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In a major step towards removing hurdles to implementing national highway projects, the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) today relaxed forest clearance norms for these projects. It decided to give special exemptions" on forestry clearances. For ...

The Cabinet Committee on Investment was informed that some of the bottlenecks identified by the (MoRTH) for the fast-track implementation of National Highways Development Project (NHDP) have now been removed as a result of the efforts made by the ...

Sharara re-elected ITTF president Pakistan not given clearance for Commonwealth TT Chaturvedi nominated Commonwealth TT president Commonwealth TT: At 51, she is still winning titles New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Dhanraj Choudhary, secretary-general of ...

According to a recent report by a US Government commission, Myanmar is among the worst countries when it comes to religious freedom. However, there seems to be no debate on the issue and even the international community is treating it as an internal ...

Andimuthu Raja, former telecom minister, has sent a statement to the Joint Parliamentary Committee set up to probe the allocation and pricing of telecom spectrum from 1998 to 2009 that he did not mislead Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.

On Tuesday, deputy leader of Congress legislature party in MP assembly Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi had raised the issue in the House. Citing a report in a local newspaper he said that home department and police headquarters were tapping phones ...

The Punchhi Commission in 2010 agreed with the 1988 Sarkaria Commission that governors be appointed from among eminent people in different walks of life and that they should not be from the state they are posted in. Proposed governors be appointed ...

He said the Commission was shortly seeking cabinet approval for restructuring centrally sponsored schemes so as to improve efficiency. More flexibility at State level is proposed. States should suggest measures needed to improve performance of ...

The Planning Commission has suggested that 75 million tonnes (mt) of locally mined coal should be sold at international prices. The country's apex planning body hopes this will end the impasse over the issue of pooling prices of imported and ...