
New Delhi: As the UPA government on Tuesday completes its third year in office in second term, the road transport ministry on Tuesday exuded confidence that it will achieve the target of constructing 20 km roads per day before elections in 2014. "Before we will go for elections, we will achieve the target (of constructing 20 km roads per day). I am very much confident about it," Road Transport Minister...

04:27 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reshuffled key ministries on Wednesday. Is it a veiled warning to ministers like CP Joshi, Kamal Nath and Murli Deora? This was the first reshuffle since the UPA returned to power in May 2009. CP Joshi, Kamal Nath and Murli Deora " the three cabinet ministers whose portfolios changed for different reasons. Murli Deora's long stint as petroleum minister ended due to his alleged...

07:27 AM, Jan 20, 2011

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will juggle his team on Wednesday. Will young faces push out heavyweights? This the first reshuffle in UPA II and comes in the backdrop of a sharp decline in its image. While the vacancies caused by exit of Prithviraj Chavan, Shashi Tharoor will be filled, its the performance quotient which will be the key. Sources indicate that some ministers who failed to reach the...

06:56 PM, Jan 18, 2011

New Delhi: Days after rejecting the National Advisory Council (NAC) demand for matching the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) with minimum wages, the Government has now agreed to link the wages with inflation. This would mean a 17 per cent to 30 per cent increase in the present wage of Rs 100 per day. The National Advisory Council headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi had wanted the...

04:40 PM, Jan 06, 2011

Video footage available with CNN-IBN shows CP Joshi sharing dais the man who allegedly paid money to get Sohrabuddin killed. ...

08:00 AM, Aug 01, 2010

The exchange of views happened at a debate, "Can Rural Reporting Be Sexy." ...

08:49 PM, Jan 26, 2010

NREGA's audit in Rajasthan has found irregularities worth Rs 1.3 crore. ...

09:55 AM, Oct 14, 2009

He spoke to CNN-IBN correspondent Aasim Khan. ...

05:55 PM, May 22, 2009