Panaji, Nov 20 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said fear of litigation had forced the central government to go slow on the de-notification of three special economic zones (SEZ) allotted ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's constituency in Jammu will reach 100 percent sanitation and toilet coverage by the year 2266 - taking the longest time ...

Bangalore, Nov 17 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday inducted Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned as the assembly speaker, into his ministry as part of the deal to buy peace ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) With a fresh attack on an Indian in Melbourne, the targeting of Indian students in Australia is set to dominate proceedings when Australian Prime Minister Kevin ...

Mumbai, Nov 8(ANI): The first meeting of the newly constituted Maharashtra Government was held under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan here on Sunday. Ending a 16-day stalemate, the Congress ...

Mumbai, Nov. 8 (ANI): Maharashtra's newly appointed Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Deputy Chief Chhagan Bhujbal on Sunday visited Buddhist monument, Chaityabhoomi, to take the blessings of Dr. B R Ambedkar. "Today is ...

Jammu, Nov 8 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is battling a political crisis, visited the revered cave shrine of Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir and offered prayers. Yeddyurappa was ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to inaugurate a three-day India Economic Summit in New Delhi today that is being held in the backdrop of the ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) All seven independent legislators supporting the Congress in Haryana were Saturday accommodated in the new government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Four were made ministers while ...

Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Ending a 16-day tussle with its ally over power sharing, Ashok Chavan took oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra Saturday evening along with 37 more ministers. The new ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) A traffic jam on the busy Ambala-Chandigarh highway Saturday held up a minister of state in Haryana from reaching the Raj Bhawan to take oath of office. Sukhbir Kataria, ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) All seven independent legislators supporting the Congress in Haryana were Saturday accommodated in the new government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Four of the independents were ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Huda on Saturday inducted six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state in his cabinet. They were sworn in by the Haryana Governor ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia Saturday administered the oath of office to six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state here. Five of the cabinet ministers - Capitan Ajay Singh, ...

Chennai, Nov 2 (IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa asked Monday why the DMK ministers in the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government remained mute spectators when more than Rs.100,000 ...

Kabul, Nov 1 (DPA) Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah Sunday announced he would not participate in a planned runoff election, saying that political conditions could not guarantee a fair process. The former foreign ...

Kabul, Nov 1 (DPA) Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah Sunday announced he would boycott a planned runoff election, saying that political conditions could not guarantee a fair process. The former foreign minister's decision ...

Kabul, Oct 31 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai's challenger in the presidential run-off election is widely expected to boycott the poll scheduled for Nov 7 unless his conditions are met by ...

Shimla, Oct. 31 (ANI): Reacting to the statement of India's Telecom Minister A Raja that a controversy over spectrum allocation took place during their stint, the main opposition questioned why he ...

Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) here, a report said. The MoU was ...

Bhopal, Oct 28 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Wednesday inducted nine more ministers into his council of ministers while one minister of state was promoted to cabinet rank. One ...

Jakarta, Oct 22 (DPA) Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono oversaw the swearing in of his newly-appointed cabinet ministers Thursday after receiving a strong mandate in July's election. In his inauguration speech, Yudhoyono reminded ...

Panaji, Oct 10 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged large scale corruption in Goa's mining department, especially for its inability to impose the much-touted 'green cess' on mining ore ...

Panaji, Oct 8 (IANS) Goa Science and Technology Minister Churchill Alemao Thursday said the floods that ravaged the southern parts of the state were caused by a 'mini tsunami' in the ...

Nagaur (Rajasthan), Oct.2 (ANI): United Progress Alliance chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said that despite efforts there was a deterioration in the rural administration system and villagers' voice ...

Nagaur (Rajasthan), Oct 2 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address a public meeting here this afternoon to mark the golden jubilee of the launch of the Panchayti Raj program. Rajasthan ...

Bangalore, Sep 29 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in Mysore to hold 'classes' on team building and human resource development for ministers in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

Panaji, Sep 27 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the junior partner in Goa's ruling coalition, has alleged that the Congress is trying to marginalise it, accentuating the rift within the alliance. "The ...

New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A group of cabinet ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to send a team to ...

New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Tuesday alleged that cabinet ministers in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were patronising Maoist rebels in ...