Politician Promise

New Delhi: With only a week to go before the first parliament session of the new government ends, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi exhorted party members not to lose sight of the reason they had been elected as MPs. In a well calibrated address at the Congress parliamentary meeting, she cajoled and chided while stressing [...]

Gammon India, the company carrying out the construction work at the Delhi Metro site where six people were killed as a section of a elevated viaduct collapsed, denied negligence on its part and said all safety measures had been taken. “We followed highest safety measures and have safety engineers. We are an ISO certified company [...]

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates assured Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar that his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would assist Bihar in health-related issues and the programmes being run by the state government. “In a video conference, Mr Gates has volunteered to assist the state government in health issue, with focus on [...]

Reiterating the promise to provide electricity to all households in the country by 2012, the Government today rebutted the Opposition charge that the much-hyped Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna (RGGVY) is more politics than supplying power to the people. Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who had made the promise of power-for-all by 2012 in the Lok Sabha [...]

Sports Minister MS Gill today visited injured Team India hockey goalkeeper Baljit Singh and pledged to take care of all the expenses for his rehabilitation. ”It is quite unfortunate that Baljit met with such a serious accident when we are preparing for 2010 Commonwealth Games. ”But I have full faith on the doctors in AIIMS and they [...]

New Delhi, Jul 14 The Haryana government today tendered an”unconditional apology”to the Supreme Court and assured that it would ensure the promised 120 cusecs of daily water supply to Delhi through the Nongloi water treatment plant. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice K [...]

New Delhi: In yet another accident at the Delhi Metro rail construction site in south Delhi at least three cranes trying to lift an iron girder came crashing down at the buildings and slum clusters nearby. Earlier on Sunday, at around 0500 hrs IST a Delhi Metro bridge collapsed at this site killing six and [...]

Indian Railways has over 1.7 lakh vacancies for various grades, which will be filled in after reviving the existing recruitment process, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee informed the Rajya Sabha today. Replying to a question, Banerjee said the review of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) would also examine regional aspirations and problems raised during the railway [...]

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said about 300,000 acre of railway land would be used for different commercial purposes, including setting up medical colleges, IITs and other educational institutions, where 50 per cent seats would be reserved for the children of railway employees. Banerjee also said that while she favoured the reservation of a percentage of [...]

New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The white paper on the performance of Indian Railways over the last five years will not be a black and white one, but a colourful one, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said in the Lok Sabha Thursday. The maverick politician from West Bengal also tried to pacify the anxieties of her predecessor [...]

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