According to the CBI, the law enforcement agencies have seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) with the face value of Rs.148 million in 2008 - an amount nearly double of what was recovered in 2007.
 
According to the official, FICN with the face value of Rs.80 million were recovered all ...

According to the amendments made to the EIA rules by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, many projects have been now excluded from the need to seek environmental clearances.
 
Some among the proposals that have been included in the amendments put forward by the Minister of Environment ...

Saying that censorship has no place in the age of Internet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has said she has no plan to bring the controversial content code on the "front burner" of the government's action plan.
 
She favoured a nodal agency which could ...

The government will soon issue unique plastic cards to Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries to help them avail services in any part of the country, the parliament was told on Wednesday.
 
"It has been decided to issue plastic cards individually to each beneficiary of ...

According to the words of Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, the government has undertaken an e-governance project to make the process of emigration more transparent.
 
"The ministry has undertaken an e-governance in emigration project to tranform the process of mobility ...

The proposals for including subjects like English, maths, science and computers in Madrassa to make it employment oriented has evoked mixed responses. The proposal by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has not found favour with Madrassa authorities, but it has been welcomed by many ...

The Haj pilgrims will now be able to get their passports without undergoing the police verification. This has been decided by the government on Tuesday.
 
The decision was taken after two high-level meetings in the light of the Saudi government's decision that Haj visas will be issued on ...

A child crying inconsolably after being ousted from a reality TV show, his parents watching in dejection and the audience clapping in sympathy may push up TRP ratings. But it may also cause immense trauma to the child.
 
Now the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has ...

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), which is India’s largest thermal power producer, has plans for signing a deal with the Chhattisgarh government on Sunday for setting up a 4,000 MW coal-fired power plant in the state.
 
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the ultra mega ...

With an aim towards encouraging the self-reliance among women across the country, the government on Friday said it would allocate Rs.20 crore for extending the women self help groups (SHGs) to every block in the country.
The Women and Child Development Ministry's Swayamsidha Scheme for holistic ...

Cigarette packets with pictorial warnings about the dangers of smoking have finally hit the market, more than a month after they were due -- but the illustrations are far from being gory as they were meant to be.


One such packet, bought on Thursday, showed a hazy picture of what appeared to be ...

Prithviraj Chavan, the Minister of State for Personnel and Public Grievances on Wednesday said that the government will be amending the laws for the strengthening of the Right to Information (RTI) Act so that easier access to information in non-strategic areas is enabled.
 
'In this regard, ...

The Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on Thursday refused to roll back the increase in the fuel prices. But he added that a revision will be considered when the international crude oil prices decrease.
The government on Wednesday had allowed the state-run oil firms to increase the prices of the ...

An Israeli IT official said that Israeli IT firms will also partner with Indian vendors for the joint bidding of the unique identification (ID) card project of the Indian government.

Melamed, who is leading an Israeli IT delegation on the week-long trip to India, said that many Israeli firms ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray surrendered before railway police in Thane district in Maharashtra on Monday. This is in connection with a case of instigating violence against north Indian students appearing for railway recruitment exam in October last year.
He surrendered ...

The Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Murli Deora told the media on Saturday from Panaji that the hike in the price of petroleum will be decide only after the price on international crude oil is monitored. 

According to the Minister, the government is hoping that the prices of ...

With the rumours of a hike in the price of food items due to lack of rain, the government has decided to postpone the decision of exporting wheat.  But the overseas sale of other wheat products like refined flour (maida), semolina (sooji) and flour.
 
According the sources from ...

Authorisation has been given the authorisation for providing more relief to the farmers under the debt relief scheme, under the condition that government will not bear losses of the lenders.

Under this scheme, which is known as “One Time Settlement, the farmers will be given a debt relief ...

The sugar mills will now have to pay more to the cane growers. This is because the government on Thursday increased the statutory minimum price for sugarcane by over 32 percent to Rs.107.76 per quintal for the season of 2009-10. The price of sugarcane had been Rs.81.18 per quintal in the previous ...

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has called for tax reforms such as unifying various cesses and surcharges into a single corporate tax, allowing higher depreciation and removing multiple taxations on the dividend to spur growth and make India Inc globally competitive.
 
"To ...

Immediately after taking the charge of the Railway Ministry, Mamata Banerjee today (May 26) announced special monthly railway passes for poor. The new Railway Minster stated that people with monthly income of less than Rs 500 will be provided with special monthly railway passes of Rs 20 each. Apart ...

The government will provide energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) at Rs.15 each all over the country. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Director General Ajay Mathur said this in New Delhi. The decision follows the success of two pilot projects carried out at Visakhapatnam (Andhra ...

In order to avoid violence against medicare service persons and damage to property in medical institutions, the Haryana assembly has passed a bill on Friday (February 20). The Haryana Medicare Service Persons and Medicate Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Bill, ...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs of the government has approved the simplification of norms for calculating direct and indirect foreign holding in sectors, which attract an investment cap. Briefing the media about the CCEA's decision Home Minister P Chidambaram said that, all investments ...

The government on Monday (February 9) announced that all the passengers boarding flights from Delhi airport will have to pay additional fee from March 1. As per the government statement, each domestic passenger will be charged with an additional fee of Rs 200 while those heading for ...

The Centre on Tuesday (3rd February) amended rules for special economic zones. It has asked the developers to voluntarily build housing facilities for workers and staff within the tax-free enclaves. For bringing materials into the SEZ for constructing these facilities the developers can avail of ...

The Central Government is likely to create a national fund with a corpus of Rs 1,000 crore to protect enterprises in unorganized sector from the current economic slowdown.
 
While talking to media, Secretary of Micro, Small Medium Enterprises (MSME) department, Dinesh Rai said that the ...

The government on Friday (2nd January) decided to promulgate an Ordinance enabling the private sector to avail of the paramilitary force’s services to guard against terror attacks on industrial establishments. The Cabinet gave the go-ahead to bring in the Ordinance.
 
The private ...

In less than a month since the UPA government announced a Rs 32,000 crore booster dose for the slowing economy, it came out with a more comprehensive and detailed stimulus package valued at over Rs 20,000 crore.
 
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission announced the ...

The Cabinet on Friday (26th December) approved an Integrated Energy Policy that envisions a road-map for sustainable growth with energy security over a reasonable period of time, the Home Minister, Mr. P Chidambaram said on Friday (26th December).
 
Home Minister P Chidambaram, who briefed ...