Government

02 Jan 2015

02 Jan 2015

NITI Ayog vice chairman, like the Planning Commission deputy chairman, will effectively hold charge with cabinet rank while the prime minister will head the panel

01 Jan 2015

31 Dec 2014

The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress of Bengal, the Nitish Kumar-led Bharatiya Janata Dal of Bihar and the Uttar Pradesh-based Samajwadi Party are cobbling up a new front as the Congress loses face

30 Dec 2014

The move shows “the anti-democratic and authoritarian streak of the NDA government,” the NAPM said and questioned the urgency behind the NDA government taking the ordinance route

30 Dec 2014

29 Dec 2014

The amendments aim at excluding five categories of projects, including defence, national security, rural infrastructure and low-cost housing, exempt from strict regulations prescribed in the Act

29 Dec 2014

27 Dec 2014

27 Dec 2014

27 Dec 2014

27 Dec 2014

26 Dec 2014

While the ordinances will address the immediate issues related to foreign equity flows into insurance business and supply of coal to core sector enterprises, respectively, these have to be passed by the two Houses of Parliament to become law

26 Dec 2014

Commissioning the expansion of railway diesel locomotive works in Varanasi, he allayed fears of privatisation of the Railways and said the first charge on the government’s resources would be that of the people

24 Dec 2014

Vajpayee will be the seventh prime minister to receive the award, while Pandit Malviya will be the 12th person to be honoured posthumously

24 Dec 2014

24 Dec 2014

While a GDP growth rate of 5.5 per cent combined with “other measures” will help end the current fiscal deficit, Subramanian said, a rate cut was needed to achieve the potential 7-8 per cent economic growth in the next few years

23 Dec 2014

J&K voted for a hung assembly with PDP emerging the largest party with 28 seats and the BJP gaining 25 seats in the 87-member House

22 Dec 2014

As the volume of trade expands and growth momentum picks up, every state will benefit with the rise in their revenue collections, he said

20 Dec 2014

The PDP is projected to get the highest number of 36-41 seats in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by the BJP, which is predicted to win 16-22 seats, followed by the NC with 9-13 seats and the Congress reduced to 9-13 seats

20 Dec 2014

The external affairs ministry stripped her of her latest duties as director in the ‘partnership development’ division for giving an unauthorised interview to a TV channel

20 Dec 2014

19 Dec 2014

19 Dec 2014

Jaitley said states’ interests are more than adequately protected in the bill and that they would be compensated for loss on account of CST, adding that the first installment would be made before 31 March next year

19 Dec 2014

The official notings about the setting up of a three-member panel, which gave a clean chit to Robert Vadra's firm Skylight Hospitality and senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka's action of cancelling the mutation of DLF-Skylight deal are missing from the main file