The Orissa government has found two state-run public sector undertakings among 13 mine lessees indulging in illegal mining, official sources said. The state government is processing a show-cause notice likely to be served against its own p
Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ducked an appointment with Telangana committee chairman justice (retd) B N Srikrishna. Chidambaram cancelled his appointment at noon and flew off to the Naxalite-hit Gadchiroli in Maharashtra for inspection.
Addressing a lecture organised by the Mumbai police on Media Ethics and Police-Media relations on Tuesday, N Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu, said that the media-police relationship is in good shape but generalisations by the media where police
State owned companies` initial public offerings (IPOs) have been more beneficial for investors` in the past decade than private companies, which tend to price their offers at steep valuation. A study of 243 IPOs that were listed between 2001 and 2
In a bid to give a boost to the sunrise sectors of animation, gaming and VFX (visual effects imagery), the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is involving players from the industry in a big way in evolving a policy that helps them realise their
The BRT corridor, a project in limbo, found some support from Delhites with about 200 people joining a rally from Pushpa Bhavan to Ambedkar Nagar parking on Tuesday in support of the project and pedestrians` right to the city roads. Res
The Centre is in a tizzy over an imminent release of the 5-member justice (retd) B N Srikrishna committee report on carving a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, three days ahead of the promised submission to the Home Minist
The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC), headed by the primr minister, has approved the empanelment of 52 IAS officers of the 1991 batch as joint secretaries to the government of India. V Vidhyapati of the karnataka cardre, a direc
The final stages of the long due cabinet reshuffle are underway. Sources close to UPA chairperson Sonia gandhi and prime minister Manmohan Singh have revealed that the two leaders held initial consultations with the members of the Congress core gr
The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has submitted its report on Swan Telecom`s alleged connection with Reliance Communication (RCom) to the telecom department (DoT). Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid told the reporters at a book launc
The Delhi government may soon provide new home for HIV positive children, who are orphans, for their growth in a healthy, non-discriminatory environment. The Delhi State AIDS Control Society (DSACS) under the Delhi government and National
Opposition leader in the lok sabha and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Monday took a thinly-veiled dig at her fellow party senior and public accounts committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on Twitter, raising questions on the mandat
Intellectuals and activists, including Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy, have stepped up protests against the “shocking” imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen and demanded immediate hearing of his appeal after granting him bail.
Delhi`s bus cluster scheme will debut on 32 routes in South Delhi in end of January, state transport minister Arvinder Singh said on Monday. A private transport firm, Star Bus Service, will be rolling out 50 cluster buses (seating capacity of 35 p
“India does not require a new renewable energy act. The electricity act 2003 has sufficient provisions,” a senior official from the ministry of new and renewable energy clearly said this. MNRE is not showing any interest to bring in a
Eight political, bureaucratic and corporate heavyweights are on the CBI radar for arrests in the 2G case. Former telecom minister A Raja, lobbyist Niira Radia, Raja`s private secretary R K Chandoli and former deputy director general (acess service
DMK MP and karunanidhi`s daughter Kanimozhi`s role in the 2G scam remains a matter of speculation but her half-brother and union chemicals and fertilisers minister M K Alagiri blames her for earning the Karuna clan brickbats due to her `closeness`
Scam-hit Mumbai`s Adarsh housing society has failed to file its reply to the show-cause notice served by the Environment Ministry asking why its 31-storey building at Colaba should not be demolished for allegedly violating green laws. &quo
The Centre would probe whether any official information was leaked to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia by BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar when he was the Civil Aviation Minister during NDA regime, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs
Here is some good news for the civic agencies in the capital who find difficulties in getting adequate police force demolishing illegal constructions. Delhi police will soon form a special task force (STF) to accompany the demolishing squa
