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India: Common Service Centres

18,000 CSCs set up in the country, over 1 lakh scheduled by July next year

Roll Out Completed in Jharkhand and Haryana
Gyan Pathak - 2008-10-07 09:58
About 18,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) have been set up in the country to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas. These are part of the overall plan of the Government to establish One Lakh CSCs in 600,000 villages.
India: Killings of Christians in Orissa

UPA allies mount pressure on Union government to take action

A demand for banning Bajrang Dal and imposition of President's Rule
Kushal Jeena - 2008-10-06 10:59
New Delhi: The allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government have mounted pressure on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban the ultra-right pro-Hindutva organization Bajrang Dal.
India: The King of Ratnas

Rudraksh Market in India is worth 12 crore a month

Genuine beeds' market is worth only two crore
Gyan Pathak - 2008-10-06 10:08
Rudraksh, stone of the seed fruit of the same name, is so popular in India among devotees that the total worth of its market has reached the level of 12 crore rupees a month. However, genuine rudraksha beeds have the share of only two crores rupees, and the rest 10 crore market share is of fakes.
India: Revenue collection

Direct Tax collections registers 32.54% growth during first half of this fiscal

Continued high growth in TDS and FBT collections
Gyan Pathak - 2008-10-06 10:02
Net direct tax collections during first six months of the present fiscal (up to September 2008) stood at Rs.147,197 crore, up from Rs.111,055 crore, registering a growth of 32.54 percent.
India: General Election

Congress Party scouting for new alliance

Congress - Samajwadi Party alliance is all set for quiet burial
Abhijit Roy Chowdhury - 2008-10-04 10:08
New Delhi: From North to South and East to West, the Congress Party is now scouting for new alliance for the next general election.
Sonia Gandhi anxious on state elections

High level congress committee to study impact of global melt down

India insulated from outside financial crisis, says PM
Abhijit Roy Chowdhury - 2008-10-01 10:27
New Delhi: In the wake of economic crisis in the United Sates of America and its impact on India the Congress President Sonia Gandhi has constituted a high level committee to take a stock of the situation arising out of global melt down.
India: Congress - SP ties threatened

INC in favour of early Lok Sabha elections

Break-up between the two seems to be imminent
Kushal Jeena - 2008-09-30 10:32
New Delhi: The ruling United Progressive Alliance government seems heading towards an early Lok Sabha election mode with Congress preparing to snap its ties with Samajwadi Party over the seat-sharing arrangement in politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh, which finally has failed.
India: Congress Election Manifesto for next general Election

INC starts preparing all pleasing election manifesto

Pranab Mukherjee to head the committee, renewed thrust on organization
Abhijit Roy Chowdhury - 2008-09-30 08:52
New Delhi: The Congress President Sonia Gandhi has once again asked her most trusted leader Mr Pranab Mukheerjee to prepare all pleasing election manifesto for the next Lok Sabha Election.
India: Muslim community

Muslims enraged with Congress

India's biggest minority community unhappy with ruling class
KUSHAL JEENA - 2008-09-23 10:28
New Delhi: The Muslim community seems to be disenchanted and enraged over the distraught behaviour of the Congress Party questioning ruling party's commitment for the betterment of India's largest minority group.
India: Terror strike

PM, Sonia under pressure to drop Home Minister

Shivraj Patil's resigntion demanded following blasts
KUSHAL JEENA - 2008-09-15 09:25
New Delhi: Following Saturday's serial bomb blasts in Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singha and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is under tremendous pressure to drop the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who has been held responsible for the failure of intelligence agencies.