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In a move to raise the price of natural gas produced by state-owned as well as private firms, the Oil Ministry has moved a Cabinet note on the same to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). The ministry has proposed raising gas price for ...

NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is expected to soon approve the revised proposal of the Army to raise a mountain strike corps along the China border. Once the ministry's approval comes through the Cabinet Committee on Security will give its nod, a senior ...

If the finance ministry has its way, a new pricing policy for petrol and diesel will soon be put into place that will benefit consumers by bringing down the price of the two fuels by anywhere between Rs. 1- 2 a litre each. The new pricing mechanism will also ...

New Delhi, May 21 (PTI) Sports Minister Jitendra Singh today said they were committed to put in place a new legislation very soon to deal with the menace of fixing in sports and pushed for strong punishment for the guilty in the recent spot-fixing ...

There are too many extraneous as well as internal factors working against Corus Affordable houses, but for whom? The new launches in the affordable category could just be another marketing gimmick to push sales and mop up money Real Estate Add to My ...

Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting with U.S. police that Moscow is safer than New York for certain types of crime. Moscow has fewer burglaries and rapes, factoring in the number of its residents, Kolokoltsev said during a ...

New Delhi: Taking serious note of a large number of posts lying vacant in Delhi Police, the Home Ministry has directed it to fill more than 7,000 vacancies, including 1,000 women police personnel. The ministry has found that 6,051 already sanctioned ...

28 ministers of Siddaramaiah's cabinet assume their office at Vidhana Soudha on Monday Vidhana Soudha and Vikasa Soudha, the state's power centres, were bustling with activity on Monday. It was the first day at office for the 28 ministers of the ...

Former deputy prime minister Vladislav Surkov has ridiculed the English version of the government's new official website presented by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday. Surkov posted in his Twitter blog a screenshot of the new site's ...