NEW DELHI: The union food processing ministry has sought a four-fold hike in its 12th five-year plan outlay, to Rs 15,000 crore, to curb wastage of fruits and vegetables worth Rs 44,000 crore every, which is more than the budgetary allocation for the Nrega in financial year 2011-12. It has sought ...

NEW DELHI: Punjab chief minister's media advisor Harcharan Bains on Tuesday called on Infosys founder chairperson NR Narayana Murthy here to explore ways for effective application of information and communications technology (ICT) for the farm sector in the state. Bains and Narayana Murthy also discussed ways to introduce the use of ...

NEW DELHI: A woman's testimony convicted her 53-year-old son who killed his younger brother in 2008 in a scuffle. Sentencing a man, Subhash, to life imprisonment, additional sessions judge Nisha Saxena noted that a mother will not incriminate one son for the murder of her other offspring. The judge said, "The mother ...

NEW DELHI: Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and four others were on Thursday quizzed by the Directorate of revenue Intelligence officials for carrying US $1.24 lakh (about Rs.60 lakh) of underclared foreign currency. Sources said Rahat, his manager Maroof, owner of an event management company Chitresh Shrivastava, and two employees ...

NEW DELHI: The department of space (DoS) is reviving a mechanism to supervise allocation of satellites and transponders for different uses in a direct out come of the controversy over alleged irregularities in a deal with multimedia firm Devas. The DoS, which comes under the Prime Minister, has in recent days ...

NEW DELHI: Not satisfied with the CBI's two-page report refuting allegation of leaking the confessional statement of Ajmer dargah blast accused Swami Aseemanand, a Delhi court on Tuesday asked the director of the agency to me a complete report on the issue. "It is not a complete report," Additional Chief ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet editors of televisions channels for a question and answer session on Wednesday. The event, which is to be conducted at Singh's Race Course Road residence will be telecast live by Doordarshan at Ham. SOURCE-HT

NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday gave in-principle approval to the National River Basin Authority with powers to approve major projects on Indian rivers aimed at balancing water needs for agriculture and protecting environment. "There was an in-principle approval," said water resources minister Salman Khurshid, after a meeting with the ...

NEW DELHI: Pulled up by the Supreme Court for intercepting Amar Singh's phone on the basis of an authorisation letter, Anil Ambani's Reliance Infocomm on Monday refuted the allegation of illegally tapping the former SP leader's phone. In an affidavit, Reliance claimed it had acted in a bona fide manner ...

NEW DELHI: Though the BJP has desisted from aggressively attacking its "leader" and former Telecom Minister Arun Shourie over his claims that Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley had failed to take up the 2G scam in right earnest in 2009, the party hit back silently by releasing to the press ...

NEW DELHI: Pakistani actress Veena Malik is expected to rock the small screen with her show during the ICC cricket world cup cricket in a private television channel. The Pakistani anchor inadvertently got a journalist visa from the Indian mission in Islamabad. SOURCE-HT

NEW DELHI: Realty firm Ansal Properties & Infrastructure plans to raise up to Rs. 350 crore within this year from private equity players by diluting its stake in various projects to fund its ongoing construction activities. SOURCE-HT

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's plea to transfer him from Tihar jail to a jail in Jammu and Kashmir. SOURCE-HT