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She refused to say anything more on the issue, maintaining that she was not authorised to "explain" further as the matter related to Cabinet proceedings. The Cabinet decided against taking any stand on the issue to avoid getting caught in any controversy,...
Tags: Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, union cabinet, India, Mumbai
The Union government on Thursday said that it won't oppose the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality. It also said that it was up to the Supreme Court to take a final decision on the issue. Following a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired...
Tags: Union Cabinet, Supreme Court, attorney general, Delhi High Court, gay sex, decriminalising homosexuality, prime minister, India, New Delhi
The Union Cabinet passed the following resolution in its meeting held at 1500 hours today:- “Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was a tall leader of contemporary India who, through his farsightedness and capable administration, brought tremendous development...
Tags: Union Cabinet
The Government is understood to have decided to infuse additional equity in Air India and give a soft loan to counter the financial crunch, as a high-level Committee asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to move a note on the issue for consideration of the...
Tags: Air India, soft loans, Union Cabinet
Every second member of India’s panchayats and urban local bodies will be a woman. The government on Thursday cleared a constitutional amendment to reserve 50 per cent of seats in panchayats for women and asked the urban development ministry to put up...
Tags: Union Cabinet, amendment article, local bodies, urban local, broadcasting minister, increase reservation
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is understood to have raised serious objection to the bill relating to land acquisition for industrialisation and rehabilitation of the land losers. She raised her objections at a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Thursday...
Tags: Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee, Union Cabinet, chief mamata, congress chief
Jayalalithaa today named Union communications minister A Raja as the one who had spoken to a judge of the Madras High Court in favour of an accused in a pending criminal case. In a statement, she said the disclosure in the open court on June 29 by the...
Tags: union minister, Madras High Court Judge, Ms Jayalalithaa, J Jayalalithaa, anticipatory bail, Union Council of Ministers, India, prime minister, grant anticipatory, Union Cabinet
With the DMK apparently agreeing to join the Central government, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss Cabinet expansion and allocation of portfolios. In the first instalment, only 19 ministers were inducted...
Tags: Trinamool Congress, Sonia Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh, prime minister, Union Cabinet, DMK, India
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Sunday accepted the Congress offer of three Cabinet berths and sent a list of its MPs to the Congress leadership, DMK sources said here...Karunanidhi held discussions through the day at his residences in CIT Colony and...
Tags: DMK, Congress, Union Cabinet, M Karunanidhi, Maran & Azhagiri, M K Azhagiri, cabinet berths, ministerial berths, cabinet expansion, chief ministers
We are ready to support a secular, democratic government but no formal invite has come from the prime minister,” said Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh (53) said on Sunday. His words were a far cry from what he’d said just three days before...
Tags: Mulayam Singh Yadav, Union Cabinet, Amar Singh (politician), Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party, Congress, India, better treatment, UPA, prime minister