Helped Chennai firm get Rs 14-cr bank loan, banned vaccine production by PSUs
A Chennai-based private company, owned by a close associate of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, was granted a Rs 14-crore bank loan for starting production of vaccines just two weeks before the Health Ministry banned vaccine production by three Central public sector undertakings (PSUs).
While comparing with current situation in Congress
After criticising the party's decision-making process, senior Congress leader and Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh on Friday kicked up yet another controversy by suggesting that there was more freedom of expression in the party when Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi were at the helm.
Despite repeated assurances from the Government that inflation will be controlled soon, it reached 42-month high of 7.61 per cent on the back of high prices of tea, fruits, vegetables and some manufactured products. Tea prices have jumped by 11 per cent while fruits and vegetables were costlier by one per cent.
West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi was being "childish" with his self-imposed power cuts at Raj Bhavan, CPI(M) stalwart Jyoti Basu said on Friday, while Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee chose to avoid a controversy, saying he would not comment.
Britain's Chancellor of Exchequer Alistair Darling has been barred from several pubs in the country for raising the prices of beer in his latest Budget.
A territorial war may break out among the big cats at the Corbett Tiger Reserve after a recent blaze there ate up significant habitat area and forced tigers to relocate and encroach others' territory, feel wildlife experts. The forest's southern part has been especially affected by the fire.
Chinese are very keen to come in the Indian Ocean and there is no doubt that they wish to come there. They did not have the assets till now. Chief of Naval staff Sureesh Mehta
We are having a very nice relationship with India, the best of the relationship we have ever had . Pakistan's Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar
