Everything you need to know about Public Office: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Public Office: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has won the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award for his mass contact programme initiative, an official release said Wednesday.
London, May 22 (ANI): The Duchess of Cambridge has been branded Britain's "Queen Wag" by an outspoken author in her new book.
New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): A planned initial public offering of Vodafone Group Plc's Indian unit is unlikely this year, says the unit's Chief Executive Marten Pieters in New Delhi.
Bhubaneswar, May 20 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday sought an early presidential nod to a bill which the state passed about a year and a half ago to protect the interest of small depositors.
Barcelona, May 20 (IANS) Scientists have shed light on how stress at work affects the heart, says a study.
Moscow, May 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia's Public Television, which will be governed by the public rather than by the state or the channel owners and which will not run any commercials, Sunday started its broadcast. It offers viewers news, films, entertainment and cognitive programmes.
London, May 19 (ANI): Britain has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Tribal Areas which reveal that US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population.
Toronto, May 18 (IANS) A criminal investigation has been sought against an Indo-Canadian member of legislative assembly (MLA) of the ruling Progressive Conservatives party in the Canadian province of Alberta in a case of ethics violation.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members Friday raised the issue of the 2G spectrum scam at the first meeting of the reconstituted Public Accounts Commitee of parliament, said informed sources.
London, May 17 (ANI): British MPs have branded Google 'devious, calculating and unethical', accusing the search giant of deliberately subverting its motto, 'don't be evil', in order to pay less tax.
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Despite calls from public and health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium levels, a study has found that the processed food and fast food still have dangerously high salt levels.
Washington, May 13 (ANI): Scientists led by an Indian origin have linked perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) - chemical found in things such as nonstick cookware and packaged foods like microwave popcorn - to cardiovascular disease.
Rio de Janeiro, May 13 (IANS/EFE) A Brazilian judge has suspended the decision to grant a concession for the Maracana stadium to a private consortium headed by Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht, judiciary officials said.
Thiruvananthapuram, May 11 (IANS) With two cabinet ministers quitting in the wake of scandals, there is likelihood that Kerala, which currently has eight members in the cabinet, could get a ninth one.
New York, May 11 (ANI): A photo of man that looks remarkably like Jay-Z in a photograph dating back to Harlem in 1939 has surfaced online.
London, May 11 (IANS) New research shows that dementia and other neuro degenerative diseases are increasingly affecting people from an earlier age.
Washington, May 11 (ANI): Twitter is encouraging its users to rest their tweeting habits for sometime and instead call their moms on their special day.
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the results of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner (APFC) recruitment 2013 written exam results online. Candidates appeared for UPSC APFC recruitment 2013 can check their results on the official website of UPSC at http://www.upsc.gov.in/. Selected candidates are provisionally eligible for interview now.
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the results of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner (APFC) recruitment 2013 written exam results online. Candidates appeared for UPSC APFC recruitment 2013 can check their results on the official website of UPSC at http://www.upsc.gov.in/. Selected candidates are provisionally eligible for interview now.
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday said a report from the CAG - a constitutional functionary - commands respect but it could not be solely relied upon for deciding any contentious issue.
Washington, May 9 (ANI): In another effort to prevent the manufacture and possession of weapons, a D.C. Council member Tommy Wells has proposed a legalization to ban plastic guns made with 3-D printers, following a Texas-based group's successful test fire of the first functional weapon.
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The exit polls were on target in predicting a Congress win in Karnataka and a BJP drubbing. The Congress fared marginally better than the exit polls predicted while the BJP performed worse.
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday termed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice".
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday termed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice".
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday termed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice".
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Results from a 14-year long study has indicated that fast food restaurant menus have only modestly increased nutritious offerings, and much improvement is still needed.
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Former vice-president Al Gore's net worth may exceed 200 million dollars, following the loss at the presidential campaign a decade back, a Bloomberg report has revealed.
New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): To augment the number of covered godowns with Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and also the State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs), the Government is implementing the Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) Scheme.
New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): The Centre has asked the State Governments to take remedial measures to remove the deficiencies noticed in the functioning of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).
Washington, May 6 (ANI): Regular bouts of physical exercise may help decrease violent behavior among adolescent girls, according to new research.
Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission APPSC has declared the results of written test for the post of Lecturers in
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Public services such as clean water, sanitation, healthcare, and schooling in many Asian countries, particularly in South Asia, are failing frequently to reach the needy, widening the region's already sharp disparity between the rich and the poor, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.
Washington, May 4 (ANI): Chinese police have apprehended 63 suspects accused of selling more than 1.6 million dollars of rat meat as lamb.
Monterrey (Mexico), May 3 (IANS/EFE) A radio and television announcer in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila is missing, officials said.
Sydney, May 2 (ANI): In a delirious accident, a five-year-old American boy has reportedly shot his two-year-old sister, identified as Caroline Starks with a .22 calibre rifle that he had been gifted by his parents on his birthday last year.
