The union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy on Tuesday warned that nearly a fourth of the members of the Lok Sabha could harbour a conflict of interest with the house`s business, quoting a study. "When rich people come into Parl
An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet by end-December to consider raising prices of diesel and domestic LPG. "We are hopeful of an EGoM meeting soon ... hopefully i
Pulling up the Maharashatara government, the Bombay High Court today observed that the controversial Adarsh society smacked of "a clear-cut case of manipulation" by its officers in which everybody who was supposed to clear the file was &
Criticised by Congress for its attacks on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP today hit back saying it had the right to raise "legitimate" questions to him on why "he did not stop" a minister from defying his mandate and swindli
Breaking from its standard practice, CBI today questioned corporate lobbyist Niira Radia for four hours at her residence in south Delhi in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. CBI`s move to question Radia at her farmhous
The government`s flagship programme NREGA has created a source of additional income for families living below the poverty line in tribal areas of Rajasthan but has failed to check distress migration as minimum 100 days of employment assured under
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw criminal cases against 18 people, including a BSP leader, involved in Luhari killing, official sources said. UP Law Department Special Secretary Rajendra Kumar has directed the Mu
With winter settling in and the nights getting colder and longer, homeless children here are preferring to call the streets their home instead of taking refuge in night shelters, which they say are less child friendly, say NGOs. The
Former Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today launched his 48-hour hunger strike demanding adequate compensation to farmers who had lost their crops in heavy rains early this month in Andhra Pradesh. The former Kadapa MP, who tu
The agitation by the Gujjar community, led by Kirori Singh Bainsla, entered the second day today disrupting road and rail traffic in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan. The authorities have diverted several trains and stopped buses on two rou
The Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) is the latest to have been served a notice by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). In a show cause notice issued on Tuesday, the KCA has allegedly been held responsible for illegal felling of mangrov
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed deep concern over the sharp rise in onion prices and said effective steps should be taken to bring down the prices to affordable levels. In a letter to the secretaries of Departments of
Each of the three interlocutors in Jammu and Kashmir appointed by the government will get Rs 1.50 lakh a month and each is allowed to take an executive assistant with an overall remuneration not exceeding Rs 40,000 a month. The home
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is understood to have discussed with senior party leaders the “secretiveness” adopted by prime minister Manmohan Singh about his offer to face the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that came as a big surpr
Polio cases in India have drastically fallen as compared to last year, according to a recent report by Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a wing of World Health Organisation (WHO). India’s 2010 record on polio shows only 41
Lack of adequate sanitation infrastructure cost India a whopping $54 billion in 2006 - close to 6.4 percent of the country`s gross domestic product (GDP) - according to a World bank study. “Inadequate sanitation causes India consider
Firing yet another salvo at BJP government in Karnataka governor H R Bhardwaj on Monday said he was not satisfied with chief minister B S Yedyurappa`s reply to his two letters about corruption charges against him and his ministers. "I
The Maharashtra government on Monday told the Bombay high court that it will set up a commission of inquiry to probe the Adarsh society housing scam here. A division bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and A P Bhangale was informed so while h
With the April 1 deadline nearing, India has expedited efforts to converge its accounting standards with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as part of its G-20 commitment made in September, 2009. Nearly 300 companies s
As a 13-year-old, with an ailing mother, Anita started working as a manual scavenger - something her mother had done before her. For more than ten years that followed, she carried human waste from dry latrines. She had contracted many infect
