President Pranab Mukherjee, who demits office soon, has been known as a man “of the constitution”, a believer in it, and was called to be its custodian during the last five years. His familiarity with the country’s constitution
The idea of banning cow slaughter is “terrible and ridiculous”, said professor Vikas Rawal from JNU. A ban would drain the country’s economy as the annual budget to just feed the additional head of cattle would be much more tha
Is Burhan Wani a real hero for many people in Kashmir or the separatists’ and their masters in Pakistan are using his image to lure more local youth into terrorism to sustain the political campaign for ‘azadi’? Wani was
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), a miniratna schedule ‘A’ defence PSU under the department of defence production, ministry of defence, signed an agreement for the financial year 2017-18 with the ministry.
The government has decided to launch the Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) for fertiliser subsidies on January 1, 2018. After oil and food, fertilisers account for the third-biggest share of India’s total subsidy bill of Rs 2,32
There is a proposal to include on the Delhi University MA Sociology syllabus some chapters from academician-activist Nandini Sundar`s book ‘The Burning Forest: India’s war in Bastar’, but it is facing resistance from teachers a
Guwahati airport is getting state-of-the-art surveillance air traffic control (ATC) radar system. The upcoming radar system is going to cover almost the entire north eastern sky. Airports Authority of India (AAI) has undertaken the
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited, a Navratna enterprise, touted as country’s leading financier in the power infrastructure sector, rang the opening bell at the London Stock Exchange on June 30. REC’s Gree
ONGC Videsh has signed agreements with Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc, for acquiring 30 percent participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0037 for blocks 2112A, 2012B and 21
India is the second-best performer in resource governance in the Asia-Pacific region after Australia, says the 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI). RGI measures the quality of resource governanc
Ivan Thanthiran, a medium budget Tamil movie that was released on June 30, had a good opening at the Chennai box office. The film is estimated to have collected Rs 1.5 crore in its first three days. However, the movie’s director and
The national parties gave to its candidates more than double the amount that the regional parties handed over to their candidates, showed a detailed analysis carried out on the funds collected and expenditure incurred by political parties in the 2
Meena, a solemn, raspy-voiced woman in a black salwar-kameez, is gyrating to a Bollywood number with gusto. The vivid range of her expressions counterpoints her lanky frame. Life is limping back to normal for Meena at what she calls her new home:
The government has given the final touches to the electoral bonds scheme, which promises to reform political funding. The draft norms prepared by the union finance ministry say that each politica
Expenditure on Police accounts for only three percent of the central and state government budgets. State police forces had 24% vacancies (about 5.5 lakh vacancies), 7% in central forces in January 2016.
Social activist Harsh Mander said that he mourns Junaid`s death in the same way that he would mourn his own son’s death. Mander was speaking at a book discussion organised in Delhi on Monday for his latest book: Fatal Acciden
In a historic move, the government, after nearly two decades, ratified two of International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) core conventions on child labour – convention number 138 (minimum age of labour) and convention number 182, which b
The union government is keen to create an All India Medical Service, just like the IAS and IPS. A letter has been sent to all chief secretaries of the states and union territories to “offer your views on this
A small but sophisticated night vision device (NVD) that could track moving terrorists in the dark was the first gift from Israel to the Indian forces at a time when the latter was facing a huge challenge in the form of hordes of terrorists infilt
They may not have tweeted about it, as some did, or been vocal about it. But for the many guests who spent time at Rashtrapati Bhavan, as president Pranab Mukherjee’s guests, the experience was nevertheless overwhelming. Many
