The decision to free the prisoners was taken by the Joint Screening Committee comprising officials of the state and the Centre.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped the centre for being "sloppy" in checking female foeticide in the country, saying laws are not being implemented and everything is being left to fate.
Parliament on Thursday cleared the decks for the rollout of the historic Goods and Services Tax from July 1 as it approved four supporting legislations to usher in the one-nation-one-tax regime.
The Supreme Court has said that the practice of listing religious groups as 'minority communities' should be discouraged and the list be gradually be done away with as it promotes divisive tendencies to weaken the nation.
Earlier, Union Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma called Kashmir the pride of the nation and appealed to all stakeholders to invest in the tourism sector in the state.
Addressing the Inter-State Council meeting, convened after a gap of 10 years, the Prime Minister told the chief ministers that "we should focus on how we can make our country prepared to counter challenges to our internal security".
The LG is also believed to have cited that the inquiry into the CNG fitness kit scam set up by the Kejriwal government earlier was set aside by the Centre on the same ground.
Indian roads have proved to be giant killers demanding immediate remedial action, the Supreme Court said and appointed a three-member committee to monitor steps taken by the Centre and state governments to ensure road safety and to curb growing number of accidents.
Walmart had entered into a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises.
Expressing serious concern about the country's financial health, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday warned that economic progress could be hindered if the mounting fiscal deficit of 9 to 10 per cent of the national income was not contained.
Indian carriers are expected to double their fleet size by 2020 to 1,000 aircraft by 2020, promising a huge opportunity for the maintenance, repair and overhaul business.
'There are smaller cities, which are very attractive to fly'.
Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.
The National Democratic Alliance won 64 seats.
'We are in the middle of the biggest self created crisis of this government.' 'A crisis which involves and includes citizens and affects the way we go about our lives.' 'It is a crisis that is being managed poorly by the government and, it is absolutely clear, even more shoddily by the Opposition,' says Aakar Patel.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to expand the eight-hour night-time ban period on bursting of crackers and voiced unhappiness over the government's failure to run a campaign to create public awareness during Diwali time on the ill-effects of fireworks.
The states have unanimously pitched for sole administrative powers to carry out assessment, scrutiny and enforcement for entities up to an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
People affected by the Navi Mumbai international airport insist they be allotted developed land as compensation, not cash as the land acquisition Bill, recently cleared by Parliament
Measures may include tax slab and rate revisions for individuals, companies.
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The GST will subsume most of the indirect taxes like excise duty and service tax
The new Land Acquisition Act to provide just and fair compensation to farmers came into force from January 1, 2014.
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on Wednesday dismissed reports about a blast or steam pipe leak at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, saying there was only "an incident of hot water spillage" in which six persons were injured.
The Lok Sabha has already passed the Bill.
Universal basic income or social security? Economist Nitin Desai feels we need a blueprint for universal health care and pensions to help the vulnerable section.
Sustaining anything in the region of 7% growth should be good enough in a troubled and risk-laden world, says T N Ninan.
Ahead of his government's first full year budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought ideas from economists to attract investments, create jobs and finance infrastructure to put India back on high growth path.
Wrapping up his three-day maiden visit to Nagaland, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday unveiled a Rs 1,050 crore (Rs 10.8 billion) economic package to accelerate development in the state.
Outlining the roadmap to achieve 7-8 per cent economic growth on sustained basis, the Economic Survey on Wednesday indicated major initiatives in the Union Budget to overhaul tax system, slash deficit, contain prices and boost agriculture.
Bihar became the first non-NDA state and overall second after the BJP-ruled Assam to pass GST bill.
Officials said the World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Asian Development Bank had evinced interest in the project.
The narrow win in Gujarat can be contributed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his no-holds-barred approach and party president Amit Shah who plays to win and knows that there are rules to be followed when suited and broken when needed.
The 12th Finance Commission report on sharing of funds between Centre and states, scheduled for submission by July end, is likely to be delayed due to the elections, C Rangarajan, chairman of the commission, said on Friday.
World Bank on Monday said it would help the bank in moving away from an individual 'ring-fenced' project financing to a broad-based assistance to India.
Modi said there was a need to make transactions 'transparent' in India.
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