Cisco and ILFS Technologies Ltd (ITL), a technology solutions company of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to utilise the Internet of Everything (IoT) to develop digital solutions for Indi
``Mr. White Tiger,..you have to speak, after all, the country has a right to know, the people need an explanation, the nation wants to know...how did one of you dare kill an Indian citizen that too just at a stone`s throw from the iconic India gat
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPOA) is a US lobbying group of pharmaceutical companies, based in Washington, DC. In the third week of November, members of this association held an ‘Innovation Dialog’ in Delhi and Chenna
India’s population control programme suffered yet another setback recently with the death of 13 women at a government health camp in Pendari, district Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ slogan took an abrupt U-turn.
The news about the sterilisation deaths that occurred in Chhattisgarh has already disappeared into the back pages of newspapers. Blame for the catastrophe has been placed on doctors, health officials, pharma companies. Politicians, after initially
The tragedy in Chhattisgarh, to use a business lingo, rests on three verticals: the economy of intentional mis-governance, the economy of malevolent business practices and the economy of stark gender-based cultural apathy (the verticals are arrang
When the hon’ble chief justice of India, HL Dattu, on Thursday last set up a special bench of the supreme court dedicated to the pursuit of social justice and related causes, little did he realise that he was penning down a most remarkable c
The disinvestment drive of the NDA government kicked off on a positive note on Friday, with offer for sale (OFS) in steel giant SAIL receiving an overwhelming response from investors. However, market experts believe that it could have resulted in
Not long ago – to be precise, just before the 2007 Gujarat assembly elections – Congress general secretary BK Hariprasad described Narendra Modi in a highly innovative figure of speech in Hindi: “Kaunsi nali mein peda hua hai, pa
Manmohan Singh had a soft corner for Japan. It had bailed out India before and during the 1991 crisis. Soon after he became finance minister, he flew to Tokyo, to thank the Japanese prime minister. I was with him. It was nice to have an entire Air
Demanding early revision of the wages for the bank staff “which is due from November 2012”, public sector bank employees continued their strike on the third day on Thursday. This is their second strike in less than a month. The l
Dear Mamata didi, I have been your diehard fan since childhood. But now you are misguiding me. Jokes apart, I hardly had any feelings about you till you drove the Tata nano factory out of Singur. I do not know what people were think
The supreme court of India (SC) has announced setting up a special ‘Social Justice Bench’ to hold speedy hearings over cases concerning social issues. According to a press statement, issued on Wednesday, the exclusive b
Lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s ‘termite tales’ brought much needed attention on the volumes of money involved in legal representation. His failure to produce proof of expenses in the filing of his income tax (IT) returns, he clai
You have taken over a ministry full of challenges. It has just been a few months but how much progress has it seen? For me, individually, it has been a learning experience, because my experience as a layman with aviation wa
Thousands of farmers, pensioners, anganwadi workers and MNREGA beneficiaries held a mass rally and public meeting in Delhi on Tuesday to protest the NDA government`s proposed changes in legal entitlements to labour rights, employment under MNREGA,
Radio Mirchi, an FM radio channel from the Times of India group, will air a show in which Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will answer questions from the audience. This, however, will arguably be in violation of the rules for private ra
Terming any change in the monetary policy stance at present as “premature”, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the key rates unchanged in its bimonthly policy review announced on Tuesday. As widely expected, the centra
Sajjad Ghani Lone’s first brush with fame was through his marriage. Then a 33-year-old wannabe businessman, he was marrying a Pakistani woman named Asma Khan in Islamabad in November 2000. No wonder, he immediately became the cynosure of the
Minister of urban development M Venkaiah Naidu said children need to be made the focus in urban planning and development. Speaking at the national conference on building smart child-friendly cities for 21st century India in New Del
