Peeved at registration of a police case against its loan recovery official, Punjab State Cooperative Agricultural Development Bank Limited (PSCADB) has decided to take up the issue with state government. "Certainly, we will tak
Rashtriya Lok Dal would devise a strategy to get "16 most backward castes" in Uttar Pradesh included into the Scheduled castes category and for this representatives the communities have been invited for a party meeting in New Delhi tomor
Acknowledging that some labour laws have not yielded the desired results, prime minister Manmohan Singh today said there is a need to revisit some of them which have hurt the growth of employment. "We have enacted several progr
Metro authorities seem to have dropped guard, with the hand-held metal detectors missing from the security check at the 132 metro stations in the city. Frisking of passengers has become lax with the security personnel just restricting it to a pat-
A week after the east Delhi building collapse, Delhi government today constituted a high-powered committee to frame a broad policy for providing shelter to vulnerable sections and facilitate swift allotment of around 9,000 low-cost houses to them.
Representation at gram panchayat level has given women members newfound confidence and self-esteem, rural development and panchayati raj minister C P Joshi informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply on Monday. The ministry, he said, had com
Delhi`s women and child development minister Kiran Walia slammed her male colleagues in the state assembly for stalling her attempts at discussing women`s right issues in the assembly. "Each time I raise topics related to women right
An all-party meeting called to end the deadlock in Parliament on 2G spectrum failed today as the Opposition stuck to its demand for JPC probe and rejected the government``s proposal for attaching multi-disciplinary probe teams with the PAC to go i
In a bid to ensure availability of doctors at community and primary health centres, the Uttar Pradesh Government today amended State Medical and Health Service Rules, 2004 making four year of rural stint mandatory for promotion of doctors.
Solicitor general Gopal Subramanium has not only been shunned by the prime minister`s office (attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati superseded him as the representative of the prime minister in the 2G spectrum case in supreme court), he has also not
Long considered unsafe for women, Delhi is seeking to change its image with the government partnering the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). “As Delhi is the destination point for number of prob
Concerned over abrupt escalation in airfares by some airlines during high demand, officials of the Civil Aviation Ministry and regulator DGCA would meet here soon to review the issue. "The DGCA has been serious about it. We also expre
After much debate on its possible ecological impact, the proposed Navi Mumbai airport finally got an environmental clearance on Monday. “Formally the environment clearance for this project has been accorded. The process essentially of buildi
Controversial Navi Mumbai Airport project gets environment clearance. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and Environment Minister Ja
Opposition Congress today demanded that Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa should recommend the dissolution of state Assembly, saying his government had lost the moral right to continue in office in the wake of the spate of corruption charges faced by
The national capital city of India failed to capitalise on the Commonwealth Games to bring about lasting change to its residents including enabling the poor to improve their living conditions a little, says a new book. "Finding Delhi:
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today accused the Law Ministry and government law officers of wrongly advising Prime Minister Mammohan Singh to wait for evidence before deciding on sanction to prosecute former Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2
How many zeroes are there in 1.7 lakh crore? This perverse pointless question may be a good diversion to indulge in while the nation openly wonders what is it that prevented prime minister Manmohan Singh, a man who otherwise enjoys
The Delhi state level expert appraisal committee (SEAC) has put on hold clearance for at least six Delhi development authority (DDA) proposals, including a residential complex in Narela, in the absence of a zonal development plan for the mega-sub
After `Tangaliya`, the grand and glittering centuries-old `Zari` making craft of Surat district in Gujarat has been granted Geographical Indication (GI) status, offering it the much needed succour from infringement. "The Geogra
