The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met in New Delhi on Monday to discuss a package for Jammu and Kashmir hit by a fresh bout of violence since Eid last......
Bangladesh interim government's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus Sunday said a free, fair and participatory election will be held after vital reforms in different sectors as he urged the people to have......
Corrupt bureaucrats, beware! The Second Administrative Reforms Commission has recommended forfeiture of property acquired through corrupt means. In its fourth report on Ethics in Governances, the......
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar doesnot like being called aCEO. "I am nota CEO, I am simply the chief minister," Nitish Kumar said on Friday after releasing a report card on completion of one......
'Votes-for-notes no longer only means cash and goodies for fence-sitting voters,' points out Sunil Sethi. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Money talks. By that definition campaign politics of......
'Some of the astounding proposals, if translated into statutory provisions, would be suicidal.''This would not be a wonder cure for increasing insurance penetration and only result in mushrooming......
'The expeditious enactment of labour codes and strategic measures to bridge the skills jobs gap are critical.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi and the Cabinet meet for the first time, June......
Amid long-pending dispute between the UK-based telecom giant Vodafone and the tax authorities in India, Finance Minister's advisor Parthasarathi Shome on Wednesday said the government should not......
The exclusion of petroleum products, though, will be for a limited period, till states reach comfortable revenue levels. "We will not call it ‘Goods and Services Tax’ if petroleum and......
A tax reforms panel, headed by finance minister's advisor Parthasarathi Shome, is considering moving away from setting fixed tax-collection targets and linking these with the changing economic......
The Board of Control for Cricket in India is likely to challenge the Central Information Commission's ruling that the cricket board be brought under the Right to Information act with a top official......