The sky suddenly seems scary. Firstly a Malaysian aircraft goes missing in March 2014, then a Singapore Airlines plane crashes and now the Germanwings Flight 9525 smashed into Alpine mountainside. The horror became bigger with the news that the co
After the success of a movie based on his life, British physicist Stephen Hawking has been encouraged to trademark his name. Seventy-three-year-old Hawking has applied to the Intellectual Property Office to have his name formally re
Thomas Piketty, whose ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ has put economic equality on top of public debates around the world, has emerged as the top ‘world thinker’ in an annual opinion poll conducted by the British maga
Just as Congress president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to a hospital in the US in 2011, a bouquet with a get-well-soon message was delivered at her residence early one morning. Sonia’s illness was a closely guarded secret till then. The myster
The outfit had taken birth to give shape to commom person`s aspiration but what transpired on Saturday morning does not make any sense to aam aadmi, looking for an alternative to Indian political culture. At the Aam Aadami Party`s national council
Indian railways is looking at private investment not privatisation, said Manoj Sinha, minister of state for railways while delivering the keynote address at `Rail Budget: Reforms & Governance’ conference in Delhi. The round table was par
The railway ministry wants people travel in trains out of willingness and not out of compulsion, Manoj Sinha, MoS, has said. Talking about efforts made by the Indian railways to ensure safe and comfortable journey for the passengers, he said that
The union cabinet has approved e-kranti, the second phase of national e-governance plan (NeGP). The objectives of NeGP 2.0 include, redefining NeGP with transformational and outcome oriented e-governance initiatives; promoting rapid
The government is happy that it made a killing by selling spectrum. The spectrum was sold at about 68 per cent premium, at Rs 1,09,874.91 crore ($17.6 billion) and the telecom companies borrowed heavily to finance this buying. With debt burd
Giving a major boost to the micro-finance sector prime minister Narendra Modi will launch MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) Bank on April 8. Finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget 2015 speech had announced the formation of
Insurance sector is looking for bonanza with foreign inflows of about $4 billion in near future. This follows the passage of insurance bill in parliament that allows foreign investment in the insurance sector up to 49%, from 26%.
After some intelligent tracking and investigation based on mobile phone call records, the West Bengal police on Thursday made the first breakthrough in the Ranaghat nun gang rape case by arresting a possible suspect from Mumbai. The suspect, Moham
Something to cheer about was long overdue, but as the supreme court read out its landmark judgment, Jadavpur University Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra had the last laugh. Two years ago he forwarded a seemingly harmless caricature of Mama
The Midas List of Forbes magazine, that seeks to recognize successful venture capitalists, has 11 Indian-American investors. The roll call of honour features those who make big, early bets on the leading tech companies of tomorrow, earning outsize
Tirumala, the hill town in Tirupati metropolitan area, is considered to be the only place in India that is treating more than 80 percent of the sewage, and has set a target to reach 100 percent. One of the richest temples in the co
The March 21 verdict exonerating the 16 policemen accused of killing 40 Muslims in Hashimpura, Meerut, on May 22, 1987, forms a pattern. One that reaffirms the state’s inalienable right to kill its citizens at will. Lik
Union minister of communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that his ministry has approved open source software policy. The minister said that from now use of open source software will be a precondition in e-governance rel
Five years of right to education act and nothing seems have changed. Education still remains a distant dream for children across the country while high drop-outs and low quality of education are major concern of the policy makers. Only positive ch
The day the supreme court scrapped section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act giving us the freedom to post anything on social media without any fear, prime minister Narendra Modi’s love for social media took another step to remain i
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the order of a trial court that has summoned him as accused in a coal scam case. Similarly, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla has also filed a petition in the apex
