It is unusual to profile a man six years after he passed away. But thanks to your editor, you see here a remembrance of Hari Dev Shourie, who in our view has few equals in his dogged representation of the faceless Indian. We have a common
The deadline for the introduction of Delhi`s bus cluster scheme has been shifted again. Now, the cluster buses can be expected on city streets by the end of February and beginning of March. The new deadline was announced on Monday, deferri
After apparently dithering on funding Delhi metro`s phase III, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to extend financial assistance to the project that envisages adding 105 kilometre to the existing 200 km network.
Delhi government has revised circle rates for registration of valuation of lands and immovable properties in the capital. The new rates will come into force with effect from February 8, 2011. “The revised rates shall be tak
With attempts at drawing the authorities` attention to their wage issues failing repeatedly, the pilots of the Indian Airlines (IA) have threatened to keep flights grounded in protest from February 11. The Indian Commercial Pilots Associat
The ropeway project in Girnar wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat which has been in limbo since September 1995 has finally been given in-principle clearance from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). However, the environment minister Jairam Ra
The rural development ministry has constituted a committee to restructure the district rural development agencies (DRDAs), the body responsible for implementing myriad rural development schemes at the district level. With the onset of a nu
The small plastic sachets of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala scattered all over roads, parks and other places may soon become history if the environment ministry has its way. The ministry of environment and forests on Monday, while notifying the Pl
A green NGO has claimed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is not putting up compliance reports on its website. Himanshu Thakkar of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) has said that the MoEF is violating the e
Former union minister and Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar has demanded introduction of a new Nagpur-New Delhi Duranto Express and also increase in the frequency of Nagpur-Mumbai Duranto, which runs on a tri-weekly basis. Muttemwar, in a
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal may soon find himself in a soup over the S-band spectrum controversy. Sibal was a part of the space commission that cleared state run Antrix Corp`s S-band spectrum deal with Devas Multimedia in 2005. As the min
The Congress party’s presidentship has become a “family monopoly”, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) LK Advani writes in his blog dated 6th February, 2011. In his blog Advani talks about Belgaum in Karnata
Indian Airlines pilots, aggrived by frequent delays in remittances of salaries and a wide gap between their pay and that of the pilots of Air India, are planning a st
CBI on Friday quizzed the former telecom minister A Raja on the unified access services (UAS) licencing issue. The agency is believed to have posed sixteen questions to Raja, armed with the original files of the telecom department and the
The one-member committee of retired supreme court judge Shivraj Patil has faulted the department of telecom (DoT) for first seeking opinion of the law ministry on the procedure for the 2G spectrum allocation and then ignoring it. It also n
The coal ministry plans to circulate a note on enhancing coal production in the next cabinet meeting, asking that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) consider all coal blocks irrespective of its No-Go policy for mining in forest areas f
Doctor’s strike at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital here came to an end on Friday evening almost two days after it began. The services at the hospital resumed from 5 pm with all the resident doctors and interns joining duties.
White ambassador cars with red/blue beacon lights and screeching siren, running down the bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand is a common sight. With the launch of operation control and data centre (OCC) th
Bank accounts of a trust backed by Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje and its trustees have been frozen in connection with the probe into the seizure of a huge amount of foreign currency from a transit home of the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has approved formation of a ministerial panel, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, to sort out environmental issues hurting coal production. This comes in the backdrop of ever widening demand-supply g
