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Evening digest: Kejriwal attacks PM, says babus have become `B-teams` of BJP

In a fresh confrontation with the Central government, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday slammed PM Narendra Modi and said that the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Services (DANICS)and Indian Administrative Service associati

Biggest decline of 12 points in child sex ratio in Hindus

According to Census 2011 data released on Wednesday, child sex ratio in the country is declining rapidly, since 1961. The child sex ratio is the number of girls aged 0-6 years for every 1,000 boys in the same age group. The child sex ratio for the

Cadila gets US drug regulator’s warning over quality issues

Cadila Healthcare Ltd said it received a warning from US health regulators for violating manufacturing standards at two production sites in India. The letter from the US Food and Drug Administration cites issues at Cadila`s plants in Moraiya drug

An odd logic, even by AAP standards

The year 2016 begins with an experiment, quite odd though, literally as well as in terms of what it aims to achieve through a formul

AAP’s home minister wants to run govt with robots?

The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi was born out of agitation path. Now, the AAP minister reacts in a repulsive manner to the agitation of the bureaucrats over legitimate grievances.  Also does Delhi home minister Satyendra Jain wants to

Morning briefing: Prime minister meeting departmental secretaries today

Prime minister Narendra Modi is today meeting secretaries of the central government. Official sources said performance of various departments and development works being undertaken by them will be reviewed at the meeting. Modi had met the secretar

Odd-even: Delhi govt gets court notice

The Delhi high court has issued a notice to the Delhi government on the controversial road rationalisation scheme, seeking re

Drought relief packages for MP and Maharashtra

The centre on Tuesday announced drought relief assistance of Rs. 5,083 crores for the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh which have been facing severe drought due to below normal monsoon in 2015.   Maharashtra will

How Bihar polls show the emergence of women ‘vote bank’

Nitish Kumar cannot thank the women of Bihar enough for his decisive victory in assembly elections. He had worked for this day – by not only making promises but also delivering on them. The ubiquitous bicycle-riding girls on the way to schoo

Facebook`s Free Basics is deeply flawed: Joint statement by IIT and IIS faculty members

 Facebook`s free basics proposal is deeply flawed, says a joint statement by faculty members from IITs and IISc. Close to 50 faculty members have released the joint statement stating that the service isn`t actually free and that it may violat

New refinery to come up in Maharashtra

Union petroleum minister, Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday announced setting up of a new state-of-the-art crude oil distillation unit (CDU) of Bharat Petroleum’s Mumbai refinery and a petrochemicals complex in Maharashtra.  

Remembering Susanne Rudolph

Susanne Rudolph, a professor emerita at the University of Chicago, passed away this week. We reproduce an interview with her and Lloyd I Rudolph soon after they received the Padma Bhushan in 2014.    

Congress left red-faced by its own journal

In a major embarrassment, the Congress party was left red-faced on the day it celebrated its 131st Foundation Day. Articles appearing in the December issue of the party’s mouthpiece ‘Congress Darshan’ have criticised Jawaharlal N

Farming gets a makeover in Kerala

Acres of emerald sparkle in knee-deep water in the paddy kohl fields in Thrissur, Kerala. It is sunny and transplanting is going on. There are hardly any workers to be seen for all the work that is happening. But if one looks carefully, a tiny tro

Word of the Year: Identity

In the year 2015, world witnessed many occasions that made us question our ‘being’. The thing that defines us into who we are, what we believe in and what we think is worth pursuing. Dictionary.com this year, on accou

Fight for net neutrality gets bigger and bold

Facebook has taken up the war against the opponenets of its campaign Free Basics. The social media giant is giving advertisement in almost every national newspaper for past three days, pitching for Free Basics in the name of digital quality, earli

Famed IAS officer takes to Facebook to defend himself

Dr Alok Shukla, who once won praise for reforming Chhattisgarh’s public distribution system (PDS), has finally broken his silence and posted on his Facebook page his defence againstallegations of irregularities in what has come to be known a

Indo-Pak relations are results of bad governance: Hameed Haroon, CEO, Dawn media group

Urging people of India and Pakistan to come together and take forward the history of shared legacy, Hameed Haroon, CEO of Karachi-based Dawn media group, said that both the nations must strengthen their identities as southeast Asian countries and

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