The Narendra Modi government seems to have shifted its focus from 2019 and is now looking beyond it. Some of the initiatives are now aligned to be completed by 2022. One need not read too much into the 2022 goal, s
The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday kept the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.25 percent and the Monetary Policy Committee noted that incoming data suggest that the “transitory effects of dem
The killing of six farmers in police firing in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district shows a breakdown in governance and complete lack of empathy towards agriculturists by the BJP that has been in power in the state for three consecutive term
“Hello, hello. Can you hear me now,” shouted a man as he waved his mobile phone in the air, hoping to catch the elusive signal. It didn’t work. He gave a forlorn look at his mobile phone. That loo
In Lalheri village in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, groups of men and women from Hambran, Sidhwan, Ghalib, Manewal, Lubnagarh, Arain and other nearby villages have gathered in a hotel and occupy the seats in a hall for public dialogue. They ar
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy’s new novel in two decades, reads like non-fiction at time – in a welcome sense, in a non-post-truth kind of way. Its characters have been painstakingly picked for their knack
Air India is gasping for breath and we need to stop pumping in taxpayers’ money to keep the national carrier afloat. Turnaround efforts have come a cropper and each time an Air India flight takes off, it burns good money that could have been
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has proposed an equity dividend of 79% (including 40% interim dividend paid earlier) for 2016-17 fiscal. This is four times of the dividend paid in the previous year and also
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited, a Navratna enterprise, focused on financing power projects, has said that its total income for 2016-17 fiscal has risen to Rs 24,096 crore as against Rs 23,757 crore in the previous fiscal.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a Navratna PSU, has said that the structural assemblies and propellant tankages of GSLV Mk III - India’s heaviest rocket, launched by ISRO on June 5, were produced at its Aerospace Division.
In the past three months projects worth Rs 4,100 crore have received the green signal as part of the effort to clean the Ganga. But, will it yield the desired result? The latest push saw Namai Gange programme Natio
A group of activists on Monday launched a national campaign against mob-lynching and demanded a new law to curb it. The panel comprised JNU student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid, and activists Jignesh Mewani and Tehseen Poonawall
‘Connecting People to Nature’, is the theme for this year’s World Environment Day that falls on June 5, every year. The theme implores us to go outdoors and experience nature – to appreciate its beauty and its importance,
The government is having second thoughts about its unilateral decision to impose a ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets, triggering outrage in Kerala and West Bengal. The May 23 cattle slaughter
At least once a week, nine-year-old Durga starts her day cleaning the floor of her classroom. She studies in a primary school in Kankrel village, in Amber block of Jaipur in Rajasthan. While students come at around 9 am, teachers arrive only at 10
MCGS VALIANT, the second fast patrol vessel (FPV) built by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) for Mauritius Coast Guard (MCG), embarked on its maiden voyage to Mauritius on May 24. The delivery of the vessel added another feather in GSL&rs
SAIL has narrowed down its losses by around 30 percent in 2016-17 fiscal and posted an overall improvement in production, sales and productivity. The steel authority said that its EBIDTA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciati
In 2014, Varanasi and Kyoto came in a ‘partner city’ relationship, a non-financial affiliation under which private firms (and not governments) from both cities finalise a set of themes and take them forward. Kyoto mayor Daisaku Kadok
By announcing America`s withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, President Donald Trump has turned the US into a rogue state among 200 countries that have given a commitment to act to reverse the life-threatening global warming of the E
In a bid to ensure a speedy passage for the women’s reservation bill (WRB) in Parliament and legislative assemblies, Centre for Social Research (CSR), New Delhi, will galvanise 3,000 panchayat heads across the 29 states of India.
