The environment ministry's expert appraisal committee has recommended granting environment clearance to the government's ambitious Central Vista redevelopment project, but directed that its......
The Shram Shakti Bhavan and Transport Bhavan in Lutyens' Delhi will be the first two buildings to be razed to pave the way for the construction of chambers of members of Parliament there as part of......
'Now that the home minister met us to discuss our demands a hope has definitely been kindled that farmers's demands will be met by this government.' IMAGE: Representatives of various farmer unions......
'If you are doing something to our national democratic space which involves serious amounts of land, the public should have been consulted.' IMAGE: Parliament, Rashtrapati Bhavan and other......
Construction of a new Parliament building will begin in December this year and is likely to be completed by October 2022, while necessary measures have been put in place to ensure that Parliament......
The irony of this scheme to benefit farmers is that it could add to the problems for the government because the mechanism to procure and store crops like pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds barely......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has had a drastic haircut. A curious reporter asked him why. "Well, I can't cut expenditure", he grinned, "so I cut the only thing I had control over - my hair".That......
Singur Farmers whose land was acquired to set up a small car factory in Singur on Friday applauded passing of an ordinance by the West Bengal government to return land to unwilling farmers.As soon......
The Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Monday took charge as minister of agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution, beginning his tenure for the second time. Pawar......
The finance minister has delivered a Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) handout to farmers. How much of that will go to the farmers who are truly debt-stressed is a moot question. But is this the......