With the supreme court order asking realty giant DLF to deposit the penalty imposed on it by the competition commission of India (CCI) for abusing its dominant position in the market, there is cause for the common man to rejoice. Competition commi
The Shahabad malnutrition treatment centre, in Rajasthan’s southeastern district of Baran, may perhaps never have existed and little Satish Sahariya (name changed) would probably not have been alive today if the deaths of malnourished Sahari
Taking a step ahead towards digital literacy in India, government of India has launched its new domain Dot Bharat. Ravi Shankar Prasad, union minister of communication and IT and Law and justice has launched the Dot Bharat domain i
The department of electronics and information technology (DeitY) has set a target of making 32,000 common services centres (CSCs) as business correspondents by March 2015. CSC is a part of national e-governance plan intended to set
Gujarat has created an ecosystem that assures business and investment-friendly environment – be it re-engineering of the system, creating requisite infrastructure or networking for finances, chief minister Anandiben Patel said in New Delhi t
The supreme court (SC) on Wednesday said it cannot not disqualify tainted ministers in the union and state cabinets with criminal cases against them. Disposing off a 2005 PIL seeking removal of the then four chargesheeted ministers
Preaching philanthropy as a marketing technique is not new but the current effort by the government’s oil companies for partially fixing the huge short recovery owing to the subsidy on domestic gas supplies, by that (preaching philanthropy),
To improve quality of education in the country, union minister for human resource development Smriti Irani on Tuesday launched ‘Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat’ programme which focuses on early reading, writing and comprehension and early gr
The Indian judicial system, as per news reports, is plagued with the burden of over 32 million cases pending in high courts and subordinate courts. The scenario, however, is more challenging when it comes to pending trials in cases against
The supreme court (SC) on Monday refused to accept a bunch of four PILs filed last week questioning the constitutional validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission bill (NJAC), 2014 and the 121st amendment bill that would give it a co
Most of us may find insects repulsive, but for ‘Poochi’ Venkat these creatures are beautiful and vital for a man’s existence. Exploring the world of macro photography, Venkat got people to zoom in on insects. Venk
India is a giant in comparison to Singapore; more precisely, it is an anthill compared to a bee. In 1960, India had 271 times as many people as Singapore. Admittedly, Singapore has tried gallantly to catch up; it had brought down the population ra
In 1994, the then prime minister of Singapore, Goh Chok Tong, spoke of triggering a mild India fever among Singapore’s business community. The sharp upward trajectory of bilateral trade and investment relationship between the two countries s
Contrary to health minister Harsh Vardhan’s claim, whistle-blower officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi’s appointment as chief vigilance officer of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was not illegal and the central vigilance commi
The ongoing monsoon may have given respite to urban residents from sweltering heat, but their environment offers a breeding ground for various water- and vector-borne diseases. Diarrhoea, Shigella, dengue and tuberculosis have emerged as urban dis
Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the Indian Forest Service officer from Haryana, has been relieved from his duties as the chief vigilance officer of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). And here is why: he was bringing one scam after another to
Commerce secretary Rajeev Kher has dismissed rumours that India opposed the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) so it could dump cheap grains in Africa under the garb of food security. Speaking at an interactive session between heads of reg
Irom Sharmila is used to being called a strong woman. But one of the strongest statements she made yesterday (August 20) after breathing in the fresh monsoon air of Imphal – as a free woman and without a tube attached to her nose that is use
Though the panchayati raj system originally envisioned empowering women, over the years the husbands of elected women and sarpanches have made a mockery of the rules. Now women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi wants put an end to it, b
If artifice is intrinsic to diplomacy, the agenda of the meeting between US secretary of state John Kerry and prime minister Narendra Modi on August 1 was apparently much less about the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) than it was made out to be
