Over 100 SEZs in no-go zone

Tuesday 18 September '07

Centre drops proposals as states yet to complete formalities 8-10 months after they got in-principle approval.

Ministers had queries, so Cabinet says rework Sati law

Monday 17 September '07

The slew of amendments proposed in the law to prevent Sati have run into resistance from within the Cabinet on two grounds...

Sati to be called a murder, spectators face action too

Thursday 13 September '07

Cabinet set to clear changes in law: priest who performs ritual, relatives, village pradhan, even DM will be brought in legal net....

Kickbacks to Ministers, Health officials, said World Bank but Govt sits on report

Thursday 6 September '07

The World Bank’s internal anti-corruption unit has alleged widespread corruption, including “witness statements” that kickbacks were paid

Participatory banking is beneficial for all, says Ansari

Saturday 1 September '07

Pointing out the “striking similarities” between India’s traditional financial practices and the usury-averse principles of Islamic banking

Insurance cover under the scanner

Friday 31 August '07

While the expert group on agricultural indebtedness set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for credit measures and non-credit related institutional reforms to check debt traps and suicides...

Uganda to ask Delhi to deliver on its promises

Tuesday 28 August '07

Five executive buses for heads of Government and their spouses, 20 garbage trucks, firefighting equipment and security assistance...

Left chill, PM’s thaw: ‘if winter’s here, can spring be far behind?’

Thursday 23 August '07

As the CPM central committee began a two-day meeting today to discuss the standoff over the Indo-US nuclear deal..

PM’s panel favours long-term loans for farmers

Saturday 18 August '07

Even as the head-count of persons who are poor is coming down, there has been a spurt in the number of undernourished persons across all farming classes.”

‘Reforms a must to curb farmer deaths’

Friday 17 August '07

While debt is an important factor behind farmers’ suicides, it is not the only one. This has been found by the expert group on agricultural indebtedness appointed by Prime Minister....

No guarantee your EPF will earn 8.5 per cent

Thursday 16 August '07

Union Minister of Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes may have declared an 8.5 per cent Employees’ Provident Fund rate for 2006-07...

Special package

Wednesday 15 August '07

Unemployment is a problem. SEZs could be part of the solution

Duty-free market for African goods soon, says Pranab

Sunday 12 August '07

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said India has not forgotten its promise to offer duty-free and quota-free access

‘Open Indian market to Africa’

Saturday 11 August '07

Even as the Government is working towards allowing duty free market access to the Least Developed Countries in the SAARC region a year ahead of schedule

PM’s panel finds fault with his package on farm suicides

Friday 10 August '07

Over a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a Rs 17,000-crore package for alleviating the agrarian crisis in 31 districts hit by farmer suicides — in Vidarbha

Ministry plans Aircraft Act overhaul

Thursday 2 August '07

The archaic Aircraft Act of 1934 is moving closer to an overhaul. The Union Cabinet is likely to take up a proposal by the Civil Aviation Ministry to withdraw an amendment Bill...

Gratuity for pvt school teachers could be a reality

Thursday 26 July '07

In a bid to revive interest in the profession and help teachers of private schools, who are affected by a Supreme Court judgment of 2004 that declared them ineligible for gratuity

Youth Games: Kalmadi wants funds doubled

Monday 23 July '07

Even before the first event in the run up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games—the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 in Pune—kicks off

Panel finds ‘surplus’ to retain 8.5% return on PF

Saturday 21 July '07

After dithering over announcing the Employees’ Provident Fund rate for 2006-07 for over 16 months, the UPA government has found an exit route that allows it to retain the PF rate at 8.5 per cent instead of the 8 per cent...

Hotels for Games: Mulayam gave land so Mayawati orders a review

Wednesday 18 July '07

Putting a spanner in India’s Commonwealth Games works, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered a review of the allotment of 14 hotel sites in Noida and Ghaziabad...

Manmohan to chair skill development meet today

Wednesday 18 July '07

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Wednesday preside over a meeting on one of his key focus areas: ensuring that India capitalises on its demographic gift of a large working population by imparting employable skills to the masses.

Jakhar for Sanjay’s birth-control plan

Wednesday 11 July '07

‘Population hasn’t been controlled, neither has land under cultivation been expanded’

Overworked SEZ commissioners plead for more employees

Tuesday 10 July '07

Commerce Dept will conduct a ‘staff inspection unit work’ study to measure work responsibilities and arrive at optimal number of people required

Govt’s parting gift to Kalam: OK to funds for his pan-African e-network

Thursday 5 July '07

Two weeks before President A P J Abdul Kalam leaves Rashtrapati Bhavan, the UPA Cabinet is set to give him a parting gift

India plans media blitz, in hunt for more FDI

Thursday 5 July '07

On the back of a year where India received a record influx of about $16 billion of foreign direct investment