Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has on Monday presented the Union Budget 2009 in the Lok Sabha. Mukherjee focused on growth, development, infrastructure and agriculture, while announcing a few sops for the taxpayers.
Highlights of Union Budget 2009:
Achievements & Focus
1) Priority for Inclusive Growth.
2) High quality Public Service to be provided.
3) High inflow of Foreign [...]

A 23-year-old motorcycle-borne engineer has been killed after being hit by a speeding Blueline bus this evening. The accident happened at Govindpuria at 17:00 pm when Satish, 23, was headed towards Nehru Place when the speeding bus, plying between central workshop and Jantar Mantar, hit his vehicle from behind.
Satish fell off his motorcycle and [...]

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Nirupama Rao as the next Foreign Secretary and Mr M N Prasad as the Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ms Rao, an IFS officer of 1973 batch, is presently Ambassador of India to China and posted in Beijing. She would take over as [...]

Bharti AXA Life Insurance today said it has appointed Mr Sandeep Nanda as its Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Prior to this, Mr Nanda was with Bharti AXA Investment Managers as Head of Investment Research.
He would also head the investment research team at Bharti AXA Life that plays a key role in the systematic approach followed [...]

A fire was broken out at the Congress headquarters at New Delhi this afternoon. The incident occurred in the media conference room of the AICC when the air conditioner caught fire at around 15:25 pm.
Three fire engines were immediately rushed to the spot. The fire was extinguished within 10 minutes.

India’s federal Cabinet has on Thursday said that it has appointed Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The authority will help implement a scheme to assign a unique identification number to every Indian. It will also own and operate the database and maintain it.
Mr. Nilekani will have the rank [...]