India

Kanpur, November 3: In a relief for Amar Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Police has submitted a closure report in a district court in Kanpur in the three-year-old fraud and embezzlement case against the Rajya Sabha MP, citing lack of evidence. The police submitted the report in the court of district judge on Friday, official sources said on Saturday. The complaint was lodged by Shivakant Tripathi during

Mumbai, November 3: Noted playwright Girish Karnad delivered a stinging attack on V S Naipaul for his views on Muslims in India, calling the Nobel Laureate "stone deaf" and an "unreliable" writer of non-fiction as far as this country is concerned. Karnad, who criticised Naipaul yesterday during a session on theatre at the "Literature Live!" literature festival here, today stood by his remarks and

New Delhi, November 3: The UAE is taking its green responsibility seriously and has offered to host the Indian Ocean Rim renewable energy forum next year. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, speaking at the 12th ministerial meeting of the association in Gurgaon on Friday, said UAE officials will discuss with the IOR-ARC secretariat on how to take the proposal forward

New Delhi, November 3: The annual cap on the number of subsidized cooking gas cylinders per household is likely to be raised from six to nine - if not completely scrapped - after the poll code gets over with Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat elections, sources in state-run fuel retailing companies said. Widespread consumer complaints over the ongoing customer verification - KYC or know-your-customer -

New Delhi, November 3: Private companies have hijacked the government's flagship scheme to provide food to poor children and their mothers, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), with contractors in Maharashtra alone controlling Rs 1,000 crore worth of supplies in contravention of Supreme Court orders, a report of the SC commissioners office has said. The SC orders bar contractors from

New Delhi, November 2: A day after the government rolled back the hike in prices of non-subsidised LPG cylinders, Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily said oil companies were free decide whether to raise the LPG subsidy cap. Speaking to a television channel here Friday, the new oil minister said we should let oil marketing companies(OMCs) decide if they want to raise the LPG subsidy cap as this is not a

New Delhi, November 2: Manufacturers of 19 commodities, mostly food items like biscuit and bread, will have to package their products in standard sizes from Friday — a move aimed at protecting consumers from unfair trade practice by companies of reducing weight without changing the retail price. The government has made mandatory standardised packaging of 19 items and non-compliance would invite

New Delhi, November 2: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul of "a stinking deal" where they floated a private company which then went on to illicitly acquire a public limited company which has valuable property in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. He alleged that the Congress gave an unsecured loan of Rs. 90 crores to the company that was

New Delhi, November 1: Domestic LPG consumers buying beyond their limit will now have to shell out more for the fuel as oil marketing companies have hiked the price of a non-subsidised cylinder by Rs. 26.50 to Rs. 922 on firming international rates. In September, the government restricted the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per household in a year. Any requirement above this

New Delhi, November 1: Under pressure from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the Manmohan Singh government Thursday withdrew the controversial amendments aimed at diluting the Right to Information (RTI) Act. "The cabinet decided to withdraw the amendments to the RTI Act," a government source told IANS after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The campaign against the amendments