After announcing the price hike on fuel prices, the government on Friday was at the receiving end from the Opposition. Demanding a roll back of the price hike, the main Opposition party, the BJP, lambasted the government for further burdening the aam aadmi. It charged the Centre of pursuing an “unjustified fuel price hike”. Prakash

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGOM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme.

Asking people not to lose heart at the onset of a weak monsoon, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the country may receive excess rainfall this year and September could be the wettest month of the season.

Former Union minister and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh, who was reinducted in the BJP on Thursday, might be offered a post in party chief Nitin Gadkari’s team. Mr Singh, who was a member of the party’s highest body, the parliamentary board, before he was expelled from the party last year in August, is likely to be appointed as the vice-president. He was expelled for praising Pakistan founder M.A. Jinnah in his book.

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme. However, the draft Food Security Bill, which aims to provide a fixed quantity of food grain at

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Anil’s Reliance Natural Resources Limited took yet another conciliatory step by signing the revised Gas Supply Master Agreement. This followed the direction of the Supreme Court on May 7, 2010.

Congress MLA and mining magnate Santosh Lad was arrested from Mumbai international airport early on Thursday while he was on his way to Dubai.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday accepted all 22 recommendations by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy.

The progress of southwest (SW) monsoon in the country has not been encouraging in the first three weeks of June with the rainfall being 11 per cent less than the normal so far.

The empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM) on decontrol of fuel prices, which is meeting on Friday could possibly face strong opposition to any fuel price hike from the railway minister Mamata Banerjee,