Mexico City, May 2 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1 percent in real terms in the first quarter of this year after expanding at a 3.2 percent rate in the final three months of 2012, the government said.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): Older people who play video games challenging their mental processing speed could delay the ageing of their minds, a new study has found.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): NASA is giving a golden opportunity for those who want to be a part of space exploration history.
London, May. 1 (ANI): Twitter has warned news organisations to tighten security in the wake of several high-profile hackings.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The government was studying the Supreme Court observation slamming it for interfering in the CBI probe on allocation of coal blocks and would take "appropriate action", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Tuesday.
London, Apr. 30 (ANI): Syrian hackers are launching cyber attacks on a series western media in an apparent effort to cause disruption and spread support for President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Chennai, April 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday blamed the Vanniyar caste party PMK for April 25 violence at Marakkanam near here and said compensation will be paid to the victims.
Ashgabat, April 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov earned more than $11 million as he won the first round of a horse racing competition, a media report said.
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The CBI's revelation that it had shared the coal scam report with the law minister and an official of the PMO proved the government's interference with the agency's work, the BJP asserted Friday and called on the prime minister to explain.
Washington, Apr. 26 (ANI): Senator Rand Paul is the frontrunner in a hypothetical New Hampshire Republican primary, a new poll has found.
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) CBI director Ranjit Sinha Friday defended his meeting with Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V. Narayanasamy the previous evening, saying it was a "routine meeting".
London, April 26 (ANI): British people suffer a tedious 10 days a year waiting in queues, a new research has revealed.
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy morning in the capital Friday with the minimum temperature settling at 24.3 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season. The Met Office has forecast light rain later in the day.
Chennai, April 25 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday termed the central government's "in principle" decision to change the method of induction of state service officers into the All India Services as "half-baked reforms" and asked for the step to be reconsidered.
Moscow, April 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia's Golos Association, a non-government organisation which monitors elections and campaigns for voters' rights, has refused to register itself as a "foreign agent" as required by a new NGOs law.
London, April 24 (ANI): Celebrity chefs are "exacerbating" the obesity crisis by encouraging people to eat fatty dishes, a new study has claimed.
Melbourne, Apr 24 (ANI): Minced beef and chicken cause more hospitalisations than any other meat, an analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness has shown.
Washington, April 23 (ANI): A new study has linked mushrooms to positive health outcomes in the area of weight management.
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) The Maharashtra Public Service Commission examinations will be conducted all over the state May 18, it was announced here Monday.
Islamabad, Apr. 22 (ANI): Senior officials from Pakistan and the United States have held talks to break the apparent deadlock in efforts to reach out to the Afghan Taliban for a peaceful end to a decade-long war.
Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): People who participate in community gardening have a significantly lower body mass index, as well as lower odds of being overweight or obese, than their non-gardening neighbours, a new study has found.
Moscow, April 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russians quizzed in an opinion poll released Friday gave their government the unflattering equivalent of a "C" grade for overall performance.
Athens, April 19 (IANS/AKI) Three men have been arrested for shooting into a crowd of Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrant workers at a strawberry farm in Greece, in which around 30 workers were injured.
Washington, April 19 (ANI): Those working in physically demanding jobs are more susceptible to heart disease, two new studies suggests.
New York, April 19 (IANS) Government corruption isn't a big problem in developing countries like India alone, but nearly half the New York state voters also think it is a "very serious" problem for them too, according to a new poll.
Sydney, Apr. 19 (ANI): Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel remains in limbo over whether he will be forced to stand trial for the manslaughter of two patients almost a decade ago.
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) At least 40 people were killed and over 300 injured in a powerful earthquake that rattled Pakistan Tuesday, an official with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told Xinhua Wednesday.
Moscow, April 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Prosecutors in Russia have opened a case against a non-governmental organisation accused of not registering as a "foreign agent" in the wake of a wave of inspections of NGOs, a rights group said.
Chennai, April 15 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday said the separation of crime investigation and law and order maintenance, as recommended by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC), would be a cure worse than the disease.
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Police need to be provided a better working environment that is "insulated from pulls and pressures", union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Monday as he pitched for police reforms.
Moscow, April 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Members of both chambers of Russia's parliament have expressed optimism that the publication of "tit-for-tat" lists of Russian officials banned from entering the US and vice versa would not prove a major setback in US-Russian relations.
Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): Adults in America, who prepare their own meals and exercise on the same day, are likely spending more time on one of those activities at the expense of the other, a new study has found.
Moscow, April 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Almost one in four Russians (23 percent) expect the human race to be contacted by representatives of an alien civilization in the next 50 years, says an opinion poll.
Houston, April 11 (IANS) At least two people were killed and many injured when a chartered bus carrying elderly people crashed Thursday in the US state of Texas, reported Xinhua quoting US media.
