New Delhi: The Prime Minister on Friday approved setting up of an Investment Tracking System to speed up the implementation of projects. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said that the tracking system has been set up to address the issue of major investment projects being delayed for a variety of reasons. The issue had come up in the last meeting of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and...
01:26 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A move is afoot in the government to make corruption in private sector a penal offence with imprisonment up to seven years for the offenders. The government has proposed to make bribery in private sector - both giving and accepting it - a criminal offence by amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The draft Indian Penal Code (Amendments) Bill, 2011, circulated to States and Union Territories by the...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: With the alleged involvement of big corporates in a spate of scams apparently weighing on his mind, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said government is considering changes in law to make private sector bribery a criminal offence. Speaking at the Biennial Conference of CBI and state anti-corruption bureaux, the Prime Minister said India has ratified UN Conventions against corruption and to meet its requirements a slew of...
02:25 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar feels that the corporates and the private sector should be brought under the ambit of the Right to Information Act as public invests through shares in them and suffers when their fortunes sink. Addressing the annual convention of Central Information Commission in New Delhi, Nitish said, "The transparency law should be expanded to public-private partnership projects as well because government invests in them."...
08:15 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Bangalore: Reacting to the Centre's decision of agreeing to issue a formal order to set up a committee for drafting a strong Lokpal Bill, Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murty on Saturday hailed the outcome of the protest launched by social activist Anna Hazare. "Corruption is a phenomenon that affects the entire civil society and therefore Anna Hazare's desire that civil society plays an important role in defining the...
05:55 PM, Apr 09, 2011
Decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by the PM. ...
09:35 AM, Mar 05, 2010
The issue of the 'Marathi Manus' come up again. ...
06:18 PM, Jun 11, 2009
UP CM reiterates demand for reservations in business, judiciary. ...
09:42 PM, Jun 05, 2009
CISF Amendment Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. ...
10:43 AM, Feb 21, 2009
During a cash crunch, many companies look for ways to make an extra buck. ...
09:04 PM, Oct 13, 2008
The Government is reluctant to pursue reservations in the private sector. ...
11:17 AM, May 30, 2008
Colombo: Upul Tharanga cracked an unbeaten 101 to steer Sri Lanka to an emphatic eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in the second one-day international on Thursday. The left-handed opener hit seven fours in his ninth one-day century as Sri Lanka achieved a rain-revised target of 197 with more than four overs to spare for a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The opening game of the series was abandoned...
04:40 PM, Dec 07, 2007
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals is set to file an appeal in the Bombay High Court on Monday against the BCCI's decision to expel them from the Indian Premier League (IPL). Royals, which won the 2008 IPL tournament, had its contract terminated after BCCI charged that it had changed its shareholding pattern without taking the consent of the board or the IPL governing council. The promoters of Rajasthan Royals have now...
10:40 AM, Oct 27, 2007
The reservations will be voluntary, says the government. ...
10:44 AM, Aug 11, 2007
Industry bodies told the government not to force any job quota on them. ...
10:44 AM, Jul 14, 2007
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