Another wave is in the air. If everything falls in place, radio waves will overwhelm India in next six months. After a decade long wait, the government will now start the auction of the third phase of FM radio channels (phase 1 was in 1999 and pha
"100 years ago, one NRI returned to India and today one non-resident Gujarati welcomes entire overseas Indian community." This is how prime minister Narendra Modi spoke on Thursday as he inaugurated the 13th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya
Charlie Hebdo magazine’s latest cover featured a caricature of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq, who has penned a novel set in a France governed by Muslims. On Wednesday noon (Paris time) its editor Stephane Charbonnier was sho
Sangam Vihar, a large “unauthorised” colony in south Delhi, is a case study in the utter neglect of development. Water, for example, is in short supply, and residents face several problems in meeting their daily requirement of it.
After six hours of marathon discussion with the government the representatives of the five major trade unions, which had shut down production at all coalfields of Coal India Limited (CIL) for five days, agreed to call off the strike on Wednesday.
After successfully ensuring delivery of a harvested heart to a hospital in Delhi from Gurgaon for transplantation last week, the Delhi Traffic Police have taken to social media to seek the cooperation of motorists to honour the green corridor for
Banks will hold the country to ransom for a week from January 24. Likewise, public-sector unit Coal India employees have struck work since Tuesday and are threatening to stay away for 10 days even as over 40 power units have less than seven days s
Indian prisons are no longer the hellholes of the world and neither comfortable places. The jails are mostly crowded and brutality is almost a daily affair. Under these circumstances, another high court judgement to allow sex for the married coupl
Sunanda Pushkar’s death case will be handled by a Special Investigation Team , said Delhi Police Chief B S Bassi on Wednesday. A year after Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was found dead inside a hotel room, Delhi
Even with the vacuum created by the conviction of J Jayalalithaa, the DMK’s M Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu seems to be reluctant to openly hand over the party his son MK Stalin. Stalin has had worked his way up in the party and i
There are five good reasons why I am not going to the Pravasi Bharati Divas celebrations in Gandhinagar starting on Wednesday. These reasons have held their own since 2003 when this whole love affair with NRIs began. For those anglicised folks of
His book ‘Why Growth Matters’ was described by Economist magazine as a manifesto for policymakers and analysts. Understandably, its author Arvind Panagariya has been appointed by prime minister Narendra Modi as his vice chairman
Sutirtha Bhattacharya, the newly appointed chairman and managing director of Coal India Ltd (CIL), gets a frosty welcome from his staff even as the country prepares for power problems. A day after taking charge Bhattacharya faces big challenge in
The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed to set up Investigative Units on Crimes against Women (IUCAW) in 20 percent of the districts of each state on a 50:50 cost sharing basis with the states. Union home minister Rajnath Singh has
India’s public sector banks have received more than they sought to get at the Pune retreat. Prime minister Narendra Modi declared complete autonomy for PSBs and opened doors for reforms. Over 100 bankers had gathered at Pune to discuss and d
The relationship between the mother country and the great Indian diaspora has been ambivalent at best. With 30 million and counting Indians living in foreign lands you would think there would be a more realistic relationships by now
This is not fiction but a US government document. And it reads like this: Pakistan government and military have “ceased support” to extremist and terror groups, that they have “prevented” groups like the LeT and JeM from op
A city with high literacy rate did something new. Raigarh town in Chhattisgarh has elected 35-year-old transgender, Madhu Naresh Kinnar as its mayor in a direct election. With a population of over 2 lakh, the average literacy rate o
With nearly 55%-60% financial transactions being conducted over mobile devices this year, India has to wake up to lurking cyber criminals. An ASSOCHAM-Mahindra SSG study paints a grim picture and says that the number of cyber crimes in India may t
The Mehdi Masroor Biswas case has quite unwittingly unearthed the mother of all ironies. A distance of less than 10 kilometres separates the Bengaluru police headquarters and Indian space research organisation (ISRO) brain centre. Yet they are l
