The Delhi High Court today refused to stay the trial against senior Congress leader and former MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which six persons were killed. Justice A K Pathak declined the plea of Kumar, against w
Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, Government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence.
The basic pay of Members of Parliament was today hiked by more than three times from Rs 16,000 to Rs 50,000 by the government which also doubled several other emoluments for them. Ending speculation about a delay in the pay hike of
Even as the metropolis received over 100 per cent rainfall and four lakes are overflowing, the water cut imposed last year is not going to be lifted immediately, the local civic body said today. According to Indian Meteorological Departmen
Accusing the UPA government of bias against the BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh (MP), its chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said the centre was playing narrow party politics. “It is the constitutional duty of the central governmen
To check the breeding of dengue and malaria mosquitoes in water bodies around the railway tracks, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) provided a truck mounted power sprayer to the railways which spray insecticides. MCD commissioner K.S. Mehra, al
Just the other day Khushwant Singh declared Manmohan Singh the best prime minister the country has ever had. We are trained to suspect any certificate of Indian origin unless it comes with a foreign endorsement so I did not take that seriously. Bu
India`s economic growth might be considered by some as enviable but it is highly unlikely that the same can be said of our cities. The best rank in a list of 65 cities across the world that an Indian city has managed is 45 - Delhi, followe
The sheer negligience of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) authorities is making the transport body lose its hitherto committed cleinst - the schools, both public and private. Schools have been since long complaining against the poor upkee
With the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science clearing the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill with certain changes in its report tabled in parliament on Wednesday, decks were cleared for its passage next week to signal the start of nuc
Yavatmal District Guardian Minister Nitin Raut has said the Government has already paid the premium of the crop insurance to the respective companies and the farmers would get their compensation shortly. He informed this at a meetin
In continuing acrimony between the Planning Commission and his ministry, Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath had hit out again at the Plan panel, saying it needs to change structurally. "Just like IMF, which has to transform its
Parliament was paralysed on Wednesday as the non-BJP opposition accused the main opposition party of a trade-off with the government to support the controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill in return for the CBI`s alleged clean chit to
Hari Shankar Brahma, a former secretary in the ministry of energy, has been appointed as election commissioner. A former Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer of 1975 seniority hails from Bodoland. After J M Lyndogh, Brahma is the second officer from t
To find solutions to meet the shortage of teaching faculty in medical colleges across India, the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) governing body has proposed starting of distant learning programmes to fill the gap. MCI governing body
Refuting the charges levelled by N C Saxena Committee on Vedanta`s mining project, the Orissa government on Tuesday said it worked in accordance with the directives of the Supreme Court. "The state government has done nothing i
Common Entrance Test (CET), called the National Eligibility Test (NET), for undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses in government and private colleges in India will hopefully start from this academic session, the chairman of the governing b
Following in the footsteps of the home ministry, the rural development ministry is set to introduce biometric attendance for its staff and officers to deter the late comers. The rural development ministry floated a tender for the purchase/
The Centre is expediting a comprehensive law on land acquisitions by governments to ensure protection of interests of farmers who play important positive role in food security, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesda
