Notwithstanding the global financial meltdown, India received a whopping Rs 2.04 lakh crore remittances during April-December 2009. The country had received around Rs 2.34 lakh crore remittances from the Indian expatriates in the financial
There is no move to ban tourism in the tiger reserves, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday though he added that his ministry was working on strict regulations on tourism in the 39 Project Tiger reserves in
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the government and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) after the BJP complained that wheat procured for the poor was rotting away for lack of godowns. The commission has soug
The Andhra Pradesh government launched the Society for Protection and Empowerment of Women and Children and an Integrated Child Protection scheme on Wednesday to facilitate effective protection of women and children by synergising the service chai
Raising questions over "conflict of interest" if a minister was a member of a cricket body, the Bombay High Court today directed impleading the Union Government in a PIL seeking levy of entertainment tax on IPL matches and allowed making
Building on improved relations with Bangladesh, India said on Wednesday that it proposes to ease visa rules for visitors from the neighbouring country. "There is a proposal to relax the procedure relating to grant of conference visa t
Krishnadas Rajagopal, Indian Express, page 6: An agriculturist who wants five-year-old children in primary classes to learn the entire text of
Miffed with the sports ministry`s new regulations limiting their tenures, IOA chief Suresh Kalmadi and National Sports Federations` officials met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday and sought his intervention in the matter.
Blacklisted by the World Bank for alleged corruption and wrong doing, Videocon Industries on Tuesday night said that it has moved a petition to revoke the ban. "We approached the World Bank in February, 2010, to revoke the ban ... aft
University Grants commission on Tuesday setup a five-member panel headed by an AIIMS professor for framing guidelines for use, storage and disposal of radioactive and hazardous chemicals. This came in the wake of radioactive exposure in Delhi.
The Supreme Court directed implementation of increased pay scales for judicial officers of subordinates courts across the country on Tuesday. The salaries of the officers will be enhanced almost three-fold. A Bench comprising Chief Justice
The Election Commission has finalised the schedule for holding Rajya Sabha elections on Friday, June 11 for 57 seats from 11 states: Andhra Pradesh (6 seats), Karnataka (4), Chhatisgarh (2), Madhya Pradesh (3), Tamil Nadu (6), Orissa (3), Ma
After Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) cried foul over ministry of environment and forests’ new advisory panel on Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has also opposed the formation of the committee, albeit for different
Just a few weeks after hounding a gay professor, Srinivas Ramchandra Siras, to what is being suspected as suicide, the Aligarh Muslim University has revealed that it has no record of either the proctorial board or the so-called evidence that led t
Within 10 days of publishing the draft amendments to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification of 1991, the environment and forests ministry has published on its website the concept note on the proposed changes in 10 languages, including Konk
In a surprise development, attorney general G E Vahanvati on Monday appeared in the Supreme Court in a case on behalf of an Uttar Pradesh government body. The Attorney General, the senior most law officer of the Centre, is free to choose c
BJP president Nitin Gadkari`s cooperative society, the Purti Group, has acquired the ailing Wainganga sugar factory at Devada village in Bhandara, which happens to be NCP leader and civil aviation minister Praful Patel`s constituency
Admitting that rising food prices were hurting the common man, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked states to make the Public Distribution System functional and effective to ensure that vulnerable sections were protected from the impact o
The World Bank has cleared Rs 4,000 crore for Bihar against the state`s demand for Rs 14,000 crore for undertaking rehabilitation programme for the Kosi river belt, devastated by floods in 2008, state govt officials said today. Whil
Seeking more powers to deal with cases of corruption in Medical Council of India, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said he has sought advice from the law ministry on how to proceed in the case against the MCI President arrested on corruption
