No international conference, seminar or workshop will be allowed in India henceforth without security clearance and scrutiny of the participants by the home ministry and the organisers will have to submit request for clearance at least six weeks b
Come Saturday, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will be seen appealing to Mumbaikars on their TV screens to use water judiciously, as the city is facing one of its worst water crisis, top civic officials said. Municipal Corporation o
The public grievances minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday suggested that government services being provided through common service centres (CSCs) be made available free of charge for all citizens. The department of administrative
Unnoticed by the press, India has concluded its first tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) complying with OECD standards in the fight against tax havens. The information was shared by the finance ministry with visiting Organisation for Econom
"IT services need to be taken to villages, and its success will be measured in real sense when children in villages start saying `Ka se Kamputer and not Ka se Kabotar’", said Minister of State for IT Sachin Pilot at the
The Delhi high court on Thursday refused to give interim relief to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, facing threat of arrest in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. A K Pathak, the judge, refused to restrain the CBI from arresting him till Monda
The supreme court on Thursday questioned the presence of paramilitary forces inside the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad. The court directed the Andhra Pradesh government to explain by Friday under whose instructions th
The government today permitted ONGC and GAIL to pick 12.5 per cent stake in a pipeline that China is building in Myanmar, and allowed them to invest $ 1 billion more in fields that will provide gas to be shipped to China through the pipeline.
The Punjab and Haryana high court will be the fourth in the country where judges will make their assets public by March 31. A decision to this effect was taken by a full court bench on Wednesday after it agreed on a relatively trans
The government today has approved the proposal for release of equity support of Rs 800 crores in two equal monthly installments to National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) that runs Air India and Indian Airlines. This equity infusion had
TRAI has issued a simplified version of the format in different Indian languages for submitting information by small cable operators regarding their operational and financial status required for the exercise of tariff issues. All cable operators w
In the second Maoist attack this week, heavily-armed ultras stormed Kasari village in Bihar`s Jamui district and fired indiscriminately leaving nine villagers dead and injuring 12 others. Around 125 ultras descended on the village o
The Congress said on Wednesday that the centre`s decision to deliver 10,000 tonnes of sugar to the European Union was taken due to contractual obligations but maintained that an office under the agriculture ministry had made recommendations for th
Accepting a key demand of Maoists for safe release of an abducted Jharkhand Block Development Officer, Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren said last night that the legal process had begun to free some of the jailed persons who the Naxals claimed
The centre has asked the states to prepare a `village water security plan` before taking up installation of water supply system for rural households and said women should be involved in management of such schemes. Issuing guidelines
The External Affairs Ministry has sought to put an end to some members of parliament misusing their diplomatic passports for work and business. Diplomatic passports are issued to MPs going abroad on diplomatic assi
Will the upcoming general budget, for 2010-11, reflect people’s needs? Will the budget translate the Congress-led government`s proclaimed vision of inclusive growth into reality? Will there be enhanced accountability and commitment towards v
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has brought important changes in the question hour procedures from Monday when the upper house meets for the budget session. In a notification issued by the upper house today, it has been made clear
Following union government`s directive, ministers in Rajasthan will file their declaration of property and liabilities to the chief minister by August 31 every year. Disclosing this, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told media persons th
Open-source is similar to PPP in the sense that our business development model requires partnerships. Technology plays a small role – the bigger issue in e-governance is that of building viable business models. As an open-source technology w
