The Finance Ministry on Friday sought Parliament`s nod to spend an additional Rs 25,500 crore in the current fiscal, nearly half of which will be spent on capital infusion into state-owned banks to help them overcome the high bad loans situation.
Social media runs its own court, at least in this country. People woke up to the news of Yakub’s hanging on July 30. Memon soon became the new reality TV show. While TV channels were busy making a spectacle of the dead man&rsq
After failing to bring an acceptable solution to run the house even after holding all-party meetings, a determined speaker Sumitra Mahajan continued the proceedings amidst bedlam on Friday. She also warned the protesting members of action.
Bihar may have had the luxury of revenue surplus budget of Rs 11,980 crore, but the way Nitish Kumar is dishing out bonanza after bonanza to various sectors of the poll-bound state, the new government may inherit a broke Bihar. Even
The land acquisition ordinance has been the single most controversial legislative move of the Modi government, but it has not been used even once in six months, shows a study. A Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative team led by Venka
To bring awareness about dangerous consequences of borrowing money from unorganised financial sector, HDFC Bank Ltd has launched an educational video film called ‘Dhanchayat’. As part of HDFC Bank’s swachch banking
At one minute past midnight on Friday, some 50,000 residents along the India-Bangladesh border will light candles and celebrate their "new found freedom".
Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge says it is the government`s responsibility to run the House. Meanwhile, after Thursday`s unsuccessful attempt to break the parliament impasse by speaker Sumitra Mahajan, the government has con
Agroup of seven crowd around a newspaper Abu Bakr Siddique is reading. The audience is eager to turn to the sports page, but Siddique is in a mood to tease them. Though impatient they humour him, till he gives in to curiosity. Soon, however,
The government has not learnt anything even after Maggi controversy. It is equipped to do but the will is lacking. The union government has shamelessly admitted today that it has not defined what constitutes junk food. Minister of s
The consequences of political standoff in the country are real. Moody`s Analytics, an economic research unit of international rating agency Moody`s, has warned the politicians. Moody`s Analytics also said: India`s political infighting is denting b
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that the terrorists who attacked Dinanagar in Gurdaspur in Punjab came from Pakistan. They came to India via Ravi river. Analysis of the two GPS machines recovered from the three slain terrorists showed
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was laid to rest with full military honours in Rameswaram on Thursday morning. Prime minister Na
With monsoon playing hide and seek the government has taken major step to control food inflation by appointing a full-time chairman and managing director of Food Corporation of India. The FCI facilitates storage of nation’s grain output, whi
Court number 4 of the supreme court, perhaps, for the first time in its many decades of existence was flooded with too much light and numerous anxious faces at 3 in the morning. It was unprecedented; and the lawyer community does not remember anyt
When newspapers carry a story of a heinous crime or a brutal sexual assault on a woman, the usual reaction is this: First, the person reads the article (usually due to a gripping headline). Second, expresses utter disgust or disbelief. Third, he o
The funeral of former President APJ Abdul Kalam is being held in Rameswaram today with full military honours. Prime minister Narendra Modi, Defence minister Manohar Parrikar and few chief ministers will be among those attending the last rites. The
Supreme Court has dismissed Yakub Memon`s curative petition. The court said on Wednesday that the curative plea will not be heard again. The three-judge bench of justices Dipak Misra, Prafulla C Pant and Amitava Roy said there was no procedural la
Even for a hillman, a winter night in the high-altitude Uttarkashi district can be ruthlessly cold. Biting, shivering, bone-chilling — all adjectives will fail here; cold will not. Listlessly floating flakes of white stealthily feed on the h
Whistle-blower Sanjiv Chaturvedi has decided to donate 30,000 USD which he will receive with Ramon Magsaysay award. Talking to Governance Now he said that the money will be donated to poor patients who come to AIIMS for treatment.
