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
The past couple of weeks have made me very sad. Since the news of conversion of 200 people in Agra, the media has gone crazy criticizing the organizations responsible for it, calling it inhuman and unjust. Does the constitution not
Electronic government holds the promise for a speedier, more efficient and effective governance. Better governance would mean better delivery of services more attuned to the citizen’s expectations. An effective and efficient front-end servic
Taking the tech campaigning to a next level, AAP volunteers have converted hashtag ‘mufflerman’, which began with a n
Prime minister Narendra Modi expressed his happiness to be at the 102nd session of Indian Science Congress (ISC), which he inaugurated in Mumbai on Saturday. However, he if takes a closer look at the science in India, he may feel depressed.
Prime minister Narendra Modi has no doubt hit the global sweet spot by identifying the corrosive potential of black money to slowly eat away the entrails of the painstakingly architected world economic and political system. In many ways it has alr
With public sector banks under intense pressure to reinvent the services, a big step was initiated on Friday with major stakeholders deliberating reforms “to make the banking system robust’. A retreat for banks and financial in
The Central government has approved the recommendations of M P Bezbaruah committee, which was formed in February 2014, to look into the v
They have every reason to protest. Mumbai’s rail commuter is most harassed. The ever-increasing hurdles in commuting adds to the stress of Mumbaikar. Friday’s spontaneous flare up was waiting to happen. Incidentally, railway minister S
