The visiting US treasury secretary Timothy F Geithner on Tuesday said Washington will closely work with New Delhi to promote a more balanced and greater economic cooperation between the two nations. "The whole focus (of the meeting) w
Government’s ambitious rural employment project Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) has come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court which today said money was not reaching real beneficiaries and in many cases goi
K VIjay Kumar is being tipped to become director general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to boost the morale of the troopers in the aftermath of the bloodbath in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. A political decision at the highest level
Operations against militants, including the ULFA, would continue until they gave an assurance to abjure violence in the state, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said today. "There are reports of the ULFA and other militant outfits recr
The Maharashtra government has announced that an expert committee will be appointed under the chairmanship of the Governor to carry out the review of Key Performance Indicators of universities. Grants to the various universities and colleg
The CAG has pulled up Jammu and Kashmir`s social welfare department for failing to successfully implement its flagship schemes in the state. Financial mismanagement, non-adherence of eligibility criteria, lack of monitoring and proper plan
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has said that states lacked sufficient resources to implement the Right to Education Act, 2009 and demanded that the Centre meet the expenses on it cent per cent. `The states lack sufficient resources to i
Taking their bilateral relations to a new level, India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to establish a hotline between Prime Ministers of the two countries. The agreement was signed by external affairs Minister S M Krishna and hi
The Delhi Industrial Development, Operation and Maintenance Bill, 2010, passed last week by Delhi assembly, was unlawful and illegal, Ved Prakash Gupta, chairman of MCD’s Master Plan-2021 implementation committee, said on Monday. The
A day after the Chhattisgarh bloodbath, the question is what next, how to tackle the Maoists who are at war with the state. While many strategies are being suggested, a key element -- of blocking their finances -- is overlooked. That is the ar
The members of Upper House of the Parliament are growing richer. More than 50 percent of the Rajya Sabha members are crorepatis, says a report released on Tuesday by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). “A total of 98 Rajya
Government employees are less confident about finding new jobs compared to their peers in the private sector, but are less fearful about job losses, a new survey released on Tuesday said. "Employees in the government sector are
The Railways could soon be raising as much as Rs 600 crores from leasing out some of the real estate it holds, a senior official has said. "We plan to lease 15 plots in different metros and Tier II cities on long lease this fiscal and
If the state governments’ performance in the implementation of National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) last year is any indication, UPA’s chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s avowed agenda of reaching out to the
The Executive Council of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) decided on Tuesday that SC/ST reservations for faculty posts will have to wait for the UGC guidelines. “We cannot go ahead filling up posts until we get proper guidelines from
The Government is all set to roll out yet another social security plan that promises to provide a lifelong pension of minimum Rs 1000 a month to the unorganised sector workers. The pension can be still higher if the worker is able to voluntarily s
The Kerala High Court today observed that the fundamental right to freedom of expression in a secular state was not an `absolute licence` to hurt feelings of others. "Those who take the risk of scurrilous attack on divine personality
Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) has embarked on an ambitious plan of facilitating the creation of five lakh affordable houses by 2015 in co-ordination with the state Government. The total investment will be around Rs
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the SIT probing the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat to drop senior IPS officers--Geeta Johri and Shivanand Jha from its team and said the question of staying the trial will be considered after obtaining the state`
Non-governmental organisation Child Rights and You (CRY) today said though the Right to Education (RTE) Act was a welcome step, it was heavily under-funded. Based on earlier studies by the government, CRY had suggested for keeping aside 10
