Central govt pensioners eligible for additional pension after turning 80 – Check Centre’s new guidelines The DoPPW, which comes under the Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions, has shared new guidelines regarding additional pensions for…
Rain paralyses Mumbai; trains, flights delayed For the third time in ten days, heavy rains disrupted normal life in Mumbai on Tuesday. Earlier, heavy rains had… July 15, 2009 00:15 IST
Permanent housing for slumdwellers in offing The city?s slumdwellers could get permanent housing under a new scheme, the Rajiv Awas Yojana, announced by finance minister Pranab… July 15, 2009 00:14 IST
Policy to procure 20% of products via MSMEs To help the small and medium enterprises in these trying times, the central government is working on a new procurement… July 15, 2009 00:03 IST
Haryana clears 11 PPP tourism projects The Haryana government has approved the proposal of the tourism department to implement 11 projects under public-private partnership. July 15, 2009 00:01 IST
Walk, don?t run Fixing finance is easier if you have a clear idea what it is for. What matters most is setting up… July 15, 2009 00:00 IST
Coal shortage threatens Nalco metal production National Aluminium Company Ltd metal production is under a serious threat as the coal shortage crippled the output of its… July 14, 2009 23:54 IST
TN embarks on rapid industrialisation drive Development of a ??financial city?? close to Chennai, setting up of an aerospace park in public private partnership, creation of… July 14, 2009 23:51 IST
Meet with independent power producers to push projects Private sector, which is slated to achieve capacity target of 15,043 mw of the total target of 78,700 mw by… July 14, 2009 23:50 IST
Cement sector to log 20% revenue growth in first quarter With strong, double digit year-on-year in dispatches for three consecutive months, the 224-million tonne Indian cement industry is expected to… July 14, 2009 23:42 IST
Capital goods firms seek sops on R&D expenditure At the interactive session with the minister for heavy industries Vilasrao Deshmukh the industry representatives argued that the government should… July 14, 2009 23:39 IST
Country to now has 315 m GSM users Mobile operators using the GSM technology added over 8.5 million users in June, up 2.90% over May taking the total… July 14, 2009 23:38 IST
Pranab to head eGoM on spectrum allocation In a move which is going to delay the auction of 3G spectrum, the government has constituted an empowered group… July 14, 2009 23:37 IST
Cracks appear in Mamata, Nitish joint front against Lalu Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar might well have lauded the Railway Budget of Mamata Banerjee, and made common cause with… July 14, 2009 23:35 IST
No dilution in IAEA, NSG waiver to India, Pranab assures House Dismissing concerns voiced by the Opposition that an adverse resolution passed by the G-8 could have a bearing on the… July 14, 2009 23:01 IST
Rebel or martyr, downsized VS is trouble for CPI(M) With the CPI(M) removing him from the Politburo, all options left for Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan to keep himself… July 14, 2009 23:00 IST
?There is police involvement… they were trying to hide something? The police team was part of the commission. But we interviewed witnesses separately. While I invited witnesses over to the… July 14, 2009 22:58 IST
Not all of Shopian report mine: probe judge Justice Muzaffar Jan who headed the judicial probe into the rape and murder of two women in Shopian, created a… July 14, 2009 22:56 IST
Tapping the hydropower potential India has considerable potential for harnessing hydropower, with most estimates placing the country?s potential capacity at close to 1.5-lakh mw,… July 14, 2009 22:52 IST
Parliament functioned for less than 17% of total time; Rs 133 crore of taxpayers’ money lost: Govt sources
Globalisation tripled India GDP but workers have been left out: Economist and Nobel laureate Eric Maskin
