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December 19, 2011 6:07 PM
Parliament gave its seal of approval to the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011 with the Rajya Sabha adopting it on Monday.Earlier, the Lok Sabha had passed it. The legislation provides for introduction of digitalization with addressability in the Cable TV services in a phase...
December 19, 2011 5:47 PM
The Agriculture Minister has suggested the setting up of a House Committee of Parliamentarians to study the circumstances leading to deaths of farmers in different parts of the country.Replying to a short duration discussion on agrarian crisis in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Mr Sharad Pawar said the r...
December 19, 2011 5:37 PM
A big chocolate cake was cut at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday to mark President Pratibha Patil's 77th birthday.Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Railways Minister Dinesh Triwedi called on the President Mrs. Patil to greet her on the o...
December 19, 2011 5:37 PM
The Election Commission, EC, has asked Income Tax, IT, department to report to it all instances of cash movement through airports to check illegal spending in the ensuing assembly elections in five states.The Commission has urged the I-T department to establish Air Intelligence Units (AIUs) at all m...
December 19, 2011 5:24 PM
Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE, has set 5th January as the deadline for schools to develop and update their website with comprehensive information.In a circular issued to schools, the board has said that many schools still have not developed their websites or have not updated them. In Oc...
December 19, 2011 2:20 PM
Cold wave has intensified in North India. Thick fog disrupted road and rail traffic at several places.In Uttar Pradesh, six more people succumbed to the piercing cold during the past 24 hours pushing the state-wide death count to 26. Fog hampered movement of road and rail traffic in several parts of...
December 19, 2011 2:13 PM
Congress today said that government must take the issue related to demand for a ban on the Bhagavad Gita in a Siberian court with the Russian Government. Talking to reporters outside Parliament, party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that the demand for the ban on the holy book is irrational.He added t...
December 19, 2011 2:06 PM
A Delhi court today granted bail to Arvinder Singh who was arrested for slapping Union Minister Sharad Pawar at a function in the national capital last month. District Judge H S Sharma granted bail to Singh and directed him not to indulge in any violent activity in the future. Singh was granted bail...
December 19, 2011 2:05 PM
The Labour Minister, Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge told the Lok Sabha today that there has been a marked decline in child labour in the country. As per the latest report by the National Sample Survey Organisation, NSSO, the number of working children is nearly 50 lakh. This indicates a 45 percent decline c...
December 19, 2011 2:00 PM
Centre to develop a mechanism to share the additional cost on the Food Security Bill with the states. Talking to reporters outside Parliament, Food and Public Distribution Minister K V Thomas expressed confidence that there will be no financial strains with the implementation of this bill. The minis...
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