Natwarlal Patel still remembers those few days in 1994 when a plague epidemic broke out in Surat. He spent a week holed up in his home, too afraid to venture out. He and his family managed to feed themselves with whatever was stocked in the kitche
What with this Khobragade lady and the US courts now throwing out the case against her (so much for the big fight) and leaving crusader attorney Preet Bharara with a little egg on his face because the loophole offered him to put in another c
The debate and discussions on cloud have become more frequent now that more and more organisations are showing their eagerness to move to it. With the announcement of the government cloud service ‘Meghraj’, cloud services have becom
On March 10, The Guardian (UK) published an article by Vijay Prashad on the upcoming general elections in India. Prashad, a well-known Marxist academic and generally an articulate writer, argued that “Federalism holds the key to democracy in
In an election year, when the decibel level of political cacophony drowns out all other arguments, it is the idiom – or ‘one liners’ – that catch attention. Travel to the Hindi heartland as the elections draw closer, attend
On February 19, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addressed a joint media conference with social activist Anna Hazare. "Our party will support whichever honest candidate Annaji recommends (outside of Bengal and northeastern states),&
In an ideal world Ranbaxy Laboratories might not exist anymore. The world, however, is imperfect and more so in India, where the leading generic drug maker continues to flourish even after four of its plants have been found to be manufacturing med
The e-Courts project was supposed to speed up the delivery of that much sought after commodity called justice. But all it has turned up till now is an electronic mirage. Lawyers in Delhi are hassled and frustrated, and so are the people who turn t
At the height of his glory as Bihar chief minister, Lalu Prasad credited himself with the epithet of a “political doctor”. And this was a well-earned reputation of a political leader who carried out surgical operations in other politic
Women’s issues have taken a forefront with the governments of many states taking several measures to tackle women’s security, sexual harassment at the workplace and discrimination. At the event, ‘Fundamental duty of a citizen: pr
The deployment of information technology in the three armed forces—army, navy and air force—might get a shot in the arm. By July this year, the ministry of defence (MoD) will revise its defence procurement manual, as it does every five
Isolation which the Congress has brought upon itself in Tamil Nadu has gone to an extent that the party cannot even find candidates for seats. To fill up the gap, the party has now conscripted candidates. While a fight for tickets and a r
There has been a paradigm shift from food production to food governance in the country. Food production emphasizes on productivity enhancement and agrarian reforms whereas food governance entails production, pricing, processing, transportation, st
The government agencies will soon have an alternative to the cumbersome process of procurement of software and hardware. Computing resources are now available on pay-per-use pricing model, as in the case of water, electricity and domestic fuel, ma
Rekha Parikh, 58, and her husband Ashok bought a flat in Orchid tower of Campa Cola compound, Worli. It was 1991, and the couple moved into their 14th-floor flat a couple of years later. The builder, Rekha says, had promised them an occupancy cert
The afternoon lull at the office of the superintendent of police (SP) in Fatehpur city of Uttar Pradesh, India, is broken by the noisy arrival of a tractor. As the vehicle pulls up outside the SP`s office, about three dozen women – all drape
Daggubati Purandheswari becomes yet another high-profile leader to desert the sinking Congress ship in Seemandhra. The former Union minister of state for commerce and industry announced her decision at the end of a closed door meeting with her par
It’s billed as the biggest elections the world has ever seen. It might as well turn out to be the costliest slugfest the world has ever seen. Just ahead of the election announcement, the government cleared a proposal from the election commis
Sahara chief Subrata Roy’s arrest, and subsequent judicial custody, ordered by supreme court came as a dramatic turn of events this week. Dramatic because this was one of those rare occasions when a corporate honcho, of the likes of Roy, is
There are times for things such as ideology; and there are times for swift negotiations: 2014 is for latter. Consider the timeline of Ram Vilas Paswan’s career of last fifteen years. Paswan, the 68-year-old dalit leader and supremo o
