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May 8, 2012 11:04 AM
Civil nuclear cooperation and regional security are among the key issues that are high on the agenda of talks between the visiting secretary of state Hilary Clinton and the External Affairs Minister SM Krishna now in progress in New Delhi. The two leaders will also review progress made in Indo-US st...
May 8, 2012 9:01 AM
The Government has decided to set up 1,500 new Industrial Training Institutes, ITIs and 5,000 Skill Development Centres in the Public Private Partnership mode in the unserviced blocks of the country. In a written reply to Lok Sabha yesterday, Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge also sa...
May 8, 2012 8:59 AM
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has announced deferment of implementation of the budget proposal of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules or GAAR till April 2013. He said this during his opening remarks on the discussion of Finance Bill 2012 in the Lok Sabha yesterday. Mr. Mukherjee also clarified that...
May 8, 2012 8:55 AM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last evening. The two leaders discussed civil nuclear cooperation, terrorism, situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran and security among other things. Mrs Clinton also briefed Dr Singh on her recent visit to Chi...
May 7, 2012 8:51 PM
In a set back to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae has held that he can be prosecuted under various sections of the IPC for promoting enmity among different groups during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The report has been prpared by Raju Ramchandran on the complaint of Z...
May 7, 2012 8:50 PM
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced deferment of that implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules or GAAR till April 2013. The proposal was made in the budget for the current fiscal. The rule is being used to check avoidance of tax. Introducing the Finance Bill for the current f...
May 7, 2012 6:54 PM
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today said India is committed to an early solution on Teesta waters issue. He said, since water is a sensitive matter, internal consultations are onamongst stakeholders on it and efforts are afoot to evolve a political consensus on the Teesta water treaty. Talki...
May 7, 2012 2:00 PM
In Uttar Pradesh, the central Bureau Investigation, CBI has arrested former Chief Medical Officer CMO Dr. AK Shukla in connection with murder of the then CMO family welfare Dr. Vinod Arya in Lucknow today.Our Lucknow correspondent reports that Dr. Shukla has been taken into custody for hatching cons...
May 7, 2012 1:59 PM
The government today said that it has accepted 90 per cent recommendations of the Sachchar committee. Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, minority affairs minister Salman Khurshid said his ministry has taken several steps to promote entrepreneurship and self employment among minorities. ...
May 7, 2012 1:54 PM
The US Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary Clinton met the West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms. Mamta Banerjee at the Writers' Building in Kolkata today. US investments in West Bengal is understood to have figured in the talks.Ms. Clinton and Ms. Banerjee first had one-to-one talks followed by delegatio...
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