Everyone, as is usual in this age of 24x7 TV news and social media overdrive, has said what had to be said about Telangana BJP leader K Laxman’s gibe at “Pakistan’s daughter-in-law” Sania Mirza being appointed the brand amb
Twelve primary school children were killed when a school bus carrying 40 children collided with a moving train at Masaipet village in Medak district of Telangana, 62 kilometres from the state capital Hyderabad. Minutes after the acc
Having visited Bangladesh last month, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj would make her second solo visit to Nepal between July 25 and 27. Swaraj is slated to preside over a joint commission meeting to be held after 23 years in the neighbouri
The general post-office (GPO) in Lucknow is as good a place as any to understand how people in authority treat people with disabilities (PwDs). At 11 am, counter No 4, for senior citizens, women and the handicapped, had a rather long queue, though
Poonam, a 34-year-old professional working with an NGO, is blind since birth, and needs no help in a variety of day-to-day tasks: living in a hostel with no family support, commuting to work, shopping – except banking. When it comes to withd
Marking a clear shift in the centre’s policy of running public sector enterprises, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday asked CPSEs to shape up to deal with free competition in an era when state-run firms had lost monopoly rights and pre
A day after Uttar Pradesh’s outgoing governor Aziz Qureshi invoked the gods to stop crimes against women, a flurry of activity was reported from Heaven Extension. According to sources close to the heavenly proceedings, several
When chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha had recently proposed a 365-day working of the courts in view of the ever-increasing crop of cases leading to long pendencies, it was met with resistance by the lawyers’ community. Ho
If the state of affairs in Indian bureaucracy is any indication, the metaphor of “caged parrot” should have readily replaced “steel frame” as an apt description of the executive. IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram’s
It’s not usual for the prime minister’s office (PMO) to get involved in a state government’s development plan for a small area. Yet the status of a patch of forest in Haryana’s Faridabad district has created an unusual admi
The chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has suggested that top lawyer Gopal Subramanium be made the special public prosecutor (SPP) to try the accused in the Coalgate – a Rs 1.6 crore scam on illegal allocation of coal blocks across the co
Remember the metaphor “caged parrot” the supreme court used to describe the country`s premier investigative agency, the central bureau of investigation (CBI)? The apex court pitched for CBI`s autonomy when it was disgusted by the agenc
In the past two days, events in Delhi have once again evoked speculation of rift between the national leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the local leadership in Haryana over the party`s alliance with Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC).
Neelesh Shukla, 50, lives in Mathura and works with a private company in Delhi. Around 9 every morning, he takes the EMU train from the city station to begin the 140-km journey over a couple of hours. Packed like sardines is the usual phrase to de
TV journalism has its own strange ways that defy the popular wisdom. A popular anecdote – a true story at many newsrooms – goes thus: top editors at a TV channel are worried as the annual jamboree in the name of brainstorming comes clo
Perhaps the most significant element in the 72-point Fortaleza declaration of the just-concluded sixth Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit is the establishment of the Brics New Development Bank on July 15. Though t
B Ashok took over as full-time chairman of Indian Oil Corporation on Wednesday. Ashok, 57, is the first insider to head Indian Oil since March 2005. Since then, the post was held by Sarthak Behuria, who moved from Bharat Petroleum,
SCOPE director general UD Choubey stressed on a multipronged approach towards achieving project excellence in public sector enterprises. In view of the huge capital investment of Rs 2.47 lakh crore provided to the sector in the uni
It’s been months since Arvind Kejriwal resigned as the Delhi chief minister. While winter gave over to spring, which, in turn, sprang summer on us, and monsoon has now officially checked in, what has remained constant all along is the clamou
There’s a lot of rage going on out there, far away from here, in Tamil Nadu over veshti. Veshti is, of course, to Tamils what I, Lungi, am to Bengalis. You wear it around your waist – pot-bellied or six-seven-or-eight-packed abs.
