Government today sanctioned funds for the second phase of the ambitious scheme to allocate unique identity numbers to 10 crore of the country`s population. The cabinet committee on Unique Identification Authority of India, at a meet
To revive caravan tourism in the state, the Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation (MPSTDC) will run three vehicles equipped with modern facilities, including LCD, home theatre and chemical toilets shortly. "We are going
Gujarat home minister Amit Shah has been summoned by the CBI to appear before it today in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. "Shah has been asked to appear before us today at CBI office in Gandhinagar," C
Annual food inflation fell to 12.47 per cent for the week ended July 10 from 12.81 per cent in the previous week on back of decline in prices of vegetables, especially potato and onion. On a yearly basis, potato became cheaper by over 45 p
All 12 Lok Janashakti Party MLAs today resigned from Bihar Assembly in protest against their suspension by Speaker Udaya Narain Chowdhary for the rest of the session. "All the 12 MLAs of the party have submitted their resignati
The guidelines for large developments under the green rating for integrated habitat assessment (GRIHA) will be out by end of this year, Siva Kishan, the CEO of GRIHA secretariat told Governance Now. “They would be out in November or December
Ramalinga Raju and his family pocketed Rs 2,743 crore from the Satyam Computers fraud while stakeholders of the company lost a whopping Rs 14.162 crore, CBI sources have revealed. J L Negi, a RBI general manager on deputation to the
If you thought VIPs in India could stomp their way through the bureaucratic maze and get things done at the drop of a hat think again. In the department of drinking water and sanitation of the rural development ministry, 43 references (read compl
The guidelines for grid-connected solar power projects in India will be out on July 25, 2010, B Bhargava, the director of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) told Governance Now. “They will be jointly released by the new and
I have been coming to Delhi for the past five years, sometimes staying just a month, sometimes six or longer, in winter or summer. Each time I come back I am astonished by new developments and changes in the city. But aside from the more prominent
Around 80 Bihar opposition members spent the night in the well of the two houses of the state legislature demanding the resignation of Nitish Kumar in the light of a CAG report highlighting alleged financial irregularities in the state.chief mini
Election commissioner S Y Quraishi, who will take charge as the chief election commissioner on July 28 when Navin Chawla retires, wants to take oath of office from president Pratibha Patil. In a communication to the law ministry, Qu
The cabinet secretary shall have a fixed tenure of four years. The Civil Services rules of 1956 have been amended for this purpose, and the union cabinet is expected to approve this amendment on Thursday. K M Chandrasekhar, the curr
Several challenging tasks are awaiting UPA II in the months to come. It has to identify a candidate for the post of election commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by Navin Chawla retirement on July 28. In the last week of August, UPA wil
Both houses of Bihar Legislature were adjourned till lunch amid pandemonium created by ruling NDA and opposition members to counter each others over the Patna High Court order for an inquiry by CBI into alleged irregularities in execution of devel
A pro-dam environmentalist today locked horns with a colleague having divergent views over the controversial issue of hydel projects on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakashi district of Uttarakhand. Fearing that construction of such projects
The rural development ministry in collaboration with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is set to introduce biometrics-based identification to check the on-site corruption in the NREGS. A committee comprising officials fr
Expressing concern over the killing of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, the CPI(M) today asked the government to immediately start the process of political dialogue with all shades of opinion and stop "excessive reliance" on administrativ
Andhra Pradesh government today strongly condemned the police lathi-charge on TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and other legislators by Maharashtra police. "I strongly condemn the lathi-charge on Chandrababu Naidu and others b
A week-long budget session of Nagaland assembly began here today with opposition Congress members resorting to a novel way of protest demanding actions against what they called "corrupt ministers and parliamentary secretaries in the state&quo
