Chandigarh: The enrolment for Aadhaar card has touched 99 per cent and 88.6 per cent in Union Territory of Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh respectively. The enrolment figure under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) scheme in Punjab and Haryana is 62.9 per cent and 30.1 per cent respectively so far, Keshni Anand Arora, UIDAI, Deputy Director General (Northern Region), said. "We are aiming to cover the entire population in...
08:57 AM, Apr 18, 2013
In 'Accidental India: A History of the Nation's Passage through Crisis and Change', noted journalist-analyst, Shankkar Aiyar, examines India's ascent through the paradigm of seven game changers: the economic liberalization of 1991, the Green Revolution of the sixties, the nationalization of banks in 1969, Operation Flood in the seventies, the mid-day meal scheme of 1982, the software revolution of the nineties, and the passing of the Right to Information Act...
03:27 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Matigara: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that with the coming of the Mamata Banerjee government, West Bengal has moved from one dictatorship to another. "It is the mistake of the people that the state has moved from one dictatorship ("tanashahi") by the Left Front to another dictatorship by the Trinamool Congress," Ramesh told Congress party workers here in Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district. Criticising the West...
03:20 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The government is planning to start transferring the subsidy for cooking gas in cash under the direct benefit transfer scheme, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday. Addressing a media conference in Delhi, Chidambaram said he would soon meet Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily and sort out the issues related to the direct cash transfer for liquified petroleum gas (LPG). "We want to quickly move the LPG subsidy to...
03:52 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Washington: The Indian-American community has welcomed the Punjab government's announcement of 10 per cent housing and plots quota for NRIs in the state. "This is a good decision," said Satnam Singh Chahal of the North American Punjabi Association. Chahal's reaction came after Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday announced in Chandigarh that his "government has evolved a comprehensive plan to make NRIs equal partners in the industrial...
03:15 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Reserve Bank on Thursday notified 0.1 per cent reduction each in interest rates on Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS) to be effective from the fiscal beginning April 1, 2013. The rate of interest on PPF has been lowered from 8.8 per cent to 8.7 per cent with effect from April 1, 2013, RBI said in a notification. The rate of interest on 5 year SCSS...
06:51 PM, Mar 28, 2013
West Bengal's opposition Congress on Tuesday said it has asked the union government to initiate a probe into the improper utilisation of rural employment guarantee funds in the state. ...
09:38 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The Bombay High Court has found prima facie evidence of corruption worth Rs 6,000 crore in purchases of materials relating to tribal development schemes. The court has handed over investigation into the alleged corruption case to the CBI. ...
12:57 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday claimed to have sufficient proofs of alleged irregularities committed in the farmers's loan waiver scheme of the Centre which was brought out by CAG report recently. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 17, 2013
As private airlines intensified low fare war, Air India on Wednesday launched a 60-day advance purchase fare scheme to woo vacation travellers on its domestic network offering prices close to air-conditioned train fares. ...
11:18 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A five-member team comprising officials from the UN and Boston Consulting Group arrived on Tuesday at East Godavari district to study Aadhar-card based services provided by the public distribution system. The five-member delegation, which included officials from United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) visited Rajahmundry and Samalkota mandals and later met the district joint collector A Babu, an official release said. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Mobile handset maker Nokia India announced insurance scheme against mobile handset theft and accidental damage, in partnership with insurance firm New India Assurance. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
India's offer of an extra 5 million tonnes of wheat for export direct to private traders is at too high a price, traders said, undermining its own efforts to avoid rotting stocks and make room for the new harvest. ...
04:38 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The Lok Sabha is likely to discuss the CAG report on the farm loan waiver scheme on Thursday. On Wednesday, the House was adjourned after repeated ruckus by the Opposition. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had promised stringent action against defaulters. ...
10:34 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there was no "misappropriation" of funds under the Rs 52,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme and sought a more comprehensive audit by CAG to get a better picture. Stating that the sample size taken for auditing was "too small", Pawar said audit of "significant" number of accounts should be done by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). ...
03:05 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday assured that action will be taken if irregularities are found in the farm loan waiver scheme. The Prime Minister's statement in the Rajya Sabha came after loud protests by the Opposition in the House. The Lok Sabha, too, witnessed a demand from the Opposition to discuss the CAG report on farm loan waiver scheme. ...
12:38 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday after uproar over alleged scam in farm loan waiver scheme. The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday had criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The BJP on Tuesday alleged that nearly 34 lakh farmers had been denied their right under the loan waiver scheme of the UPA government and demanded a CBI inquiry to unearth the real extent of the "massive scam". ...
02:07 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament earlier on Tuesday criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
10:48 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament earlier on Tuesday criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 05, 2013
