More than two lakh people from across the country have come together to voice their support for the Right to Education, through the Awaaz Do campaign by UNICEF for out-of-school children. People are exchanging ideas on the campaign`s
In a fresh crackdown on BJP activists, four senior party leaders were today detained at the airport here immediately after their arrival for participating in hoisting of the national flag at Lal Chowk on Republic Day tomorrow. Three BJP ML
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) will go ahead with most of the provisions contained in the draft RTI rules which were put on its website in December last. Documents available with Governance Now show that the DoPT has rejec
India, which has witnessed numerous terror attacks and still remains a potential target for such strikes, faces significant money laundering and terrorist financing risk, the IMF has warned. The International Monetary Fund in its report &q
Onion prices crashed to Rs 5-20 a kg in wholesale markets of the national capital today on the back of improved supply, but retail prices of the vegetable remain high at Rs 40 per kg. Retail prices of onions have been hovering at the same
CPI-M today formally decided to forge an alliance with AIADMK to fight coming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, saying the need of the hour was to bring all secular and left democratic forces under one umbrella to defeat the DMK-Congress combine.
The Reserve Bank today upped the inflation projection to 7 per cent by March-end, from the earlier estimated 5.5 per cent and warned against a possible spill over of high food and energy prices to a more generalised inflation. Earlier, the
Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily has said that delivery of justice in all cases will not exceed three years, once key reforms planned by the government are instituted in the judicial system. “Unless you clean the pol
With the government having recently faced SC and opposition ire for not doing enough on the disclosure of the black money, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday announced the setting up of a multidisciplinary committee and a five–pron
Following the central government’s refusal for viability gap funding for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (MMRDA ) proposal for the construction of metro line-3 from Colaba to Bandra, the autho
At a recent function in New Delhi, Amartya Sen observed that it wouldn’t be right to say there has been a decline in our democracy because “we have enormously more power to make society better than we are led to believe”.
Environmentalists` pipe dream of using more and more ethanol as "green" petrol instead of petrol converted from the the crude oil to save the foreign exchange remains unmaterialised. If you think that five percent of petro
BJP ally and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday opposed the party`s plan to hoist the national flag in Sringar saying it has "no meaning" given the kind of tension prevailing in Kashmir valley. "Given the kin
The Shunglu committee going into charges of corruption and procedural lapses in conduct of Commonwealth Games and related projects may get additional manpower from the government to speed up the probe. Sources said chairman of the V
Noted lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani today said he will appear for right activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a sedition case, as his profession is "the highest form of faith" for him. &qu
Students staged a protest at the leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband demanding removal of the new vice chancellor for his alleged comments on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, seminary sources said. A group of protester
The union ministers enjoy too many discretionary powers, but many of them are felt necessary to help the needy and thus may not be relinquished. The ministry of personnel submitted a long list of these discretionary powe
The environment ministry today said it will take a final call on the Posco project in Orissa by this month-end. "By the end of January 2011," environment minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters here when asked about the government`
The judgement on the Godhra carnage case, where 58 people were burnt to death triggering massive communal riots across Gujarat, will be pronounced on February 19, nearly nine years after the incident took place. Designated judge P R Patel,
The Election Commission will take various steps, including video surveillance, to prevent flow of cash during Tamil Nadu Assembly polls in May, state Chief Electoral Officer Pravin Kumar said here today. "Many steps were taken by the
