Even after two months of the retirement of the chairman, Railway Boa-rd (CRB), Vinay Mittal, the railways grapples to find his successor, with top contender, R.S.

In a bid to win support of the key opponent Samajwadi Party for the National Food Security Ordinance’s ratification in Parliament, the government is to move an amendment in the legislative proposal to compensate states for the losses of foodgrains allocation for three years.

With the UPA grappling with stuck big ticket legislation awaiting parliamentary nod, the government appears to have given up on demands to amend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in a bid to give statutory shape to the linkage of inflation with wages under the flagship scheme.

With elections in sight, the Railways on Friday dropped hint that the proposed fare hike in October, when fuel adjustment cost (FAC) is expected to come in effect, could be avoided, as there are other alternatives to ramp up the revenue of the national carrier. In a bid to boost revenue, Railways is working on options to earn from trains with added capacity and carrying large freight.

Seven years after the launch of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during which SUV riding village headmen arrived on the political scene, the Centre is now moving to end monopoly of panchayats in implementation of the rural job flagship scheme. The Centre will now ask states for alternative means to register job demands under the MGNREGA apart from Panchayats.

After getting around Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar to agree on an Ordinance on Food Security Bill, Union ministry of food is gearing up to confront the NCP strongman again by seeking procurement of foodgrains to be capped. The ministry of agriculture favours open ended procurement so that all those who want to sell their grains can do to the Food Corporation of India (FCI).

With Lok Sabha elections due in 2014, the railways is racing ahead against time to fully operationalise the rail coach factory (RCF) in the Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli by June 2014. The railways is closely monitoring the progress of the RCF Rae Bareli ever since the ministry came back to the Congress after a gap of over 17 years.

In a bid to take away powers from the political executive to decide on passenger and freight fare, the government on Friday indicated that it will soon move an amendment to the Railways Act to make th

Sceptical about the smooth running of Parliament even in the Monsoon Session, likely to begin in the third week of this month, due to a “confrontationist” Opposition, the government is once again cons

The JD(U)’s parting of ways with the BJP now appears setting Bihar up for a triangular contest, which may change the social engineering of the principle players in the coming days.