Indian central government is preparing a roadmap for merging the wholesale price index and the consumer price index said the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
 
"A committee has been formed under the Central Statistical Organisation which is studying the trends in the wholesale ...

Towards an attempt to improve governance at the grass roots level, the government has decided to extend broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012 said the Minister of State for Communications and IT Gurudas Kamat on Friday.
"Out of about 2.5 lakh gram (village) panchayats across the ...

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) launched its official magazine 'Food 360 Degrees' and a revamped website www.mofpi.nic.in.as part of its renewed efforts to reach out to the industry, farmers and the people at large.
"With the launch of the magazine, we have come out ...

The three public sector vaccine-manufacturing units that were banned in 2008 due to non-compliance of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) will now be revived.
 According to the Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, this step will help to improve the national immunization drive in the ...

In its historic judgement, the Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalised homosexuality by striking down the section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). 

A bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar told that if not amended, section 377 of the IPC would violate ...

India will not sign up to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but will instead concentrate on reducing poverty and improving economic growth. India is one of the biggest emitting nations along with China, US, and Russia. But India’s per capita emission is much less compared to the rich ...

Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to China, is set to succeed Shivshankar Menon as India's next foreign secretary.
 
 
Rao's name has been sent for approval to the Cabinet Committee on Appointments, reliable sources told IANS. A formal announcement is expected to be made soon.

In ...

The ambitious project to provide every citizen with a unique ID card would receive an initial funding of Rs 100 crore. Nandan Nilekani stepped down from Infosys board on Thursday to head the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). The position of a chairman of UIAI has a rank of a cabinet ...

Infosys Technologies co-chairman Nandan M. Nilekani, 54, has resigned from the top post and the company board following his appointment as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by the central government.
 
The UIDAI, an entity under the Planning Commission, ...

The government on thursday appointed Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of software giant Infosys, as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority - constituted to provide identity cards to Indian citizens.
 
Nilekani, who has been given the rank and status of a cabinet minister, will ...

Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik is here to help finalise the dates and the agenda for the forthcoming India-Pakistan talks, a media report said Thursday.
Malik, who met Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon in New Delhi Tuesday to decide on the dates for the proposed ...

The government is not considering raising coal prices, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said here Wednesday.
"That is not our priority now," Jaiswal said when reporters bombarded him with queries on a possible increase rise in coal prices.
"Our priority is to enhance production. ...

The government will provide health insurance to 150,000 weavers and open two textile parks, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran said Wednesday while unveiling the department's first 100 days' work agenda.
"The textile sector is the second largest employer after agriculture and accounts for 13.5 ...

India’s monsoon rains, a lifeline of the country’s economy, have gone weak and are expected to be below normal, according to the government. Prithviraj Chavan, Earth Sciences Minister, has confirmed this during a news conference. The monsoon in 2009 would be 93% of the long-term ...

Promising a passport within three days, it peddled a dream to Indians crowding understaffed and overburdened regional passport centres. But the Passport Seva Project - one of the government's flagship e-governance programmes - is running behind schedule.
In October 2008, the Ministry of External ...

If you want information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, just visit a new web portal to find out how. The site has been set up - not by the government - but by people and groups in Chandigarh who want to spread awareness about this right.

The interactive online web portal - ...

Bridging the digital divide so that the 'other India' has access to high-speed broadband connectivity and getting villages into the tele-loop are top priorities for Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot.
 

"I don't want this ministry to be perceived as elitist. I ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram in Delhi and requested for more funds for relief operations after Cyclone Aila devastated parts of the state last month.

"The government has assured us ...

India's 14,000 police stations will be linked via a cyber highway to improve connectivity and increase crime fighting abilities through an ambitious Rs.2,000 crore three-year project that received a cabinet panel's approval on Friday.

"The project aims at creating a comprehensive and ...

The Centre has approved the purchasing of a new aircraft which will be used exclusively for Disaster Management Support. This will approximately cost over Rs. 179 crore.
 
The decision of this procurement was taken up in a cabinet meeting which had the Pm as the chairperson.
 
This ...

The Indian Railways has plans for introducing special conveniences for the physically challenged in about 1,500 station all over the country.
 
According to a senior spokesperson of the Railway Ministry, special facilities such as ramps, parking slots which can be reserved, water taps of ...

The recent racial attacks on Indians down under have made the government to keep a record of students going abroad. The government would introduce a registration system to keep track of the whereabouts of the students studying overseas.

The government is planning to give incentives to those who ...

The government is contemplating a proposal to reinstate the service tax rate to its earlier level of 12%. The service tax rate had been reduced to 10% during the third stimulus package, introduced in February.

The proposal to restore the service tax rate to 12% is in the wake of increasing ...

The government of India on Friday (June 5) appointed Rahul Khullar as the new secretary in the ministry of commerce. The post of commerce secretary was held by GK Pillai who has been appointed as the new Home Secretary.  Rahul Khullar is a 1975-batch IAS officer. Prior to his appointment in ...

Meira Kumar was unanimously elected the Speaker of Lok Sabha on Wednesday. She is the first dalit woman to assume the office. She is the daughter of late Congress icon Jagjivan Ram.

She was elected unanimously after she received an overwhelming support from all the sections of the House. ...

India has shown disappointment over the release of Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and a suspect for masterminding 26/11 Mumbai attacks. JuD is suspected to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba. The release questions Pakistan’s seriousness in combating terror.

Saeed, who had been ...

India has asked for a quick action against the persons responsible for the racist attacks on the Indians. Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh spoke to his Australian counter-part, Kevin Rudd and discussed the matter with him. He asked the authorities to put an end to the growing atrocities on Indians. ...

The Congress-led UPA government announced the portfolios of its council of ministers on Thursday (May 28) night. Earlier in the day, the second swearing-in ceremony of 59 ministers took place at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Out of the 59 ministers who were sworn-in on Thursday, 14 were cabinet ...

The second oath-taking ceremony of 59 new ministers of the Congress-led UPA government is conducted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday (May 28). President Pratibha Patil administered oath of office to 14 cabinet ministers and 45 ministers of state. The first lot of 19 cabinet ministers was ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday (May 23) appointed Pranab Mukherjee as the Finance Minister of the country. Apart from him, former Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna got the portfolio of External Affairs while P Chidambaram retained the office of Home Ministry. Trinamool Congress ...