Government

UPA government considers citizen-based evaluation of NREGA’s progress

31 Aug 2009

Secretaries panel to vet CIL's overseas invest proposals

27 Aug 2009

Pawar hints at open market sale of wheat, rice to state governments

19 Aug 2009

Capital gains to attract normal tax: Direct tax draft code

17 Aug 2009

Northern India's groundwater reserves vanishing

13 Aug 2009

American hydrologists now say that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as one foot per year over the past decade, and that consequences of this depletion include a collapse of agricultural output and severe shortages of potable water.

Rangarajan back as PM's top adviser

11 Aug 2009

Government releases Rs2,546 crore subsidy to 12,514 textile units

06 Aug 2009

Steel ministry clears NMDC stake sale; 8.38 per cent divestment to fetch Rs12,000 crore

04 Aug 2009

PM heads Unique Identification Authority of India council

03 Aug 2009

Nirupama Rao is new foreign secretary

01 Aug 2009

Nirupama Rao today took over as India's foreign secretary, succeeding Shivshankar Menon.

Interest on savings account to be calculated on a daily basis from next fiscal

31 Jul 2009

35 centrally protected monuments not traceable: minister

30 Jul 2009

Pension allowable only on completion of 20 years in service: CAT

29 Jul 2009

Pension allowable only on completion of 20 years in service: CAT

29 Jul 2009

Government to meet a third of project cost of food processing units in remote areas

24 Jul 2009

Government setting up biotechnology regulator

24 Jul 2009

PSU oil companies fully compensated for fuel subsidies: minister

21 Jul 2009

Oil firms asked to issue 55 million new LPG connections by 2015: minister

15 Jul 2009

Centre may allow states to decide on mining royalty

15 Jul 2009

HC upholds Delhi's plastic bags ban

15 Jul 2009

NHPC, OIL offers slated for this year; RITES issue deferred

14 Jul 2009

The government would dilute its holding in NHPC Ltd and Oil India Ltd through an IPO this fiscal, but would defer a public issue of RITES Ltd, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said.

Clinton’s India visit: no hyphenation with Pak, policy speech tomorrow

By Rajiv Singh | 14 Jul 2009

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Indian sub-continent next week will be an exclusive one, focusing entirely on India without any hyphenation with Pakistan being attempted.