The Supreme Court asked Reliance Industries and Reliance Natural Resources to explain why a gas supply deal between the two should not be cancelled and cleared the way for the government to be a party in the court battle, said a la ..
Oil minister Murli Deora on Monday reacted sharply to Anil Ambani's charge that the petroleum ministry was favouring Mukesh Ambani in the dispute over natural gas from Andhra offshore, even as petroleum secretary R S Pandey said t ..
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down Reliance Natural Resources’ (RNRL’s) plea to reject the government’s petition seeking to become an independent party in the Krishna Godavari gas dispute. A two-judge Bench h ..
Lauding the efforts of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said that he will promote the idea of a separate law for micro credit in Indian villages. Kalam, on his three-day Bangladesh tour, visited the ..
In reply to a question whether Government has any mechanism to monitor fraudulent activities of various finance, plantation, corporate houses, builders and other such companies, Government has said that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs administers o ..
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has made the Environmental Clearances process more transparent than before. The Ministry, in the past, received some communications from NGOs complaining about the violation of rules regarding matters such as no ..
The Bill for establishment of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is under finalization. As environmental cases are inter-sectoral and cross-cutting in nature it is difficult to exactly quantify the same.The NGT intends to reduce the load of environmen ..
A statement giving the latest rates of minimum wages to agricultural labourers (Unskilled) State-wise, is given below: MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKERS FIXED BY DIFFERENT STATES/UNION TERRITORY ADMINISTRATIONS UNDER ..
The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008 has been enacted to provide social security to the unorganised sector workers including domestic workers. The Act provides for formulation of social security schemes viz. life and disability co ..
The Indian Patent Office has received a large number of patent applications during the last three years. The details of patent applications received and the patents granted by the Indian Patent Office during the last three years are given below: ..