By all accounts Mumbai is a high-flying city. Except on one. It just doesn’t have enough land to, well, safely land the ever-growing tribe of globetrotters. The city is adding close to six million air passengers every year. That&rsqu
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has once again topped the list of educational institutions in India, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework ( NIRF) that was announced on Monday. The university is in Bengaluru and st
If you are an RTI activist or someone who intends to use RTI to expose any wrongdoing, then a new set of proposed rules should leave you very worried. It says that the proceedings pending before the commission shall abate on t
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a Navratna CPSE, has achieved the highest ever turnover of Rs 17,406 crores for the 2016-17 fiscal. “It is business as usual for us with the PSU doing well on expect
Martha Lawrence, senior railway specialist, leader of railways community of practice, World Bank, said Indian Railways faces three major challenges. First, it is losing market share to roads, second is capacity constraints and third is finan
The bypoll for RK Nagar assembly constituency, which fell vacant following the death of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, has seen the trifurcation of the AIADMK vote bank, which may see the party losing the seat. The bypol
The growth rate of direct as well as indirect taxes have gone up, revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia said on Tuesday. Adhia said that net personal income tax growth was at 21% over last year. Also, direct tax growth rate is 14.2% and indire
Speed, scale and sustainability. To lift a country of 1.2 billion people to a better quality of life requires a massive dose of all three. China has clearly shown the way for what speed and scale can do to lift millions out of poverty. In 15 years
The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has topped the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking, 2017 that was announced by union minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday. Jawaharla
The attacks on African students were xenophobic and racial in nature, said African envoys who said that the incidents were not sufficiently condemned by the Indian authorities. The Heads of Missi
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has registered the best ever sales performance for any given year during 2017 fiscal (Apr-Mar 2017) with a growth of 8 per cent over corresponding period last year (CPLY)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned the 500 MW Unit-6 of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited`s (NTPC) Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant (FGUTPP) in Uttar Pradesh.
Here are 10 things to know about the Chenani-Nashri tunnel, which was inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi. The tunnel cuts the travel time between Jammu and Srinagar by two hours.
Renowned actor and mental health expert Dr Mohan Agashe wears many hats. He got a degree in Psychiatry from BJ Medical College, Pune, where he later became a professor. It was during his student years that he also found his passion in
The river Ganga that the people in the plains know is very ill. It is odious. Well, what they perhaps don’t realise is that the river is not like that when she begins her journey from the Gangotri glacier. She is pristine, pure and ecstatic
Twelve years after announcing the elimination of leprosy, the government is undertaking a massive vaccination drive against the disease. That slow about-turn is the culmination of a rush to meet a statistical goal and, in the process, th
The well-turned-out officials had reached the sachivalaya in Gandhinagar on time, believing it would be another routine meeting with the chief minister. As soon as they had settled in, the attendants handed them each a sheet of paper. They
Joseph A Cannataci is the UN’s first and current special rapporteur for the right to privacy appointed by the Human Rights Council (HRC) in July 2015. His appointment came with growing global concerns about threats to privacy in the digita
This is what Arun Jaitley had to say: We want to take action which may either want to have an assault on what is the shadow economy or the parallel economy itself. Let us take this example of what ever
After an intense seven-hour-long debate in the Lok Sabha, the cabinet gave a nod to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill. A green signal has also been given to the four crucial supplementary bills; Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bill
