu
The people of the country of Egypt take to the streets en masse to demand democratic elections among other rights. The world’s largest English news daily, published from the world’s largest democracy, runs an article on how corporate s
The small plastic sachets of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala scattered all over roads, parks and other places may soon become history if the environment ministry has its way. The ministry of environment and forests on Monday, while notifying the Pl
A green NGO has claimed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is not putting up compliance reports on its website. Himanshu Thakkar of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) has said that the MoEF is violating the e
