Some projects under the Smart Cities Mission would not be able to meet the June 30 deadline and the respective state governments would be responsible for completing them thereafter, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs. In its report on the …
THE jinxed National Mineral Policy (NMP) faces yet another delay as the ministry of mines has decided to obtain the views of states on the draft amendments to the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Act. With states and the Centre differing on various proposals on amending the Act, …
Manmohan Singh's four-year term in office has been resurrected in the last few months of its existence. When his government this week defeated a no-confidence motion in Parliament instigated by his former coalition partners, the communists, Indian television stations used a popular Bollywood song, "Singh Is King," as a backdrop. …
Caution and consensus must be the watchwords What the government and its leaders have not taken into account is that these reforms do not depend merely on a numerical majority in the Lok Sabha. THE TRIUMVIRATE: Leading players in pushing ahead the reforms agenda The top three leaders in government, …
Newswire18 / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 0:46 IST A Parliament panel has advised that futures trade in agricultural commodities should be discouraged as speculative trade leads to artificial rise in prices. In its report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the Parliament Standing Committee on agriculture said that …
The Indian economy is expected to have grown at 9.08 per cent in 2007-08, as against 9 per cent reported earlier, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told Parliament today even as the UPA government won the trust vote in the Lok Sabha to remain in power. "Despite predictions of gloom and …
It will be life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 10 lakh for those found guilty of sale and production of spurious drugs in the country. Not only this, this offence has been made non-bailable and will be heard only at the special designated court which will be set up …
ALLEGING that interests of developing nations have not been addressed, the CPM on Thursday asked the Manmohan Singh government to reject the revised drafts in the WTO mini-ministerial meeting at Geneva next week. The party sought a debate in Parliament on the issue before New Delhi "yields further ground' in …
Somnath Chatterjee has refused to quit, rebuffing CPM boss Prakash Karat, who wants him to resign as Speaker of Lok Sabha before July 22 so that Chatterjee can vote against the government in the floor test. Chatterjee, whom the party expected to step down, refused to yield, telling Sitaram Yechury …
A day after formally severing ties with the UPA, Left parties on Thursday attacked the Government for approaching the IAEA Board of Governors without proving its majority in Parliament, dubbing the move as a "shocking betrayal of moral commitment' made to the country. They vowed to make it "politically' impossible …
With its key demands on Parliament's approval for the deal having been met by the UPA Government, the BJP is set to raise the pitch on the "unholy alliance' between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, the price rise, the farmers' issue and the Congress-led Government's "dismal record on the …
ON BOARD PM'S AIRCRAFT : Buoyed by the turn of events on the political front for the Indo-US nuclear deal, an upbeat Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that India will go to the IAEA with the safeguards agreement "very soon' and that he did not expect elections …
NEW DELHI: As the standoff over the Indo-US nuclear deal between the Left parties and the government continued, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi here. Prasad refused to talk to journalists waiting outside Gandhi's residence after the short meeting. The meeting came in the backdrop …
Deal And Govt Will Survive: Lalu A day after Sonia Gandhi asked the Congress to get ready for elections, CPM announced that it would withdraw support to the UPA government if it took the
Two pieces of legislation, which will impact millions of people displaced or threatened with displacement in the name of development, will soon come up for discussion in the monsoon session of Parliament. ngos and activists, however, warn that rather than addressing the issue of forcible displacement, the twin bills
three months after imposing a ban on the cultivation of gm crops, France's upper house of parliament, the Senate, on April 16 passed a bill laying down conditions for growing such crops. In January, France had imposed a ban on the cultivation of gm maize mon 810, the only gm …
Parliament, the highest legislative body in India, plays a significant role in formulating national policies. It is, therefore, pertinent to find the concern the parliamentarians (mps) and political parties show and the priorities they accord to issues during parliamentary discussions A statistical analysis, based on the number of questions raised …
Despite fears that the flow of the Bhagirathi, the main tributary of the Ganga, is falling in volume, the government has said there is no such threat to the river and the "natural' receding of the Gangotri glacier does not require any corrective measures. "Gomukh is the ice cave of …
In the wake of reports of widespread misuse of the Transport Subsidy Scheme, the Planning Commission is evaluating the scheme afresh. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has clarified today, that it has not released Transport Subsidy Scheme during the current financial year. This fiscal, only Rs 1 crore has …
Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral today said farmers across the country, especially in Punjab, suffered a setback due to the decision of the Union government to withdraw incentives given under a scheme for export of skimmed milk, ghee and other dairy products. The Union government had extended the incentive schemes …
rajya Sabha recently accepted a breach of privilege motion against union environment and forest secretary Meena Gupta. The motion was moved in November 2007 by Rajya Sabha member and cpi (m) leader, Brinda Karat, "against the arbitrary manner in which the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) was going …
