The government has approved an agreement to strengthen cooperation with Canada in designing and developing new and renewable energy technologies. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, gave its approval ..
Yielding to demand from the IT industry to create modern integrated townships that would be bereft of infrastructure snags, the Union government has given a green signal for establishment of Information Technology Investment Regions (ITIRs) across th ..
The government will soon introduce biometric permanent account numbers (PAN) for income tax payers, though initially only new applicants would be brought under its net, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Monday."There is progress on biometric PA ..
Public sector explorer ONGC is finding it hard to forego its claim of over Rs 3,000 crore as tax exemption. Citing legal precedents and reasoning, the oil major has again sought Cabinet secretariat’s approval to take a legal recourse before the incom ..
The U.S. failed to prove that Indian duties on alcohol imports discriminate against products such as Brown-Forman Corp.'s Jack Daniels whiskey, World Trade Organization judges said, after changes to Indian import rules. ``The U.S. has failed to estab ..
The Law Society has criticised Government plans to increase the period of time for which a person can be held before they are charged. A statement by The Society said that it is not convinced by the arguments put forward in favour of extending the pr ..
Japanese drug-maker Daiichi Sankyo’s acquisition of Ranbaxy, India’s leading pharma company, through a buyout of promoter stake is indeed a momentous event in Indian corporate history. This is not the first time that an Indian promoter has sold out. ..
Cricketing sensation Yuvraj Singh’s father Yograjsingh Bhagsingh Bhundel, popularly known as Yograj Singh (50) and five relatives have been booked on charges of cheating and conspiracy in a property matter by the economic offences wing of Punchkula d ..
In a major boost to India’s fight against bio-piracy at the multi-lateral level, World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy, in his report on ‘GI extension and bio-diversity consultations’, has said that there is an important common ground ..
India's top police officials and information technology experts are meeting in Delhi to discuss ways of countering cyber crime. The one-day "Cyber law and police" seminar has been organised by India's leading crime-fighting agency, the Central Bureau ..