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Bengal goof up: Boy gets test admit card with dog’s picture

Nobody knows for now who played this mischief but it is a serious issue that could have affected the future of a boy. A candidate from Midnapore in West Bengal appearing for the entrance test of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) was shocked

PM Modi need not reply to everything, says minister VK Singh

Prime minister Narendra Modi need not have to react to everything, says minister of state VK Singh and sees conspiracy behind television channels reporting on Lalit Modi issue. He also dismissed criticism over Modi`s silence on the Lalit Modi cont

Vasundhara Raje and Lalit Modi are business partners, says Cong with proof

Unrelenting in its attacks, the Congress party on Monday alleged that Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Lalit Modi were business partners. Lalit Modi and Vasundhara Raje conspired to convert the Dholpur Palace, a governme

Chennai becomes sixth city with metro rail connectivity

After the inauguration of Jaipur metro early this month, Chennai joins metro connectivity cities of India today (Monday). Chennai Metro rail began services at noon today. The first metro train left Alalndur station at 12.14pm and re

Not a game of gentlemen

In one of his critical essays on the crime stories of the early 19th century, George Orwell was fascinated by a character. AJ Raffles, a gentleman thief, featured in a collection of short stories titled ‘The Amateur Cracksman’, by EW H

#SelfieWithDaughter: How India celebrated the girl child

People from across the country flooded social media with the selfie taken with their daughters. Praising the Haryana sarpanch Sunil Jaglan, whose idea of #SelfieWithDaughter went viral on the web, prime minister Narendra Modi, during his Mann ki B

Manic Monday takes Indian stocks market down

It is manic Monday today on the stocks market despite monsoon being good at over 25% more than month’s average. The benchmark BSE Sensex tumbled over 535 points and the NSE Nifty slid below the 8,300 mark in opening trade on Monday on across

Being a puppet of Indian education system

The first emotion of my parents, when they saw my ‘98% score in business studies’ in my 12th CBSE board exam result in 2012, was of overwhelming joy and pride. This lasted only for a moment, and faded as they anxiously scrolled down on

After tweets it’s turn of RTI silence that will hurt Sushma Swaraj

Lalit Modi show is running like a Indian serials on televisions, long and tedious with same repetitive dialogues. Now, this week’s episodes may focus on a RTI query. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) headed by Sushma Swaraj has declined

Understanding Emergency from the pages of not so distant India

Emergency, as we call it, was imposed in my country more than a decade before I was born. My father too was a young man, still some years away from adulthood, having no reminiscences to pass over to me. My grandfather might have had experienced it

Rape crime is not negotiable, say lawyers on bail for TN rapist

Lawyers and women`s rights activists have termed the order as unacceptable and shocking. These are public reactions against the controversial order of justice P Devadass of the Madras high court in a rape case. Early this week justice Devadass acc

Lalit Modi drops another name-bomb, tweets on Priyanka Gandhi

Lalit Modi’s tweets on the so called `accidental meeting` with Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra has triggered a fresh war between the BJP and the Congress while pushing Vasundhara Raje issue to the background. In a three-part

Kedarnath, Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib yatra stopped due to heavy rains

Haunted by the memories of devastating floods and deaths in 2013, the Uttarakhand administration has halted pilgrimage to the Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath as the hills have been experiencing incessant rainfall since Wednesday. 

Remoulding the Steel Frame

Some five years ago NR Narayana Murthy, one of the founders of Infosys Technologies, called for abolishing the Indian administrative services (IAS) and replacing it with an ‘Indian management service’ where specialists and experts woul

Last date for exchange of withdrawn pre-2005 currency notes extended

The last date for exchanging pre-2005 banknotes of all denominations has been extended till December 31, 2015. The Reserve Bank of India has urged the public deposit the old design notes in their bank accounts or exchange them at a

Education gets huge chunk of Delhi budget

A promise was made in the governance of Delhi and the first outcome was ‘swaraj budget’. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia presented AAP government`s first budget in the Assembly on Thursday and the largest allocation is for e

Maharashtra minister Munde in a sweet controversy

The sweet jaggery is becoming bitter for Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde. A major portion of Munde’s purchase scam involves ‘chikki’ an inexpensive nutrition bar made of jaggery and nuts. Now, the case is with the the Anti Cor

Salman Khan again in trouble over fresh petition in HC

Putting actor Salman Khan in spotlight again, a petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court that seeks a probe into the circumstances leading to the death of a key eyewitness in the 2002 hit-and-run case. The Bollywood actor was convicted las

AAP countdown for Sushma, Raje resignation begins

To recover from the Jitender Singh Tomar episode in degree scam, the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said it will launch a nationwide protests and demanded the resignation of union human resources minister Smriti Irani  in next the next three day

Break in monsoon may help Kashmir regain its bearings

Jhelum is again in spate but may not cause much havoc like last year in Jammu and Kashmir as rainfall may ebb in next 48 hours. The state government issued a flood warning after the Jhelum river crossed the danger mark at various pl

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