India

New Delhi, November 2: Manufacturers of 19 commodities, mostly food items like biscuit and bread, will have to package their products in standard sizes from Friday — a move aimed at protecting consumers from unfair trade practice by companies of reducing weight without changing the retail price. The government has made mandatory standardised packaging of 19 items and non-compliance would invite

New Delhi, November 2: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul of "a stinking deal" where they floated a private company which then went on to illicitly acquire a public limited company which has valuable property in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. He alleged that the Congress gave an unsecured loan of Rs. 90 crores to the company that was

New Delhi, November 1: Domestic LPG consumers buying beyond their limit will now have to shell out more for the fuel as oil marketing companies have hiked the price of a non-subsidised cylinder by Rs. 26.50 to Rs. 922 on firming international rates. In September, the government restricted the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to six per household in a year. Any requirement above this

New Delhi, November 1: Under pressure from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the Manmohan Singh government Thursday withdrew the controversial amendments aimed at diluting the Right to Information (RTI) Act. "The cabinet decided to withdraw the amendments to the RTI Act," a government source told IANS after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The campaign against the amendments

Shimla, November 1: Slamming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife a "50-crore girlfriend", Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Thursday asked Modi about his marital status. "Why is Modi silent about his wife's name? If you can visit You Tube and search Narendra Modi's wife, you will find the name Yashoda Ben as his wife," Singh told reporters

New Delhi, November 1: The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which consumers buy beyond the cheaper quota of six cylinders, was today hiked by Rs 26.50 to Rs 922 per unit on firming international rates. The 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled six bottles at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs 922, up from Rs 895.50 in Delhi, according to Indian Oil Corp

Ralegan Siddhi, November 1: Veteran activist Anna Hazare Thursday said India Against Corruption leader Arvind Kejriwal may never want to be wealthy, but he is not above being lured by power. "There is a feeling of sacrifice in him (Kejriwal), he does not think about his family as much as he thinks about the country and society. He does not have greed for money, but now after going to politics

New Delhi, November 1: Cable television in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata switched over from analogue to digital mode at midnight on October 31, with about 4.5 lakh subscribers who have not yet installed a set-top box waking up to a television blackout on November 1. However, over 1.5 lakh tardy subscribers in Chennai can breathe easy for a few more days, with the Madras High Court granting a further

Banikhet (Dalhousie), November 1: Fearing backlash inHP polls on his government's FDI policy that has received widespread criticism from the Opposition parties, AICC general secretaryRahul Gandhi batted for the new reform while craftily comparing it to "the IT revolution his father had introduced in the late 80s". "My father Rajiv Gandhi ji brought computers.... Look what happened after that? More

New Delhi, November 1: Berating Narendra Modi for his remarks against her, Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, on Wednesday asked him to show women respect and not to “stoop” to low levels. Ms. Pushkar said she was not expecting an apology from the Gujarat Chief Minister, who had over the last 10 years chosen not to express regret for the 2002 post-Godhra riots. “I have nothing