New Delhi: Whether the new reforms in pension and insurance sectors approved by the government will translate into reality could depend on the stand of the BJP. The cabinet cleared 49% Foreign Direct Investment for both key areas last evening, but the new policies have to be cleared in Parliament to become law.
Finance Minister P [...]
New York: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met family members of victims of Oak Creek Gurdwara shooting and said India and the US stand united against those who perpetrate a culture of violence and hatred.
Krishna paid a visit to the Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee yesterday and met the family of priest Punjab Singh, who is [...]
New Delhi: Members of civil society including former CEC N Gopalaswami, ex-Navy chief L Ramdas and former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian yesterday approached the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the coal block allocation scam.
They have filed a joint PIL along with other retired bureaucrats and NGO Common Cause pleading the apex court [...]
New Delhi/Mumbai: Ailing Kingfisher Airlines got some reprieve on Thursday as bankers agreed to release funds from escrow accounts, which is likely to release up to Rs 60 crore for the carrier.
Meanwhile, the KFA management’s meeting with employees stipulated again for today has been cancelled, sources told Zeenews. However the reason behind the cancellation of [...]
Bangalore: India’s IT hub Bangalore is on edge. Protesters belonging to various organisations have geared up to stage rallies across the city to protest against sharing of Cauvery river water with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu on Friday, Oct 5. Protest rallies are likely to start from 11am.
Members belonging to various organisations are going to stage [...]
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is likely to join Samajwadi Party (SP) led by Mulayam Singh Yadav. The news over Yeddyurappa’s inclination towards Mulayam’s party surfaced at a time when speculations over his resignation from BJP were rife.
Yeddyurappa’s aides earlier had held two rounds of meeting with the Samajwadi Party supremo but failed [...]
Chikmagalur: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday hinted at breaking away from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and floating his own outfit.
Ruling out any conciliatory talks with party central leadership, the sulking BJP strongman in Karnataka told reporters in this town, about 200 km from Bangalore: “I am not going to join any [...]
Ahmedabad: When Sonia Gandhi launched her party’s election campaign in Gujarat yesterday, she did not mention Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He has not returned the favour.
“Sonia’s speech had nothing in it, newspapers didn’t even publish it, only put big picture,” Mr Modi said today. He also accused Mrs Gandhi and the Congress of defaming Gujarat.
Hours [...]
Balasore (Odisha): Sharpening its missile prowess, India today successfully test-fired its nuclear- capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range near here as part of a user trial by the army.
“The surface-to-surface missile was flight tested at around 0907 hrs from a mobile launcher from Integrated Test Range’s [...]
New Delhi: State-owned oil companies have hiked the price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) in Delhi by Rs 127 per cylinder to Rs 883.5 on account of increase in international oil prices.
Last month, the government had decided to restrict supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per households in a year. Any requirement over [...]
Mumbai: Personnel from the security force left two gates at the airport unguarded for four hours after two of its vehicles were seized by Customs during a safety inspection.
At 3 pm on Wednesday, Customs officials were examining vehicles at gate no 1 (VVIP entrance) and 6 (entrance for pantry and cargo vehicles) of the Mumbai [...]
New Delhi: Despite several rounds of meetings and persuasions by the management, the employees at debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) seem to be in no mood to relent.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday filed its status report on KFA asking the airline to declare its future strategy.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh talking to [...]
New Delhi: The squabble between Kapil Sibal and Narendra Modi over the low-cost Aakash tablet refused to end with the Gujarat chief minister returning two such devices sent to him by the Union HRD minister for his feedback.
According to sources in the HRD Ministry, the advanced version Aakash II tablets, sent a few days ago [...]
New Delhi: “This is your party, not mine,” said activist Arvind Kejriwal this evening as he launched his political party in Delhi. The party will be christened on November 26, but its founder shared some of its rules today: it will not allow elected representatives to use government accommodation, security, or the lal batti or [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed all schools across the country to provide basic infrastructure facilities like drinking water and toilets to school children. The order was passed on a petition filed by an NGO Environmental and Consumer Protection Foundation.
The court, in its order, said all schools, including private government, will have to implement [...]