A group of public intellectuals and social activists have written a letter to the president, the prime minister and concerned government representatives urging them to stop encroachment and destruction of Yamuna floodplains. Their concern has stem
“JNU is the other Red Fort of Delhi” Compared to the most of India, the university certainly has a far higher proportion of people with leftist inclinations. But th
Deepak Dhaba is a popular eatery on the Barnala-Sangrur highway. Truckers, drivers and passengers break their journey here for a tasty Punjabi meal. One day, the regulars to the place were told that its ownership had changed hands. Now, vi
Beyond consolidating its core constituency of hooligans, the BJP has only bloodied its nose in the JNU episode. [Link] Rahul Gandhi and his party, the Congress, should have benefitted a little from being on the right side of liberal and progressiv
On February 11, a bunch of JNU students gathered at a dhaba in the campus, and spoke of Afzal Guru (convicted of terror charges and hanged on February 9, 2013), Kashmir, BJP and other issues. Outright anti-India slogans were indeed raised, but it
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has completed one year in office even as the garbage stinks across the capital along with fresh memories of the ink attack, CBI raid and odd-even scheme. It was a year of many ups and many downs with key poll p
Maharashtra has signed 2,560 MoUs worth Rs 6.11 lakh crore for private investment in the last 16 months, of which 23 have been signed during the ongoing Make in India week, state principal secretary Apurva Chandra said on Monday. These investments
An International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) will soon be established at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, announced Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. The land for developing IFSC has been finalised. Though the planning pr
US Ambassador to India, Richard Verma termed the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan as "part of a legacy announcement". He, however, was quick to add that his country expects Islamabad to do "more" on eliminating t
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered ‘comprehensive probe’ following a massive fire at the Make in India cultural event in Mumbai on Sunday. Several VVIPs including chief minister himself, Shiv Sena c
On February 5, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brandished a copy of a UN report from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The report – a UN panel’s opinion on Assange’s case – vindicated the 44-year-old Austral
Uncertainty prevails over political alliance in Tamil Nadu ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. Speculations are rife that M Karunanidhi-led DMK might tie up with the BJP. But for now all eyes are on Karunanidhi to see what he decides on politica
Maharashtra government will put all 250 citizen services online through the government’s portal Aaple Sarkar by August 15, said chief minister Devendra Fadnavis while addressing the Nasscom Leadership Forum 2016 on Wednesday. The portal is o
A young army man returning home on annual leave or relatives coming over to celebrate the festival of the family deity; this is almost an archetypal scene from a village home in the remote central Himalayan State of Uttarakhand. The vi
When Kointa Swain suffered from a spell of high fever, shivering and loss of appetite for the first time, she was 30-years-old. As the fever ‘attacks’ kept recurring, she visited the district hospital near her village, Kapileswarpur in
Water is essential for sustaining life and our ecosystem as a whole and India is by far the largest and fastest growing consumer of ground water in the world. In our country, ground water is a common pool resource (CPR), used by millions of farmer
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), a United Nations body of independent human rights experts, has adopted its ruling on Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, announcing his deprivation of liberty as arbitrary and asking the gover
The first and foremost requirement of a city to be called smart is cleanliness. Thus, the Swachh Bharat mission was accorded a huge welcome by the media, with good reasons, when it was launched in October 2014. Newspapers had photographs of
Failure is an opportunity to learn and grow. But only a few adhere to this adage and Rasool Khan is one such person. After many failures at eking out a decent living, he succeeded in making roads out of plastic waste. Today when his innovation is
President Pranab Mukherjee conducted a fleet review of the Indian Navy ships amid a glittering ocean off Vizag shore on Saturday. Around 50 navies and 24 foreign ships were participants in the International Fleet Review, the second to be hel
