The government has given the permission for royalty and lumpsum fee for transfer of technology and use of brand name through the automatic route without any restrictions.
 
Till now, this was applicable only for foreign technology transfer involving payment of fees of $2 million and royalty ...

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. ...

The union government has mentioned that it will be amending and strengthening the country's Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 to bring in more transparency in the government's functioning and to help resolve grievances of officials.
 
"The historic Right to Information Act, 2005, ...

The Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday launched the YSR ‘Abhaya Hastam’ (Helping Hand), a co-contributory pension-cum-insurance scheme for poor and low income women.
 
Chief Minister K. Rosaiah launched the scheme, named after former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who ...

Lalit Modi has become the highest tax payer of India.
 
Former Andhra Pradesh CM YSR Reddy’s son Jagan Mohan Reddywho had paid just Rs 2.92 lakh tax for the entire financial year 2008-09, has paid Rs 6.6 crore advance tax in the first six months of this year.
 
A contender for ...

Unique Identity Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani has mentioned that the first unique identity of India will be issued in 2010.
 
"According to the present status of the project, the first UID issuance will take 12 to 18 months from the date of sanction of the project in ...

According to media reports, the home ministry has set Oct 31 as the deadline for those foreign nations who had entered India with business visas, but are still working here illegally, to leave India.
 
The details concerning this have been posted in the 'Frequently Asked Questions section of ...

Government is all set to roll out the National Mission for Women, which is a programmed led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for fighting the social evils which prevails against the women.
 
This proposal, which was put forward by Ministry of Women and Child Development, will be an ...

Expressing concern over media reports that suggest a change in India's climate policy, 43 organizations have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging that any such change should not compromise the country's development index.
 
"India's climate policy must be founded on the ...

Save the Family Foundation staged a protest in New Delhi on Sunday demanding gender neutrality in the Domestic Violence Act. The protest also claimed that the Act was "full of loopholes".
 
According to the NGO, its Act should be made more gender neutral so that it will not be ...

Mizoram government has entered into a deal with the NTPC for developing a 460 MW power project at Lawngtlai in southern Mizoram.
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"Since the demand has risen from 65 MW to 100 MW during peak hours, power source needs to be increased and the government has signed an agreement with NTPC to ...

Central government has mentioned that state-of-the-art vehicle fitness centres will be set across India for ensuring that the safety components are in proper condition. This step has been adopted by the government to bring down the number of accidents happening across the ...

The National Policy on Disaster Management has been approved by Union Cabinet on Thursday. This is the skeleton for the holistic handling of various disasters.
 
"The NPDM has been prepared in tune with and in pursuance of the Disaster Management Act, 2005," said an official ...

The Indian government has cleared off three new schemes which will enable the minorities to have drinking water and better urban infrastructure.
 
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, while addressing the media, mentioned that the schemes are part of the Prime Minister's New 15 ...

Government, in an attempt for enhancing the fire and emergency services of the nation, has approved Rs. 200 crore on Thursday.
 
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The approval for boosting the fire and emergency services of the nation, ...

The union cabinet on Thursday approved the constitution of the 19th Law Commission for a term of three years.
 
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said the terms of reference of the new commission include identification of laws in harmony with the current movement of ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has mentioned that the union cabinet has approved 50% reservation of seats in urban local bodies for women.
 
Soni said the ministry of urban development will move a bill for a constitutional amendment in the next parliamentary session, to ...

Law and Justice Minister Veerappa Moily has mentioned that he will hold talks with the health ministry on the HIV/AIDS bill, since people have been raising concerns about the missing of  "key provisions".
 
Raman Chawla of the Lawyers' Collective along with a six-member panel ...

Wajahat Habibullah, who has resigned as the Chief Information Commissioner of India, will take up his new assignment as the watchdog to the Right To Information in Jammu and Kashmir.
 
According to official sources, Habibullah, a 1968 batch IAS officer, will be joining as the State Chief ...

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 ...

Chhattisgarh government has reviewed the salaries of its state government employees to adhere to the standards of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. It has also given one week deadline for the clearing of discrepancies.
 
D.S. Mishra, principal secretary, while addressing the chief ...

The sixth Assam Pay Commission will be paying the 500,000 employees of the state government on a central pay scale.
 
The Pay Commission report has been submitted to the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
 
"I really don't know the contents and the recommendations of the report, but I ...

UID chief Nandan Nilekani has urged India to come up with a ‘policy on privacy’ stressing that it is important because of increasing fear of people about disclosing personal details in public.
 
The issue of privacy came up when Nileknai was asked about data related to ...

The Chandigargh administration on Wednesday announced that it will introduce e-stamping of the documents in the union territory.
 
"Chandigarh will soon adopt this practice under India Stamp Act and send the draft notification to the union ministry of home affairs," a government ...

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 ...

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has once again stressed that the government of India is committed to put an end to the militancy in Jammu and Kashmir by means of a unique solution.
 
Chidambaram, while addressing the All India Editors Conference on Social and Infrastructure in Srinagar, ...

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has decided on Tuesday to make ragging a cognizable offence.
 
The new law is tentatively titled as 'Ragging in Educational Institutions Ordinance, 2009'. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government had started off with this issue when it gained post during May 2007, ...

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 ...

A financial literacy programme was launched on Tuesday in Doddabelavangala in Bangalore Rural district by Governor of Reserve Bank of India, D. Subbarao. This programme is a part of the platinum jubilee celebrations of the RBI and is aimed at accomplishing 100% financial enclosure in ...

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said in Chennai that the unique multi-purpose national identity cards will be made available to the Indian citizens by 2010-2011.
 
About 1.2 crore people of the 3,331 coastal villages and cities will be getting the UID cards this year. The card will be ...