
Ralegan Siddhi/New Delhi: Anna Hazare on Sunday night welcomed Government's move to make public the audio recordings of proceedings of the Joint Drafting Committee constituted to draft the Lokpal Bill. Congress on its part said the government was not under 'any pressure' to bring out the deliberations of the Committee in public domain. Hazare, the 74-year-old anti-corruption crusader, said the Government move will lead to more transparency and build up...

12:25 AM, Oct 10, 2011

New Delhi: In a concession to Team Anna, the government on Sunday agreed to make the audio recordings of proceedings of the Joint Committee public. The committee was constituted to draft the Lokpal Bill. But sources say the disclosure will be selective, nothing which would hamper the government's work in drafting the Lokpal bill or which embarrasses the government will be disclosed. However, Justice Santosh Hegde spoke to CNN-IBN and...

08:38 PM, Oct 09, 2011

The Department of Personnel and Training had said that they require the nod of Law ministry. ...

04:58 PM, Oct 09, 2011

New Delhi: The government has now agreed to make public the audio recordings of proceedings of the Joint Drafting Committee constituted to draft the Lokpal Bill. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had earlier refused to bring out the deliberations of the Committee in public domain. The Joint Drafting Committee, comprising five members of Team Anna and an equal number of Cabinet ministers, was formed to finalise the draft...

01:31 PM, Oct 09, 2011

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central government on a public suit filed against the decision to exempt the CBI and the NIA from the purview of the RTI Act, the country's transparency law. A division bench of chief justice Dipak Mishra and justice Sanjeev Khanna issued notice to the central government, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the...

03:32 PM, Jul 06, 2011

New Delhi: Notwithstanding a government order to make public their assets by May end, 450 IAS officers and 461 officers upto the rank of Under Secretary are yet to comply with the directive. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has made public the list of defaulting officers and directed the concerned ministries, where they are attached, to issue show cause notices to them and make notings in their performance...

09:48 PM, Jun 14, 2011

Panaji: The new visa regime which restricts travellers from staying in India for over three months is the new scourge of tourism in Goa, according to a travel and tourism industry spokesperson. The stringent visa regime was severely affecting Goa's tourism USP - repeat tourists from Europe, Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) spokesperson Ralph de Souza told IANS. "Goa enjoys the maximum number of repeat tourists, especially from...

11:01 AM, Dec 29, 2010

Pushkar has seen a sharp drop in tourism this year. ...

03:56 PM, Oct 24, 2009

The new owner will take over the management only after CLB nod. ...

05:16 PM, Apr 12, 2009

UK tour operators say scores have cancelled their trip to India. ...

12:25 AM, Dec 17, 2008

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians' captain Harbhajan Singh attributed poor shot selection of his top-order batsmen as the reason behind his team's humiliating loss against Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League game here on Monday. Mumbai were shot out by Delhi for a mere 92 runs and the visitors overhauled the target with 31 balls to spare to register a seven-wicket win and Harbhajan laid the blame on the poor show...

07:54 AM, May 13, 2008

Sino-Indian relations are going strong as far as tourism is concerned. ...

02:06 PM, Nov 04, 2007

This is a shift from the earlier practice of sending just a handful of bureaucrats abroad for training. ...

10:38 PM, Jan 07, 2007

The boom in the travel and tourism industry has created a need for quality personnel in the field. ...

08:46 AM, Aug 17, 2006