The Supreme Court on Thursday would hear the intercepted conversation between the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes and their handlers based in Pakistan. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad decided to hear the recorded talks between the 10 terrorists and their bosses in Pakistan after the Maharashtra government claimed [...]
Excavation is on for the second day on Sunday at a school opposite the Andhra Pradesh state secretariat in a tunnel for hidden treasures valued at Rs 20,000 crore. The school which is built on the land abutting Naubat Pahad, a hill on which the Birla Temple has been constructed, is abuzz with activity. The [...]
Budget allocations on the Centre’s social sector flagship programmes such as the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) are not likely to be cut in the ensuing financial year 2012-13 despite pressure on the government to control spending. Budgetary allocation for key rural development programmes largely remained unchanged in the last financial year, too, [...]
With Air India and Kingfisher facing fund crunch, the government is working on a policy package to help the entire cash-strapped industry come out of the financial rut, official sources said on Sunday. In order to formulate such a package, the Civil Aviation Ministry has asked all scheduled airlines, including the profit-making IndiGo, to submit [...]
Amid the ongoing controversy on reservation for minorities, Justice Rajinder Sachar, who headed the panel to prepare a report on the socio-economic and educational status Muslims, said that the government was trying to “befool” minorities by promising reservation at the time of elections. Justice Sachar further asserted that instead of making promises to give reservation, [...]
Six pilgrims, including three women and a child, were killed in a stampede in Bhavnath temple in the Junagadh township of Saurashtra region on Sunday evening. Twenty people were also injured in the stampede. The stampede occurred during the annual Shivratri fair which is held in the ancient temple in the evening when the devotees [...]
Faced with large-scale leakages and improper use of grain and kerosene meant for poor, the government is working on handing out direct payment of subsidies to the beneficiaries through electronic payment system, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Sunday. The e-payment mechanism, which was introduced in October last year, is expected to plug leakages and save [...]
Eleven persons have been arrested for allegedly gangraping two teenage girls at the Betma town in the district, police said on Sunday. The accused included the son of a BJP corporator and grandson of a Congress corporator, they said. The two victims, aged 18 and 19 respectively, were allegedly sexually assaulted by 15 people at [...]
Three months after the nuclear liability rules came into existence, there is virtually no progress in concluding commercial agreements in the nuclear sector as the executive rules have now been challenged in the floor of the Parliament. The Left parties have raised questions on certain provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Rules 2011 [...]
Under attack from non-Congress-ruled states over setting up of an anti-terror institution, Home Minister P Chidambaram today sought to reach out to them saying that the security of the country is a shared responsibility of the central and state governments. “Security of the country is shared by the Centre and state governments. The Constitution of [...]