The external affairs minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj met Britain’s secretary of state for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague on Tuesday to discuss bilateral issues. Hague arrived in India along with chancellor of the
[This article originally appeared in the November 1, 2012 issue of Governance Now.] The railway ministry has reverted to the Congress after 17 years. Its last railway minister was CK Jaffer Sharief,
Promising to put the Indian railway on course correction, the Modi government in its maiden railway budget presented before parliament on Tuesday announced emphasis on completing the pending projects rather than announcing new ones.
Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has written to the government and urged it to relax cash investment norms of public sector undertakings (PSUs). It made a strong case for private mutual funds, according to new
People in Hyderabad attended a rally to protest against the ‘illegal’ banning of two news channels — Tv9 and ABN Andhra Jyoti in Telangana for the past 25 days. Condemning the action of multiple system operators (
For a man that Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy stood out to be all through his life – one of India’s greatest entrepreneurs – the murmur was soon becoming too big and loud to bear. While Infosys’s decision last year to bri
Infosys Technologies, a bellwether firm for India’s infotech sector that is making waves across the globe, has defied the traditions of the domestic sector at the best of times. So, as it goes through a transition, it has continued to set wh
Going against speculation that he would do away with UPA’s ambitious UID project, prime minister Narendra Modi has decided to continue with the Aadhaar scheme and its usage in direct transfer of fuel subsidy and social security payments.
Even its bitterest critics would hardly have imagined the extent of the humiliation suffered by the Congress in the recent general elections, with the grand old party winning only 44 Lok Sabha seats, less than half of its previous worst tally. Thi
The enormity of history can sometimes be unkind – it makes facts charade as fiction while fiction often assumes the garb of a fact. The Sardar Sarovar project (SSP) is one such issue. So much water has literally passed under the bridge that
We have spent a good part of two days traversing vast tracts of the Thar, mainly in the desert national park in Rajasthan. Most would assume this to be a desert, with all that it implies – arid, lifeless, barren. What an enormous misconcepti
Many slums in Delhi are skilled in various art forms. One such slum is Kathputli Colony, which is said to be the biggest single concentration of traditional street artists in the world spanning in 5.22 hectares (12.89) in an impoverished northern
A pliable forensic department appeared to be the top priority on the agenda of the governing body meeting of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on June 7, 2014. Dr OP Murthy, who was debarred for promotion on account of his acts o
The 46 nurses who were in captivity in Iraq have been freed and an Air India flight is on its way from New Delhi to Erbil to get them back to India, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) told the media on Friday. The flight on its return
Ravi and Sunita were playing doting parents to a toddler as the Kalashnikovs boomed in Srinagar’s streets. An employee of the agriculture department, Ravi, at times, skipped office due to curfew and bandh. All around, tension was growing wit
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has become the third most followed world leader on Twitter after overtaking Indonesian president S B Yudhoyono. Modi has around 5,087
Amid reports that the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) might be shut and merged with the home ministry’s national population register (NPR), senior officials working with the authority have indicated that UIDAI might continue
The 46 Indian nurses stuck in conflict-ridden Tikrit area of Iraq have been "moved" to an unknown location, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday. MEA official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin described the situati
There have been reports in the media suggesting that a huge number of files in the ministry of home affairs have been destroyed, ostensibly in the interest of efficiency and space-management. According to the reports, these include the file contai
With the fate of offbeat – or non-masala – films shoring up, at least in metropolitan India, of late, the enthusiasm among people making such films has to be seen to be believed. A good occasion for that came last week during the 61st
