The Border Security Force is keen to have direct communication over the phone with their counterparts in Pakistan on any matter of concern along the border, as it is the case of Indo-Bangladesh border, BSF Director General U K Bansal said in Shillong on Thursday.
For the first time in nine years, the Cauvery River Authority will meet later in September this time to discuss Tamil Nadu's demand for immediate release of water by Karnataka to save the state's standing rice crops.
Preliminary investigations into the Delhi high court bomb blast have indicated that a nitrate-based explosive was used.
Home Minister P Chidambaram, the target of the opposition's attack in Parliament, was on Wednesday ready to respond on the issue of baton charge on Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing activists.
The government on Wednesday said it wants to bring the bill to set up anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal, in Rajya Sabha during the first part of the current Budget session of Parliament.
With two weeks of the monsoon session having passed without much significant business, Leader of the House in Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee and the Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal on Friday reached out to the Bharatiya Janata Party top brass, including L K Advani, to discuss smooth passage of pending bills in the House.
Three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks and hardware were roped in by the Supreme Court on Wednesday to "enquire, investigate and determine" whether Pegasus spyware was used for snooping on citizens and their probe would be monitored by former apex court judge R V Raveendran.
Amid the raging row over the controversial 2G note, three ministers on Wednesday night met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at his residence to find a way out to end the political storm.
The government on Friday ruled out recalling the '50 most wanted' list given to Pakistan after two more fugitives figuring in it were traced in India, but said the document is being reviewed. "The entire list is being reviewed. We have no plan to recall the list from Pakistan," U K Bansal, secretary, internal security in the home ministry told reporters."The responsibility has been fixed as it is a matter of internal importance. The issue is being probed," he said.
About 2 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast outside Delhi high court on Wednesday morning which killed at least 11 people and injured over 76 others, the Union home ministry said.
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At least 25 MPs of the Congress and its allies in the United Progressive Alliance were absent during voting on the Constitution Amendment Bill on Lokpal in the Lok Sabha which was defeated for lack of numbers.
The Indian government on Friday said the verdict in the Tahawwur Rana case in a United States court, holding the Pakistani-Canadian not guilty for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, is not a setback. The government said India does not rely overtly on prosecution of terror suspects in other countries.
Special Secretary (Internal Secretary) U K Bansal met Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium on Tuesday night and discussed with him about the options available before Indian investigators to question Headley under the plea bargain agreement between him and the American government.
"Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal had said the discussion on the Lokpal Bill will only take place on Monday. But to our utter surprise we got a call that Sandeep Dikshit (Cong MP) will initiate the debate on Lokpal in five minutes. The government wanted a casual debate on such an important and serious issue," Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said.
After its passage by an overwhelming majority in Rajya Sabha, the impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen will be taken up in Lok Sabha on September 5 and 6, government announced on Tuesday.
The budget session of Parliament will begin on February 21 and the general budget is slated to be presented to Lok Sabha on February 28.The decision to recommend the date for convening of the session to the President was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also Leader of the House in Lok Sabha.
India Investment Banking chairman V K Bansal spoke to Abhineet Kumar on various issues related to equity capital markets
The government said on Friday that the controversial Women's Reservation Bill would be brought for consideration in the Lok Sabha in the Monsoon Session of Parliament -- a move apparently aimed at dividing opposition unity.
United States President Barack Obama will address the joint session of Parliament on the evening of November 8. The winter session of Parliament will commence the next day. The session is being advanced by a week to enable Obama to address the members.Obama will kick off his four-day India visit on November 6, when he will reach Mumbai.President Obama will be chairing the Business and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai on November 6.
Both Houses of Parliament had to be adjourned on Friday during Question Hour after Opposition parties created an uproar demanding that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor submit his resignation over the Kochi IPL ownership controversy.
Charges and counter-charges over links with Maoists flew thick and fast between the Opposition and the government on Thursday as the Lok Sabha began discussion on the Dantewada Naxal attack.
