Narendra Modi's small team to help cut spendingThe expenditure on the council of ministers and the PM's office is likely to come down from Rs 533 crore spent in 2012-13.
06 Jun, 2014, 10.00 AM IST
- Sam Pitroda, S Ramadorai others yet to resign from PM advisory posts
Top technocrats like Ahluwalia, Rangarajan and Nilekani may have quit, but not all of PM ingh’s top advisors are relinquishing their duties...
22 May, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Mobilise knowledge resources to implement key UPA schemes: NACHighlighting lack of institutional capacity as "most persistent and critical problems", the National Advisory Council (NAC) today pitched f...
17 May, 2013, 10.09 PM IST
PM nominee, price, graft on agenda of BJP National Council meet in MarchThe conclave is also likely to discuss the Ayodhya temple issue and the chorus for making Narendra Modi BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate.
08 Feb, 2013, 07.21 PM IST
- Tariq Anwar to be sworn in as Union Minister: NCP
Anwar is expected to replace Agatha Sangma as the NCP representative in the Union Council of Ministers.
27 Oct, 2012, 04.28 PM IST
- Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan's office is the new nerve centre of economic policy
The office of C Rangarajan, chairman of PMEAC is now the new nerve centre of economic policy making, after Singh took control of the financ...
07 Jul, 2012, 05.33 AM IST
- Karnataka govt to look into cut in cess on petrol prices
CM D V Sadananda Gowda said his government would look into the possibilities of reducing cess on petrol after the June 11 biennial election...
31 May, 2012, 02.34 PM IST
Sonia Gandhi wishes, but there’s no money to expand health coverThe labour ministry is also sitting on human resource development ministry's proposal on allowing primary school teachers to subscribe to R...
05 Dec, 2011, 10.40 AM IST
- UPA government advises states to suspend NREGS during peak farming periods
The UPA government has advised states to suspend its rural job guarantee programme during peak farming periods.
19 Jul, 2011, 12.37 AM IST
- Austerity pays: 100% decline in ministers’ travel expenses
The austerity drive of the UPA government, which was initiated during the downturn of 2009, seems to have paid off.
27 Mar, 2011, 04.34 AM IST
- NAC differs with govt on new rules for RTI Act
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) is on collision course once again with the government .
11 Jan, 2011, 06.15 AM IST
- Panel finds lacunae in implementation of FRA
The draft report of the joint committee of the ministries of tribal affairs and environment found both ministries wanting in implementation...
24 Dec, 2010, 04.05 AM IST
- Mayawati wants special debate on inflation
UP chief minister Mayawati has said that BSP favoured suspension of all proceedings of Parliament to have a special debate on inflation.
28 Jul, 2010, 04.36 AM IST
- NAC is back, Sonia may’ve bigger say in UPA policies
The govt has revived the National Advisory Council with Ms Sonia Gandhi as its chairperson. The council, which played a seminal role in the...
30 Mar, 2010, 01.28 AM IST
- Sonia again made NAC chairperson
Her tenure would be co-terminus with that of the NAC.
29 Mar, 2010, 09.13 PM IST
- PM-Patil morning meeting deferred, allies bargaining hard
Meeting slated this morning between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil on government formation was deferred apparen...
21 May, 2009, 11.03 AM IST
- Unconditional support to implementation of Nuclear deal
The Pattali Makkal Katchi, a constituent of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, today extended its unconditional support for the...
20 Jun, 2008, 04.05 PM IST