With spiralling food prices affecting the purchasing power of earnings received by NREGA workers, the government has decided to set up an expert group to link wages of these workers to changes in prices. "We will give real wage
Ending suspense over 3G spectrum auction, the government said on Monday it will start the process by this week-end by issuing bid document, as all issues with the law and the finance ministries stand resolved. "The Department o
The controversial `signature` bridge in East Delhi may finally see the light of the day, with Delhi government floating tender for the over Rs 1,100 crore project. The tender for construction of the showpiece project of the city gov
The government would take a call on the future of ailing Air India, which plans to raise its working capital by Rs 1,000 crore in the near future. "We will put the whole picture before the Cabinet," Civil Aviation Minister
India is considering imposing an anti-dumping duty on import of two variants of anti-bacterial drug pencilin to protect the domestic industry from cheap Chinese and Mexican shipments. "The provisional anti-dumping duty to be im
The supreme court on Monday asked the election commission to decide whether the installation of statues of elephants at the cost of the state exchequer by the Mayawati government in Lucknow and Noida amounts to the installation of election symbol
The government today expressed its resolve to divest stake in PSUs and said that all profitable public sector enterprises would be listed on the stock exchanges with at least 10 per cent public holding. "For providing the commo
With a vision to connect the rural masses, the government will set up 10,000 telecom towers across the country this fiscal with financial support from the USO Fund, a corpus for providing affordable telephone services in rural areas.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed to the opposition to allow smooth functioning of the parliament during the budget session, saying all issues agitating them could be debated on the floor of the house. But he kept quite whe
President Prathibha Patil speech did not reflect UPA-II`s seriousness on Telangana. Since it is the UPA-II which set up the Justice Srikrishna Committee to look into statehood demand for Telangana, it is a mystery why the issue didn`t figure in he
President Pratibha Patil’s address to the joint session of parliament in Hindi has not gone down well with the DMK’s MPs. They met the speaker and formally lodged a protest. They said the English translation of the speech was not
Ahead of the foreign secretary- level talks, India today said it is ready to explore a "meaningful" relationship with Pakistan if it seriously addresses the threat of terrorism and stops terror acts against this country. G
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee today strongly condemned the beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with his counterpart in Pakistan. SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar told P
“I have been standing in this queue for the past-one-and-a-half hours. The lady at counter number 36 (the ticket counter meant for physically disabled) has been sitting idle, but when I requested her for a ticket, as the queue for ladies is
Keeping the Commonwealth Games in mind, the NDMC is setting up a park-and-ride facility at the Safdarjung Airport in the national capital, which will have space for 3,000 cars and 600 buses. The parking lot will be a key aspect in t
Is government under pressure from the United States to cancel fat defence orders to the European companies and go for purchases from the American firms? The question is being raised after Defence Minister A K Antony recently struck
A slew of bills including one for setting up an equal opportunity commission and another on checking corruption in the judiciary and for ensuring accountability among judges will be tabled during the budget session of parliament beginning today.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present Budget 2011 on Friday, amid speculation that excise duty may be raised as part of a partial rollback of the stimulus measures. However, direct tax rates are not likely to be tweaked for
A community-led programme on adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health needs would soon be developed by the health ministry. Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in New Delhi on Saturday. He was speaking at the release of a s
Only fourteen percent of 1.3 million schools have computers while 86% of these schools have electricity, Arun Mehta, professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) stated here on Friday.
