Mukul fast-tracks Bengal projects
True to his image of being a man of organisation, Trinamul Congress leader and Union railways minister Mukul Roy has fast-tracked projects in West Bengal.
‘Recruitment in railways insufficient’
With over 70 employees dying every month due to occupational hazard and stress-related ailments, which along with a large number of retirements of those who had joined in 1974, railways union claim th
Jairam writes to Modi, gives `100cr
Immediately after he was praised for development of the state in The Time magazine, the Centre allocated an additional `100 crores to the Gujarat chief minister, Mr Narendra Modi, for successfully imp
Foodgrains for APL to see hike?
Facing “problem of plenty” due to record foodgrains production and uncertainty over the Food Security Bill, the Centre is mulling significant hike in foodgrains for APL (above poverty line) card holde
Is UPA trying to better TMC ties?
Having been put on the backfoot on key policy issues, the Congress-led UPA appears to be taking steps to improve its ties with the Trinamul Congress.
Is UPA trying to better Trinamool Congress ties?
Having been put on the backfoot on key policy issues, the Congress-led UPA appears to be taking steps to improve its ties with the Trinamul Congress.
The TMC leaders claimed that finance minister Pr
Anna for FIRs against 14 ‘corrupt’ ministers
Social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday demanded registration of FIRs against 14 Union Cabinet ministers by August this year, threatening that he would launch a “jail bharo” movement if the FIRs were no
Bring Lokpal Bill or go, Anna tells govt
Taking on the government, Gandhian Anna Hazare on Sunday declared, “We will show what is the power of the Jan Lokpal Bill. I am a ‘fakir’. I will show them how much strength a ‘fakir’ like me has.”
Rs 1,000cr corpus for civil society
Fight against the spread of Naxal ideology and violence appears to have got a major push, with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee proposing to set up a National Rural Livelihoods Foundation on the lines of the Public Health Foundation on public-private partnership mode.
SP feels new front possible after ’14 polls
Though Samajwadi chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has denied talks on forming a ‘third front’ now, the party feels such a bloc is very much possible after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Mr Yadav, who arrive