-The Economic Times   Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Monday unveiled a revised National Sports Development Bill that retains the contentious provisions on age limits and tenures of heads of sports bodies, but introduces an exclusion clause to protect certain information while bringing sports federations within the ambit of Right to Information Act.  "We strongly feel the functioning of the sports federations should be transparent. If they oppose it then there is something...

Full text of the speech delivered by the Comptroller and Auditor General to young police officers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad on October 11, 2011. I am happy to be present today at this premiere training institution to address a group of young officers at the threshold of their careers, as well as senior officers occupying responsible positions in the State Police forces. In a world...

India on Saturday managed to get backing of the world’s 19 most powerful economies on the issue of sharing tax information, as the G20’s draft communiqué for the first time took note of New Delhi's concerns. The draft, however, remained silent on recovery of ill-gotten wealth stashed in tax havens. The draft communiqué, to be issued by G20 finance ministers and central bank governors later on Saturday, has resolved to address...

-Live Mint   The poor remain poor because they lack resources. And the formal finance sector does not want to lend them because they are too poor, costs are high and they hardly have anything to offer as collateral. That is, they are trapped in the vicious circle of poverty. This was so until the arrival of microfinance—successfully demonstrated by the Bangladesh model that the poor are “good” borrowers. It was held...

It will be shared with all-party delegation: Chidambaram The Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors on Wednesday submitted their final report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, focusing on a “permanent political settlement of the Kashmir problem.” “The report deals with issues pertaining to economic, social and cultural aspects of Jammu and Kashmir,” eminent journalist Dileep Padgaonkar told journalists outside the North Block office of the Home Minister soon after submitting the report. He...