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TRAI launches app to monitor mobile data speed

While the telecom operators promise 4G internet speed even in hills, consumers feel betrayed as they get stuck in long buffering in reality. The telecom regulator authority of India (TRAI) has on Tuesday launched an application named My Speed App

Modi inducts 19 ministers in cabinet, sacks five

Prime minister Narendra Modi expanded his cabinet with 19 new ministers of states who were inducted into the union council of ministers on Tuesday. The new ministers took oath at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Environment ministe

Beware, be aware of gestational diabetes

Five years ago Promila Raj (name changed), a software professional, shifted from Pune to Bengaluru along with her husband. When the hectic life in the cyber city – unhealthy food habits, little physical exercise – was taking its toll

Why uniform civil code continues to be a hot potato

The uniform civil code is a hugely controversial subject in India. The law ministry has now asked the law commission to examine in detail all issues pertaining to it and submit a report to the government.   Law Minister

152 villages electrified last week

As many as 152 villages have been electrified across the country during last week – from June 27 to July 3, 2016 under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY). According to a press statement issued by the government

Here’s why world will be difficult for children by 2030

About 69 million children (under five) will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million children would have been married off by 2030. The UNICEF in its state of the children of the world report 20

The shops and establishment bill isn’t so ‘model’

The cabinet on June 29 cleared the Model Shops and Establishment (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Bill, 2016. The bill will now be sent to states/UTs and they can either adopt the bill as it is or modify their individual acts.

How dare you trivialise rape?

It is outrageous that rape and rape survivors are being taken so lightly. It is as if rape has been turned into some kind of a flippant drawing room conversation and we have stooped so low as to dehumanise women whose lives have been ravaged.

In conversation with dancer Mallika Sarabhai

Like several other members of her illustrious family, Mallika Sarabhai has excelled in more than one field.Daughter of renowned classical danseuse and activist Mrinalini Sarabhai and legendary space scientist and institution-builder Vikram Sar

BSE and NSE will act as electronic book providers

Securities and exchange board of India (SEBI) has issued a circular dated April 21, 2016, wherein the use of an electronic book mechanism (EBM) has been made mandatory from July 1, 2016 for issuance of debt securities on private placement basis in

Dexit dilemma

Delhi’s maverick chief minister Arvind Kejriwal would not like to be clubbed with the far-right leaders of Europe, but as the Brexit referendum results came out, he too sounded as jubilant as them. He tweeted, “After UK referendum, Del

Disclose ministry progress card every month: Cab sectt

The cabinet secretariat has issued a circular asking ministries and departments to disclose monthly reports of work done by them. Acting on a central information commission (CIC) decision of last week, the cab secretariat sent out a

DU first cut-off: Not 100% but still high

The first cut-off list for various colleges of Delhi University (DU) is finally out and thus starting the admission process for the session 2016-2017 The online application process began on June 1 and continued till June 22.

India’s standing improves in World Bank’s logistics performance index

India now ranks 35 in the World Bank’s logistics performance index, in which Germany is right at the top and Luxembourg a close second. Sweden occupies the third spot. The report, which released on Tuesday, states that among t

Accommodation is available in Kairana

Sir, I want to bring to your notice that neither my family had been harassed in Kandhla town, nor did we leave the place because of any fear. Some mean-minded people are conspiring to vitiate the atmosphere of the town. They wrote on the wall of o

Horn not OK please

The cacophony of noises on roads has finally woken up the government, which is now mulling a fine of Rs.500 for honking needlessly and a much steeper fine of Rs 5,000 for having an ear-shattering air horn. The dealers who install such horns will f

All about the Seventh Pay Commission

The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission. Congratulations to central government officers, employees & pensioners on

Brexit shakes Europe, stirs Scotland

The outcome of the June 23 referendum has shaken the postwar European order. Since the EU’s founding 1957 Treaty of Rome, this is the first time that a ‘major’ member state will leave the club. There is precedent though. Greenl

All government services to be online in Maharashtra

 "I am looking at a day when people will not have to visit government offices because the government will be available on their mobile phones," said Fadnavis while talking about Apne Sirkar programme of the state government. 

PM Modi says Rajan is patriotic, loves India

In what has come as too late a reaction from the highest echelons of government  on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan’s decision to quit following open criticism by the BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, prime minister Narendra Modi has said “th

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