The Cabinet on Thursday approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that intends to generate 20,000 MW of power a year by 2022.
"The cabinet has sanctioned Rs.4,337 crore ($900 million) for the initial activities in this regard," Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni ...

India’s Environmental Minister, Jairam Ramesh says the nation will not accept legally binding emission cuts. He also said one cannot expect much from next month’s summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen.
"Don't expect anything much from Copenhagen. We will stick to our ...

Sources have mentioned that eminent Right to Information (RTI) activist Shekhar Singh is also one of the contenders for the position of the Chief Information Commissioner.
 
"Shekhar Singh is one of the prominent RTI activists and his name is among the top two names being considered for ...

Three port projects worth Rs 7,757 crore have been sanctioned by a government panel. This includes the development of a container terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT).
 
The other two projects are expansion of a container handling facility towards the north of JNPT and ...

Even though government has given the green signal for the over-the-counter sales of emergency contraceptive drugs like Cipla’s I-pill and Mankind Pharma’s Unwanted-72, it said these manufacturer need to adhere to certain government restrictions while advertising the drugs, so that ...

The team sent by the Union environment ministry has confirmed that, the ship which was to be dismantled at the ship breaking yard at Alang has tonnes of toxins. The report has been submitted to the central government on October 23.
 
The controversial ship Platinum II made the headlines ...

Government has disclosed that it will not be sanctioning the Leave Travel Allowance for employees using cars, personal or taxi for transportation purposes. But there is an exemption for disabled employees or if any of the family members is disabled, who is the dependent of the employee. ...

Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath has mentioned that government will be executing road projects costing about Rs. 5,000 crore, for which it will be rolling out new specifications.
 
Kamal Nath, who was talking at the seminar on the India-United Arab Emirates (UAE) trade and investments, ...

Union law minister M Veerappa Moily on Monday mentioned that the Central Government will be introducing a bill for ensuring accountability and standard of the judiciary in the winter session of Parliament.
 
"We need to introduce lots of systems to ensure accountability and standard ...

The Union Minister of State for Forests and Environment Jairam Ramesh disclosed on Sunday that union forest and environment ministry will join hands with the Indian Space Research Organisation for the setting up of a National Institutes for studying climate and environment in ...

LokSabha Speaker MeiraKumar Departs For 121st Assembly Of The Inter-Parliamentary Union
 
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and a parliamentary delegation departed on Saturday for being the participants at the 121st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which is slated to take place in ...

A new cooking gas distribution scheme for the rural areas has been launched by the Union Petroleum Ministry as Diwlai Gift. This has been named after late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
 
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said initially, the scheme will be launched in eight states covering 1,200 ...

Government may be using all the 10 fingerprints or opt for iris scanning for gathering data during 2011 census for the National Population Register. This will make the access of data easier for the Unique Identification Number project.
 
The Unique Identification Number (UID) scheme, which ...

According to the latest reports, the Central Government, on Wenesday, mentioned that it has plans for banning prepaid mobile connections in Kashmir for security reasons. This can affect nearly 38 lakh people of the state who use prepaid connections from various operators.
 
Union Home ...

The 13th Finance Commission, which handles the tax sharing between the state and central governments, has called for the inclusion of real estate under Goods and Services Tax.
 
"I urge the government to include the construction and housing sectors (real estate) in the GST base either ...

Government has plans for scrapping the habit of presenting an outcome budget for ministries, since the tools used for evaluation are not consistent with the procedure.
 
Outcome budgets are actually the reports on the progress made by each ministry on how effectively the money allocated to ...

In a show of goodwill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay a visit to American President Barack Obama at the White House on the 24th of November.
 
The occasion marks the first state visit of the new American president’s presidency and the announcement was made on the 1st of October ...

The Chennai to Hazrat Nizamuddin Duronto Express, which is the second of the non-stop trains promised by the railway Budget, was flagged off on Monday by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
 
The 28-hour journey was kicked off on Monday morning from Chennai Central at 6.40 a.m. ...

Government has mentioned that the 13.05 lakh employees of Indian Railways will be receiving productivity-linked bonus for 2008-09, which will be equal to 75 days of their wages.
 
This decision for giving the bonus to the Railway employees was taken during the Union Cabinet meeting, which ...

Woman and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath told that she, in an attempt to make her ministry more transparent, has kicked off fresh audits for the schemes being implemented by her ministry.
 
"Efforts should be made to address people's grievances in public welfare programmes ...

The amendments made to Organs Transplantation Act have received the approval of the Government. These amendments will enable the transplantation process to be more transparent. It will also ensure that any person who violates the Act will receive stringent punishment.
 
"Cabinet has ...

It looks union government has decided not to hurt the sentiments of any of the people and hence it played it safe by saying that it will not raise any opposition against the Delhi High Court verdict, which had decriminalised consensual sex between same sex adults. It added that Supreme Court had ...

People will now be able to apply for jobs in government services through internet. Union Public Service Commission, the recruitment and selection authority of government jobs, will be introducing online application for government jobs from 2010.
 
"UPSC will be introducing system for ...

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has disclosed on Friday that the India will enter into treaties with other nations for exchanging information related to tax payers so that people will not face the double taxation issues.
 
"With a large number of countries, I have instructed my ...

Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath has disclosed that government will soon be introducing a new health scheme, which will exclusively cater to the health care requirements of adolescent girls.
 
"We will soon launch a new scheme 'SABLA' for girls in the age group of ...

Even though the swine flu infection is spreading at an alarming rate, with the death toll touching 156, Union Health Ministry has plans to restrict the public sales of Tamiflu, the H1N1 preventive drug.
 
"The health secretary is holding a meeting of concerned stakeholders Friday and a ...

The Centre has put off its decision regarding the Delhi high court judgment to decriminalise gay sex.
 
When asked about the cabinet’s discussion on the same, Information & Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni had replied like “the home minister was not present so it was not ...

The central government on Thursday has disclosed that the central government employees and pensioners will be receiving 5% increase in the dearness allowance. This will be effective from July 2009. With this increase the total expenditure of the central government will go up to Rs 2,904 crore this ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday insisted that physically challenged people should be made equal partners in the development process. The Prime Minister has recommended that the educational, healthcare institutions and government offices should become more accessible for disabled ...

The Central Bureau Of Investigation has disclosed that the government has provided approval for 71 new fast tack courts to deal with the cases of corruption. These 71 courts will come across various states.
 
This approval comes in the light on the public appeal made by CBI director Ashwani ...