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August 23, 2012 7:30 PM
The government today said it was prepared to discuss threadbare the CAG report on coal block allocation in Parliament and reply to the issues raised by the opposition. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Home Minister Shushilkumar Shinde said the government is already prepared to discuss anyth...
August 23, 2012 7:13 PM
The government today issued guidelines for its departments using social media networks asking them not to post confidential information and unverified facts. The Ministry of IT issued guidelines today. The guide lines asked persons handling social media for all government agencies including public s...
August 23, 2012 5:49 PM
Senior BJP leader Yaswant Sinha today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Chidambaram should depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2 G Spectrum allocation.Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Mr. Sinha also alleged that the Congress party members had used fou...
August 23, 2012 2:18 PM
The Government will speed up the development of satellite towns near mega cities to ease the pressure of urbanisation. The Minister of State for Urban Development, Mr. Sougat Roy said this in New Delhi while inaugurating a Conference on the creation of an International Financial hub at New town in K...
August 23, 2012 1:57 PM
The Centre has approved a proposal to set up a Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region or PCPIR in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts of Tamil Nadu. The proposal had come from the government of Tamil Nadu. Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Srikant Jena said this in a written reply...
August 23, 2012 1:57 PM
Oil India Limited plans to expand its operations in Africa, Latin America, CIS countries and Australia during the 12th Plan period. In addition, it is also looking for broadening its activities in Canada and the North American region. The public sector company invested about six hundred and eight cr...
August 23, 2012 1:53 PM
The Centre proposes to install ten thousand solar power-based pumps for supplying drinking water in the naxal-affected areas. The funds will provided under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme and the National Clean Energy Fund. Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Jairam Ramesh gave t...
August 23, 2012 1:22 PM
Normal operations in public sector banks, including cheque clearances and fund transfers, were today hampered for the second day . Employees of 24 public sector banks (PSBs) and 12 private banks participated in the two day strike yesterday, which led to hampering of banking operations. Our correspon...
August 23, 2012 1:16 PM
India's oil import bill in terms of value increased from 409,077 crore rupees in 2009-10 to 726,386 crore rupees in 2011-12. This increase was due to the rise in the prices of crude oil and petroleum products in the international market, depreciation of the rupee and increase in domestic consum...
August 23, 2012 1:12 PM
The Government today categorically said that there is no proposal, as of now, to increase the administered prices of petroleum products and fertilizers.Giving this information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, the Finance Minister Mr P Chidambaram said that there is also no proposal at present ...
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