New Delhi/Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is slated to travel to China, has said Beijing has a "direct link with Kashmir". The Mirwaiz, who is set to ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 20 (IANS) The central government has formally notified the third phase of the Technopark IT campus here and that at Kollam as special economic zones (SEZ), according to the Kerala ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The central government has committed Rs.332.92 crore in various health measures to check the spread of Influenza A (H1N1), more commonly known as swine flu, Health Minister ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Putting an end to the bitter row, the central government Friday decided to restore the earlier sugarcane pricing policy, a move welcomed by opposition parties. After a ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Bowing to angry protests from opposition parties and farmers, the government Friday agreed to restore the earlier sugarcane prices. The issue was resolved at an all-party ...

Kanchanpur/Janpui (Tripura), Nov 20 (ANI): Tension continues to prevail in border areas along Mizoram and Tripura. A violent mob set fire over 360 Reang tribals huts, in around 15 villages in Mamit ...

By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Nov 20 (IANS) The government's allocation for the natural rubber sector is not enough for expanding the area under cultivation or enhancing production, according to Rubber Board of India ...

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 (ANI): The Union Government on Thursday announced the setting up of 193 Grama Nyayalayas (village courts) in various states in the current year. In a written statement to the ...

Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) Agitated over the government's sugarcane pricing policy, several groups of farmers Thursday resorted to arson and vandalism at sugar mill offices in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said. Irate ...

Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday submitted to Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi a 'chargesheet' against state Chief Minister Mayawati seeking action against her and functionaries ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a key partner in the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, Thursday opposed the government's decision to fix sugarcane price at ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): Farmers from all parts of the country have begun congregating in the national capital in an attempt to stall proceedings in the winter session of parliament in ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chief Nandan Nilekani has said that various banks, tax authorities, utilities and other service providers would be roped in to enroll ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Holding sugarcane stems and shouting slogans, hordes of farmers from Uttar Pradesh arrived in Delhi Thursday to voice their protest against the new sugarcane pricing policy announced ...

New Delhi, Nov. 18 (ANI): CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday questioned the UPA Government's intention on bringing the ordinance on sugarcane pricing on the eve of the Winter Session ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said it will protest the new sugarcane pricing policy in the winter session of parliament beginning Thursday. Claiming that "wrong policies" of ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (ANI): The National Integration Week will be observed in India from Thursday. The National Integration Week is observed from November 19-25 every year to foster and re-inforce the ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Nov 18 (IANS) At a time when the central government says its national target for paddy procurement may not me met, Punjab farmers have not only managed a ...

Bhopal, Nov 17 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Tuesday assured the state assembly that it would inquire into reports of farmers being deprived of the central government's loan waiver scheme. Chaudhary Rakesh Singh ...

Bhopal, Nov 17 (IANS) Union Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Tuesday dedicated to the nation a state-of-the-art transformer manufacturing facility here. The facility, set up by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), is part ...

Shimla, Nov 17 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday advocated the need for establishing smaller universities which were "easier to manage" and would serve to capture "synergies between teaching and research". "In ...

Chandigarh, Nov 17 (IANS) In a bid to curb sale of spurious drugs in Punjab, the state government has announced reward for all those providing information. The Punjab government will follow the special ...

By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Nov 17 (IANS) Wooden frames and shingled eaves, the sound of birds and rustling leaves -- the Himachal government has begun restoration of its resthouses in forests to promote ...

Kolkata, Nov 17 (ANI): Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Anil Kakodkar has said work on India's nuclear programmes will continue as usual despite media reports of the country's nuclear power plants being ...

Panaji, Nov 17 (IANS) The entertainment society of Goa (ESG), co-host of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has held its central government partner Directorate of ...

New Delhi, Nov.16 (ANI): Finding themselves trapped in Central government's Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) and the Uttar Pradesh State government's State Advised Price (SAP) mechanism, Sugarcane farmers from U.P. staged a ...

Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) Over 2,000 Samajwadi Party activists Monday courted arrest in several parts of Uttar Pradesh and clashed with the police while protesting against the sugarcane purchase policy of the ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday sought the central government's stand on a lawsuit seeking compulsory DNA profiling of thousands of unidentified dead persons recovered annually across India. A bench ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party chief Bhim Singh has approached the Supreme Court for restoration of pre-paid mobile connections in Kashmir, which were banned by the ...