NEW DELHI: A legislation to make the Railway Protection Force (RPF) responsible for all railway related law and order issues, apart from passenger safety, will likely be tabled in March 2012 when the Budget will be discussed in Parliament. The Bill is before the Cabinet for an approval. The RPF Amendment Bill, 2011, which has been sitting for a while, will give it powers to register cases of crime and...
03:07 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Male: New Maldivian President Mohammed Waheed Hassan expanded his cabinet on Sunday amid the ongoing crisis in the island nation. The expansion includes two key players from former dictator Gayoom's administration. The new President has inducted seven new ministers in his cabinet but the post of vice president has been kept empty as of now. The sources say that the key post may be given to Mohammed Nasheed's party, the...
07:14 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former president Mohammed Nasheed hit out at India in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Nasheed said he is disappointed with India's reaction to the mutiny in his country and hopes that it would change its course soon. Nasheed said that he was forced to step down at gunpoint. He further said that the speaker of the House should take over and have fresh elections in two months. Here...
11:45 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Male: Maldives new President Mohammed Waheed Hassan is set to conduct a major Cabinet expansion on Sunday, even as his deposed predecessor Mohammed Nasheed postponed his scheduled visit to his power centre Addu, where his supporters had alleged a violent crackdown. Government sources said a major Cabinet expansion will take place on Sunday as the new president makes efforts to establish a "national unity" government. Soon after taking over as...
10:20 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Hyderabad: The ministry of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was on Monday expanded with the induction of three legislators. Governor ESL Narasimhan administered the oath to the three new Congress ministers - N Uttam Kumar Reddy, G Prasad Kumar and K Murali Mohan - at a brief ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad. Uttar Reddy and Prasad Kumar belong to Telangana region, while Murali Mohan hails...
10:21 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Budget may be presented around the middle of March in view of the ongoing Assembly elections, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee indicated on Wednesday. In an informal chat with journalists, he said a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs will be convened in the first week of February to decide on the date of the Budget Session of Parliament. He said the customary President's address...
02:00 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet is likely to take a final decision on Wednesday on whether or not to give statutory powers to the Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification Authority's proposal. It seeks to expand the UID project in order to issue national identity cards to the entire population as opposed to the mandated 200 million people. The government has to take a decision soon because it the UIDAI is likely...
06:07 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave final approval to London-based mining group Vedanta Resources Plc's acquisition of a majority stake in Cairn India Ltd for USD 8.48 billion. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the deal this evening, highly placed sources said. Fresh approval was necessitated in view of the Home Ministry pointing to alleged global and domestic "transgressions" by Vedanta...
08:04 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The CIC has pulled up the Cabinet Secretariat for failing to trace records that led to issuance of a circular in 1975 which requires the Prime Minister's nod for setting up a high level committee or commission. The failure of the Cabinet Secretariat to locate the file related to such an important circular drew flak from Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra for poor record keeping in such an...
05:47 PM, Jan 18, 2012
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Bangalore: The much-awaited expansion of DV Sadananda Gowda's Cabinet has been postponed yet again. The CM on Sunday confirmed that the expansion of his Cabinet will not take place till the Assembly elections to five states are over. "I need to discuss the issue with the party high-command. But I am unable to do so as they are busy with the elections to five states. Once they are free, I...
10:53 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday directed the government to put on hold the decision on 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in five poll-bound states till election process ends there, taking cognisance of objections to the step. "It has been brought to the notice of the Commission that the Central Government has carved out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities from within 27 per cent quota for OBCs...
08:47 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to fill vacancies for SCs and STs in Central Government jobs. The Cabinet has issued a directive for about 50,000 positions to be filled. The timing is significant as it comes just before the UP Assembly elections in February. The move obviously aimed at helping the Congress woo the voters in Mayawati's state and...
01:38 PM, Jan 04, 2012
The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night. ...
10:43 PM, Dec 30, 2011
The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night. ...
07:32 PM, Dec 30, 2011
The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night. ...
06:32 PM, Dec 30, 2011
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