Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday constituted a Cabinet committee to oversee reconstruction and rehabilitation in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand. Defence Minister A K Antony, Agriculture Minister......
What happened in Uttarakhand is a national tragedy. Why couldn't Dr Manmohan Singh announce that he was forming an Uttarakhand Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, with himself as chairman but......
Relief and rescue efforts were intensified in Joshimath after it was declared a landslide and subsidence-hit zone, with the Centre on Sunday stressing that the immediate priority is the safety of......
The Bharatiya Janata Party has asked the central government to declare the Uttarakhand flood tragedy as a national calamity or at least as "rarest of the rare" calamity. It rejected the......
Crack meters installed in the damaged houses of Joshimath have registered no further widening of cracks in the last three days, but water discharge from an underground channel near JP Colony has......
Spending on corporate social responsibility activities by central public sector undertakings has been mandatory since 2010. The new Companies Bill will boost such spending by both public and......