The government on Monday said it would decide next month the fate of captive coal blocks lying idle with 82 companies, including ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel and NTPC, who have been issued notices for not developing them within the stipulated time.
The government has decided to issue biometric PAN (Permanent Account Number) cards to taxpayers across the country to weed out the problem of duplicate and fake ones.
The court decided the bail petition on three grounds -- flight risk, tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses.
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Former Australian opening batsman Matthew Hayden has called on the cricket fraternity to resolve in order to weed out the corrupt practices like match-fixing from the game.
A bunch of CEOs in their mid-30s and early 40s are trying to rectify the scenario where shady lending applications trap hapless borrowers with astronomically high interest rates and even bodily harm if the money was repaid. Anup Roy reports.
Warning the inefficient and corrupt employees in the state, the Punjab government on Wednesday said it will soon launch a systematic drive to identify laggards and weed them out.
Effective employment of the anti-money laundering mechanism by India, which vowed to fight tax havens and black-money, helped detect over 4,000 suspicious financial transactions relating to crime and terror -- more than double the numbers reported last year.
Six IIM-Ahmedabad students plan to start an anti-corruption helpline to weed out corruption from public life. This comes in the wake of series of scams being unearthed in India in the recent past.
The central government is planning to mandate biometric identification for clinical trial volunteers in the country to bring in global standards and to weed out unethical practices in the industry, which is less than a decade old.
Gulshan Kumar, former Education Officer, Australian High Commission talks about the recent clamp down on student visas and why.
The finance minister also says that India requires an investment of $850 billion to $1 trillion in the next 5-7 years.
"Goa is currently being run through remote control. Whatever Modi wants, happens in Goa," he said.
You can light up your house, use the water pumps, run saw mills, flour mills using Rai Singh's bio-mass gassifier.
Transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said he is here "not to show any dream" but to fulfil promises made on better, smoother roads and latest transport technology.
Even as the country awaits the final word on genetically modified brinjal, seed company Monsanto is moving ahead with new products.
In the second phase of action against shell companies, the MCA is also trying to trace the directors of 'vanishing' companies
Kenyan athletes Koki Manunga and Joyce Zakary have been handed provisional bans after testing positive for the use of banned substances at the world championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations said on Wednesday.
In a significant order, the Goa home ministry has curtailed the powers of districts administration in allowing get-togethers and pleasure parties in the state.
Labour MP from Birmingham Perry Barr Khalid Mahmood said it had become necessary to "profile" passengers from certain racial and religious groups to weed out possible terror suspects. "I think most people would rather be profiled than blown up... It wouldn't be victimisation of an entire community," he said.
Realistically no major reforms are expected for the pesticides industry. Reduction in excise duty is very unlikely, as it would not solve the basic problem of spurious manufacturers.
Seeks cut in excise duty on pesticides from 8% to 4%, on furnace oil from 16% to 4% and removal of customs duty on Fuel Oil, LSHS, Coal
"Why did the BJP government in 2018 sanction Rs 46 crore? This shows Modi is a liar", Gogoi asserted.
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Monday said the Supreme Court collegium made a mistake in recommending the name of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran for appointment to the apex court and maintained that any judge found to have trespassed any land is not fit to be elevated.
Pakistan's powerful spy agency Inter Services Intelligence has been restructured by the government by weeding out 32 senior officers of the rank of brigadiers and colonels in a move to make it trim, a media report said on Wednesday. The report said the revamp had been undertaken as the spy agency had expanded out of proportion in the recent years and many top level officers continued to serve in the organisation despite attaining superannuation.
Europeans believe that what is under attack is their way of life, their secular faith, the long-fought right to keep religion out of the public sphere, observes Virendra Kapoor.
Tennis aces Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza have urged the Indian cricketers to shrug off all apprehension about the vexed 'whereabouts' clause in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code and sign on the dotted line.
The action came "in the public interest" after extensive review of the service performance of the two officers, who have completed 15 years of qualifying service.
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With industry buckling under the impact of global meltdown, Indian IT outsourcing firms are adopting a 'zero tolerance' policy on fraudsters who have managed to get IT jobs using fake resumes.
Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad tells Rediff.com that the government have decided to repeal 36 obsolete laws immediately, but many more will be added to this list in the coming months. The minister also informs that this exercise was undertaken on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had flagged the issue soon after he took charge. Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal reports.
The initiative will include special training for Customs and drug regulatory officials to identify spurious drugs, their origin, distribution chain and follow-up action to raid premises and book culprits, in coordination with regulatory and police officials of various countries.
Nokia, that has already begun manufacturing of 5G equipment at its Chennai plant, is also readying for exporting the products to several key markets like the US.
Mumbaikars from different parts of the city are providing people with ready-to-grow seed balls to help tackle depleting forest cover, reports Swapnil Joglekar.
'Mamata is an emotional person, she follows her heart.' 'We loved that Didi, we still love her, but she is a changed person.' 'Why and how the change happened, who is responsible, I can't say.'
The exercise of striking off dormant companies and disqualifying directors is in furtherance of ease of doing business and will be good for genuine corporate
The Congress party's real estate bank has been receiving complaints from state units, and Priyanka Gandhi's first formal responsibility maybe to address these woes.
The changes, while making it harder for students to get into the University, aim to help students improve their research work.
Australian media projected Matthew Hayden's "obnoxious weed" remark on Harbhajan Singh as nothing more than a "foolish" comment.
"He's one of the most well-respected people in our team, so that's all that interests me," the Australian wicketkeeper said.
