The controversy over Sunanda Pushkar’s mysterious death is being stoked to settle scores in the ongoing internal bickering and promotional wrangling among faculty members of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS). The aut
Even while delivering his first speech in the Rajya Sabha on June 11, prime minister Narendra Modi sought the support of lawmakers, urging the supreme court to complete the trials of pending criminal cases against MPs within a year. “When pa
It’s a curious case of privatisation by delay. Indian law enforcement agencies routinely use private laboratories for the analysis of digital evidence as government-owned forensic laboratories take up to 12 months in some cases. The list inc
When Sadananda Gowda presents the railway budget on July 8, it will be the first one since 1950 that the planning commission would have little role in. Suddenly, the Yojana Bhawan, where the commission is housed and which had become extremely powe
The Delhi University has decided to roll back the controversial four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). Giving in to the demand of the University Grant Commission (UGC) on Friday (June 27), the university accepted to roll back the course.
It’s an enduring image of everything that’s wrong with India: starving people with gaunt frames and obese rats scurrying in the food godowns in Odisha’s Kandhamal. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) and targeted public distribut
An image from my visit to the Narmada Valley in 2007 was to haunt me for a long time to come. I was sitting in a boat when tribal children from up the hill were coming down to meet a group of us who had come to the valley. They displayed a discipl
After being rejected from a list of four names recommended for appointment as supreme court (SC) judge, top lawyer and a former solicitor general during the UPA government Gopal Subramanium, has lashed out at the Modi government saying it is &ldqu
An Andhra Pradesh court has created a buzz by issuing an arrest warrant against the captain of Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni. This action has come pertaining to the case of depiction of the Indian captain as Lord Vishnu in a business ma
Language, for sure, is a sensitive issue in India. It was in the 1960s, when the anti-Hindi protests took place in Tamil Nadu, often taking violent turn. It still is, when the union home ministry issued an order recently, making Hindi the official la
The deadline for National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), which aims to provide high speed broadband connectivity to 2.5 lakh villages, has been revised again. The three public enterprises, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), RailTel and PowerGrid, pr
While the Bombay high court on Tuesday upheld Reliance's argument and ruled that fares for Mumbai Metro would remain in the Rs 10 to Rs 40 slab till the fare fixation committee deals with the issue, the ride has been good so far, say Mumbaikars. D
Delhi University vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh resigned on Tuesday afternoon, amid widespread protests by the concerned students and teachers over the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) logjam. The resignation came shortly after the supreme c
Imagine this: you have booked a flat in a housing project coming up on plot number 4 of Sector 93A, Noida – a plush locality in this uber-developed city bordering the national capital. You have put into it a large part of your savings and ap
The tragic incident of 24 engineering students getting drowned due to negligent dam operations at the Larji hydropower project has sounded an alarm on dam safety and maintenance. In April, in a similar incident of sudden discharge of water from Te
The situation is slightly improving now but till recently the newsrooms of English newspapers in Ahmedabad would have maybe one or two Gujaratis. Those in charge of recruiting would apologetically say that when it comes to the English language, Gu
A week before Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister on May 26, the first floor of the Gujarat Bhavan turned into a makeshift prime minister`s office (PMO). Modi called a retired IAS officer of UP cadre, Nripendra Mishra, and asked him if he co
As India goes into a tizzy with the arrival of achchhe din, the lexicon of the Big is asserting itself with renewed vigour. ‘Good times’, an obvious metaphor for relentless expansion, seems to have obsessively consumed the masses. Whet
The life of the democratic state is built upon the party system,” Harold J Laski said in his classic text, A Grammar of Politics. Political parties, despite being non-governmental entities, are the means through which a modern, democratic na
Union minister for home Rajnath Singh has today said that steps would be taken to make the national population register (NPR) project to its logical conclusion. The minister reviewed the project and directed that proposals to populate the register
