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
More initiatives to streamline credit process M Narendra, CMD, Indian Overseas Bank,
With the crisis in Iraq escalating, India on Wednesday issued 530 tickets to facilitate the return of Indian nationals stuck in the West Asian country. In addition, documents of 850 Indians are being prepared, the ministry of external affairs (MEA
Singapore companies are being encouraged to invest in infrastructure development in the Delhi-Mumbai corridor (DMIC), Chennai-Bangalore industrial corridor (CBIC), the Northeast and in the Buddhist circuit, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) s
Fully connected research institutes with a high-speed bandwidth to collaborate and share information in real time has been the unrealised dream for all researchers in India. The national knowledge network (NKN) is an endeavour to realise this drea
Watching France play Nigeria in the World Cup round of 16 last night brought in memories of a different time and place. Shave off 16 calendar years and travel about 2,000 kilometres from south Delhi, where I live at present, and I will tel
Noted lawyer and Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) leader Brinda Karat wrote a letter to the health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to protect whistle blower Dr K V Babu from Kerala, who had brough
Forty-six Indian nurses are stuck in crossfire between Sunni militants and the Iraqi army in the conflict zone of Tikrit. Bombing and firing in the area began on Tuesday (July 1). Informing that the Indian nationals were hiding in the bui
