The SC asks Maharashtra to explain the FB arrests, but the Centre maintains there is no need to scrap the IT law. ...
10:41 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's new cabinet will be announced on Thursday, state media said on Saturday, ending what was seen as a long wait for a new government following the swearing-in of President Mohamed Mursi three weeks ago. "I will announce the formation of the cabinet in its final form next Thursday," Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said in statements carried by state news agency MENA and state TV. He said he had...
02:51 AM, Jul 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Saturday rejected demands of Team Anna to set up a Special Investigation Team to probe allegations of corruption against cabinet ministers and establishing fast-track courts to hear charges against them, saying present system was sufficient to deal with such issues. Responding to a letter by Anna Hazare to the Prime Minister last month, the PMO said the activist has "not submitted any proof regarding the...
02:39 AM, Jun 10, 2012
Mumbai: Days ahead of credit policy review by the Reserve Bank, Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu on Friday said "out-of-the-box" thinking is needed in the monetary policy and favoured slashing interest rates to boost sagging economic growth. "What we need to do is to create more space for the private sector to invest. But my personal feeling is that given that growth in doing so poorly, and the investment mood...
03:31 AM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: Launching an austerity drive to contain expenditure, the government today banned creation of new posts in its departments and holding their meetings in five-star hotels besides imposing curbs on foreign travel. The Finance Ministry has also asked all ministries and departments to reduce non-Plan expenditure by 10 per cent in the current financial year. "There will be a total ban on holding of meetings and conferences in five-star...
06:21 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The cabinet has put on hold a proposal pending for years to raise the limit on foreign direct investment in insurance firms, possibly until after the 2014 elections, dashing the hopes of foreign insurers to spread their wings in a promising emerging market. Domestic and foreign insurers, which have invested billions of dollars in India over the last decade, have been lobbying the government for years to raise...
01:10 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The government will on Friday release the revised consolidated foreign direct investment (FDI) policy paper, a ready reckoner for foreign investment related regulations. "This will incorporate all changes effected in FDI Policy...i.e. from October 1 to March 31," a Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) official said. The government in 2010 had decided to come out with consolidated FDI policy paper summarising all the regulations including those...
07:32 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Mandatory reporting of assets held by individuals abroad and re-opening of I-T return filings up to 16 years in this regard are among the steps being proposed by the government to tackle the menace of black money. "I propose a series of measures to deter the generation and use of unaccounted money," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting the Budget for 2012-13 on Friday. The government has...
04:49 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: India's apex agency for disaster management is preparing "mandatory" guidelines to cover fire and other emergency hazards in hospitals and a core group would be formed next week to finalise the rules, an official said on Saturday. The decision has been taken after a major fire struck a super speciality medical centre in Kolkata killing over 90 people last week. The hospital is accused of having no fire...
07:19 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Facebook, Google and others seeking to device a screening mechanism. ...
11:58 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: After Bellary and Orissa, it's now Goa, where a multi-crore rupee iron-ore mining scam has landed the state government in trouble. Congress is now sending a team to Goa to probe allegations of illegal mining first reported on CNN-IBN. A mining scam that caused one government to fall in Karnataka, could it also lead to the fall of the Digambar Kamat led government in Goa? The Chief Minister,...
12:15 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Over 30,000 doses of swine flu vaccine lie unused in Maharashtra, the state worst hit by the H1N1 virus. ...
12:11 PM, Jul 09, 2010
