Delhi is preparing for phase-II of the odd-even scheme which is to be started in less than two weeks from now, from April 15 till April 30. It will be similar to the pilot scheme implemented in January, says chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a rad
We need to find out a way for incorporating farmers into the industrial sector, said Nandan Nilekani, at a talk show hosted by NDTV on Sunday. He was responding to a query from a student who wanted to know whether Make in India campaign, led by th
The phase one of the Assam elections has begun. Here is a quick fact sheet: Of the total 126 constituencies, polling is taking place in 65 of them in phase
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day tour of Saudi Arabia came to an end on Sunday. He is the fourth Indian PM to visit the Gulf kingdom after Dr Manmohan Singh in 2010, Indira Gandhi in 1982 and Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956. Modi was conferre
The Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Hyderabad, two universities which have made headlines on the issue of nationalism, are the best universities in the country, according to
There has been a sudden revival of “nationalism” – at least of one version of it, and yet it is difficult to imagine that not long ago, one of the prime symbols of nationalism was not an animal, not a divisive slogan but a cloth.
After coming to power in India’s only Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir a year ago by becoming a partner of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] mandarins are now preparing to launch a no holds barred election
The ministry of environment and forests has introduced new and strict e-waste management rules, 2016. The revised rules, which will come into effect from October 2016, have included florescent and other mercury containing lamps in the e-waste rule
Taking a hard stand on terrorism and nuclear smuggling, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced several initiatives on the final day of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Friday. The summit was attended by more than 50 countries.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has submitted to the supreme court, in sealed cover, a list of defaulters on loans worth Rs. 500 crore or more, according to
Harvinder Kaur Chowdhury, a single mother and government lawyer, is waging a battle against seemingly innocuous ‘sardar jokes’. At one time, she used to be tolerant towards people making her community a butt of their jokes. But after h
Esha Pandey is an IPS officer (AGMUT: 2010) during working hour
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh asking them to give a detailed report on the drought-hit
As we enter the new financial year from Friday, here is how our lives will be affected with the budgetary provisions coming into effect from April 1. Train tickets booked from the counter can be cancelled on a phone
India has the largest postal network in the world with 1,54,939 post offices as on March 31, 2015, of which 1,39,222 (89.86%) are in the rural areas. At the time of independence there were 23,344 post offices.
The bad loan in the name of Vijay Mallya is more than the total default on education loans in the country at a little over Rs 5,000 crore. But still his case is just a drop in the ocean of non-performing assets (NPA) worth Rs 4 lakh crore, which i
WHO representative to India, Dr Henk Bekedam, on Thursday said that the alarming rise in diabetes in India was related to government’s low investment in healthcare. “Over 60 million people in India have diabetes. The gov
West Bengal is becoming a dangerous state to live in. If one can escape death from sexual assault and/or political skirmish, the bridge might still fall on your head. The infrastructure which is supposed to aid people in their daily lives is now p
In an attack on communists, BJP national vice president, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe called them self-proclaimed custodians of intellectualism, and said that we should feel proud to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. He was delivering a speech on the t
Following the success of Mohalla clinic, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will inaugurate 21 more Aam Aadmi Mohalla clinics on Thursday. The clinics will house an OPD and patients will have access to free medicines and more than 200 free tests
