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.
Something is rotten in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s state of data collection. While the corporation’s official data for the year 2013 showed 1,393 residents of the metropolis died of tuberculosis (TB), statistics collated b
P Chandra Sekharan, the principal scientific investigator in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and a Padma Bhushan awardee, is concerned over the state of forensic departments in India. The health administration believes they are not part of hea
Recalling a personal incident in 2001 after his father-in-law died in a road accident in Mumbai, oncologist Dr Nagaraj Huilgol says the body was brought to the JJ Hospital at 11 pm and the autopsy was conducted the next afternoon (those days post-
Forensic science is the thin line that divides truth and untruth in a crime story. Its imperfection or manipulation in India often makes facts seem stranger than fiction. Nothing illustrates it better than the mystery surrounding the death of Suna
Policy reforms like setting up order of priority of defence procurement from Indian companies, higher FDI cap and liberalized industrial licensing regime would accelerate indigenisation, GC Pati, secretary, defence production, ministry of defenc
The supreme court (SC) collegium – a panel consisting of senior judges – has put its foot down for appointment of Karnataka high court (HC) judge KL Manjunath as chief justice of Punjab and Haryana HC, turning down the government
Prime minister Narendra Modi is likely to recast the planning commission on July 20, after his return from the BRICS summit on July 17, sources have indicated. However, it could not be verified why a Sunday has been chosen for the purpose.
