Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday failed to get any assurance from Manmohan Singh on drought relief package. Maharashtra had demanded a 2,700 crore relief package from the Centre. ...
11:32 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday failed to get any assurance from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on drought relief package. Maharashtra had demanded a 2,700 crore relief package from the Centre. The Prime Minister has asked Prithviraj Chavan to exercise discipline through proper use of allocations made by the Planning Commission. "I am confident that our demands of 1500 crore for drought relief and 1200 crore for...
05:54 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to seek a special relief package for the drought-hit state. Nearly 12 districts in the state have been hit by a severe drought. The Prime Minister is expected to make an announcement soon in this regard. Chavan had reportedly sought a relief package of over Rs 2,200 crore and 5...
08:36 AM, May 08, 2012
Satara: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is set to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to seek a relief package for 12 drought-hit districts in his state. The state has reportedly sought a package of over Rs 2,200 crore and 5 lakh tonnes of foodgrain at BPL rates. However, CNN-IBN has found that quick-fix relief packages every year have failed to cure the problem and no long-term remedies have...
08:09 AM, May 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), a US-based organization, has built 60 schools in the remote villages of coastal Andhra Pradesh and plans to construct 40 more to provide education to Muslims. Under its platform, Rural Educational and Economic Development (REED), the organization has not only constructed the buildings of basic multipurpose one-teacher schools but also appointed trained Telugu-speaking teachers. "We will run these schools for two years and...
01:09 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Centre on Thursday assured Trinamool Congress that it was considering steps to give relief to West Bengal as party MPs met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday night to seek moratorium on interest and debt repayment for the next three years for the state. "Eighteen of our MPs met the Finance Minister and had a discussion about the difficult financial condition about the state. We pleaded for a...
02:57 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Centre on Thursday assured the Trinamool Congress that it was considering steps to give relief to West Bengal as party MPs met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to seek moratorium on interest and debt repayment for the next three years for the state. "Eighteen of our MPs met the Finance Minister and had a discussion about the difficult financial condition about the state. We pleaded for a moratorium on...
10:50 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: More than 100 people were still feared trapped under the rubble after a three-storey building of a blanket manufacturing factory collapsed in Focal point area in Jalandhar on Sunday night. Six persons were killed in the incident while 58 people have been rescued so far. Rescue efforts were still to save those still trapped under the debris of the factory building. Police, Army and personnel from the National...
09:52 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Puducherry: About 100 students from coastal villages in neighbouring Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, studying in schools in Puducherry, have not been getting their educational allowance from the Tsunami Relief sanctioned by PMO for the past six years, a children's rights movement said in Puducherry on Saturday. MA Segar, convenor of 'Neithal Community Children's Rights Movement' (movement for protection of rights of fishermen's families in coastal hamlets) told newsmen on...
03:31 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: There was pandemonium in the Odisha Assembly on Wednesday as the House witnessed what seemed like a wrestling match right at the Speaker's podium. Opposition Congress MLAs tussled with the security staff after creating a disruption during question hour. The MLAs were protesting against the state government's declaration of drought relief without consulting them. ...
03:14 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Mumbai: The Right to Education Act promises quality infrastructure in schools. When child relief organization CRY invited volunteers to click photographs of government schools, it was an image of horror. Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some of the government schools. The reality was captured in camera by citizen journalists for CRY's campaign called click rights. The best pictures were...
01:29 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs 5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said she had ordered payment of Rs.500,000 each to the four tribal Irula women who complained of rape by policemen of Tirukoilur police station in the district....
04:53 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Yoga expert Shalini Vadera tells you about the asanas that help relieve stress. ...
03:14 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Istanbul: Last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey killed 40 people, bringing the death toll in two tremors over the last three weeks to 644, the state Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said on Sunday. Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless by the quakes in Van province, bordering Iran, and their plight has been worsened by freezing temperatures after the first heavy snowfall of winter. Prime Minister Tayyip...
07:54 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Van: Rescuers on Friday recovered the dead body of one of the two journalists missing underneath the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel as the death toll in the second earthquake to hit eastern Turkey in about two weeks rose to at least 25. A colleague identified a body found in the rubble of the collapsed hotel in the eastern city of Van as that of Cem Emir, a reporter for...
06:46 AM, Nov 12, 2011
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