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New Delhi: Conscious of the fact that 255 stalled projects involving an investment of Rs 10 lakh crore have been stalled, the government has decided to go for fast track clearances.

New Delhi: The government has identified 255 stalled projects, involving an investment of Rs 10 lakh crore and initiated the process of unclogging the projects that are brought before the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI).

The differences in the Left Democratic Front(LDF) over the blockade of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s official residence, Cliff House, surfaced with partners, Communist Party of India(CPI) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party(RSP) voicing their reservations against the mode of protest.

For more than 1,900 citizens, only one qualified doctor. For over 3,000 people one hospital bed. New government hospitals and medical colleges are a rare sight. Private corporate hospitals which cater mostly to those with deep pockets and corporate patients with full medical cover, are expanding at a mind boggling pace. This is India, 66 years after its independence, the country which before the global community had pledged towards the end of last century that it would provide basic health for all by 2000 AD. In the last 13 years, the healthcare availability gap between the rich and the poor has further widened.

Lucknow: What would be the main agenda for political parties in 2014 Lok Sabha is the million dollar question that is being asked in socio-political circles in Uttar Pradesh.

Who gets the credit for the Lokpal Bill, which the Parliament has passed this week? Is it the Parliament, is it the UPA government, is it the main opposition the BJP, is it the Gandhian Anna Hazare who had led the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement or is it the newly born Aam Aadmi Party, a by product of the IAC, which stunned the political parties by its unprecedented victory in the recent Delhi Assembly elections? It is said success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. The same thing is applicable to the Lokpal bill with all the above-mentioned entities taking credit for the measure while the real credit goes to the public pressure.

New Delhi: The Government has expressed the hope that the National Intelligence Grid (NatGrid) centre set up in the National Capital would function as a deterrent against terrorism in the country.

New Delhi: In a most logical effort to provide full diplomatic immunity to its diplomat Devyani Khobragade against harassment meted out to her by the US Administration, the Indian Government on Wednesday transferred her to its Permanent Mission in UN Headquarters in New York with immediate effect according to highly placed sources.

Contrary to almost universal expectation of a hike in the key policy lending rate (repo) by at least 25 basis points, in the face of soaring inflation at wholesale and retail levels, RBI Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan has avoided a ‘hat-trick’ after two successive hikes earlier, to leave the repo rate unchanged at 7.75 per cent, in his mid-quarter policy review on December 18.

That the political class as a whole treats the country’s banking industry as the savior of anything that goes wrong with their fallacious interventionist pricing and entrepreneurial policies in the efficient allocation of sparse resources is nowhere palpable than the problems plaguing the Rs 80,000 crore sugar industry. How else could one explain and exculpate the recent decision of an informal group of Ministers headed by the Union Agriculture Minister Mr.Sharad Pawar to come out with a Rs 7500 crore bailout package for the politically-inspired wounds on the ailing industry and the banking sector in general?