Toughening its stance against yoga guru Baba Ramdev, the government on Sunday not only justified post-Saturday midnight police action to evict anti-corruption protesters from Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds,

The battle lines were drawn clearly between the government and Baba Ramdev on Saturday with the yoga guru struggling to explain a letter signed by one his aides that assured that the agitation would be called off by Saturday afternoon.

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE: Countries in the Indian subcontinent may be living with one form of hostility or the other, but people of the region, living and working abroad, are great pals to each other.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s political stocks in India may be on the downhill but his popularity and ability to catch the imagination of people overseas appears intact. In Ras al-Khaimah (RAK), one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, people have named a city roundabout after Mr Lalu Prasad.

Once considered to be one of the best performing states in the country with respect to UPA’s flagship social sector programmes, Andhra Pradesh has slid down below the national average in the implement

The National Advisory Council led by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has asked the health ministry and the department of public grievances to conduct a social audit of programmes under the National Rural

In a bid to cut regional party bosses to size and also to give room for young leaders in states to take centrestage in states, the top Congress leadership is considering a proposal to cap the tenure of its chief ministers to only two terms.

The Centre, rattled by a spate of corruption charges against top functionaries, has worked out a comprehensive plan which includes scrapping of the discretionary quotas of Central ministries and state governments.

The 2011-12 Plan size might see an overall 18 per cent increase in the Budget.
But this will get real only when the finance ministry drops the idea of insisting that the Planning Commission shift many schemes run on non-Plan cess collections into Plan expenditure.

The Plan size for the year 2011-12 may see an overall increase of 18 per cent in the upcoming Budget. But this could become real only when the finance ministry drops the idea of insisting the Planning Commission to shift many schemes, which are being run on cess collection from non-plan side into the ambit of plan expenditure.