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February 7, 2012 8:23 PM

Railways decides to increase advance reservation period from 90 to 120 days

The Railways have decided to increase the advance reservation period from 90 days to 120 days from March 10th, to cope with the demand for tickets. The Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) will make the necessary changes in the software for this purpose. The four-month advance reservation pe...

February 7, 2012 8:22 PM

UP all set for 1st phase of Assembly elections

The stage is set for the first phase of polling tomorrow for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. In the first phase elections, more than one crore, seventy lakh voters in 55 constituencies of ten districts, will decide the fate of 862 candidates, including 31 sitting MLAs and 15 former Minister...

February 7, 2012 6:26 PM

Defence Minister inaugurates Joint Naval Fleet Exercises TROPEX 2012

Union Minister for Defence, A.K. Antony today inaugurated the Joint Naval Fleet Exercises,"TROPEX 2012" at sea in Bay of Bengal, off Visakhapatnam coast. AIR Correspondent reports, the major annual exercise is aimed at testing the Navy's preparedness in dealing with contingencies.

February 7, 2012 6:25 PM

Tablet PC Aakash to be made completely indigenous: Sibal

The low-cost Aakash tablet PC will be made completely indigenous and its production base diversified. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Human Resource Development, HRD, Minister Kapil Sibal said, the government is planning to create eco-system for end to end development of Aakash in India.The minis...

February 7, 2012 6:25 PM

Current economic woes in US would not lead to protectionism: Ranjan Mathai

India on Tuesday expressed the hope that the current economic woes in the US would not lead to protectionism and said that concerns of the Indian IT industry over anti-outsourcing measures announced by President Barack Obama recently, will be addressed quickly. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, on hi...

February 7, 2012 6:21 PM

6.9 % growth projected for current fiscal is disappointing: Pranab

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday described the 6.9 per cent growth projected for the current fiscal as disappointing. He said it was on account of a slowdown in industrial output and investment growth. In a statement, Mr Mukherjee said though figures of advance estimates for GDP for the ...

February 7, 2012 6:20 PM

FM to unveil Union Budget for 2012-13 on March 16th

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will unveil the Union Budget for 2012-13 on March 16th in the Lok Sabha. Talking to reporters after the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) in New Delhi on Tuesday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said the Rail budget w...

February 7, 2012 3:09 PM

EC denies poll officer removed for stopping Robert Vadra's convoy

The Election Commission of India, ECI has denied media reports that a district election officer, DEO in Uttar Pradesh was transferred for stopping the convoy of Robert Vadra who is Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law.In a statement issued in New Delhi, the Commission has said that it has c...

February 7, 2012 2:42 PM

Budget to unveil on 16th March

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will unveil the Union Budget for 2012-13 on March 16th in the Lok Sabha.The budget session will begin on March 12 with President Pratibha Devisingh Patil addressing the joint sitting of members of both the Houses of Parliament. Speaking to reporters after the meetin...

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