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UPA-2 anniversary today, to showcase achievements of UPA-1

Wednesday 22 May '13

We have done well in anti-poverty and minority programmes through our schemes: Moily

Railways returns to Joshi, Sibal gets crucial law ministry

Sunday 12 May '13

The choice of Sibal on the other hand may have been the result of very few options available

Railways returns to Joshi, Sibal gets crucial law ministry

Saturday 11 May '13

They will replace Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal, who got their marching orders on Friday.

Cabinet gives in-principle nod to aviation hub policy

Friday 10 May '13

inter-ministerial committee to iron out differences over a policy to set up aviation hubs in the country after petroleum minister Veerappa Moily strongly opposed civil aviation minister Ajit Singh''s ...

New guidelines likely for sale, lease of govt land

Thursday 9 May '13

In what could have a far-reaching effect on future sale or lease of government land to private players, the Centre is proposing

Coal blocks case: SC hearing today, govt gets new lawyer

Wednesday 8 May '13

The govt has roped in senior lawyer T R Andhyarujina to assist the team of lawyers in the SC.

Pawar all set to ask for special package

Monday 6 May '13

Likely to meet PM, wants Bundelkhand-type relief

Pawar to seek special package for state

Monday 6 May '13

Drought: Likely to meet Prime Minister, wants Bundelkhand-type relief for Maharashtra

Manual scavenging: Cabinet to discuss draft Bill tomorrow

Tuesday 30 April '13

Should manual scavenging be termed as a national shame and at what stage can human excreta be lifted by a safai karmachari?

Ministers flag down two plans, PM sets up GoMs

Friday 19 April '13

Rural Livelihood Foundation for tribal areas, restructuring of central schemes not cleared

To woo Nitish Kumar, Govt set to clear special package for Bihar

Thursday 18 April '13

Bihar has been getting funds under the BRGF to tune of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 crore a year since 2003.

On Cabinet table today, changes in bribery law

Thursday 18 April '13

But proposal to give sanction cover to retd bureaucrats

Pranab to send Karat letter on Narayanan stand to Centre

Tuesday 16 April '13

Bringing into focus the larger question of the extent to which a governor can cross the line of political neutrality, President Pranab Mukherjee

Bhullar''s case may not affect others on death row

Saturday 13 April '13

All the 16 mercy petitions that President Pranab Mukherjee turned down recently may not necessarily suffer the same fate as that of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, whose plea for commutation of death sente...

Bhullar case may not affect others on the death row

Saturday 13 April '13

How can they be viewed in the same yardstick, a source said.

Wooing Young people

Thursday 11 April '13

As the Congress moves towards perhaps projecting the relatively young Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections

Fireworks at GoM, ministers oppose skills upgrade body

Friday 29 March '13

Idea of an NSDA was mooted by PM Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day speech in 2012.

I think UPA is there to stay, says Praful

Wednesday 27 March '13

Pouring cold water on the prospects of a third front emerging after the next Lok Sabha polls, as hinted by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav

Protect all citizens: Pranab to Dhaka

Wednesday 6 March '13

Moni slams Zia for calling off meeting with Pranab

Statement calls for protection of rights of Hindu minorities

Wednesday 6 March '13

"We are hopeful that internal political differences can be resolved through dialogue and that the rights of all communities would be fully respected," he said.