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November 18, 2011 10:03 AM

Indo-Bangla Home-Secretary level talks set to begin

Joint Working Group of India and Bangladesh will hold deliberations on implementation of the pact on demarcation of land boundary today in New Delhi. The working group will discuss a host of issues. It will prepare agenda for the two day Home Secretary level talks beginning from Saturday.The Indian ...

November 18, 2011 9:49 AM

Indo-Bangla Home Secretary-level talks set to begin

Joint Working Group of India and Bangladesh will hold deliberations on implementation of the pact on demarcation of land boundary on Friday in New Delhi.The working group will discuss a host of issues.It will prepare agenda for the two day Home Secretary level talks beginning from Saturday. The Indi...

November 17, 2011 10:36 PM

SC chides States for ignoring PM on special CBI courts

The Supreme Court on Thursday chided the states for ignoring the Prime Minister's advice to set up sanctioned number of special CBI courts. The court regretted that even a letter written by country's highest authority in 2009 was being consigned to the dustbin.The court also lamented the u...

November 17, 2011 10:35 PM

Govt asks DRDO to focus on demands of defence forces

Calling for selection of realisable application areas to achieve desired results, the government has asked the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to keep its research activity focused on demands of the defence forces.According to an official release, Secretary, Department of Scienc...

November 17, 2011 10:34 PM

Health sector to get 2.5 per cent of GDP in next Plan

The Planning Commission says, the health sector will get a larger share of 2.5 per cent of GDP instead of 1.8 per cent, in the next Plan period. Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid said this while addressing an international Vaccination Symposium at Surajkund near New Delhi on Thursday.She said t...

November 17, 2011 9:59 PM

National Conference of State Animal Husbandry Ministers begins tomorrow

The National Conference of State Animal Husbandry and Dairy Ministers will begin in New Delhi on Friday. An official release said, the conference will discuss dairy development, milk production and other matters relating to the animal husbandry sector.Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will honour da...

November 17, 2011 9:56 PM

Indo-Bangla Home Secretary-level talks to begin tomorrow

Joint Working Group of India and Bangladesh will hold deliberations on implementation of the pact on demarcation of land boundary on Friday in New Delhi.The working group will discuss a host of issues.It will prepare agenda for the two day Home Secretary level talks beginning from Saturday. The Indi...

November 17, 2011 9:35 PM

Metro to reach cities with 20 lakh population

Government on Thursday said that all cities having a population of more than 20 lakhs will soon have metro rail facility.Briefing reporters in New Delhi, Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath said that Detailed Project Report, DPR for the projects in Ludhiana, Pune, Ahmedabad and Lucknow have alread...

November 17, 2011 9:34 PM

PAC grills top Oil ministry officials for RIL

A parliamentary panel on Thursday questioned top Oil Ministry officials on reported violation of contract by Reliance Industries, RIL, for Krishna Godavari basin field.Oil Secretary G C Chaturvedi and Director General Hydrocarbon S K Srivastava appeared before the Public Accounts Committee, headed b...

November 17, 2011 8:52 PM

Govt to allocate routes vacated by Kingfisher to other airlines

The Director General of Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA Bharat Bhushan said that the government is closely monitoring the crisis in some airlines and there will be no knee jerk reaction to deal with it.Talking to reporters in New Delhi he added that the government will allocate the route...

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