With land acquisition for large-sized infrastructure projects increasingly becoming difficult, the country's largest power producer, NTPC, has embarked on a novel expansion drive of creating additi

AS President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the food security ordinance, the Congress left no stone unturned to claim credit for rolling out a “game changer” welfare measure while the governme

While Opposition parties criticised the Cabinet's decision of taking the ordinance route for the implementation of National Food Security Bill, agricultural experts and industry associations have a

Seen as a potential vote-catcher for Cong-led coalition

The government is all set to promulgate an ordinance to empower citizens with the right to food, after it failed to pass the proposed legislation during the budget session of Parliament.

Reaffirming their commitment to the timely implementation of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement, India and the US are pushing the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Westinghouse to expedite their consultations for a plant.

India is planning to add 30,000 MW of nuclear generation in the public sector in the next 20 years, which means business worth $100 billion for reactor suppliers and civil construction firms.

Amid recurrent floods and ongoing water disputes between states, the government today floated a draft Bill which seeks to set up 12 river basin authorities in the country to settle discords and pre

Draft legislation seeks to create mechanism for integrated planning, development and management of water resources of a river basin.

The issue to look at is whether fall in SEZ investment can be addressed by partly restoring MAT and dividend distribution tax.

Raises questions with regard to official claims of crackdown on prenatal sex determination

Primary abstract of 2011 census, released on Monday, has indicated an alarming level of female foeticide in Jammu and Kashmir as a drastic decrease of 79 females per thousand of children has been noticed in the basic age group of 0 to 6 years. In each unit of 2,000 children, there were 941 females and 1059 males in 2001.

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘Bangladesh Bio-diversity Bill 2013′ that aims at protection and sustainable use of bio-diversity related resources as well as to reach thei