Nothing is as humbling an experience as an intense election campaign when you try to convince and mobilise voters to a cause. Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in the country in terms of population, is as wide in geographical expanse as it is compl
When I was the CMD, I never appointed anyone just because the minister asked me to,” says the former head of a Mumbai-based PSU. Employment business in PSUs, she says, is usually at its peak during elections. But whenever the
On Doomsday, I will say aloud, I came from the world with my heart full of hope –A landai by Zarmina, an Afghan woman who committed suicide because she was brutally beaten for writing poetry A mislea
India’s engagement with Afghanistan has a significant historical context. To institutionalise and foster this relationship post-independence, India signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Afghanistan in 1950. It has had strong diploma
On May 28, Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu, a scientist-G rank official at the national informatics centre (NIC), became its director general. Heading NIC should be quite an achievement worth celebration, except that he retired just three days later.
Life is often so cruel that it transcends logic. Nobody understood the essence of this illogicality of life better than rural development minister Gopinath Munde who died this morning while on his way to Delhi airport. He is believed to have died
Let me begin this letter with a confession - and my sincere facilitations and congratulations on the country`s mandate, and your election as prime minister, which you will be by the time this letter is published. I confess I am not a political ani
It has almost become a trend now to hear strange, sometimes bordering on the insane, advises on ‘how-to-escape-rape’ from intellectuals, sages, politicians and in this case, erstwhile feminists after the country has witnessed a horrifi
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao today took charge as the first chief minister of the newest and 29th state of the country. He was formally sworn in as the chief minister at 8:15 am at a glittering ceremony held in the prec
With a decisive election victory of BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi, economists and financial markets consider India`s prospects to be much better than earlier. The growth rate is expected to substantially improve and inflation is likely
The UPA government had an ambition of connecting all gram panchayats with optical fibre. On October 25, 2011, it approved setting up of the national optical fiber network (NOFN) to provide connectivity to all 2,50,000 gram panchayats in the
A day after assuming charge as the new finance minister on May 26, Arun Jaitley had an interesting visitor in his North Block office – Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan. As the meeting went on for 50 minutes behind closed doors,
During his peak, pole vaulter Sergei Bubka was his own competition. Every now and then he would increase the height ever so slightly. But come world championships or Olympics he would flex his pole definitely and spring to alien heights. Hamburg w
Almost 12 years after construction began on the 126 km long Katra-Banihal section of the rail link to Kashmir, a bench of the High Court of Delhi has ordered the railway board to conduct a review of the alignment by setting up a committee of exper
Information and communication technology (ICT) has impacted billons of people in the shortest possible time. Appreciating its enormous potential, the central and state governments in India are increasingly using ICT in all aspects of governance; a
It is not the best of times to own and run a business in India. The business news pages will tell you that investment sentiments have never been more discouraging. That corporate honchos are steering clear of risks, or significant expansion of ope
“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I`ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?” The lines by the poet-author-playwright-filmmaker-journalis
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to refrain from lending to public sector undertakings (PSUs) as it "dilutes the cooperative character of UCBs." The banking regulator has instead directed
If the right to education (RTE) is the book, the story is indeed bleak still. Here`s the writing on the blackboard: even nearly four years since RTE`s implementation, there is a shortage of more than 5 lakh teachers across the country. Wo
Located in Tiruchirapalli (or Tiruchi or Trichy) district of Tamil Nadu is Arivalayam, or temple of knowledge in Tamil, a school for differently-abled children and a hope for the parents in making them realise that having special children is defin
