In a major boost to women serving in the defence services, the Delhi high court today directed the centre to allow permanent commission to them. Delivering a verdict on a batch of petitions filed by serving and retired lady
The government on Friday assured the Lok Sabha that all concerns related to genetically modified (GM) crops were covered under the Food Safety and Standards Act. The assurance was given by Minister of State for Health and Family Wel
Karnataka high court judge D V Shylendra Kumar continues his lone fight to bring transparency and accountability to judiciary. His latest attempt to call all judges of the high court to a tea party to discuss continuation of Chief J
The government today said subsidised fertiliser was being smuggled out to countries like Nepal and asked state governments to take stringent action. Replying to supplementaries during question hour in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State
The government said today it has the legitimate right to use as much force as necessary to regain control of areas dominated by the Maoists and made it clear that talks with them could only take place if the ultras abjured violence.
With a slew of e-governance projects under way in the centre and the states, do we need a specialised cadre within civil service? Will it improve the set-up and delivery if an IT professional is in charge instead of a bureaucrat from the general c
The ISI continues to maintain links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11, and Islamabad is reluctant to take action against its leaders and its network, several eminent US scholars and experts of South Asia have categor
Expressing dismay that large number of Group C and Group D posts meant for sheduled castes and scheduled tribes have not been filled up in railways, a parliamentary committee has asked the ministry concerned to make concerted efforts to fill the v
Reacting to the SIT`s summons in connection with Ehsan Jaffery murder case in 2002 riots, Gujarat government issued a statement on Thursday night saying that the chief minister would cooperate with the process of law. "The stat
Handloom artisans have found hope - and a reprieve from their hand-to-mouth existence with the government mulling an waiver of all overdue interests and loans of all handloom weavers cooperatives. "The government is examining a
Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell said on Thursday that he was happy with the progress made in the preparations of the Commonwealth Games though the Organising Committee still needed to do a lot of work. He, however, pulled u
All BJP MPs will vote for Women`s Reservation Bill, said Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj after senior party leader L K Advani met BJP MPs.
A verbal clash of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha on March 3 during the debate on the motion of thanks on the president`s address has finally helped the lower ranks of ex-servicemen, ending their e
The Army has charged Lt Gen P K Rath with granting NOC to a private realtor with an "intent to defraud" even as his counsel has said the Court of Inquiry did not talk about any such intent during its probe in the Rs 300 crore Sukna land
The women`s reservation bill appears to have been put on on the backburner for the time being after dissent stared at the face of BJP with some MPs threatening to defy the whip and the Yadav trio stepping up their campaign against the measure.
he Union Cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday evening has been postponed. Along with the cabinet meeting, the meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs and the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure were also deferred. Th
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been summoned by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) to appear before it on March 21 for questioning in post-Godhra riots in the state in 2002. The sum
As the Lok Sabha, paralysed since Monday, began, Speaker Meira Kumar tried to restore order in the house by giving a chance to the Yadav trio air their views on Women`s Reservation Bill right at the start of the question hour. Bit it did not help.
The stand-off over Women`s Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha ended today with government announcing that the proposed legislation would be brought in the House only after consultations with all sections. The breakthrough came after SP c
A toll-free helpline was launched in Mumbai on Wednesday to tackle the menace of water mafia in the city. The helpline is an initiative of the non-governmental organisation Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Rane, son of revenue minister Naray
