Anna Hazare will embark on a year-long, all-India tour from Sunday to campaign for a stronger Lokpal bill, electoral reforms and other issues he has been raising for the past few years, an aide said in Mumbai. ...
06:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Sachin Tendulkar has been involved with Apnalaya, which works closely with children in Mumbai's slums. The Master Blaster sponsors the education of a number of kids and has auctioned his coaching to raise funds for the NGO. Besides, he has provided financial assistance to an archer of the army's Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre and helped him represent India in the world championships in 2011. ...
12:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Country's biggest private sector electricity producer Tata Power has accused entities with vested interests, along with some foreign NGOs, of spreading "falsehood" about environmental issues at its flagship 4,000 MW Mundra project in Gujarat. "...there are some foreign agencies, some such type of NGOs, who in connivance with some elements have started to arm-twist us," Tata Power Managing Director Anil Sardana said. ...
01:02 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Deportivo La Coruna beat visiting Malaga 1-0 thanks to Luis Afonso's second-half goal. ...
08:38 AM, Jan 06, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came to the rescue of the homeless and asked the city government not to remove till April the temporary night shelters, built near railways tracks in the national capital. ...
10:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, part of a harsh response to a US law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although some top Russian officials including the foreign minister openly opposed the bill and Putin himself had been noncommittal about it last week, he signed it less than 24 hours after receiving it from parliament, where both houses passed...
08:16 PM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: The government, after holding a series of talks with the Opposition members, is optimistic of introducing the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha by next week, sources on Tuesday told CNN-IBN. Sources added that the government has decided that the states will take a call on respective Lokayuktas and only MPs can remove the Lokpal head. There also seems to be a consensus on only government-funded NGOs being...
05:35 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: The government has in a fresh order asked all foreign outfits in India to furnish it with updated details of their workers and nature of their work, at least once a year. The close watch on foreign entities in India follows the revelations that anti-Kudankulam nuclear stir in Tamil Nadu was funded by NGOs in the US. According to a circular from the union home ministry, foreign companies,...
05:00 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when some NGOs are under surveillance for allegedly routing foreign funds to fuel unrest in India, government records show that nearly 22,000 voluntary groups have received Rs 10,000 crore donations from abroad for social service during 2009-10. Of these NGOs, 3,218 belong to Tamil Nadu which together received Rs 1663.31 crore as contribution from abroad, mostly the US, the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands....
10:34 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Chennai: The central government should stop harassing Christians and withdraw the negative remarks on the Tuticorin Diocese for allegedly financing the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) protesters, said the Tamil Nadu Bishops Council (TNBC) here on Thursday. In a statement issued here, A.M. Chinnappa, archbishop of Madras-Mylapore and president of TNBC, said: "It is open secret that the central government is taking these actions against the Diocese of Tuticorin and...
10:36 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Washington: The US is strongly supportive of India's investment in the civil nuclear power, and its support to the NGOs goes for development and democracy programmes, the Obama Administration has said. "We are supportive as a government of India's investment in civil nuclear power. That's not what we support NGOs to do in India," the State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday. "Our...
12:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012
More than two years after he imposed a moratorium on the commercial release of BT Brinjal, Jairam Ramesh defends his controversial decision says, "On BT ...
04:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Jairam Ramesh defends his controversial decision to impose a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt Brinjal says, "on Bt Brinjal, I would not say, from my experience that foreign NGOs influenced the decision". His remarks came against the backdrop of Prime Minister's comments that some NGOs based in the United States and Scandinavian countries were not "fully appreciative" of the development challenges India faces and, were creating...
03:23 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday blamed the Kudankulam protests squarely on foreign NGOs, who, he said, fund these protests. ...
11:05 PM, Feb 24, 2012
A mock drill at a private company in Bangalore turned deadly, when the rope carrying a 25-year-old woman employee snapped, and she fell from the third floor to her death. The drill, incidentally, was organised by the fire department of the company. ...
10:22 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: The foreign hand is back. Blaming outside interference for the stalled Kudankulam nuclear reactor in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an interview given to American magazine 'Science', said, "The atomic energy programme got into difficulties because these NGOs, mostly I think based in the United States, don't appreciate the need for our country to increase the energy supply." SP Udaykumar, Coordinator, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy,...
07:17 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: NGOs in Gujarat have written to the Chief Justice of India, after some media reports said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 riot cases plans to file a closure report. The NGOs have asked Chief Justice SH Kapadia to ensure justice for the riot victims. Their letter also asks the Chief Justice of India to inquire why the recommendations of Amicus Curaie Raju Ramchandran are...
08:48 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Panaji: Goa's civil society groups, who have been raising issues of public concern from the sidelines, have now decided to test political waters and field their own candidates in the March 3 Assembly polls. They have announced their first list of four candidates. The list includes Fr Bismarck Dias, who would be making history by becoming the first Christian priest to contest polls in Goa which has a sizeable Catholic...
12:27 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Washington: The US State Department is partnering with an Indian non-profit to create an online searchable database of credible Indian NGOs to work with potential American donors to build public-private partnerships. The database will include all those Indian NGOs that have been vetted by an independent third party to ensure they are accountable, transparent and keep only a small percentage of a donation to cover their expenses so the maximum...
01:06 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Bhopal: The Centre is contemplating demolition of the now defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal due to mercury contamination, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. "Though the state government and NGOs wants to preserve a part (of the factory) from where the gas leaked as monument, the Centre and the Group of Ministers (GoMs) on Bhopal gas tragedy want to raze the building of the Union Carbide Factory...
06:07 PM, May 25, 2011
