New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister, who is in country for a three day visit, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, his second day of the trip, but will not hold a meeting with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for the meeting with prime minister officially, but reports suggest that the two leaders may talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart...
09:35 AM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Since Karnataka is heading for Assembly elections in 2013, the central government may not be pushing it hard to release Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court was told by a counsel on Monday. "Karnataka elections are there. No direction will be given (to Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu)," Tamil Nadu's senior counsel CS Vaidyanathan told the apex court bench of Justice DK Jain and...
12:46 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Chennai: The chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will meet in Bangalore on Thursday to arrive at an amicable solution to the protracted dispute over sharing of Cauvery river waters. The Tamil Nadu government in a statement on Tuesday said Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa would meet her Karnataka counterpart Jagadish Shettar on Nov 29 in the Karnataka capital. The meeting is in response to the apex court saying Monday...
01:09 PM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: An all-party meet was held to break the FDI deadlock in Parliament on Monday. Sources say the government proposed a debate without voting on retail FDI, but the BJP, the Left and the Janata Dal (United) insisted on a vote. The parties stuck to their demand of discussion under rule 184 that entails voting. "We made it clear that its a vote related discussion that we will accept....
03:07 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition may see itself on the backfoot over the demand for debate with voting on FDI in retail. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Samajwadi Party has conveyed to the government that it won't insist on voting over FDI. The SP has conveyed that if voting takes place, it will abstain. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), meanwhile, has asked for a commitment from the government on the...
01:13 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Bangalore: The 25th Southern Zonal Council meeting to be chaired by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Bangalore on Friday will discuss wide ranging issues relating to Police administration, atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes vis-a-vis human trafficking. The meeting is expected to be attended by Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Kiran Reddy. Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangaswamy, Kerala Minister for Finance K...
08:40 AM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will hold the first meeting of his apolitical anti-corruption movement's Core Committee in New Delhi in which former Army Chief VK Singh will be a special invitee. Hazare, who was in Guwahati to attend some events there and returned to the capital this afternoon, will along with his close aides deliberate on future strategies at the meeting. Sources close to Hazare said the former Army chief...
03:10 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: In an apparent move to send out a message of austerity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a bus ride along with other leaders to Surajkund in Haryana where the party is having a brain storming meeting. However, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not go to Surajkund by bus due to security reasons. Union ministers and top Congress leaders will attend the brainstorming session...
10:09 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: The proposal to withdraw the amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act in 2006 has been accepted in the Cabinet meeting on Thursday. With the proposed amendments dropped, the Right to Information Act will not be diluted much to the delight of social activists. The move came after Congress President Sonia Gandhi opposed the amendments. The amendment suggested was that the government exempts file notings from disclosure...
12:13 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The government will not go for amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act as mooted in July 2006, according to sources. The amendment suggested was that the government exempts file notings from disclosure except for development and social issues. The amendment also suggested that the exam selection process be exempted from the RTI ambit. The amendments were seen as dilution of the RTI Act and Congress President...
04:02 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will be meeting on Thursday and the pricing of excess spectrum is likely to be approved. The AG could be asked to come to Cabinet. Also on agenda are measures to control the spread of Japanese Encephalitis in UP and Bihar, the 78-day productivity linked bonus for railway employees and the Rajiv Gandhi pension scheme. The Cabinet is likely to consider a Rs 4,000-crore multi-pronged...
09:53 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Kingfisher airlines, which has declared a lockout till October 20, will hold a meeting with the employees' representatives on Monday in Mumbai to resolve the deadlock over non-payment of salary dues. Airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written a letter calling employees for the meeting, airline sources said. Employees have been on a strike demanding payment of salaries of seven months and have been insisting that dues be...
04:24 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Land Acquisition Bill on Monday remained divided over the issue of retrospective acquisitions and the consent required from land owners with Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar saying two-three meetings are required to finalise the bill. During the last meeting too, the same issues had divided the members of the GoM headed by Pawar. "No final view on retrospective clause could happen. We have...
03:06 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition is already up in arms against more reforms by the UPA government as the Cabinet is expected to clear 26 per cent FDI in pension and raise the cap in insurance to 49 per cent on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is opposed to raising the FDI cap in insurance. The party has no objections with the 26 per cent cap, but is against raising...
01:40 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: After FDI in retail, the Cabinet is likely give a push to another round of reforms on Thursday. The Cabinet will take up the long-pending insurance and pension bills on Thursday. The amended bills propose hiking foreign investment limit to 49 per cent from the present 26 per cent. Although the government had given its approval, it did not come up for discussion in the Monsoon session due...
03:50 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Khagaria/Begusarai: Large scale violence and arson by contractual teachers and protesters marred Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's public meetings in Bihar's Khagaria and Begusarai districts held on Thursday to mobilise mass support for grant of special status to the state. Official sources said the protesters, most of them contractual teachers, set on fire three motorcycles and a jeep belonging to the police near Khagaria district collectorate when they were prevented from...
08:04 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Surajkund: Don't touch any colleague's feet in order to go up the party ladder, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Concerned over a culture of patronage, Gadkari declared at the party's National Council meeting here: "There will be no protocol in the party... I am ordering it." Citing his own example, Gadkari said if an ordinary worker like him could become the party president, others too had...
05:03 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Chennai: The DMK, a key constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the Centre, has called a meeting of its executive committee here on Oct 1. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, DMK's general secretary K. Anbazhagan said an emergency meeting of the party's executive committee has been called on Oct 1 at 10 am at the party headquarters. The meeting will be chaired by DMK president...
10:38 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Chennai: Though he was supposedly suspended by Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh for irregularities in awarding contracts, a top official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is believed to have attended a pre-bid meeting at the airport here on Friday, drawing flak from unionists in the airport. According to well-placed sources in AAI, L L Krishnan, Executive Director (Commercial), flew into the city and attended a pre-bid meeting held...
12:42 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Bangalore: Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has convened an all-party leaders meeting in Bangalore on Friday to discuss sharing of Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu. On Thursday, Shettar had walked out of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi after the state was asked to release water to Tamil Nadu. The all-party meet on Friday is expected to be attend ed by floor...
10:49 AM, Sep 21, 2012
