The Cabinet on Thursday approved the development of housing and basic facilities in slums across 250 cities in the country.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to add more castes and communities to the central list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

The Indian Government on Thursday approved the development of housing and basic facilities in slums across 250 cities with the aim to create a slum-free country by 2020.

A head count to identify the poor, including their caste and religion, was on Thursday approved by the government which aims at ensuring that the benefits of targetted subsidy programme reach them.

Independent MLAs joining the Cabinet does not mean that they have merged with the ruling party nor can they be hauled up under the anti-defection law if they subsequently withdraw support to the government, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A proposal to create a national database of academic qualifications in DMAT format, which would authenticate and reissue certificates was today cleared by the government, sources said.

The Central Informatiom Commission has rapped the Cabinet serctariat for not providing details of black money deposited in Swiss banks to an information seeker and asked it to take "more pains" in dealing with RTI applications in such specific cases.

A new 49-member Sri Lankan Cabinet was sworn on Monday, heralding the second six-year term of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who retained the key portfolios of defence and finance.

Taking over reins of the scam-hit Maharashtra government, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday said he will have to take "tough decisions" while finalising his council of ministers to meet the

Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda on Friday expanded his Cabinet by inducting nine more ministers nearly a month after he assumed office.