Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will attend the Chief Minister's meeting on internal security to be Chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on April 16. The Chief Minister is scheduled to leave on the morning of April 16 and return the same day, a government release said on Saturday. Jayalalithaa was among a set of Chief Ministers, including Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, who had opposed...
10:09 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet approved restructuring of Air India on Thursday at the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) meet. The plan includes infusion of additional equity to shore up the precarious financial position of the cash-strapped carrier. As part of Air India's restructuring, the government has decided to infuse Rs 4,000 crore as additional equity during the current fiscal. This would raise the airlines' equity base to Rs 7,345...
12:49 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: China on Thursday blamed the Dalai Lama for stoking extremist views and thanked India for taking "effective and concrete" steps to curb protests by Tibetans during President Hu Jintao's visit. Luo Zhaohui, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs, regretted the loss of innocent lives in and around Tibet but said Beijing opposed "pro-independence Tibetan activists". Answering a query about the death of a young Tibetan protester in...
09:52 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The board of Coal India (CIL) will meet again on Thursday to approve the new draft fuel supply agreement, as Wednesday's discussions on the issue remained inconclusive. The Coal India board meeting, held on March 22, had remained inconclusive in the wake of its independent directors resenting a clause in the FSA for ensuring at least 80 per cent supply of the commitment to the power plants. The...
05:08 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Amid independent directors opposing a proposal to sign fuel pacts with power producers for a minimum 80 per cent supply of the commitment, CIL Board will meet on Wednesday to get the draft agreement approved. "The CIL Board will meet tomorrow and we are hopeful that the draft (Fuel Supply Agreement), which could not get the consent of independent directors will be signed," a top official in the...
12:31 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday held an emergency meeting at 11.30 am on the ongoing hostage crises in the state. "There is no response from the abductors of the MLA and I hope they will respond immediately. We also do not have any information about the release of the two Italians," the Chief Minister said. The government has not received any demand from the Maoists for...
11:51 AM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday frowned upon the Opposition attempts to seek a "consensus against government" on the Lokpal Bill and contended that efforts to reach a consensus on the issue "should not be prematurely denigrated". Party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi also indicated that another meeting could take place to sort out the differences as some general consensus has already been arrived in the Friday's all party meeting convened by...
06:10 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his Parliament House office to convey her reservations over the setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and on other issues. "The meeting was good," Banerjee told reporters after meeting the Prime Minister along with Union Ministers and her party colleagues Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Mukul Roy, who is Trinamool Congress's nominee for the...
04:04 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: The ban on cotton exports is likely to be lifted on Saturday, according to sources. The Group of Ministers (GoM) meet to review the ban on cotton exports remained inconclusive on Friday. As a result of this the ban stays till any decision is taken in more meetings to be held. The meeting came after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said he was kept in the dark about the...
08:58 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Army chief General Kayani are set to come face to face on Saturday. This will be their first meeting since the memogate scandal. The country's cabinet committee is also scheduled to meet on Saturday to discuss crucial issues related to national security and US relations. The government has convened a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet, Pakistan's highest decision-making body for...
06:59 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Ghaziabad: Amidst confusion on how to take the movement forward, Team Anna's Core Committee will meet without Anna Hazare on Monday at Arvind Kejriwal's House in Kaushambi near the national capital, which is the headquarters of India Against Corruption, to discuss the future strategies. This comes a day after anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare was discharged from the hospital. He is now recuperating at his village Ralegan Siddhi and has already...
11:15 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: PDP President Mehbooba Mufti praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his approach to investment proposals, a transcript of her speech made public after some remarks triggered a row showed. Mehbooba while referring to her interaction with a Muslim businessman who spoke of Modi's quick response to a business proposal had also said at the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting that such actions were necessary to reach out...
12:43 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Beijing: China reacted cautiously to the first-ever India-US-Japan meeting, hoping that the talks involving the three countries with "great influence" in the Asia-Pacific will be conducive to regional peace and stability. Beijing has taken note of the relevant report on the trilateral talks that took place in Washington on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a media briefing in Beijing when asked about the meeting. "US, Japan and...
05:29 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: Time seems to be running out for the Lokpal Bill. With less than a week to go before the winter session of Parliament wraps up, the deadlock over the Lokpal Bill continues. On Wednesday, the all-party meeting failed to reach a consensus as major political parties stuck to their stands. After three hours of discussion on Wednesday there was no clarity whether the Lokpal Bill will match the...
06:16 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: The all-party meet on Lokpal Bill held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus. All the parties, reportedly, stuck to their stated stands. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan said that all the parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the government to not take any decision on Lokpal in haste. He further said...
10:08 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The government seems to be bending backwards to get all political parties on board on the Lokpal Bill ahead of the all-party meeting on Wednesday. Sources say the government's draft on Lokpal will bring the prosecution wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the ambit of the Lokpal. Team Anna wants the investigation wing of CBI under the Lokpal Bill. The Standing Committee's Lokpal draft already...
02:19 PM, Dec 14, 2011
