Ministry of Law, Justice & Company Affairs
Amendment in Hindu Marriage
Act
The Government has planned to amend Section 19 of the Hindu Marriage
Act, 1955 to enable woman in distress, especially divorced, deserted
and estranged wife to file suits for maintenance or relief of
any kind at a place of her residence..................
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Maran clears FDI proposals
worth Rs. 76 Crore
Shri Murasoli Maran, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, has
cleared 40 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals involving
FDI worth Rs. 76 Crore..................
Ministry of Railways
Railways to launch package
drinking water soon
Indian Railways will be launching package drinking water named
Rail Neer to be priced at Rs. 10/- per 1000 ml bottle by this
year end..................
Ministry of Railways
Railways to produce special
bogies
Railways are in the process of formulating a scheme to manufacture
special type of bogies, keeping in view the security of passengers
during accidents..................
Ministry of Railways
Computerisation of rail services
Railways are continuously taking steps for computerizing its activities
specially in the field of passenger reservation..................
Ministry of Textiles
29th Indian International Garment
Fair in the Capital
The three-day 29th Indian International Garment Fair was declared
open today at Pragati Maidan by Textile Minister, Shri Kashiram
Rana..................
Ministry of Textiles
An Advisory Committee on NGOs
constituted with Shri S. Satyam , IAS (Retd.) as Chairman
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has constituted an Advisory
Committee on issues relating to NGOs, with Shri S. Satyam, IAS
(Retd.), as its Chairman..................
Ministry of Railways
Rail Freight Traffic in June
During June ,2002, the Railways transported 40.73 Million Tonnes
(MT) of revenue earning goods..................
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Smt. Sushma Swaraj condoles
death of S.C. Bhat
The Information and Broadcasting Minister, Smt. Sushma Swaraj
has condoled the death of Shri S.C. Bhat, former Director of All
India Radio News Service..................
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Shri Ram Naik stresses the
need for regulatory mechanism to prevent oil spills
The Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Ram Naik has called
for putting in place a proper oil spill management plan particularly
in view of the participation of more and more oil and gas companies
both from private and public sector in the Indian Hydrocarbon
Sector..................
Ministry of Home Affairs
Abdul Kalam will be sworn-in
as President on Thursday
Shri A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will be sworn-in as the President of India
at a glaring ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament, here
on the 25th July, 2002..................
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Export of diamonds
India's present share in the world net exports of cut and polished
diamonds is 55%..................
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Special Economic Zones -
An update
Three Export Processing Zones (EPZs) set up by the Central Government
at Santa Cruz (Maharashtra), Cochin (Kerala) and Kandla (Gujarat)
and a private sector EPZ located at Surat (Hujarat) have been
converted into Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on 1/11/2000 which
are functional..................
Ministry of Urban Development
Capital's water problems
to be taken up with Delhi Government
Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Shri Ananth
Kumar assured that he would take up the problems of scarcity of
water and electricity in Delhi with the Delhi government for ensuring
their adequate supply for the residents of the national capital..................
