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Threatening to launch a “big protest” for a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare on Friday said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti-corruption law.

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that school education will be exempt from service tax.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said on Wednesday that the government would bring the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha within the first part of the Budget Session.

New Delhi: Almost a year after he tapped into public discontent, activist Anna Hazare will return to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to press for a strong whistleblowers’ Act.

Under fire over the killing of a young IPS officer allegedly by the mining mafia, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday announced that his government will recommend CBI pro

Subramaniam Paramarthalingam Udayakumar was 21 when he, along with a few friends, started the Group of Peaceful Indian Ocean to campaign against ships and submarines said to be ferrying nuclear wea

Political representation is a necessary condition for a liberal democracy. Political quotas are meant to address the absence of those who are excluded because of the inegalitarian social structures in which political processes are enacted. This is accepted as a legitimate justification for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe quotas in legislatures and Parliament. Reserved quotas for women are a fair extension of that same principle. The Women’s Reservation Bill must empower women to address their situation politically, not to serve the old hierarchies once again.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the e-panchayat system, a new initiative of the State Government at a State-level function at Garhakota in Sagar district on March 2.

Chandigarh: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has sanctioned Rs 54 crore grant to Chandigarh Unit of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for academic session 2012-13.

A new scheme by the district administration of Agra has increased people's participation in monitoring of govt schools. The results are encouraging.

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