New Delhi: The Citizen's Charter Bill, cleared by the Union Cabinet on December 13, will be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The bill will spell out a citizen's charter containing a category of goods and services to be delivered in a time-bound manner and setting up a public grievance redressal panel. Team Anna has been demanding that the Judiciary, a Citizen's Charter and a Grievance Redressal mechanism be brought under...
06:40 PM, Dec 19, 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: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Chief Ajit Singh sworn in as Union Cabinet Minister on Sunday in a minor expansion of the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The swearing-in took place a week after his party formally joined the UPA. There is speculation that Singh may get the civil aviation portfolio. The 72-year-old Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh is being inducted a week after his...
11:51 AM, Dec 18, 2011
New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Chief Ajit Singh will be inducted as a Union Cabinet Minister on Sunday in a minor expansion of the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at 11.30 am on December 18, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said on Saturday night. The swearing-in takes place a week after his party formally joined the UPA. There is speculation that...
07:54 AM, Dec 18, 2011
New Delhi: Aimed at preventing sealing and demolition of a large number of unauthorised structures in Delhi, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill in this regard to be introduced in Parliament. "The proposed Bill seeks to maintain the status quo up to 2014 in regard to unauthorised colonies including village abadis (settlements) and their extensions, storages, warehouses, and godowns for farm produce beside some other categories," said a...
10:51 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Washington: Welcoming the decision of the Indian government to allow foreign direct investment in the multi-brand retail sector, the United States said that it will "deepen" the India-US economic co-operation. "We welcome India's decision. We think economic reforms such as these will further strengthen business-to-business ties between our two countries," State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, told reporters. "It's going to create new economic opportunities and it's also going to lead...
08:46 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Lucknow: Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday said FDI in retail sector would make Uttar Pradesh a bankrupt state and termed it as a move aimed at benefiting foreign friends of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. "As the Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi is ill...the party has made internal decision to make Rahul acting party chief and Prime Minister in future. To please the yuvraj, FDI in retail has been allowed to benefit...
06:16 PM, Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet gave its nod for foreign funds in retail on Thursday, a move that the beleaguered UPA hopes will help salvage its image. It's also the government's first big policy initiative that sends a clear message to dissenting allies like TMC chief Mamata Banerjee as to who's calling the shots in the coalition. Sources say both the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma...
07:12 AM, Nov 25, 2011
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared 50 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail and 100 per cent FDI in single brand retail. ...
11:57 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared 50 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and 100 per cent FDI in single brand retail despite division within the UPA on the issue. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Left, UPA ally Trinamool Congress along with some Cabinet ministers Veerappa Moily and Mukul Wasnik have opposed it. While the BJP feels that FDI will lead to unemployment, the...
08:49 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the Companies Bill, 2011 and decided to take up the Bill in the Winter Session itself for approval by Parliament. Once approved by Parliament, it will replace half-a-century-old Companies Act. "The Cabinet has cleared Companies Bill, 2011. It is likely to be tabled (for consideration and passage) in the ongoing Winter Session," a Corporate Affairs Ministry official said after the Cabinet meeting....
08:31 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Kolkata: From being a founder member of Trinamool Congress and chief whip of its Parliamentary Party to a berth in the Union cabinet as a minister of state, Sudip Bandopadhyay has come a long way. A three-time Lok Sabha member, Sudip quit his Assembly seat of Bowbazar and made his maiden entry into the Lok Sabha on a Trinamool ticket in 1998 to become the party's chief whip in Parliament....
08:11 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has written to the President recommending that the following may be appointed as members of the Union Council of Ministers and has requested that the oath of office and secrecy be administered at 5.00pm on Tuesday. The Prime Minister has recommended the following portfolios: Cabinet Ministers: V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj Beni Prasad Verma: Steel Dinesh Trivedi: Railways Jairam Ramesh: Rural...
11:15 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been urged by Assam government to induct more MPs from the state in the Union Cabinet during the upcoming reshuffle of his ministry. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said he had sent a representation to the Prime Minister for inclusion of MPs from Assam in the Cabinet. "I am hopeful there will be more ministers from Assam in the Union Cabinet this time,"...
05:00 PM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: Union Textile Minister and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Thursday ahead of a likely Cabinet reshuffle. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Maran could be dropped in the reshuffle, which could have political repercussions for the United Progressive Alliance Government. Sources say that Maran could be shown the door after his name cropped up in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, which...
12:06 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will juggle his team on Wednesday. Will young faces push out heavyweights? This the first reshuffle in UPA II and comes in the backdrop of a sharp decline in its image. While the vacancies caused by exit of Prithviraj Chavan, Shashi Tharoor will be filled, its the performance quotient which will be the key. Sources indicate that some ministers who failed to reach the...
06:56 PM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: There is all likelihood of a Cabinet reshuffle within the next 24 hours. Congress President Soina Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence 7 Race Course Road in New Delhi to decide on the Cabinet. Her political secretary Ahmed Patel was also present at the meeting. Singh has already met Sonia five times in the last one week and also met President Pratibha Patil on Monday....
11:41 AM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday passed amendments to the contentious Enemy Property Act of 1968 which will now be introduced in the winter session of parliament. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs to introduce the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Second Bill, 2010 to make amendments to the Enemy Property Act, 1968. The...
01:28 PM, Oct 20, 2010
