As India gets into budget season and tax deduction pains, the employees of public sector banks have threatened to go on a four-day strike beginning February 25. As we had said earlier, long bank strikes do harm the financial sector and has cascadi
India has arrived in India. In one small achievement, Indian company Micromax has dislodged multinational brand Samsung as top smartphone vendor in India. According a report by UK research firm Canalys, Micromax has 22 per cent sha
A group of economists have challenged the government move to scale down the ambit of the food security initiative, arguing that leakages in the public distribution system (PDS) are not as bad as an official committee has concluded. A &lsqu
Former union minister Matang Sinh, a Congress leader from Assam, created a ruckus at the CBI’s Kolkata office before his arrest on January 31, exposing stinking skeletons in the government’s cupboard. He tried to throw his weight aroun
The ongoing campaigning in Delhi assembly elections has three contours. The most visible being ‘in bad taste’, as it creates an uproar and is, at times, censured by the watchdog, Election Commission of India. The other two strands &nda
In the ripe old middle age birthdays evoke a mix of the happy and the unhappy. Happiness comes from knowing that your family and friends love you, care for you, while the ticking clock knocking off another year of your age makes one at least a lit
In its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy review RBI on February 3 reduced the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) of scheduled commercial banks by 50 basis points from 22 per cent to 21.5 per cent with effect from the fortnight beginning February 7.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), as it enters 10th year, will be critically undermined by budget cuts and fund squeeze. The proposed dilutions to the provisions and the arbitrary capping of funds will be major a
A poster war has broken out in Tamil Nadu with supporters of former union minister P Chidambaram putting up posters calling Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief EVKS Elangovan a political buffoon. An uneasy silence took over the Tamil Nadu
Political madness is at its peak in Delhi, with barely four days to go for the assembly election. Narendra Tandon, the main in-charge of the BJP’s election campaign, resigned from the party on February 2, complaining th
Sending a clear and strong signal that they will not allow the investigation in the multi crore drug racket case of Punjab to be influenced in any manner, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday extended the stay on the transfer of enforcement
Speaking about Kolkata with a familiar and sometimes dismissive shrug comes easy to many. But I know this: here is one city where public transport has the ultimate right of way, probably the best in India. Consider the electric tram
Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has alleged that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had asked her to withhold green clearances to several industrial projects. The Hindu has leaked her letter dated November 5, 2014 to party preside
As many as 114 (or 17%) of the 673 candidates in the fray for the Delhi assembly elections have criminal cases filed against them. In fact, 74 (11%) of them have declared serious criminal cases against themselves, according to an analysis
The 10 percent stake sale in Coal India Limited (CIL) through a one-day offer has been oversubscribed. According to the NSE website, while the retail portion (where investment is done up to Rs 2 lakh) was undersubscribed (0.42), the institutional
The high-handedness of the government, often coming to light when it restricts movement, speech or action of the common man as suited by subjectivity, now finds a serious challenge in holding a firm ground. The spoilsport for the government has of
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has formed a national mission on smart cities. It involves membership of all leading companies associated with infrastructure and IT as well as the developer community. All the key stakehol
Even after two decades of air quality management, air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India. Some of the worst cases of outdoor air pollution in the world are found in Indian cities, even in medium- and small-sized cities.
The game is conventional and there are two unconventional players in the field. Delhi is going to vote again on February 7. The last assembly election in December 2013 was different in many ways. An outsider, a non-politician, someo
All through my student years while reading the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) books, two things which always fascinated me were Gandhi’s Talisman and the Preamble of India. The first dealt with t
