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.
CHENNAI: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday rejected bail plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in a disproportionate assets case, quoting the supreme court`s ruling that cases involving corruption should be put on fast track.
Dr Ketan Desai, the former Medical Council of India (MCI) president who has faced corruption charges in several court cases, is now set to head the World Medical Association (WMA) for 2016. However, a final hurdle remains, and his n
Nearly six months after Narendra Modi, then the opposition BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, met Rajinikanth at the actor’s Chennai home and set the rumour mills working overtime about the superstar jumping on the Modi bandwagon, Chen
Was the recent beating of three African students at the Rajiv Chowk metro station just a stray incident? I think not. In four years of living in Delhi, it has become quite clear to me that the national capital, instead of celebrating its diverse p
When a Doordarshan anchor referred to Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as Islamabad in the aftermath of the recent floods, she had, perhaps unknowingly, taken a leaf out of Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider. A young Haider (Shahid Kapoor) retu
Kurnool: Around the time 33 people were killed in a Dussehra stampede in Patna on Friday, an eight-year-old boy was killed and as many as 70 devotees hurt in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. Only the latter was a mock fight “Bunny”
Taking a step forward to initiate prime minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Swachh Bharat mission, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has announced that it will construct 10,000 toilets over the next one-and-a-half years. Laun
