Sunday, March 25, 2012

Soon, highways ministry to go paperless

Soon, highways ministry to go paperless

Soon, highways ministry to go paperless

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:53 PM PDT

The highways ministry will go paperless soon. Under this initiative, all official documents including letters will be converted into electronic format. These can be accessed only by the official concerned and at one time multiple officials can work on the same file.

Highway construction target back on track

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:52 PM PDT

The Centre's target to revive highway construction appears to be back on track. In the past 11 months of the current fiscal, the highways ministry has managed to build approximately 12km of road per day.

Congress hits out at Team Anna for leveling 'baseless' charges

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:48 PM PDT

Congress on Sunday retaliated against Team Anna's tirade against Union ministers, accusing them of labeling "baseless" charges.

STF probing 15 encounters in Gujarat seeks more manpower

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:55 PM PDT

The chairman of the Supreme Court appointed Special Task Force (STF), retired SC judge, justice H S Bedi, has sought for an increase in manpower to the team probing 15 police encounters of Gujarat.

RS nominations reunite erstwhile NDA partners

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:51 PM PDT

The latest round of Rajya Sabha polls has built new bridges between old allies, who had fallen apart.

Montek opposes any Presidential reference on 2G case

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:49 PM PDT

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has totally opposed the move for making a Presidential Reference on the 2G case and instead feels the Government should implement the Supreme Court order cancelling the spectrum licenses and completing the auction in good faith.

Pvt companies gained at cost of CIL

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:46 PM PDT

Private companies to whom the government allotted coal blocks without bidding may have made windfall gains at the cost of state-run major Coal India Ltd, a reading of the CAG draft report on the allocation of acreages suggests.

First war criminal executed in 1474

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Wars are as old as humanity and so are the rules. The Chinese, the Greeks and ancient Indian civilization have all mentioned crimes that violate laws of war.

President Pratibha Patil's foreign trips cost record Rs 205 cr

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:43 PM PDT

President Pratibha Patil's wanderlust has cost the public exchequer a whopping Rs 205 crore on her foreign visits, surpassing the record of all her predecessors.

CIC wants MP MLAs to reveal travel bills

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:41 PM PDT

An order issued by P P Tewari, the chief information commissioner of Madhya Pradesh, barely an hour before his retirement has put the Vidhan Sabha in a fix.

India remains world's largest arms importer

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:28 PM PDT

The message is embarrassing but clear: with India failing to get its act together to build a strong defence-industrial base (DIB) unlike China, it will continue to be the world's largest arms importer in the foreseeable future.

SC to frame guidelines for reporting sub-judice matters; we need many more guidelines

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:26 PM PDT

In a constitutional democracy based on rule of law, citizens operate under a golden rule: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins".

Anna Hazare storms Delhi, warns of August stir

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:23 PM PDT

Pushing aside the December debacle activist Anna Hazare returned in full force to Jantar Mantar on Sunday, setting an August deadline for the government to file cases against its 14 ``corrupt'' Cabinet ministers.

Nitin Gadkari rubbishes Anshuman Mishra's charges

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:21 PM PDT

BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday lashed out against NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra for making unsubstantiated charges against senior party leaders — M M Joshi, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley — while describing them as totally "baseless and misleading".

Norway kids’ mom leaves for India

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT

The mother of two Indian kids, who Norwegian child care agency had placed under foster care due to lack of parental care last year, has left for India after signing an agreement along with her husband to hand over their custody to their uncle, family sources said.

UP housing board to raise property rates

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:52 PM PDT

New houses and plots offered by the UP Housing and Development Board (UPHDB) in Ghaziabad and Loni may cost nearly 20% more with the state government agency planning to jack up prices in the new financial year.

Explain Intelligence Bureau's legality, HC tells Centre

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:45 PM PDT

Responding to a PIL filed by a retired Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer pointing at the complete absence of constitutional or statutory sanction for the agency, the Karnataka high court last week sought an explanation from the Centre, giving it time until March 30 to issue an executive order justifying IB's existence.

Now, a tablet that's also a mini lab for doctors

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:41 PM PDT

Imagine a cutting edge software — a tablet computer and an Android phone rolled into one — that works as a diagnostic tool for multiple activities like conduct ECG, measure heart rate, test quality of water and also take body temperature.

PM's fiat failed to block coalgate

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:30 PM PDT

The government continued to give away coal blocks without bidding even after a meeting headed by Manmohan Singh (in his role as coal minister) on October 14, 2004 decided that all future allocation would be through the competitive route, says a CAG report.

Keep off South China Sea, India warned

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT

Calling the South China Sea a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from oil exploration in the Vietnamese blocks.

South Korea offers India nuke reactors

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Signalling an end to the Fukushima gloom that overhang the global nuclear sector, South Korea has offered to build nuclear reactors in India and sought land for the project.

Maoist leader admits to fissures

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 01:56 PM PDT

With Maoists releasing Claudio Colangelo, one of the two Italian hostages on Sunday, Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik appealed to the rebels to immediately free the other two hostages.

Maoists Orissa double kidnap seen as tactical blunder

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:57 PM PDT

The kidnap of BJD MLA at a time when Maoists were already holding 2 Italians captive might have diminished Orissa area chief Panda's negotiating position.

SGPC to file mercy plea for ex-CM Beant Singh's assassin

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Backed by ruling Akali Dal, the SGPC, apex religious body of Sikhs, will file a clemency appeal before the President for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row for the 1995 killing of Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, even as ally BJP steered clear of the issue.

Himachal Pradesh govt aims to sterilize 2 lakh monkeys

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Monkey menace in Himachal Pradesh has reached the corridors of the Planning Commission.
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