Sheel Kumar Roy never imagined the steely resolve that lay behind the soft voice of 86-year-old Lily Thomas when she greeted him on that fateful day in 2005. Roy had been fighting tooth and nail his dismissal from the army in 1991 and had gone to
People’s experience related to online public services is not always merrier due to the lack of technical expertise in the government and limited infrastructure. The rollout of public services on the internet is not easy. A department needs t
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao today scotched all speculation about the last-minute prospect of an alliance with the Congress. In a show of supreme confidence, the pink party supremo released the party’s first list o
In its bid to streamline the visa and immigration process for the foreigners visiting the state Nagaland has implemented the Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration & Tracking (IVFRT) project in Kohima and Dimapur districts.
The roots of the word `juggernaut` are in Odisha. The chariot of Lord Jagannath at Puri is pulled by devotees every year with big celebration. Such is the faith of devotees that they often try to get crushed under its wheels in order to attain nir
Uttar Pradesh is no longer just the state with the highest number of seats in the Lok Sabha. “62 percent of the population [around 12.4 crore] in UP is eligible to vote in this election,” says K. Vijayendra Pandian, additional chief el
The government is not quite right. Choose to explain. No, I am not egging on the companies to disobey but I believe it is now more important for both; the government, including the state governments, and the corporate sector, includ
The moment you get down at Bhubaneswar airport, the change in the weather hits you. It is warm and humid -- a sharp contrast to Delhi where a withering winter still retains a nip in the air. But what is curiously evident is the change in the polit
For the handful of market watchers expecting another rabbit being pulled out of a hat, Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan’s first bi-monthly monetary policy announcement on Tuesday came as a complete bummer. In line
The world’s largest and most vibrant democracy has one of its most exciting elections coming up. But sorely missing in the electoral fervour, speeches and promises, debates and issues is the environment. Strange, for it is one issue that imp
For nonagenarian DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, retirement from active politics does not seem to be near as his younger son MK Stalin, to whom Karunanidhi wants to hand over the baton, is yet to prove his mettle to lead the party. It has bee
This is the story of a marriage. A successful union of woman power with the power of institutional banking. In several villages of Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district, otherwise famed for its Kanjivaram silk sarees, the two have come together
I was in Washington and my deputy editor at Reader’s Digest took me to a dinner party. He did not mention to the hosts who he was bringing along
Afghanistan is preparing for its presidential election slated for 5 April, this election is very crucial for the country as well as its neighbours including Pakistan, Iran and India. Any development in Afghanistan will be directly linked to its ne
The supreme court holding the Akhilesh Yadav led Uttar Pradesh government “prima facie” guilty of failing to prevent the Muzaffarnagar communal riots has underpinned the accusation being labelled on the state government ever since the
Helicopter politics preceded the electoral politics in Bihar. Chief minister Nitish Kumar became its casualty. In fact, the agency that has been providing helicopters to JD(U) all these years is primarily under contractual obligation with the BJP.
“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is facing yet another controversy – this time for its move to dilute the code of ethics for doctors. The apex body monitoring medical practice in the country proposes to reduce its own jurisdiction
BOTH OF BIHAR`S MOST important barters for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections concern first-time contestants. One is Chirag Paswan, the 32-year-old son of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan, who famously broker
Arthur Dunkel, the architect of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), would have hardly known Bihar and its charismatic leader Lalu Prasad Yadav. In the nineties, he was a household name in Vaishali district as Lalu made a villain out of the former
