Seven-member central team to visit Assam on Tuesday

To assess relief and rehabilitation requirements of violence-affected people, a team of seven senior central officials will visit Assam on Tuesday. The inter-ministerial delegation of joint......

Pradip Tripathi moves to Cabinet Secretariat as govt effects major bureaucratic rejig

Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday. A......

How Modi plans to change babudom

The PM is keen to fill 40 per cent of the joint secretary level openings with outsiders.R Rajagopalan reports. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi interacts with secretaries of all......

JK road, telecom network to be restored in 3-5 days: Centre

Restoration of road and telecommunication network in the KashmirValley, ravaged by floods, will take three to five days. The Centre has directed free flow of transport via Manali and Leh to......

Only marginal increase in Plan spending

It will be a virtual spending holiday at the Planning Commission, at least with respect to the additional allocation of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) announced in the Budget to meet the......

Mid-term Plan review to focus on CMP

The mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002-07) is likely to be finalised by the middle of November.In line with the prime minister's directive, the Planning Commission is expected to......

Plan for Rs 500-crore tourism fund

The tourism ministry has finalised the proposal for setting up a Rs 500-crore Tourism Development Fund, an approval for which will be sought from the Cabinet soon.About half the funds were to be......

PM takes an audit of rural schemes

The government on Thursday held a series of meetings to review its welfare schemes and programmes for rural areas. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed rural employment, rural works,......

Sports Shorts: We will have Olympics next year, says Coates

IMAGE: IOC official John Coates. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/File Photo/Reuters The Olympic movement faces its biggest challenge in four decades in getting a streamlined Tokyo Summer Games up and......