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New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, law and Justice looking into the Lokpal (Ombudaman) Bill has invited suggestions from individuals and organisations.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh said the government will have to take difficult decisions to achieve 9% growth rate in the 12th Five Yeare Plan, up from 8.2% estimated for the current plan.

Years back one could see a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at gate of district courts with the caption “Ghus leena ya dena pap hai” (giving or accepting bribe amounts to sin). Below the portrait crisp notes were passed on to the court staff like peshkar or persons who handover copy of the court order to litigants or fix dates for next hearing. If one wants an early date for his case, he has to grease the palm of Peshkar. With the passage of time Gandhiji’s portrait disappeared and acceptance and giving of bribe became a routine matter. The court babus say it is their haq (right).

New York: Global conservation experts concluded a United Nations-backed meeting in Geneva today with important decisions to protect a number of endangered species, including the launch of a trust fund to ensure the long-term survival of the African elephant population.

New York: With the world facing a pivotal juncture in its history, the global need for the United Nations has never been greater in tackling multiple issues, from sustainable development to ensuring peace to mitigating mega-disasters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

New Delhi: The Union Law and Justice Minister, Salman Khurshid has said that there was no restriction on any member to introduce the Anna team’s draft Jan Lokpal Bill as a private member's bill in Parliament.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $100 million loan for an energy efficiency project in Shandong province in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that will reduce harmful emissions including carbon dioxide and incorporate the first large-scale industrial use of solar thermal technology to generate electricity.

Rights and wrongs can come later. Nearing half its term, UPA-II has been heaping upon itself a series of governance failures topped by an array of corrupt deals under its watch, directly accountable for most of them, and the one-sided policies and posturings have bordered on arrogance, however much at the head Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has the reputation of both humility and integrity.

KOLKATA: For the CPI(M) , it has been a Hobson’s choice, whether to support ex Minister Sushanta Ghosh now under arrest for involvement in mass murder, or to abandon him.

Sounds odd, but India Inc. is on sale, literally. Come-and-grab-it is the message of the proposed set of guidelines lately unveiled by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Suffice it to say, the new business or corporate takeover policy is not a handiwork of SEBI alone. Several connected government departments and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are believed to have actively contributed to the thought. The idea is to make it easy for foreign investors to take over good listed and widely-held Indian companies. Although this has not been said in so many words, but the targeted companies make it loud and clear. The policy is expected to lead a spate of FDI-led M&A deals.