Convenes meeting of Chief Ministers for August 17 

 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Gargi Parsai
NEW DELHI: With the southwest monsoon not reviving and the prices of essential commodities, vegetables and milk rising, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday sought details of the situation from various departments, including Agriculture, Food, Consumer Affairs, Power, Fertilizer, Railways and […]

35 senior officers from other Ministries will help coordinate efforts: Azad 

As swine flu cases are increasing by the day, especially in Maharashtra, caution seems to be the byword. Here the teacher and the taught at the Rajawadi Municipal School in northeast Mumbai wear protective masks against the spreading virus. — Photo: Vivek Bendre
Aarti […]

Health Ministry team in Pune: Azad 

 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Sandeep Joshi
NEW DELHI: With swine flu claiming its fourth victim in the country – a 43-year-old NRI in Ahmedabad – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday asked Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to step up the preparedness and ensure closer coordination between the […]

Decision taken to hold the Year of Friendship with China in India

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Dai Bingguo, State Councillor and Special Representative on the Boundary Question to India, at a meeting in New Delhi on Saturday.— Photo: PTI
Sandeep Dikshit
NEW DELHI: India and China have decided to set up a hotline between Prime Ministers Manmohan […]

Promises to look into quality of education given to Indians 

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd greet each other in Cairns, Australia, on Friday. — Photo: PTI
P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE: Australia on Friday allayed India’s concerns over the security of Indian students and the quality of education given to […]

The explosions claimed 54 lives and injured 244 people  

Haneef Sayyed and Ashrat Ansari (behind him) coming out of the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai on Thursday. At right, Haneef’s wife Fahmeeda being brought out of the Byculla Women’s Jail before being taken to court. — Photos: VIVEK BENDRE and AFP
Staff Reporter
Mumbai: A special Prevention […]

Skewed patient to doctor ratio leads to soaring tempers

In panic: People throng the Naidu Hospital in Pune on Wednesday to get tested for A(H1N1) influenza. — Photo: Special Arrangement

Mumbai Bureau
Mumbai: Parents in Pune have pressed the panic button after the death of Rida Shaikh, the first in the country to fall to swine flu, on […]

Show-cause notice issued to Pune hospital in swine flu death case

IN DESPAIR: (From left): Shaken and anguished, Rida Shaikh’s grandmother Saida Shaikh, aunt Ayesha Shaikh and father Sajid Shaikh presented their case at a press conference in Pune on Tuesday. —Photo: Special Arrangement
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajendra Shingane said on Tuesday that the government […]

Mulayam Singh alleges discrimination against Uttar Pradesh 
 
Murli Deora
Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: The government on Monday told the Lok Sabha that it has got nothing to do with the “private dispute” of two industries and industrialists as far as supply of gas from the KG D-6 gas field is concerned, but will do everything […]

 FIA hopes talks with government will resolve issues 

File picture of Indigo Airlines chairman Rahul Bhatia with Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goel, Federation of Indian Airlines General Secetary Anil Baijal and Kingfisher chairman  Vijay Mallya. Photo: Paul Noronha
Vinay Kumar
NEW DELHI: All major private airlines, who had called for a strike on August 18, have decided to put their proposed protest […]