Berlin, Apr. 11 (ANI): India and Germany on Thursday signed six pacts to expand bilateral cooperation between the two countries during the visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Germany for the 2nd India-Germany Intergovernmental Consultations.
Brussels, April 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) As part of a NATO-Russia project in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, counter-narcotics personnel training will be expanded within the next few years, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.
New Delhi, Apr. 10 (ANI): The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has written a letter to the Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas on the roll out of transfer of LPG subsidy through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
HPSC has published recruitment for various posts including scientifie(group-B) in Haryana Pollution
Srinagar, April 10 (ANI): Scores of Public Health Engineering (PHE) employees under the banner of 'Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association' staged a protest in Srinagar on Wednesday.
Washington, April 10 (ANI): Teenagers who increased the days on which they got just 20 minutes of exercise, equivalent to a short walk, were able to cut down on their smoking habit, according to a study.
Washington, Apr 10 (ANI): A new study has found that high blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries.
Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) Pakistan Wednesday successfully launched an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) that can carry nuclear warheads, the military said.
Washington, April 9 (IANS) With traditional news media no longer providing them the news the way it used to, US adults are deserting print in favour of new media like Facebook and Google, according to a new US media survey.
Chennai, April 9 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday said that the central government was punishing the state for running the public distribution system (PDS) efficiently by slashing kerosene allotment to the state.
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The central government has allocated funds to states according to mutually agreed formula for "economic justice", the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said Tuesday in a counter to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's charge of discrimination against non-Congress ruled states.
Washington, April 9 (ANI): Drinking before and after diagnosis of breast cancer does not impact survival from the disease, a new study has found.
Washington, April 9 (ANI): Young adults who consume high levels of mercury increase their risks for type 2 diabetes later in life by 65 percent, a new study has found.
Los Angeles, April 8 (IANS) For the first time scientists have established a link between arsenic exposure in youngsters and development of Type 2 diabetes.
Moscow, April 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Fifty men in their 90s may face prison terms in Germany over allegations of their service as guards at Auschwitz, the biggest concentration camp in Nazi Germany, media reports said.
New Delhi, Apr. 6 (ANI): Stating that the nation has achieved eight percent growth per annum during the Eleventh Five Year Plan period from a 3.5 percent growth rate per annum during the First Five Year Plan period, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said today India is the third largest economy in the world in purchasing power parity terms.
New Delhi, Apr. 6 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said corruption is a threat to the democratic fabric of our country, and added that it would frustrate the efforts to bring equity to all its citizens.
New Delhi, Apr. 6 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said good governance should be the country's unwavering goal for it holds the key to sustainable development, inclusiveness and economic progress.
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), April 6 (IANS/EFE) Four people, one of them a 13-year-old boy, were found fatally shot on a road in the northern border state of Chihuahua, Mexican authorities said.
Vancouver, April 6 (IANS) Canada lost nearly 55,000 jobs in March, with unemployment up 0.2 percentage points to reach 7.2 percent, according to latest data from Statistics Canada.
New York, April 6 (IANS/EFE) Full of crossings-out, marginal notes and erasures, the original manuscript of "Poet in New York" went on display for the first time Friday at the Public Library of the city that inspired Federico Garcia Lorca to write it, after a long journey and many years when it was thought to be lost.
San Jose, April 6 (IANS/EFE) The government of Costa Rica announced Friday a plan to install access to the Internet in every public school in the country in order to reduce the digital divide and have better teaching tools.
Lucknow, April 5 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned Rs.1,700 crore for laying new roads and for the maintenance and repair of existing roads in the current financial year, said an official Friday.
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Indian government Thursday decided to decontrol the Rs.80,000 crore (around $15.5 billion) sugar industry in line with the suggestions of a panel headed by C. Rangarajan, the chairman of the prime minister's economic advisory council.
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Thursday postponed the Maharashtra state civil services exam after the commission conducting the exam lost data of 350,000 candidates from its server due to a technical snag.
London, Apr. 4 (ANI): About one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama might be the antichrist, a new poll has found.
New Delhi, Apr. 3 (ANI): Asserting that the nation's demographic profile is likely to change in the times to come, President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said two-third Indians will be in the working age bracket by 2025.
Beijing, April 3 (IANS) At least one police officer has died on duty and nine have been injured every day on average for the last five years, making the job one of the most dangerous in China, said authorities.
Mexico City, April 3 (IANS/EFE) Nine bodies, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside an SUV with Texas tag in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, officials said.
Moscow, April 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) An online portal to promote public petitions has been launched by the Foundation for Information Democracy in Russia.
Vishakapatnam, Apr 2 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the project related to extension of the existing container terminal at Visakhapatnam port on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis for a period of 30 years at an estimated cost of Rs. 633.11 crore, subject to necessary clearances, such as security and environmental and forest clearances being obtained.
