Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing him of failing on the economic front to arrest the decline of Rupee vis-a-vis US Dollar. Addressing an award function in Mumbai on Monday evening, he also charged that late prime minister Indira Gandhi had announced during a campaign in the North East that if Congress was elected, the administration would be run as per the...
12:14 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday hit out at Baba Ramdev and Team Anna for attacking the UPA Government over corruption saying that their "mindset" is exposed as they did not name anyone from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), despite the "glaring" corruption charges against a number of Oppposition party leaders. "They have taken so many names against whom they claim to have evidence of corruption. But they have not...
08:54 PM, Jun 03, 2012
The Army Chief has given a spate of interviews over the weekend. In the process he has spoken critically of the Government, the SC and fellow senior officers. ...
09:27 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved starting a passenger bus service to Myanmar and increasing the number of flights to the neighbouring country. "The Cabinet has approved the proposal for introduction of bus service in its meeting today," a source said. The proposal, mooted by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, is for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the neighbouring country for the introduction of passenger...
07:46 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: The government has a lot on its plate right now from the free-falling rupee to the twin deficits which are spiraling out of control. But it dealt the biggest blow to the common man today by hiking petrol prices effective from midnight with the steepest ever increase of Rs 7.50 per litre. The government had been building ground for this decision. It has bitten the bullet finally, a day...
10:17 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: In what came as a big shocker for the common man, the petrol prices were on Wednesday underwent the steepest ever increase of Rs 7.50 per litre, which would be effective from midnight. The increase was on the cards with the rupee continuing its free fall against the US dollar. The rupee fell to a record life low of 56 per dollar on Wednesday. The move evoked sharp...
07:37 PM, May 23, 2012
On the eve of the UPA-II's third anniversary, Law Minister Salman Khurshid admitted that the coalition government has been facing a tough ride. Khurshid said that the Congress was prepared for all options, including being in Opposition, after the 2014 General Elections. The minister was speaking exclusively to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate'. Below is an edited transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Across the country... frustration with this government...
08:39 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: The government may slash spending on foreign travel by ministers and officials and on meetings in five-star hotels as part of austerity measures to cut down on budget deficit. Two days after announcing in Parliament, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced the first steps in that direction. This is another austerity drive from the government that is running out of ideas to the run the economy. There will...
09:43 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: An NGO, seeking removal of former CJI KG Balakrishnan as the NHRC chairman for his alleged misconduct, on Monday told the Supreme Court that a key document of the Centre on probe into disproportionate assets against him and his kins has gone "missing" from the apex court files. This was told to a bench of justices BS Chauhan and JS Khehar by advocate Prashant Bhushan, the counsel for...
08:43 PM, May 07, 2012
Guwahati: A high-level pro-talk ULFA delegation, led by chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, left for New Delhi on Sunday to hold the second round of talks with the Centre to resolve the long-standing issues. The delegation is scheduled to meet Union Home Secretary R K Singh on Monday to review the progress of the talks and to ensure that the process was expedited. "The discussion is likely to be held on the...
02:05 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Terming the comments on the below poverty line (BPL) issue as "unprincipled publicity campaign", Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said the rate of poverty decline doubled during the rule of the UPA Government as compared to the pre-UPA regime. "In the pre-UPA period the decline in poverty was taking place at 0.74 per cent per year. After 2004 it is taking place at 1.5...
06:58 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Is the Indian Express story an attempt to damage the image of the Indian army and General V K Singh? ...
11:57 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: In the wake of Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna's statement on Haj subsidy, BJP on Tuesday demanded that the government should make it clear if it was seriously thinking of withdrawing it. "Till the recent Assembly elections, this government was talking about religion-based reservation but now a senior minister is saying that Haj subsidy should be withdrawn. This shows that there is definitely a change of heart...
01:32 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Kochi: Minister of External Affairs S M Krishna has suggested that the Union government is planning to do away with the subsidy given on Haj pilgrimage. Talking to reporters in Kochi on Monday, the External Affairs Minister said that a number of Muslim organizations had demanded the abolition of the subsidy. Krishna said, "A large number of Muslim organisations have approached the Centre seeking abolition of the subsidy concept for...
06:22 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a review petition filed by the Central Government in the Vodafone tax case. The apex court ruled that there was no tax liability in Vodafone International Holdings-Hutchison Essar transaction. However, the government can raise fresh tax demand after the passage of Finance Bill 2012-13 as in a significant move that will have implications in the Vodafone and other cases involving tax liability...
05:06 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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