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IPL submits re-revised schedule to MHA

Tuesday 17 March '09

The organisers of the Indian Premier League submitted a re-revised tournament schedule to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Rlys, Mysore royal family to restore oldest bridge

Saturday 14 March '09

A 273-year-old abandoned railway bridge over River Kabini in Karnataka — the oldest railway bridge on the Indian Railways network...
Home ministry asks IPL to draw new schedule

Friday 13 March '09

Ministry of Home Affairs advises IPL organizers that it may not be feasible to hold the matches as per the devised schedule submitted by them on March 7.
For security review, NSG joins team to visit missions in Kabul, Dhaka, Colombo

Wednesday 11 March '09

As trouble brews all over its neighbourhood, India is set to send a high-level delegation of senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs....
NSG plans to upgrade equipment

Tuesday 10 March '09

Learning from its 60-hour gunbattle during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, National Security Guard is set to upgrade its weapons profile.
NSG learns from 26/11, to upgrade its firepower

Monday 9 March '09

Learning from its 60-hour gunbattle during Mumbai terror attacks, National Security Guard is all set to upgrade its equipment and weapon profile.
Pvt guards’ uniforms can’t be like NSG’s

Thursday 5 March '09

Miffed over the fact that security guards employed by some private security agencies are wearing uniforms having distinct similarities...
Over 550 posts vacant in IPS, Govt blames NDA 'neglect'

Monday 2 March '09

The Indian Police Service is 557 officers short of its sanctioned strength, the government has revealed. Fifty-six per cent of these vacancies...
Bhopal gas tragedy: survivors seek heritage status for site

Saturday 28 February '09

Twenty-four years after the leakage of methyl isocynate gas from the Union Carbide factory killed over 10,000 people, UNESCO is all set to forward to the Government of India a representation.....
Survivors urge UNESCO to make Union Carbide factory a heritage site

Friday 27 February '09

In 2005 the MP Govt had announced plans to set up a memorial at the site of the factory and a team of architects were also commissioned.
Two years after Samjhauta blast, Railways’ fire retardant steps far from reality

Thursday 26 February '09

More than two years after a train fire arising out of explosions on the Samjhauta Express killed 68 people, the Indian Railways appear to be dragging its feet on a slew of R&D measures....
After complaints, Rlys to do away with extra berths

Tuesday 24 February '09

It is now official. Having spent close to Rs 80 crore on introducing additional longitudinal middle berths in 6,125 AC 3 and Sleeper Class coaches over the past few months.....
The Railways’ success story, from turnaround man

Saturday 21 February '09

Politicians writing books being the flavour of the season, this one, for a change, comes from a serving civil servant.
Global recession hits Lalu's pet projects

Wednesday 18 February '09

Lalu's plan to start work on greenfield locomotive factories in Bihar before model code of conduct for LS polls comes into force has run into an unforeseen wall - the global economic slowdown.
Meltdown slows Lalu projects in race against EC

Wednesday 18 February '09

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s plan to start work on greenfield electric and diesel locomotive factories at Madhepura and Marhowra...
Focus on security, forces sitting on funds

Tuesday 17 February '09

With the country’s internal security in focus, this piece of news is not reassuring.
With pilot project in Orissa, NREGS sees a smart revolution

Monday 16 February '09

2,000 workers have been using smart cards to collect their wages from post offices
2% fare cut is the only Lalu stimulus

Saturday 14 February '09

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had lots of self-congratulatory statements to make in his interim Budget for 2009-10...
How global slowdown caught up with railways

Saturday 14 February '09

Post September 2008, as the global recession was setting in, Indian Railways’ freight traffic of iron ore for exports...
2% fare cut is the only Lalu stimulus

Friday 13 February '09

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had lots of self-congratulatory statements to make in his interim Budget for 2009-10...
Railways: Lalu signals fare cuts

Thursday 12 February '09

“A railways minister who never hiked fares, but reduced them instead.” If a single line could sum up how railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadav...
Qaeda-Taliban-Lashkar behind Mumbai attacks, says NSG chief

Thursday 12 February '09

Underlining the growing concern over the convergence of objectives of terror organisations like the al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Toiba....
Teething trouble in requisition of aircraft: NSG

Wednesday 11 February '09

National Security Guard said that there were teething troubles involved in requisition of aircraft which required some fine-tuning.
Now, a train hijack that never was

Friday 6 February '09

After the recent “hijack” drama at the Delhi airport, it is now the turn of the Indian Railways to enact their version of a hijack that never was.
Buta raises red flag over NACIL contract

Friday 6 February '09

A move by the National Aviation Company of India Ltd, formed after merging Air India and Indian Airlines, to award the contract for its call centre services to InterGlobe....
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