The department of personnel and training (DOPT) is preparing a draft amendment to the RTI Act, 2005, to empower central and state governments to decided salary of information commissioners at the central and state commissions. Opposition parties a
Justice Kurian Joseph of the Supreme Court, in a letter written to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra had sought for setting up of bench of seven senior most judges of the apex court. He had also asked the CJI to suo motu take up the mat
The Bharatiya Janata Party`s total income has increased by 81.18% in one financial year. In 2015-16, the party`s income was Rs 570.86 crores and this went up to Rs 1,034.27 crores during 2016-17. The party is the richest of all national parties.
Taking note of media reports about the mysterious death of a rape victim’s father who was in custody at a jail in Unnao, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the chief secretary and the director general of police
Could the Nirav Modi-Punjab National Bank embezzlement have been prevented? It’s a question lots of people are asking. With blockchain it would never have happened, say proponents of the technology that backends cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
The India-Iran-Russia-led International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which is a sea, land and rail transport project, is ready for its operationalisation in June, even as China’s multi-billion-dollar One Belt One Road (OBOR) initi
In a bid to explore innovations to improve public bus system in India, WRI India Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, on Thursday announced ‘Better Bus Challenge`.&n
When Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski – who became the writer Joseph Conrad – was christened, his father Apollo Korzeniowski wrote him a poem that is in retrospect chillingly poignant. To my son, born in th
Ghazipur figures prominently in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, the first novel of his Ibis trilogy. Set in the 1830s, it presents Ghazipur as a centre of large-scale opium production, and narrates the travails of characters like Deeti, who h
As they say, nothing is impossible in the world if you have the determination and willingness to do things. China doubled its farmers’ income from 1978 to 1984. The real income increased at 15 percent per annum and within six years they redu
Early in March, farmers of Maharashtra belonging to tribal and backward groups marched from Nashik to Mumbai under the aegis of the CPI(M)-backed Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha. They wanted to draw attention to their sorry plight: they have been
On March 21, the supreme court put certain riders on the immediate arrest in complaints filed under its provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The apex court w
One of the major issues affecting railways is punctuality which is accorded prime importance in train operations. At times, trains get delayed not only due to the factors related to its internal working but also external factors which are beyond t
There is no proposal to replace the National Pension Scheme (NPS) with old pension scheme in respect of central government employees recruited on or after January 1, 2004, parliament was informed. Union minister Jitendra Singh said
On the eve of the 8th World Water Forum (WWF), held in March, social media was abuzz with ‘news’ that the Brazilian government had handed over its two large aquifers to private companies – Coca Cola and Nestle. This raised the co
Dr Naresh Trehan’s Medanta hospital handed out a check of Rs 15.68 lakh to the family of Sourya Singh Parmar, the seven-year-old child who died of dengue after undergoing three week long treatment at the hospital on October 29.
Railways has lagged behind due to inadequate investment, union minister Rajen Gohain informed parliament. The minister said that railways has a huge throw-forward in its capital expenditure program. Currently, the throw-forwar
Taking cognisance of the alleged CBSE paper leak of Maths and Economics for classes 10 and 12, respectively, prime minister Narendra Modi asked union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar to take strict action, sources said. T
Pan India Rollout of 650 branches of the India Post Payments Bank is to commence from April, 2018, parliament was informed. Union minister Manoj Sinha said that the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has been incorporated as a public l
A Bill seeks to have private participation in production and distribution of seed to ensure the availability of quality seeds among the farmers, parliament was informed. Union minister Radha Mohan Singh said that the salient feature
