The code of conduct for slaves in the southern states of the United States did not permit their masters from saying thank you to anyone that they owned since they were property and not to be thanked. Evolved into good manners it hasn’t yet f
September 2013: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chairman and managing director RS Butola showed a red flag to the proposed disinvestment in the country’s largest oil and gas operator. He warned against the wrong time for disinv
On July 5, the special AI-160 flight carrying 46 Indian nurses and 137 other Indians from strife-torn Iraq to Kochi had to make an unscheduled stop at Mumbai. The five-hour delay was but a blip in the intense hostage drama that the nurses faced in
The JSW steel plant in Salboni, West Midnapore district in West Bengal, which was the only ray of hope in the industry-weary state, is in news again, but for all the wrong reasons. On July 14, while attending a function at a nearby cement factory,
When the Ayodhya mobilisation was at its peak in the early 1990s, former prime minister VP Singh once used an analogy from hockey to describe the conduct of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “They change the rules of the game and score a goa
This government too wants to fly Air India! I am disappointed. It should know; the entire nation would feel dejected if only the simple money equation of the airline is advertised as effectively as the party in power did to promote itself in the r
The budget has allocated `37,850 crore for road building. Before that, the railway budget proposed setting up a diamond quadrilateral network of high-speed trains, noting a need for a stupendous `9 lakh crore for making the project happen in reali
Come September, the Indian Super League (ISL) will take flight. Its promoters – large corporations like Reliance, IMG and Star India – say this will give a much-needed fillip to football. India stands at 154 in FIFA’s ranking of
Top lawyer Uday U Lalit, who represented Amit Shah in the November 2005 alleged fake police encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in Gujarat, is likely to be a new judge of the supreme court (SC). On Wednesday, an SC collegium, a
World population day is celebrated on July 11 every year and as per the census of 2011— the total population of the world has become seven billion as compared to 2.5 billion in 1950. Such a population is a challenge as well a
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday raised the disinvestment target for the current fiscal to Rs 58,425 crore, as per news report. The target include Rs 43,425 crore from selling stake in PSUs and another Rs 15,000 crore from sale of residua
Finance minister Arun Jaitley this morning started presenting the NDA government’s first union budget. Here are the highlights from his budget speech: * Emphasizes on fiscal prudence, need to generate more resources * Assures
This is the recording of a meeting between a corporate boss and two of his lieutenants held to discuss the probable promotion of a manager to their level. The boss is very much in favour of upgrading the wunderkind but the two top executives are e
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
