The Cabinet at its meeting in the evening on Monday agreed to raise the age of consent to 18. The new legislation was cleared after the Cabinet failed to achieve consensus on the anti-rape bill at the two all-party meetings held on Monday. Emerging from the meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister said that the Cabinet had agreed to raise the age of consent and also made some changes to the Bill,...
07:26 PM, Mar 18, 2013
New Delhi: The proposal to withdraw the amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act in 2006 has been accepted in the Cabinet meeting on Thursday. With the proposed amendments dropped, the Right to Information Act will not be diluted much to the delight of social activists. The move came after Congress President Sonia Gandhi opposed the amendments. The amendment suggested was that the government exempts file notings from disclosure...
12:13 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The government will not go for amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act as mooted in July 2006, according to sources. The amendment suggested was that the government exempts file notings from disclosure except for development and social issues. The amendment also suggested that the exam selection process be exempted from the RTI ambit. The amendments were seen as dilution of the RTI Act and Congress President...
04:02 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will be meeting on Thursday and the pricing of excess spectrum is likely to be approved. The AG could be asked to come to Cabinet. Also on agenda are measures to control the spread of Japanese Encephalitis in UP and Bihar, the 78-day productivity linked bonus for railway employees and the Rajiv Gandhi pension scheme. The Cabinet is likely to consider a Rs 4,000-crore multi-pronged...
09:53 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition is already up in arms against more reforms by the UPA government as the Cabinet is expected to clear 26 per cent FDI in pension and raise the cap in insurance to 49 per cent on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is opposed to raising the FDI cap in insurance. The party has no objections with the 26 per cent cap, but is against raising...
01:40 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: After FDI in retail, the Cabinet is likely give a push to another round of reforms on Thursday. The Cabinet will take up the long-pending insurance and pension bills on Thursday. The amended bills propose hiking foreign investment limit to 49 per cent from the present 26 per cent. Although the government had given its approval, it did not come up for discussion in the Monsoon session due...
03:50 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Holding cabinet meetings seems to have become a bugbear for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Completing 21 months in office, the chief minister has hardly conducted 14 meetings so far, with an average of one meeting in every two months. Before Kiran Reddy took reins of the government, the then chief minister K Rosaiah held the state cabinet meet twice in a month. Similar was the case with...
12:53 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet will meeting on Tuesday and may approve a new proposal to increase reservation for women in urban local bodies to 50 per cent. It currently stands at one-third. The proposal also suggests that the chairperson's post be decided on the basis of proportional representation. The Cabinet is also expected to take up the Land Acquisition bill. The revised bill aims at ensuring that the process of...
08:41 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will be meeting on Thursday and Amendments to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to fight money laundering and terror financing will be taken up. These were approved at the UPA core committee meeting on Wednesday. ...
09:04 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: NCP ministers on Thursday boycotted the meeting of Union Cabinet here to show their unhappiness over party leader Sharad Pawar not being given the number two position in the government. Sulking Agriculture Minister Pawar as well as Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel skipped the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid a row over the pecking order in the government that has relegated the NCP chief to...
07:48 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: High-profile toilets built by the Planning Commission at an estimated cost of Rs 35 lakh has caught the fancy of the ministers who appear keen to use it. The issue of the Rs 35 lakh toilets came before the start of the Cabinet meeting on Thursday as many ministers showed their keenness to have access to the swanky toilets. One senior cabinet minister asked for the smart card...
03:46 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is likely to meet on Tuesday to clear the Lokpal Bill. The meeting, which was to take place in the afternoon, has now been deferred to 7:30 pm in the evening. If the Cabinet clears the bill, it is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Wednesday. But the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) remains the main sticking point with the government refusing to bend...
07:18 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Union cabinet, which met on Sunday evening, cleared the Food Security Bill. The Bill, which had the backing of UPA Chiairperson Sonia Gandhi, will cover 63.5 per cent of the total population. I will cover 75 per cent of total rural population of which 46 per cent would be priority households. In urban areas of the 50 per cent of total population, 28 would be priority households....
08:52 PM, Dec 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will not discuss the Lokpal Bill on Sunday as it is not ready yet, sources said. Sources added the bill might be discussed on Monday. UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi's pet project the Food Security Bill, however, will discussed on Sunday. The meeting was originally scheduled for Monday but advanced to Sunday evening, sources said. Earlier, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that the government is...
02:19 PM, Dec 18, 2011
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11:54 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: As the speculation is growing that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is finally going in for a major cabinet reshuffle, one of the challenges for Dr Singh will be to get his ministers to start attending Cabinet meetings. CNN-IBN has found out that several top ministers, who've been elected to govern the country, don't even attend Cabinet meetings. They are supposed to deliberate on critical issues affecting the...
11:06 PM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Union cabinet will be meeting on Tuesday to discuss legislation on holding judges accountable for misconduct. The crucial bill, which could be passed today (Tuesday), did not come up in Parliament in the monsoon session due to considerable opposition to it. Remember Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had expressed reservations, forcing Law Minister Veerappa Moily to make some modifications to the bill. The judicial accountability bill that aims...
10:35 AM, Oct 05, 2010
On Tuesday, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee missed the Cabinet meeting saying it was not important. ...
08:43 PM, Jun 01, 2010
On Tuesday, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee missed the Cabinet meeting saying it was not important. ...
08:43 PM, Jun 01, 2010
The Prime Minister assured them he would take up their complaints. ...
03:24 PM, Jan 19, 2010
