Government policies

Direct cash transfers to help government save over Rs20,000 crore

07 Dec 2012

Retail FDI: SP, BSP bail out UPA in Rajya Sabha also

07 Dec 2012

While MPs belonging to Mulayam Singh’s party staged a walkout just minutes before the voting, Mayawati opted to vote in favour of the UPA government

Defence establishments bleeding money, says CAG

30 Nov 2012

In a report to Parliament, the accounts watchdog has slammed India’s defence programmes for inefficiency and wastage of funds

Reluctant to alter Sec 66(A), centre comes up with ‘norms’

30 Nov 2012

Henceforth any offence under the Information Technology Act can be registered only on prior approval by an officer not below the rank of DCP in urban and rural areas and not below the rank of IGP in metropolitan cities

Rs1,76,000-cr 2G scam a myth: Sibal

17 Nov 2012

No new banking licences till Act is amended: Subbarao

17 Nov 2012

The RBI has already made it clear that it wants more powers, such as the right to supersede a bank’s board, before it allows new entrants in the sector

Govt plans to auction leftover 2G spectrum before 31 March

16 Nov 2012

Government hikes EWS income criteria for urban housing schemes to Rs1 lakh a year

14 Nov 2012

Spectrum sale fetches government less than Rs10,000 crore

14 Nov 2012

The government was targeting Rs28,000 crore from the sale of 2G spectrum in the GSM band

2G auction fizzles out with only Rs9,200 crore garnered

12 Nov 2012

‘Category A’ circles like Mumbai and Delhi have gone abegging with no bidders, thanks to the high reserve price

Govt setting up panels to look into CST compensation, framework

08 Nov 2012

Govt approves changes in UFO funding, Plan funding of optical fiber network

08 Nov 2012

SC sees ‘prima facie nexus’ in Aircel-Maxis deal

07 Nov 2012

CBI probe into the Aircel-Maxis deal involving former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and a Malaysian business tycoon “prima facie indicates a nexus”, the Supreme Court observed today

Gas EGoM reconstituted, to meet after Diwali: CNBC:TV18

03 Nov 2012

Oil ministry defers CAG audit meet on RIL’s KG-D6 block

31 Oct 2012

Instead, officials of RIL and the petroleum ministry are meeting to break the current impasse over the KG-D6 block

Mamata Banerjee joins chorus against ‘minority’ UPA government

30 Oct 2012

TV digitisation in metros well on schedule

26 Oct 2012

Government files caveat in SC against petition challenging coal block allocation

16 Oct 2012

Rangarajan panel recommends revenue sharing by sugar mills and farmers

12 Oct 2012

The committee has suggested doing away with the present mechanism of regulated release of non-levy sugar as also phasing out of the cane area reservation and allowing contract farming