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New Delhi: As a part of energy sector reforms, the Government is trying to evolve a consensus on commercial mining of coal. This will not only promote development of coal sector but also competition and better pricing of the coal in the country.

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today accorded approval for the proposals for revision in the benchmark prices for Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) 2011-12, w.e.f 1st April, 2011 for Phosphatic and Potassic (P&K) fertilizers.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for Intensified Malaria Control Project-II (IMCP-II) for seven North Eastern States (except Sikkim) under National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) with support from Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM - Round 9) at an estimated cost of US$ 87.88 million (Rs. 417.22 crore).

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Project for cleaning of River Ganga to be implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) at an estimated cost of Rs. 7000 crore.

New Delhi: Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Smt. Ambika Soni has said the Government is committed in ensuring level playing field for different segments of the media in order to promote a sustainable growth process and a robust industry. During the period of global recession, the print industry in India grew at a rate of 6.2% despite the downward growth conditions world wide in the media industry.

New York: The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses due to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today made $880 million available to nine successful claimants.

New York: Preventive measures are central to ensuring people worldwide have safer workplaces, the head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) said today, stressing the need for better measures given that an estimated 337 million people are injured each year while on the job and more than 2 million others die from mishaps or occupational illnesses.

The DMK-Congress relationship is hinging on a big if, whether the combine will win the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls and it is a big if, going by the reports from the state where no one is willing to predict the outcome. The stability of the government at the national level also depends on the results.

Paris - The OECD will co-host a G20 meeting on nuclear energy issues 7-8 June, as part of international efforts to learn from the accident at Japan’s Fukushima power plant and help prevent similar disasters in the future, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said.

For DMK patriarch, daughter Kanimozhi’s indictment as “co-conspirator” in CBI’s second charge-sheet in the 2G Scam came as the proverbial last straw on camel’s back, and all hell broke loose in the DMK Camp over what was seen as betrayal of its powerful ally by the Congress. Amid fury, other DMK leaders close to the “Thalaivar” pleaded with him that there should be no angry counter- move like pulling out party Ministers at the Centre.