Deteriorating health of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has prompted the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) cadres to seek divine intervention.

MNS prays for ailing Bal Thackeray

Press Trust of India

Lack of investors and unfavorable economic condition has forced Bihar Government to postpone the sale its closed sugar mills. According to state government officials, it will now reinitiate the process from next year.

Bihar govt postpones sale of sick sugar mills

Business Standard

In a bid to make women self-reliant, the Maharashtra government is planning to demarcate separate zones for them across the state, where they can run their own business after availing special licenses and movable stalls.

Govt mulls separate trade zones for women

Former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar has underlined the need for setting up an independent development authority for Thane district on the lines of those existing in Mumbai and Pune.

Set up independent development authority for Thane: Ajit

The Centre has no gas to supply to Kerala&rsquo;s power plants and the state government has to wait, the Lok Sabha was informed.

No gas for Kerala's power projects

With elections to the assembly fast approaching and the ruling BJP facing the threat of a split, water resources minister Basavaraj Bommai is keen on inaugurate several lift irrigation schemes. He has chalked out a series of programmes in November to inaugurate the schemes.

Minister in hurry to inaugurate projects

The Andhra Pradesh government plans to tie up with private solar and wind energy developers to add fresh renewable energy capacities in the state.

AP to add 1,000 Mw solar energy

Seeking to give momentum to his stated objective to float a regional party, former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday installed his loyalist V Dhananjaya Kumar as President of Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) as he prepared to officially quit the BJP next month.

BSY installs loyalist Dhananjaya Kumar as KJP chief

The Tamil Nadu government is not in favour of bringing petroleum products and alcoholic beverages in the ambit of goods and services tax (GST).

TN wants petro products, liquor out of GST

The Andhra Pradesh government will be coming up with a comprehensive policy for the development of agricultural warehousing facilities in public-private partnership (PPP) model in a month, said YR Krishna Rao, special chief secretary (state agriculture marketing and cooperative department).

Policy on agri warehousing in PPP mode soon

The Justice M B Shah Commission of enquiry probing into large scale illegal mining is expected to submit its report on mining irregularities in Odisha within 2-3 months.

Report likely in 2-3 months

The Ministry of Food Processing Industry on Friday said the mega food parks coming up at different places in the counry would be under an 'open ended' scheme of the Centre and hence no ceiling on their number was fixed.

Bengal govt to keep mega food park scheme 'open ended'

For the second year in a row, production of apple has registered a decline in Himachal Pradesh.

HP apple output again low this year

The deadline for implementing television digitisation in Chennai has been extended for the third time.

Cable digitisation deadline further extends in Chennai

Andhra Pradesh is going to adopt a special mechanism by constituting three departmental sub-groups led by principal secretaries of agriculture, industry, and municipal administration and urban development for further studying the best practices of energy savings. This would pave the way for improving efficiency and avoiding wastage of power.

AP's initiative to prevent power wastage

"Difficulties are faced from certain fronts. There is scarcity of coal. The coal rates have gone up three times in the international market. Coal which we receive is wet as flood waters entered in it," Chavan said while talking reporters. "The state will be freed of load-shedding by December 31, 2012," he assured.

Maha to be free of load-shedding by Dec 31, says CM Chavan

Jharkhand government has increased the salaries of the state Women Commission officials.

Jharkhand hikes salaries of State Women Commission officials

Sunday coupled with bumper crop in Chhattisgarh brought cheers for the traders as market recorded excellent business on Dhanteras &mdash; the first day of Diwali festival.

Bumper crop, Sunday cheer Chhattisgarh Dhanteras market

The SAP for sugarcane last year was Rs 250-255 a quintal. This season also, it could remain on the upward side of Rs 250-255, official sources said.

Uttarakhand cane crushing season to start after Nov 15

It is a picture-perfect November day on Shimla&rsquo;s Ridge and Mall road, bright sunshine and many holiday makers from all over India and abroad.

On Shimla streets, dogs on the prowl!

Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Yash Chopra can&rsquo;t get it wrong. Not on Diwali day. Jab Tak Hai Jaan (JTHJ), Chopra&rsquo;s last directorial venture, which releases tomorrow, will be a blockbuster. That, says every trade analyst, is a given.

What the future holds for Yash Raj's films

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