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
Hyderabad: The adverse power supply situation in the state came in handy for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy-baiters during cabinet meeting on Friday even as roads and buildings minister Dharmana Prasad Rao, whose resignation is yet to be accepted, gave a miss to it. Though it was expected that the cabinet would pass a resolution endorsing that Dharmana should not resign and continue discharging his ministerial responsibilities, nothing of...
12:34 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: Key UPA ally and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar is sulking again over not being made number two in the Union government. According to sources, Pawar and his close aide Praful Patel are even ready to quit the Cabinet. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel on Thursday skipped key UPA Cabinet meet for the second time in a row. While the...
09:15 PM, Jul 19, 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 Cabinet will meet on Thursday evening and is likely to clear the amended Lokpal Bill. Once approved by the Cabinet, the amended Lokpal Bill will be sent to the joint Parliamentary panel for its approval. The amendments include change in the Lokpal removal provision as well as that on the setting up of Lokayuktas. The government has agreed to let states decide on the setting up of...
09:24 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Lokpal Bill draft prepared by the Government says that the anti-corruption body will only be quasi-judicial with no powers to investigate. Sources say that the Lokpal will not have suo moto powers and will only take action on complaints filed before it, which means that it will have enquiry powers but cannot investigate. The Lokpal can only prosecute on cases referred by it to investigating agencies. The...
01:36 PM, Dec 20, 2011
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
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is expected to take a final view on the controversial Food Security Bill and discuss the Lokpal draft on December 19. The government said it needs more time to finalise the contentious points of the Lokpal Bill. The Winter Session of Parliament concludes on December 22. The government has also appealed to anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare to have patience on the Lokpal Bill. According to...
03:19 PM, Dec 16, 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 Cabinet Committee on Security will meet on Thursday to take a final call on the controversial Antrix-Devas S-Band spectrum deal. The Cabinet Committee on Security is likely to take a final call on annulling the Antrix-Devas S-Band spectrum deal in which Devas allegedly got rare spectrum cheap causing a loss of crores of revenue to the government. Devas multimedia had on Wednesday issued a new statement saying...
09:38 AM, Feb 17, 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
