The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its latest report (agriculture wing), for the year ended March 31, 2011, has slammed the state agriculture department for non compliance with the financial and treasury rules.

CAG pulls up govt for financial rules violation

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Highlighting the &ldquo;grim&rdquo; situation in Cauvery basin, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop further release of water to Tamil Nadu and to seek a report from the team that has been deputed to assess the water situation.

Krishna urges PM to stop release of water to TN

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In order to minimize the long-standing grievances of the consumers against the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB), the state&rsquo;s power board has decided to handover its maintenance and billing segments of the state capital (Ranchi) and the steel city (Jamshedpur) to Calcutta-based CESC Limited and Tata Power from November this year.

JSEB hands over maintenance and billing operations to CESC, Tata Power

After a series of day-long protest marches and a total bundh yesterday, Mysore saw only a few demonstrations on Sunday.

KSRTC bus damaged in Mysore

The Punjab government&rsquo;s ambitious plan to bring down this financial year&rsquo;s revenue deficit to Rs 3,123.31 crore from last year&rsquo;s Rs 5,584.38 crore seems to be Herculean task. The state&rsquo;s revenue deficit has already touched Rs 1,347 crore in the first four months of the current financial year, compared to Rs 1,111 crore during the corresponding period of last year.

Punjab faces uphill task to meet revenue deficit target

Some activists belonging to pro-Kannada outfits were on Monday taken into preventive custody here when they staged protests against the Supreme Court adjourning to October 12 the plea filed by Karnataka on the Cauvery water issue.

Cauvery row: Protests against adjournment

The Gujarat High Court has held that the Central pre-Metric scholarship scheme for students from minority community was violative of provisions of the Constitution of India, that prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion.

Educational scholarship based on religion violates constitution: HC

The department on Saturday had decided to bring such leases back to the fold of the state government against the backdrop of an ongoing probe into alleged large scale illegal mining activities in the state by the visiting M B Shah commission of enquiry.

Nine private miners may lose their leases

The Bombay High Court will next week hear a PIL filed by a social activist seeking CBI probe against bureaucrats of Maharashtra Water Resources Department and Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation in connection with the multi-crore irrigation scam. Activist Pravin Wategaonkar in his petition has alleged criminal conspiracy and misconduct on the part of public servants and sought CBI to probe all projects where cost escalations of Rs 20,000 crore were approved across three months in 2009 by the Water Resources Department (WRD).

Maha irrigation scam: HC to hear PIL seeking CBI probe on Oct 16

At a time when controversy surrounding block allocations has caught different coal bearing states in a bind, the Ministry of Coal has urged the Odisha government to submit its action taken report at the earliest in connection with illegal coal mining activities.

Coal ministry asks Odisha to expedite action taken report on illegal mining

In an effort to rope in Chinese businessmen to invest in the state, an 18 member delegation of the Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) would be undertaking a 10 day visit to China beginning October 13. The visit is aimed at fostering closer ties between the business communities of the two countries.

UCCI team to visit China to promote trade relations

Mumbai-based Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health which is running a campaign titled &lsquo;Voice of Tobacco Victims&rsquo; to spread awareness on tobacco abuse, has urged the Odisha government to raise VAT (value added tax) on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to 50 per cent.

Public health institute urges Odisha to raise VAT on tobacco to 50%

Reeling under the massive power shortage, the Nitish Kumar led Bihar government has sent an SOS to the central government. State government has requested union power minister Veerappa Moily to direct NTPC and NHPC to step up their generation.

Bihar seeks Centre's help to combat power shortage

BTA leader Bimal Guha told reporters after the meeting that the minister asked the association not to go strike and had not given any assurance on taxi fare hike.

Bus strike in Bengal put off

Starring Shahrukh Khan, West Bengal's brand ambassador, a two-minute promotional video film on the state, has won an award at a Japanese film festival's travelogue section.

SRK's video on Bengal wins award in Japan

The Financial Journalists Club (FJC), in association with The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India (Assocham), is organising a panel discussion titled 'Indian Coal Story &ndash; Current Challenge and Future Outlook'. The main speakers of the event are S Narsing Rao, CMD, Coal India, Ashok Khurana, Director General, Association of Power Producers, Malay K De, Principal Secretary, Department of Power, Government West Bengal and R N Sen, Chairman, Damodar Valley Corporation.

FJC to hold seminar on 'Indian coal story'

Even though the police refused permission, the CPI(M)-led district Left Front on Monday said it was determined to hold a rally in front of the Municipal corporation headquarters here tomorrow to protest against 'failure' of the Trinamool Congress-controlled civic body. "We are ready to face any police action to disrupt our meeting," Left Front chairman Biman Bose said on Monday.

District Left Front to hold rally tomorrow 

In order to develop dairy farming and encourage the youth to adopt it as a lucrative business in Punjab, the state government has decided to give a 25 per cent subsidy on the purchase of milch cattle.

Punjab offers dairy subsidies to farmers

Punjab&rsquo;s Industries and Commerce Minister Anil Joshi on Monday provided major relief to industrial plot holders of Focal Point Extension, Jalandhar by slashing the recovery rate of enhanced land cost from Rs 323 per square yard to Rs 98 per square yard.

Jalandhar industrial plot holders get breathing space

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday ruled out a review of the Cauvery River Authority&rsquo;s decision asking Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu till October 20, rejecting a plea of Congress and BJP leaders from the state.

PM rejects Karnataka leaders' plea to stay Cauvery order

Boosted by increases in the collection of value-added tax (VAT) and central sales tax (CST), as well as excise and entertainment taxes, Haryana has recorded a 16.80 per cent increase in tax collection till August.

Haryana tax collection up by 16.8%

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