Saturday 21 November '09
To resolve the impasse over the implementation of its ambitious programme to educate all in the 6-14 age group over the next...Saturday 21 November '09
The steel and mines ministries are locked in a bitter turf war on amending the existing Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act.Thursday
19 November '09After a year-long intense campaign by Rahul Gandhi, the Cabinet will finally discuss a comprehensive Rs 7,000-cr package that envisages large-scale irrigation and river-linking programmes.Tuesday
17 November '09With the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat and rice shooting up by more than 70 per cent in the last five years and resulting in a subsidy...Sunday
15 November '09Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has, gently, turned the heat on absentee Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, asking her for a status report on the Railways in a fortnight....Friday
13 November '09State-run Coal India Limited (CIL) is under fire from the power and steel ministries for failing to deliver proper washed coal resulting in severe loss in power generation.Thursday
12 November '09With the global economic downturn lingering, the government has cautiously set in motion the process of finalising provisions for the next Budget by asking Central ministries....Tuesday
10 November '09BSE-listed state-run behemoth Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is planning divestment in two tranches — the government will offload...Saturday
7 November '09Concerned that the Indian Railways’ failing fiscal health could upset expansion plans, the Planning Commission has again flagged the issue of setting up of a regulatory authority for it....Wednesday
4 November '09Continuing its crackdown on companies idling on their coal blocks, the Coal Ministry has now trained it guns on state-run behemoth National Aluminium...Wednesday
4 November '09The UPA government is unlikely to draw any comfort on the fiscal front owing to the grim resource mobilization scenario. So much so that...Saturday
31 October '09The steel ministry and the Orissa government have asked South Korean steel giant Posco to expedite the process of land...Friday
30 October '09Having set the deadline to roll-out the first batch of Unique Identification Numbers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has now stepped in to head an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to fast track the ambitious project....Thursday
29 October '09With rice procurement during the current marketing season (beginning October) remaining low as compared to that last year....Monday
26 October '09Rebuffing Beijing’s wish that New Delhi bar the Dalai Lama from travelling to Arunachal Pradesh, Prime MInister Manmohan Singh has told Chinese Premier Wen...Monday
26 October '09Seeking to expand the ambit of its Look East Policy and pave way for the fructification of its recently concluded Free Trade Agreement with Asean...Sunday
25 October '09Keeping aside their intense battle of nerves on cross-border issues, India and China on Saturday vowed not to allow mutual differences to jeopardise “functional cooperation” in bilateral ties....Sunday
25 October '09Saying that India’s future and economic interests would be served best by greater integration with its Asian partners, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...Sunday
25 October '09India and Japan today resolved to strengthen their strategic and global partnership with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that...Saturday
24 October '09The most anticipated meeting of the ASEAN and East Asia Summit will take place at the Thai beach resort town of Hua Hin tomorrow....Saturday
24 October '09Asking its member-countries to embrace pan-Asian economic ties, the Association of South Asian Nations (Asean) today said it should now actively pursue achieving regionwide Free Trade Agreements....Wednesday
21 October '09The government is all set to embark on another big-ticket disinvestment by planning to offload “around 15 per cent...Tuesday
20 October '09The Indian Railways is fighting a grim battle to rescue its financially unviable projects as part of the state-run monolith’s...Thursday
15 October '09Hardeining its position on the stalled India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks, the 27-nation European Union has said that India...Monday
12 October '09With the world’s biggest steel producer Arcelor Mittal expressing serious resentment over the delay in land acquisition in Jharkhand and Orissa...
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