India to legislate Right to Food Act soon
ASHOK B SHARMA / TIANEW DELHI: The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh Thursday assured his government’s commitment to legislate Right to Food Act for ensuring social safety nets for…
Centre to reveal names of black money holders
NEW DELHI: (AMN) The Centre assured the Supreme Court that it would reveal the names of persons, who have stashed black money in foreign banks after registering a formal case…
HC reserves judgement on Sen
BILASPUR: The Chhattisgarh High Court Wednesday reserved the judgement on the bail petition of the rights activist and PUCL leader Dr. Vinayak Sen.
$41.99 bn defence deals in pipeline
ASHOK B SHARMA / TIANEW DELHI: In the last 48 months, Indian Ministry of Defence(MoD) has signed deals worth approximately $24.66 billion with global integrators. Deals worth another $41.99 billion…
Govt approves recapitalisation of rural banks
AMNNEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet Thursday approved the recaptalisation of regional rural banks to improve their capital to risk weighted assets ratio. Briefing media persons here after a Cabinet meeting,
High-powered committee to review ISRO–Devas deal
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE HI MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 AMN NEW DELHI : The Government has appointed a high-powered committee to review various aspects of the controversial deal ISRO's commercial…
Black money, blackens Indian democracy
BY ASHOK B SHARMAWhat is ailing India, the world’s largest democracy? It is the saga of corruption going unabated – be it relating to the Commonwealth Games, allocation of 2-G…
Neighbourhood poses security challenges for India
ASHOK B SHARMA / TIABENGALURU: India on Wednesday said that the disturbed neighbourhood poses security challenges for it and the region. It would increase its defence budget over the next…
Govt working on to retrieve black money
AMNNEW DELHI: The Government Wednesday spelt out in the Supreme Court that host of measures were being taken to retrieve black money from abroad.
Six Muslims acquitted in fake encounter case
AMNNEW DELHI: In a major blow to the Delhi police, a local court here ordered release of seven men, six of them Muslims, who were branded as “terrorists" by the…