Karunanidhi, who was scheduled to meet Manmohan Singh last night, could not do so as he was `pre-occupied` in a meeting to release a volume of poems of his friend, noted Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu. He said this morning that his scheduled me
The Central Bureau of Investigation finds itself in a great difficulty to cope up with so many scams that broke out in 2010 as it does not have enough manpower for simultaneous probes, more so with many of its sleuths already tied up in concluding
Over 100 Hindu families in Pakistan`s Balochistan province are making efforts to migrate to India after becoming the target of a campaign of kidnappings and extortion, according to a media report today. The Hindus of southwestern Balochist
Private players may now open technical institutions of learning, but only if these are run as non-profit organisations. After a meeting with the higer education and technical education council, the HRD minister Kapil Sibal said that privat
The state transport authority is planning to link all the motor licensing offices in the city. All the 13 offices will be connected with a broadband line. Presently, in order to procure driving license one has to go to regional transport
While the Delhi government has managed to increase the number of e-waste bins in the city to around 60, an official has admitted that ‘not enough material is being put into the bins.’ “The amount of e-waste disposed
The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) and ministry of human resource development (MHRD) will soon form a joint working group (JWG) comprising of eight members. The JWG will be co-chaired by the secretaries of both the mini
Making a final decision on dividing the surplus water of River Krishna, the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal today allocated the maximum share of water to Andhra Pradesh while also enhancing the share of Karnataka and Maharashtra. Now
Uttar Pradesh government has invoked essential services maintenance act (ESMA) to ban strikes in all the medical institutions of the state for the next six months, officials said here today. "Keeping in mind the difficulties fa
Months of unrest marked by stone-pelting protests, death of over 100 people, the infamous Macchil fake encounter case and allegations of human rights violations kept Jammu and Kashmir in the news in 2010. Naming of an all-party dele
A Gujjar delegation is likely to meet government officials in Bayana town of Bharatpur district today for talks aimed at ending the deadlock over the reservation issue. "A delegation comprising of around 15-25 Gujjars is expect
Shaukat Hussain Guru, a convict in the 2001 terrorist attack on parliament, was released from Tihar jail here on Wednesday, a year ahead of his 10-year sentence because of remission. He is a cousin of Afzal Guru who has been sentenced to death in
Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh has hit out the Bharatiya Janata Party and the CPI(M), saying the political parties averse to the India-US nuclear deal continuing the "agenda" of instigating people to oppose the first nucle
The government is bringing an ordinance to constitute an extraordinary anti-corruption mechanism in deference to a five-point agenda for "a battle against corruption" enunciated by Sonia Gandhi in her inaugural presidential address to th
All modern sense of gender equality must come to naught now for a supreme court judge, a woman no less, has listed the marriage of her two unmarried daughters as `liabilities". Or has it? She has listed the marriage of her two unmarri
An embarrassed Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday defended party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and its MP and former law minister Ram Jethmalani, saying they were only responding to the "call of duty" that does amount to any indiscipline
To bring down the high maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rate in India, there is an urgent need to strengthen the health workforce at the community level. This idea was brought forward by various experts from the health sector at the ope
Unfazed by growing opposition to Jaitapur nuclear power plant, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday refused to review the conditional environmental clearance given to it and asked "interest groups" not to use environment as a
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has expressed surprise over home minister P Chidambaram`s assessment of the law and order situation in the state, saying it was far from an impartial overview. Bhattacharjee also took stro
