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India a bright spot in world economy: KPMG

The ‘Digital India’ initiative aligns the country with the fourth industrial revolution, focusing on building robust digital capabilities and creating meaningful prospects for investments, said KPMG report India CEO Outlook 2016.

How a partially blind IAS officer helped the deaf to listen and the disabled to move

For a split second, six-year-old deaf boys Vivek and Ritesh looked perplexed, and then they grinned as they were able to hear for the first time after a tiny cochlear implant was switched on. These two boys from south Gujar

All in the family

In the spring of 2012, Akhilesh Yadav was on the campaign trail to get the Samajwadi Party, of which he had been in charge for two years then, back into power in Uttar Pradesh. One day as he was leaving for Sitapur from Lucknow, his father Mulayam

Sri Lanka too pulls out of the SAARC summit

India’s diplomatic heft in South Asia became clear when Sri Lanka too decided not to attend the SAARC summit in Islamabad.   With this, five members of the eight-member South Asian Association of Regional Cooperati

Government wants to roll out GST by April 1, 2017: Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that the government is working on a target date of April 1, 2017 for the roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country. He said that till September 16, 2017, that is one yea

Bihar liquor ban struck down

Within six months of prohibition being imposed in Bihar, the Patna High Court on Friday put an end to

Government eyes stake sale in more PSUs

 The government is looking to sell some of its stake in NMDC, NALCO, BHEL through the offer for sale (OFS) route. According to a news report in moneycontrol.com, the centre may divest through an OFS in companies that bought back government sh

‘High chance khadi will become extinct, if KVIC’s patriarchal view continues’

(1) The figures of khadi production and sales given by the KVIC chairman are in nominal terms, whereas we include the real value of production and sales in our paper. The same nominal figures, available in the latest KVIC annual reports, after adj

Chikungunya: Quite a bite

It was 9.50 am on a sultry Friday when a 42-year-old lean man with droopy eyes waited for his turn along with 150-odd patients outside Safdarjung hospital’s fever clinic, as his body temperature zoomed to 104 degrees. Madhuvan Kumar came to

Bansal Suicide: NHRC issues notice to director, CBI, on alleged torture of Bansal & family

The national human rights commission has issued a notice to the director of the central bureau of investigation (CBI) asking him to send an action taken report on the allegations made in the suicide notes of BK Bansal and his son within 72 hours.

Unemployment rate estimated at 5 percent: Labour bureau report

The latest labour bureau survey data is bound to leave policy makers worried as the unemployment rate is estimated at 5 percent. The 5 percent figure is at the all India level under the Usual Principal Status (UPS) approach or in ot

UPA had said ‘no’ to surgical strikes after 26/11

The idea of punishing Pakistan for sending terrorists to strike at targets in India was mulled during the UPA rule aft

Meanwhile on Twitter, Indians and Pakistanis go to war

  #IndiaStrikesPak Mentioning India strikes Pak = accepting PoK is Pak Can we plea

Surgical strike: A middle path between restraint and aggression

India has finally struck, albeit surgically. After the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks in Poonch and Uri on September 11 and 18,

The India-Pakistan face-off at the UN

The glaring highlights for the Indian (and the Pakistani) reader from the 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) were the verbal spats between India and Pakistan. As the tones got increasingly accusatory with each right of reply (RoR),

All you need to know about Paris Agreement

At COP 21 in Paris, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon

Hindustan Cables to be shut

 The government has given its nod for closure of sick public sector company Hindustan Cables that has stopped output since 2003. It has also approved strategic sale of Allahabad-based Bharat Pumps and Compressors. It will give an outlay of mo

In conversation with author Ashwin Sanghi

Often hailed as India’s Dan Brown, Ashwin Sanghi is among the best-selling authors of the country. His books are based on historical and mythological themes set in a contemporary context. His first novel, The Rozabal Line, was rejected b

PESB recommends Narendra Kumar as chairman of NMDC

 Narendra Kumar Nada, director (technical) NMDC has been recommended for the post of the chairman and managing director (CMD) by Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).  The recommendation has been made after the government

International Right to Know Day: India ranks 4th on list of countries with strongest RTI laws

September 28 is observed as the International Right to Know Day. This year, it marks five years since the launch of the RTI Rating, a comparative assessment of national legal frameworks for the right to information (RTI) which was develope

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