Last week Medha Patkar, the well-known social and politician activist who recently made news as AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai’s North East, was on a padyatra around Tagore Nagar slums in Vikhroli East. Along the way she greeted
Misa Bharti, the eldest daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, derives her name from a draconian law imposed during emergency (Maintenance of Internal Security Act) to curb citizen`s right. She was born when her father was jaile
Her children off to school, husband at worksite and household chores completed by noon, Seema Yadav, 24, finally finds time for a very important task that needs to be addressed the same day. She needs to go to the bank. Having received Rs
Pooran Bhatt is famous in Kathputli Colony, and he is famous in the many countries where he has performed. But between this informal settlement and the international art circuit, he is a stranger. In fact, for the Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
As public sector banks continue to be burdened by ballooning non-performing assets (NPAs), one of the bank unions has aggressively gone against bank defaulters who are likely to contest general elections. The Chennai-headquartered All Indi
“Deputy governors never retire,” Dr KC Chakrabarty had quipped when Governance Now asked him about his post-retirement plans in an interview this February. But it looks like he had already made his plans. Chakrabarty, arguably
In a candid interview with Srishti Pandey, Dr K C Chakrabarty tells why the financial inclusion passion continues to remain missing in some entities, how direct benefit transfer (DBT) has failed, and why public sector banks will h
Indians are coming after a 14 year hiatus and they will once again play a sort of `international` cricket tournament in the UAE. This hosting of a segment of the IPL should be seen as a first step towards re-establishing test and one-day ties and
Way back in 2007, when few saw a future for Narendra Modi as bright as it has turned out to be now, he used a funny one-liner in the assembly election campaign: Hun khato nathi ane khava deto nathi (neither do I eat – that is, take bribes &n
Varanasi is not an easy place to negotiate. As the city straddles the spiritual high and governance deficit, its potholed streets and traffic woes are what will greet you; and the dust on your face is what will hit you – all this amid chants
If Rahul Gandhi were to make a speech on himself, he might begin thus: Rahul Gandhi has a problem. In fact, he has several problems, like all political leaders do. No, in fact I would go to the extent of saying that his problems are like that of a
As cybercrime cases multiply in India, experts say there is a need for sensitisation of law enforcement and increase in capacity building among officials tackling such cases. In the next five years, select cops in all 14,600 police station
E-VLP-3-10-MT-12. Twenty years back this smattering mishmash of words, dashes and numbers helped love blossom between 45-year-old senior finance professional Samyak Chattopadhyay and his 43-year-old banker wife Barnali Banerjee. Both were fledging
Prem Singh Arya is a very busy man – as busy as the bees he keeps! On a regular working day, Arya not only has to manage his own farms and bees but also help around 1,000 others engaged in beekeeping in and around Taharpur village of Amroha
Monitoring of the mines, especially whether they were following the clearance criteria or not, was difficult for the department of mines (DoM) due to resource limitations. According to Umesh Chandra Jena, Deputy Director, DoM, Odisha, there were h
Like most of her neighbours, Parmeelaben’s family too is in the business of recycling old clothes, collecting them door to door, and offering new steel utensils in exchange. Now in her 50s, Parmeelaben came to Delhi from a village in
In what can be dubbed the first such revelation since the spotting of aliens, it emerged this morning that Arnab Goswami, the lord of the rings and master of The Newshour, had a nightmare last night. According to highly placed sources based closed
Ranbaxy faced another setback on Friday as the supreme court issued notice to the leading drugmaker as well as the central government following a PIL that seeks cancellation of the firm’s licence and a CBI probe into the allegedly sub-standa
On his four-day tour to Gujarat on a fact-finding mission, Arvind Kejriwal took on the BJP`s prime ministerial candidate and questioned Gujarat`s development. He was briefly detained by the state police. Modi did not meet him and some BJP supporte
It seems to be a classic case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. But those who see life as glass half full might yet see in it a silver lining. Stung by the Shah commission’s damning disclosure of `60,000 crore loss as a
