Inflation seems to be the most important concern for the Indian government these days. Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan showing his concern on the high rising inflation rate said that this is a major challenge for government. Also, he stressed that curbing high inflation rate and maintaining lower ...

The Central government has agreed to talk to the agitating Gorkha leaders agitating in Darjeeling for a separate Gorkhaland. External Affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee, however, ruled out any talks on their demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland. The Gorkha leaders had earlier refused to hold ...

External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is on a four day visit to China remarked that India intends to learn from China’s remarkable success in developing Special Economic Zones and expects to surpass the $60 billion trade target between the two nations before 2010. Pranab Mukherjee ...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday, May 31, 2008 made operational the Daulatbegi Oldi (DBO) airbase after a gap of 43 years. The Indian Air Force on Saturday landed an AN-32 fixed wing aircraft at the world’s highest advanced landing ground in Ladakh, barely 10 km from the Chinese border. ...

A team of eleven Indians is in Lahore, Pakistan to be present at the 100th meeting of the Pakistan and India Permanent Indus Commission (PIC). The meeting began on Saturday, May 31, 2008 to review progress over the water issues between the two countries. The PIC is the permanent commission between ...

A Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson on Friday, May 23, 2008 has revealed that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed his desire to strengthen and diversify bilateral relations with India. The thoughts of the Venezuelan President were conveyed in a meeting between the President ...

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) recently approved the proposal in principle for the establishment of four new tiger reserves. According to the report these new reserves would come up in the states of Orissa, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and the Madhya Pradesh. According to the ...

The government of India on Friday, May 23, 2008 hiked the provisions for debt waiver for farmers by about 20 percent, in a move to enlarge relief measures for the Indian farmers. The net amount available for the farm loan waiver has now been raised to Rs 716.8 billion from the Rs 600 billion set ...

India has firmly rejected the contention that rising consumption in developing nations was responsible for the food and fuel crisis gripping the world today. Instead India has turned the tables by stating that it is the policies of World Bank and IMF and ‘excessive and unsustainable’ ...

After China refused to accept pilgrims until June 21, the Indian Governmen, on Tuesday cancelled the first two expeditions of the Kailash Mansarovar yatra. The yatra which has been cut short will only contain one batch of pilgrims. This batch will leave Delhi on June 13.
 
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday during his two day official visit to Bhutan announced the institution of the Nehru-Wangchuk Scholarship. The scholarship principally aims at encouraging Bhutanese students to study in Indian Universities and colleges. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the ...

The Right To Information (RTI) Act, which is a powerful tool in the hands of the common man, celebrates its third anniversary today. The Right To Information Act has made it mandatory for government institutions and other public bodies to proactively provide information to people, whenever they ...

The central government has been asked by the Supreme Court to explore other viable options for building a shorter navigational route instead of undertaking the Sethusamundram project. A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, which included justices RV Raveendran and JM Panchal, gave the ...

The long wait for introducing the 33 percent reservation bill for women in the Parliament and State Legislature was finally over as the Congress led UPA government introduced the bill in Rajya Sabha today. The Left congratulated the UPA government for introducing the bill and added that the ...

The Union Cabinet approved the Women’s Reservation Bill late on Monday night, which is aimed at providing 33 percent quota for women in Parliament and state Legislatures. Now with the Union Cabinet approval in hands, the UPA government is set to table the Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, ...

To measure the core sector growth of India on a regular basis, India may soon have an infrastructure index. The infrastructure index will be based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) or the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It will show the growth or fall of India\'s infrastructure on regular basis. When ...

In an historic move, on Saturday the judiciary decided to let the TV cameras and print cameramen to record the proceedings of Lok Adalat session This kind of move has often been demanded by the critics looking for more transparency and speedy justice.
 
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 Close to 46000 people will need to give up their passports and get them exchanged for new ones because the government has called back the passports bearing serial numbers Z-000001 to Z-045925. Most of these passports are issued in Dubai. These Z-series passport holders are to get their ...

A Parliamentary Committee has suggested that the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) should seriously think of conducting its examinations on the same format as that of GMAT, IIT and IIM entrance examinations. This, according to the committee will help reduce the extraordinarily long ...

Defence minister A K Antony told the army on Tuesday that India would not be complacent on the Chinese border and that there was \'no room for complacency\'. Mr. Antony further said that India constantly needs to upgrade its military and economic capacities. Mr. Antony was addressing the army ...

As the Maoists in Nepal look forward to forming the government, India too seems all geared up to do business with the former rebels in order to strengthen ties with a democratic Nepal. Sources from the Indian government have revealed that India’s ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Shankar Menon is in ...

The ‘Hyderabad Funds Case’ is set to reopen after a gap of 60 years. The case is going to be settled in an out of court settlement. The concerned parties India, Pakistan and the Nizam’s heirs will finally sit together to divide the wealth of the Nizam of Hyderabad, which is frozen ...

The Indian government spelled out to China that there would be no ban on anti-China protests in India. The need for such a clarification arose after the CPM led West Bengal government, who are known to be the ardent supporters of the Communist government of China, banned Tibet protest rallies ...

The Goa government has handed over the investigation of the Scarlett Keeling murder case to the CBI, following widespread speculation about the insincerity in the Goa police’s probe. Sometime ago, the Goa government had voiced its readiness to give out the Scarlett murder case to CBI. But, ...