Delhi Finance Commission Report

India's Finance Commission has told the power ministry that its proposal to award utilities 835 billion rupees in incentives to install equipment to curb emissions is "unviable," a senior official at the ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.

Siphoning money, hawala transactions through hundreds of shell companies, hiding financial details from the Income Tax Department and the Election Commission -- sacked Aam Aadmi Party minister Kapil Mishra's latest salvo against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this morning listed a huge array of financial irregularities.

The Winter Session of Delhi Assembly is set to begin today for which the state government has lined up six Bills even as opposition BJP said it will try to corner the ruling AAP in the House over various issues, including the demand for introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

A salary hike for lakhs of government employees will be delayed by two months by a panel that decides on their salaries, according to sources. The 7th Pay Commission is not expected to lower or increase the retirement age for 54 lakh government employees, but its final report on salary hike that was to be submitted to the Centre by the end of this ...

A Group of Ministers (GoM) will now reportedly take a 'political' call on whether the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI should be made more autonomous or whether minor changes to enhance the powers of the CBI director would be sufficient. The GoM met in the capital yesterday; Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was the only absentee at the meeti...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today flew to Kolkata on a private jet after declaring "Delhi is not safe." She was referring to violent protests against her yesterday in the capital by students affiliated to her political rival, the Left.

A day after she was heckled by Left student activists in front of the Planning Commission in New Delhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the national capital "is not safe." Ms Banerjee will be flying back to Kolkata this afternoon. Her Finance Minister Mr Mitra is currently in a hospital in Delhi.

Mamata Banerjee will return to Kolkata today. She has cancelled her meeting with Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram that was scheduled in the afternoon. Ms Banerjee came to Delhi to seek financial assistance for her state, which owes nearly 2 lakh crores in loans to the Centre.

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled and manhandled by Left activists outside the planning commission office in the heart of New Delhi today. Mamata Banerjee, who was with him, was heard saying angrily, "They are hooligans...This is dirty politics." The Bengal Chief Minister has alleged that she too was heckled.

India's Finance Commission has told the power ministry that its proposal to award utilities 835 billion rupees in incentives to install equipment to curb emissions is "unviable," a senior official at the ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.

Siphoning money, hawala transactions through hundreds of shell companies, hiding financial details from the Income Tax Department and the Election Commission -- sacked Aam Aadmi Party minister Kapil Mishra's latest salvo against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this morning listed a huge array of financial irregularities.

The Winter Session of Delhi Assembly is set to begin today for which the state government has lined up six Bills even as opposition BJP said it will try to corner the ruling AAP in the House over various issues, including the demand for introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

A salary hike for lakhs of government employees will be delayed by two months by a panel that decides on their salaries, according to sources. The 7th Pay Commission is not expected to lower or increase the retirement age for 54 lakh government employees, but its final report on salary hike that was to be submitted to the Centre by the end of this ...

A Group of Ministers (GoM) will now reportedly take a 'political' call on whether the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI should be made more autonomous or whether minor changes to enhance the powers of the CBI director would be sufficient. The GoM met in the capital yesterday; Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was the only absentee at the meeti...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today flew to Kolkata on a private jet after declaring "Delhi is not safe." She was referring to violent protests against her yesterday in the capital by students affiliated to her political rival, the Left.

A day after she was heckled by Left student activists in front of the Planning Commission in New Delhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the national capital "is not safe." Ms Banerjee will be flying back to Kolkata this afternoon. Her Finance Minister Mr Mitra is currently in a hospital in Delhi.

Mamata Banerjee will return to Kolkata today. She has cancelled her meeting with Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram that was scheduled in the afternoon. Ms Banerjee came to Delhi to seek financial assistance for her state, which owes nearly 2 lakh crores in loans to the Centre.

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled and manhandled by Left activists outside the planning commission office in the heart of New Delhi today. Mamata Banerjee, who was with him, was heard saying angrily, "They are hooligans...This is dirty politics." The Bengal Chief Minister has alleged that she too was heckled.