The Himachal Pradesh State Planning Board approved an annual plan size of Rs 3,000 crore for the year 2010-11, proposing a hike of Rs 300 crore from the current plan.
The meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Wednesday.
A final decision on the plan, however, will be taken at a meeting of the [...]
NEW DELHI: FOUR days after India lodged a protest with Pakistan over cease-fire violations, Pakistani troops at Kanachak sub-sector in Akhnoor ofJammu district while a group of militants were trying to infiltrate into the country.
The latest cease-fire violation took place along the border came as Republic Day was celebrated across the country. The firing lead [...]
NEW DELHI: The group of four major emerging economies — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — on Sunday expressed their intention to communicate information on their voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by January 31.
This decision was taken at the second Ministerial-level meeting of the BASIC group [...]
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday formally announced that Lt-Gen Vijay Kumar Singh, currently Eastern Army Command chief at Kolkata, will take
over as the new Army chief from General Deepak Kapoor on March 31. Lt-Gen Singh’s appointment as the next chief has been a foregone conclusion for long since he will be the senior most [...]
New Delhi: Former foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon was named on Thursday the new National Security Adviser (NSA), but unlike his predecessor M K Narayanan he would be looking at a leaner brief, government sources indicated.
That Menon was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first preference was known, but a final decision on who would hold this key [...]
New Delhi: New Delhi’s airspace will remain closed for an hour between 11.15 a.m. (IST) and 12.15 p.m. (IST) from January 21 to 24 and on January 26 for Republic Day celebrations, an official said on Thursday.
“There will be no take-off and landing of flights during this period. Flights cannot operate within a radius of [...]
AHMEDABAD: Geetha Johri, who is Gujarat’s first woman IPS officer, is quite a been-there-done-that
cop.
From the time she defied her superiors in September 1992 as deputy commissioner of police in Ahmedabad to nab underworld don Abdul Latif’s man Sharif Khan, to the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter probe and her role in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing [...]
India on Wednesday sought a report from its high commission in Australia after news of yet another assault on an Indian taxi driver in Melbourne.
“I have just heard the news. I have sought a report from the Indian High Commission,” External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told reporters in New Delhi.
He said that the continuing attacks [...]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Gujarat government to hand over forthwith all the necessary documents, including allegedinflammatory speech made by chief minister Narendra Modi in 2002, to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing post-Godhra communal carnage in the state.
“According to SIT, the statement made by the chief minister has some relevance. What [...]
India’s conduct after the Mumbai-terrorist attack by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has been statesmanlike, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said today, praising the restrain shown by the Indian leadership after 26/11.
“I believe that the Indians responded subsequently with a great deal of restraint and have conducted themselves in a very statesmanlike manner since that attack,” Mr. [...]
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