The Budget session of Parliament will begin on Feb 21 and the general budget is slated to be presented to Lok Sabha on Feb 28.
The Winter Session of Parliament is being advanced by a week to enable United States' President Barack Obama to address members, which is likely on November 9.
A day's joint sitting of Parliament is likely on November 9 to enable US President Barack Obama to address the members while the Winter session could be convened from the third week of November as usual.
On a visit here to assess the security situation in the Valley in wake of fresh violence, a senior home ministry official said on Sunday that dialogue was the only way to resolve the Kashmir issue.
A solution is expected on the issue of suspension of seven Rajya Sabha members by Thursday evening.
His post-operative recovery was being closely monitored by a team of transplant surgeons, endocrinologist, nephrologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist and critical care experts among others.
On whether the futures trading policy of the government has resulted in the extremely high inflation (as seen some months ago), he said the committee to study the impact of futures trading on the prices of agricultural commodities could not draw any strong conclusion. The latest inflation rate as on December 6, measured by the wholesale price index, stood at 6.84 per cent. The rate of inflation had touched a high of 12.91 per cent on August 2.
India on Thursday downplayed the issue of building of a dam by China on Brahmaputra River saying the construction site is 1,100 km away from the country's boundary.
Dikshit was elected at a meeting of 42 party legislators in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was attended among others by All India Congress Committee General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai, Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal and Delhi Pradesh Congres Committee chief Jai Prakash Aggarwal.
Drag-flicker Diwakar Ram will lead the under-21 Indian hockey team against Pakistan in a five-match away Test series from November 11 to 21. The 20-member squad also includes promising junior players in Innocent Kullu, Birendra Lakra, Mandip Antil, Amardeep Ekka among others.
"Sebi has informed that it has initiated an examination in the matter," Minister of state for Finance P K Bansal saidin a written reply. Bansal was replying to a query by Amar Singh (Samajwadi Party) on whether the government had taken any action against thepromoters/affiliates of Reliance Industries Ltd regarding the recent mammoth insider trading activities in the shares of Reliance Petroleum Ltd.
A top BSF offcier said anti-Indian forces had been using Bangladesh to enter India as Western and Southern border of India were well guarded, besides Indo-Nepal border and Kashmir border.
According to the provisions of a bill that was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, trustees would have greater autonomy and flexibility to take decisions on investment of trust money based on their assessment of the risk return tradeoff. It would be consistent with the current economic environment and the present shift from a merit-based regulatory regime to a disclosure based regulatory regime.
Parliamentary affairs minister P K Bansal told reporters. He said the government has held discussions with leaders of opposition parties and the Budget would be passed without being sent to the Standing Committee. There would be a detailed discussion on General Budget, demands for grants of four ministries, appropriation bills and Finance Bill.
The CPI (M) members seemed determined to thwart the bill, aimed at increasing the FDI limit in the insurance sector. As Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal rose to introduce the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, CPI (M) member T K Rangarajan tried to grab the copy of the bill from him. An agitated-looking external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee pushed Rangarajan to protect Bansal. Another minister Meira Kumar rushed to shield Bansal, who introduced the bill.
The government had sought additional loan from the World Bank which will be over and above the net disbursement to India, Bansal said. This additional lending will include assistance to the infrastructure projects. It has also put in place various policy measures, including cut in duty rates of customs and central excise, liberalisation of foreign trade regime, re-finance facility to National Housing Bank and Small Industries Development Bank of India, the minister said.
It would be done on a pilot basis to reduce capital expenditure in setting up ATMs and to improve availability of ATMs to customers, minister of state for finance P K Bansal said in written reply in Lok Sabha. As per the information available on the website of the bank, SBI has over 8,500 ATMs in India, the largest network in the country.
As the global economic crisis unfolds, India expects further moderation in foreign capital flows and exports leading to slowdown in economy, minister of state for finance P K Bansal told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Referring to the impact of crisis on the country, Bansal, to another query said, "Industrial activity, particularly in the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors, is decelerating."
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