GST Council Meet: GST rate on millet-based products slashed to 5%The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has decided to reduce the GST on millet flour food preparations from 18% to 5%. The fitment commit...
07 Oct, 2023, 12.44 PM IST
EU faces a cliffhanger climate vote after its parliament emerged deadlocked on a key nature billThe bill is a key part of the EU's vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to set the globe's best climate and biodiversity targets and make...
27 Jun, 2023, 06.56 PM IST
Issue of simultaneous polls with law panel: GovernmentIn a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju also cited a report of a parliamentary panel, which observed t...
22 Jul, 2022, 08.14 PM IST
EU lawmakers clinch compromises on carbon market overhaulThe changes would scale back a planned new carbon market to impose CO2 costs on suppliers of the fuels used in buildings and transport. The...
11 May, 2022, 04.34 PM IST
Women constitute just 3.68 pc in central police organisations: Parliamentary panel"The committee is disappointed to note that women constitute only 3.68 percent of the total strength of the Central Armed Police Forces (CA...
14 Mar, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
- Naga People’s Front legislator YM Yollow Konyak sworn in as cabinet minister
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, his cabinet colleagues, Chairman of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) T.R. Zeliang, senior civil and securit...
10 Feb, 2022, 12.30 AM IST
Assembly polls: Congress starts 'Let's Save Assam' campaignOn Friday a journey by bus started from Bordowa Thaan, the birthplace of Srimanta Sankardeva, the 15th century saint and social reformer. R...
12 Feb, 2021, 08.01 PM IST
Indian-American Kumar P Barve to run for US Congress in 2016 pollsThe 56-year-old Democrat plans to be in fray for the US House of Representatives seat being vacated by Congressman Chris Van Hollen.
10 Mar, 2015, 10.44 AM IST
Indian-American Kumar P Barve to lead new House panel in MarylandBarve, 56, has served since 2003 as House majority leader. He has been sitting on the House Ways and Means Committee.
05 Dec, 2014, 03.20 PM IST
Some remarks of SC hurt government: Prakash JavadekarJavadekar, who is also the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, also said it was a "bit sad" when the Supreme Court questioned the ...
18 Oct, 2014, 04.53 PM IST
Sadananda Gowda takes oath as cabinet minister, makes debut at CentreGowda, who became a member of the BJP in Karnataka after the split of the Janata Party, rose to Chief Ministership in 2011.
26 May, 2014, 07.45 PM IST
Creation of Telangana state expected to be completed in six monthsIt is likely to take at least six months for the proposed new state of Telangana to see the light of the day as the move involves a number ...
03 Oct, 2013, 09.17 PM IST
Creation of Telangana to take close to six monthsCreation of the new Telangana state will take close to six months that involve a number of steps, including adoption of state Re-organisati...
30 Jul, 2013, 10.20 PM IST
- Environ min powers usurped by empowered panels: Cong MP
Minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh came in for criticism from members for 'allowing' the judiciary to 'encroach' o...
04 Aug, 2009, 05.01 AM IST
- J&K committee suggests measures to control pollution in valley
The Assurance Committee of J& K legislature suggested stringent measures to check growth of "unlicensed and illegal" industrial units espec...
26 Jun, 2009, 02.53 PM IST
- Don't import uniforms from India: Malaysian legislator
Malaysia should encourage indigenous enterprise and not import military uniforms from India, Pakistan and Indonesia, an Indian origin legis...
22 Apr, 2008, 02.40 PM IST
- China kicks off inspection of water resources in Tibet
Amid concerns in India and Bangladesh over China's plans to construct a dam on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, Chinese officials today started an...
08 May, 2007, 08.55 PM IST