Maharashtra Fire department is planning to set up 100 more modern fire stations in urban areas and 10 in industrial belts of the state to meet any eventuality.

Maharashtra to set up 100 new fire stations

Press Trust of India

If everything goes well, the three closed cooperative sugar mills in Punjab&rsquo;s Tarn Taran, Zira and Ajnala districts would be revived on a build, operate, own and transfer (BOOT) basis. The Punjab government has already given its nod to the revival plan.

Punjab to revive three cooperative sugar mills

Business Standard

INTUC-affiliated National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) has demanded a rise in rail fares by 60 per cent, which would fetch Rs 12,000 crore to augment the resources of railways.

NFIR demands 60% rise in railway fares

The approved projects are in sectors like ports, real estate, food processing and tourism.

Odisha approves 37 projects on PPP mode in three years

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will hold a two-day public hearing in Pune to deal with various issues relating to atrocities and problems faced by Scheduled Castes. The public hearing, to be held on November 29 and 30, will be followed by a meeting with Maharashtra Chief Secretary, DGP and senior civil and police officers on December 1, an NHRC official said. Schedule Caste community members, who have a complaint of atrocity committed by a public servant or of negligence by a public servant in prevention of atrocity, can send their complaints to Commission by October 7. Such complaints as are deemed fit for enquiry shall be taken up at public hearing, the official said.

NHRC public hearing in Pune on Nov 29-30

The Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley on Sunday said, the bilateral relationship with India, which is the largest trading partner of Bhutan, will continue to flourish in the future.

Indo-Bhutan relation to flourish, says Thinley

Odisha has recorded Plan expenditure of Rs 44,252 crore in the 11th Plan period (2007-12), overshooting the Plan size of Rs 32,225 crore in the period.

Odisha logs Rs 44,252 cr expenditure in 11th Plan

The economic environment is a matter of concern but there is no reason to be pessimistic, said President Pranab Mukherjee during his first visit to Chennai.

Innovative approach will pull economy out of slowdown: Pranab

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked all Trinamool Congress MPs to spend funds from MPLAD for improvement of health services in the state. Urban Development minister Firhad Hakim told reporters here on Sunday that the chief minister had told the MPs belonging to Trinamool to spend funds from MPLAD for development of the health sector as the state was in acute shortage of finance.

Trinamool  MPs urged to spend MPLAD fund on health sector

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Sunday said an Investment Clearance Board would be constituted to clear projects that are to be showcased at the Emerging Kerala Investment summit.

Investment Clearance Board to be set up for Emerging Kerala

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Vinod Rai has expressed concern over failure of the state public sector undertakings (PsUs) in preparation of final accounts over 14-15 years. In the annual general meeting of the Institute of Public Auditors of India (IPAI), he pleaded for inclusion of commerce, economics graduates from Kolkata with basics knowledge of account-keeping etc., and used them as consultants in helping those companies in the preparation of their accounts in Mizoram. The CAG particularly mentioned the Special Category States in North East where very few experienced accounts officers/ audit officers were available in these places in service. Not many, when we recruit them, were willing to go there as conditions there may or may be not so good, CAG added.

CAG likely to engage graduates from Kolkata as consultants in Mizoram

The State High-Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) has approved 23 industrial projects involving an investment of Rs 16,078 crore. These projects, once implemented, would provide jobs to 368,837 persons.

High-level committee clears Rs 16,078 cr worth of projects in Karnataka

Sugarcane farmers and mills are at loggerheads in Karnataka over the fixation of cane prices for the sugar year 2012-13 (October-September). While the farmers have demanded Rs 3,000 per tonne ex-field as first advance for the year, a rise of 33 per cent in north Karnataka and 50 per cent in south Karnataka over last year, the mills are yet to announce their price. Instead, they have proposed revenue sharing formula for the first time in the country.

Sugarcane farmers, mills spar over pricing

The Supreme Court has said that it will hear on September 10 the plea of Tamil Nadu seeking a direction to Karnataka for releasing 2TMC of water from Cauvery river as an interim measure.

SC to hear Cauvery issue on September 10

The Karnataka government would &ldquo;fully cooperate&rdquo; with the CBI probe into the illegal extraction of 5.07 million tonnes of iron ore in 17 months from the state&rsquo;s forests, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday said.

Karnataka to cooperate with CBI on mining probe

A Pakistani prisoner, Nawab Ali Mohammad Ali (45), serving life imprisonment, in Rajkot Jail, died in a hospital in Ahmedabad following kidney ailment, Rajkot district jail authorities said on Sunday. Ali was arrested in 1999 along with six other Pakistanis who had sneaked into India with a huge stock of arms and ammunition.

Pak prisoner dies

Among the numerous small market yards in Himachal Pradesh&rsquo;s apple belt, the most promising has been the market at Rohru, but it has come out as a failure in last couple of years, say farmers.

Himachal's market yard at Rohru flops

Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has issued notices to Maharashtra government, the Centre and Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) on a PIL alleging massive corruption in the execution of irrigation projects in Vidarbha region.

HC notice to govt on alleged corruption in Vidarbha irrigation works

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) has entered into collaboration with the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, wherein five students from institutions run by SGPC, would be shortlisted every year for pursuing their research studies at Cambridge University.

SGPC ties up with Cambridge University

Altogether 443 confirmed dengue cases were reported in the city area, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Mayor-In-Council Atin Ghosh said on Monday.

KMC confirms 443 dengue cases in city

The unemployment dole scheme announced by the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh during the 2012 assembly poll started to roll out yesterday, with its formal launch by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Unemployment dole scheme kicks off in UP

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