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A four-tier security for the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games was announced as the government on Wednesday finalised its security structure for the Games after a high-level meeting on security chaired by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Speaking on CWG sec
Read Full StoryUnion ministers will now require the prime minister’s prior approval before proceeding on official foreign tours and they will also have to keep the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) informed even about their private foreign travel.
“Proposal relating to offici
Read Full StoryPublic sector engineering goods maker HMT Tuesday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL) for the sale and marketing of its dairy machines and equipment.
According to the company, REIL
Read Full StoryIndia could become a global outsourcing hub for food processing by 2012 to meet the world food demand, Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai said Tuesday.
“The food processing sector has the potential to become the outsourcing hub for th
Read Full StoryNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notices to all the seven convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy on a petition of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that seeks review of the court’s 1996 judgment which diluted offences against them.
The judgm
Read Full StoryNew Delhi: The government has “more or less” decided in favour of a caste census, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday, adding that the issue would be taken up in the next cabinet meeting for an official nod.
“The government has more or less deci
Read Full StoryNew Delhi: The AIADMK in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday demanded the resignation of Telecom Minister A. Raja over alleged corruption in the allocation of 2-G spectrum, provoking heated exchanges in the house with DMK members.
This led to a brief adjournment of th
Read Full StoryNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday came down heavily on union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for saying that the court’s suggestion on free distribution of foodgrains to the poor was not binding on the government.
Referring to media reports attributed
Read Full StoryFinance MInister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday clarified that the revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement India signed with Switzerland will not help the country in getting back the black money stashed away by Indians in secret Swiss bank accounts.
“I would
Read Full StoryNew Delhi: Alleging that innocent citizens are being killed by the security forces in the Kashmir Valley, the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday demanded a probe into the killings.
In a zero hour mention in the Rajya Sabha, CPI-M leader Brind
Read Full StoryA couple working in a bank in south Delhi who fraudulently withdrew money from a customer’s account have been arrested, police said Monday.
According to police, Prem Prakash Singh and Kanchan, who work in a bank in Chittranjan Park, stole the cheques of Jag
Read Full StoryBudget airline GoAir Monday said it is adding four new destinations– Patna, Pune, Leh and Lucknow– to its existing flight schedule from the national capital.
The services to the new destinations would start from Sep 2 for Patna and Oct 2 for Pune, Lucknow
Read Full StoryAbout 40 tourists from Rajasthan were injured when their speeding bus overturned after hitting a divider in east Delhi early Monday, police said.
The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. when the bus driver, who was over-speeding, lost control and ran over a
Read Full StoryThe Supreme Court Monday issued notice to B. Rama Raju and four others involved in Satyam scam as to why their bail should not be cancelled.
Rama Raju is the brother of Satyam founder and chairperson B. Ramalinga Raju.
The apex court bench of Justice Dal
Read Full StoryThe Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon Monday after opposition members voiced protests over a Gujarat police officer’s petition to the Supreme Court that she was being pressurised to implicate former state minister Amit Shah in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh kil
Read Full StoryDisruptions returned to parliament on the penultimate day of the monsoon session Monday as opposition members forced adjournments of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha over the alleged misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the government.
Bh
Read Full StoryMoving the nuclear liability bill in the Rajya Sabha Monday, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said nuclear power was not a panacea for India’s energy needs but it was an option which could not be ignored.
The opposition Bharati
Read Full StoryThe Supreme Court Monday issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on a bail petition of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the main accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast.
Thakur and 10 others have been arrested for the blast in Malegaon, a textile town in north
Read Full StoryA group of students Sunday staged a demonstration at the capital’s Jantar Mantar protesting the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) civil service exam preliminary results.
A candlelight vigil was held by the students who alleged that the results were n
Read Full StoryNew Delhi, With 35 days to go for the Commonwealth Games, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday visited the remodelled and reconstructed Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here to see the preparedness of the venue that will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the
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