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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit US streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records showDEA agents in New Mexico allegedly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills onto streets between 2023-2025, prioritizing larger case...
NCW issues advisory to States, calls for mandatory POSH audits and robust workplace safety mechanisms nationwideThe National Commission for Women has urged all states and Union Territories to strictly enforce the POSH Act, ensuring women's safety and ...
Bio-energy emerging as key pillar of green growth strategy: TPCIIndia's really getting into bio-energy as a key player in its green growth and energy shift. The Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) is...
Arunachal govt sets up 4 panels on infiltration, indigenous rights issuesArunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu announced four high-powered committees. These panels will examine infiltration issues and stre...
SC forms high-powered expert panel to re-examine Aravalli definitionThe Supreme Court has formed a high-powered committee to review the Centre's report on the Aravalli hills. This panel will conduct an indep...
Expert committee on Aravalli must consult domain experts, other stakeholders: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has announced the creation of a dedicated expert committee to delineate the Aravalli hills' boundaries. With a focus on c...
Top monitoring body for institutes of eminence inactive since FebruaryA special monitoring panel set up to cut red tape and bring in a new liberal regulatory regime for the Institutes of Eminence, has been ina...
HRD Ministry awards IoE status to 5 public institutes including IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Madras and BHUThe decision was taken following a recommendation made by the University Grants Commission last month on the basis of the advice of an Empo...
RIL to invest about Rs 1,500 crore in 2 years in Jio InstituteReliance is in discussions with experts at Stanford and Northwestern University on establishing the facility.
IoE panel may be expanded to pick more institutionsIt is gathered that high level discussions are on in the government over bringing in new members to the EEC ahead of the second round of se...
Institutes of Eminence status given without field visits, rankingsEEC was announced in February and started work on April 2 with a briefing by HRD secy and UGC chairman.
Committee struggles to find 20 institutes of eminenceA committee, appointed for the purpose, has indicated that the difficulty in finding such institutes is due to a key criterion related to g...
New expert committee to consult on drug pricing, new drug launchesAccording to DoP's latest order, the committee would deliberate and make recommendations on the claims of pharmaceutical cos about addition...
UGC cannot form panel for monitoring institutions of eminence: SG to HRDThe information was shared by the Minister of State for HRD, Mahendra Nath Pandey in response to a written question in Lok Sabha.
GST: Long-drawn agenda, put by Manmohan govtGST was put on the agenda by the first Manmohan Singh administration and has taken a decisive step forward under the Narendra Modi governme...
Karnataka move to empower villagers to recall representatives failsThe state government had earlier planned to introduce a bill in the assembly seeking changes in the existing act for local body elections.
- Election results 2011: GST rollout may face hiccups after Asim Dasgupta's defeat
Rout of the CPI (Marxist) could set back the progress of the proposed GST, as Asim Dasgupta will not be there in the last leg of this cruci...
- FMs’ panel to discuss VAT
The empowered committee of state finance ministers is expected to take up on Monday the issue of evolving a common value-added tax (VAT) re...
- Panel to examine VAT structure, deviations
State tax regime could be in for a facelift. State governments have finally come around and have decided to evolve common value-added tax r...
- No search and seizure power for Serious Frauds Office
The Union cabinet has spelt out the outlines of the Serious Frauds Office promised by the finance minister as a major deterrent to corporat...