The pace at which mobile governance (m-gov) is growing in India is staggering. From a mere 192 departments being on board in the month of April 2013, the number has reached 1,321 departments in September 2014. It means that an average of 50 depart
All of 26, Dushyant Chautala, the great-grandson of former deputy prime minister Choudhary Devi Lal and grandson of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, is the youngest MP in the current lok sabha. Dushyant is spearhea
Did you know that as per the existing road safety law, it is mandatory to wear a seat belt in a moving car? And, it is mandatory even if you are in the rear seat? Chances are you answered ‘yes’ to the first and &l
Information and communication technology will play a major role in prime minister Narendra Modi’s rural development programme – saansad adarsh gram yojana (SAGY). Under the programme members of parliament (MPs) will now be able to a
Zalpora is a village of farmers in Sumbal tehsil to the south of Srinagar. Disconnected from the summer capital way beyond the physical separation of 30 km can justify, it lives on the periphery of urban consciousness at the best of times.
“Public private partnership is an important component of cyber security. This has been conceptualized through the establishment of the joint working group with representatives from the concerned government departments as well as the re
The first reaction to the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize was: who is Kailash Satyarthi? Few knew about him even in New Delhi, where he lives. The other winner, Malala Yousafzai, is well known around the world. She is a well known face, and
Turning India’s development model upside down – from a top-down to a bottom-up approach – prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) aimed at all-round development of villages.
Landing in Tokyo a day after Narendra Modi’s historic visit, I was keen to meet locals and ask them what they thought about India. I was also keen to chronicle the changes that the land of the rising sun had undergone since my last visit sev
The headless and non-functional information commissions and huge pendency of appeals and complaints at the Centre and in many states are some of the obstacles the Right to Information (RTI) Act is currently battling with. Just days
First it was the cities and now it’s the turn of Indian villages to undergo a makeover. Having moved a step ahead with the release of the draft concept note on the smart city scheme, the government is geared up to launch the Saansad Adarsh G
The government is currently in the process of preparing comprehensive mobility plans for 500 cities, having population of more than 100,000, said Shankar Agarwal, secretary ministry of urban development (MoUD) on Friday. Addressing
Political parties are the life blood of our democracy. Leaders swear by their loyalties to the party. Policies for the entire nation are made on the basis of manifestos churned out by the parties’ own vision of the country or state or region
I have worked with Rekha Ji in “Supernani” but Rekhaji made an impression on me because my grandfather had asked to watch Umrao Jaan six months before he died, and I was told, that he always enjoyed it. Movies being a scarce commodity
As a child, I remember accompanying my grandmother to Maarbal, a canal in Srinagar downtown that would turn into a floating vegetable market in the morning twilight. I relished the sight of brinjals, gourds, knol-knol, tomatoes and lotus stems sta
The issue of Sanjeev Chaturvedi’s removal as the central vigilance officer (CVO) of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is getting curioser and curioser. It now emerges that prime minister Narendra Modi had had a telephone co
In 1857, the then colonial rulers enacted a law and gave certain powers to the Oriental Gas Company (OGC). Among the work rights English firm got was the job of laying down pipes in Calcutta to manufacture, supply and distribute “fuel gas&rd
October 7 was a day of high drama outside the Karnataka high court that denied bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Dramatic scenes were enacted – women wailing and men rolling on the road – as the news came out of
If there is a will there is a way, and Chhattisgarh has the policy too. In a major reversal of global hardware sector trend that has seen most of the IT majors focusing on China for driving their manufacturing success stories, the state government
Social audit will be an important tool to ensure the effective implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR), Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for commerce and industry, finance and corporate affairs, said on Wednesday.
