Battered by various Comptroller and Auditor General reports on alleged scams, government says it is "actively" considering a proposal to make the official auditor a multi-member body.
Laying the foundation stone of a Buddhist University in Sanchi, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday said tolerance is of "equal importance" to both East and West, as enmity and hatred lead to violence and destruction.
"The contact centre of UIDAI is handling the grievances and complaints of all stakeholders. They have not received any specific complaint related to privacy concerns while collecting individual data. However, a complaint regarding misuse of address proof was received," the authority said in reply to an RTI query.
India on Monday signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal with South Korea, allowing a framework for Korean companies to participate in atomic power plant projects in the country.
Under the scanner for alleged bungling to the tune of several crores of rupees, the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is now mired in litigation with several firms and its former employees seeking their dues.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday mounted an attack on the centre for police action on Baba Ramdev's peaceful protest at Ramlila ground in Delhi on Saturday night.
Ever thought where the coins collected by security forces during the opening ceremony and other events of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi would go? Coins of Rs 1, 2, 5 and 10 (most of them from foreigners) worth lakhs were on Sunday collected by Delhi police personnel involved in security related duties for the opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium while frisking and they were treated as 'unclaimed'.
President Pratibha Patil said on Friday the benefits of India's economic growth should reach the grass-root level to build a more equitable and sustainable society.
During an interview with PTI, Vice-President of Tactical Intelligence, Stratfor, Scott Stewart said: "Yes. Two days after the February 13, 2010 blast in Pune, Ilyas Kashmiri (wanted Al Qaeda terrorist) threatened the Field Hockey World Cup, the Indian Premier League cricket competition and the Commonwealth Games."
In a curious case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, the Law Ministry has released the letter written by former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami to the President seeking removal of fellow Election Commissioner Navin Chawla while the Rashtrapati Bhawan had declined to make the document public.
Air India's general manager (finance), who should be in the thick of company's financial matters, does not have information about pay and perks of the company's top bosses.
Kargil, which bore the brunt of the 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan, has become a town of bunkers with over 700 such facilities all around the city to save the lives of locals from Pakistan's artillery shelling. The bunkers constructed all around Kargil town are reminiscent of Pakistan's artillery shelling, which made life difficult for the locals between 1997 and 2003. Even after 10 years of the Kargil conflict, these bunkers have not been dismantled.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out of the Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday, a surgeon looked behind with pride and satisfaction how the 11-hour coronary bypass surgery went as per plan and not a step was missed. The dissection of the heart especially since the prime minister was undergoing a second bypass was listed by one of the surgeons as among the most complicated part of the operation at All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday.
The economic slowdown, which caused severe job-cuts across the country, has brought new opportunities for frauds who, masquerading as representatives of IT companies, are luring employment-seekers with promises of good placements in lieu of some 'security amount'.
In a bid to safeguard their firms against fraud, many multinational companies are contacting Certified Fraud Examiners for checking their accounts and financial transactions.
The government is considering a recommendation to amend the Representation of People's Act to grant voting right to some 3.5 lakh prisoners lodged in jails across the country. The Home Ministry is in touch with the Law Ministry and other concerned authorities to make necessary amendments in the law.
Special agents, as the detectives are called by their employers, do not bully defaulters as recovery agents do, but use sleuthing skills to shadow subjects and help lenders nab them. Many big defaulters have been traced till now and lakhs of rupees recovered using services of detectives, says a bank official.
After business, knowledge and legal process outsourcing, the Indian industries are now eyeing 'diagnostics jobs' outsourcing from other countries. According to industry experts, a number of hospitals in the US and Europe are outsourcing laboratory and diagnostic tests to India as it helps in saving cost and money while maintaining quality.
Experts have observed that cockroaches are the main carrier that can trigger asthma and allergies in people, especially in children.
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