Union finance minister Arun Jaitley meeting Jayalalithaa on Sunday night at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai has kicked off controversy. Chennai-based political observers say, “The BJP is trying to strike a deal with AIAD
There is a reason why the government’s Digital India makes business sense. The internet-based economy is set to grow by $200 billion by 2020. This will be four percent of country’s GDP. According to a study conducted by
Coming from the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh, political talk has always fascinated me. How caste dynamics shapes voting behaviour and how symbols manifest themselves into power structures was unknown but a terrain I wanted to tread.
A sustained effort, even from the government, pays handsome dividends. This has been demonstrated by the Project Tiger. The national animal is thriving. Tiger population in India has seen a growth of 30% with 2,226 tigers in 47 rese
This ratio that you are about to read is irrational by any standards. Last year 48% of world’s wealth was owned by just 1% and next year they will have 50%. It means, the wealth accumulated by the richest 1% will exceed that o
For any student of political science, name of Rajni Kothari must surely have resonance beyond time. Kothari, who institutionalised the study of politics beyond the curriculum of universities, was the founder of Centre for the Study of Developing S
With Kiran Bedi, the Bharatiya Janata Party hopes to corner a big chunk of middle class votes of AAP and on Monday the party took another calculated step to snatch AAP’s dalit supporters with the induction of Krishna Tirath. K
It was bound to happen. Narendra Modi is most active on internet world and somebody tried to misuse that to con gullible Indians. Dellhi Police have busted a fake website of the Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) under the name ‘Pr
The government has done the unthinkable in the past and should do unconventional in the future. The interim budget of finance minister Arun Jaitley had allocated Rs 10,000 crore ($1.6 billion) for supporting start-ups.That was a good beginning. Bu
Maybe, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going to win the Delhi polls. Maybe, the Modi wave is bound deliver at the epicenter if it has already delivered in the far-flung places. But then how come it has to bank on a person who till last week wa
Contrary to what one might think, 2014 was a relatively safe year for flying. There have been only eight hull accidents as compared to 24 in 2005 which is seen as the bleakest year in the past 30. Yet, to most people the loss of In
Highlighting the increasing number of acid attacks and the slow pace of justice for the victims, Stop Acid Attacks campaigners have sent a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi.
What do Kiran Bedi and Shazia Ilmi bring to Bharatiya Janata Party? To take on Arvind Kejriwal the party needs non-politicians like Kejriwal himself. The chief minister of 49-day government still retains bit of credibility that he did not forfeit
In an interesting development in less than a month’s time before Delhi assembly polls, two former associates of Arvind Kejriwal have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP on the other hand has got the faces for upco
This fight is good and in the consumers interest. Two arms of the government are engaged in a war of words over radio waves or spectrum for your mobile services. The outcome of the fight over the reserve price and availability of more spectrum for
To provide last mile connectivity in internet services, the government has decided to seek the help of private sector. The PMO (prime minister’s office) has decided to bring in the private sector for laying down optical fibre network in the
Giving more choice to people, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday allowed the commercial banks to undertake insurance business. Under existing bancassurance guidelines, a bank can act as a corporate agent and sell policy of only
Spiritually she is limitless and most holy. But in physical form the river Ganga is just a sewage canal, filthy and unhealthy even for a dip. Almost three decades and clean up plans of thousands of crores, the mighty Ganga remains l
A season of easing of rates has been signaled by the Reserve Bank of India with 25 basis point cut repo rate on Thursday. Top lenders led by SBI and ICICI spoke of lowering of lending and deposit rates by the banks. SBI Chairperson
The government is planning to raise Rs 8,000 crore through stake sale in India`s largest state-owned refinery, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The issue may be executed this financial year ending March, if other big companies like Coal India a
