Moving ahead with implementation of the new Companies Act, 2013, the government notified the detailed rules for the much-awaited corporate social responsibility (CSR) norms on Thursday. According to the rules any activity that benefits onl
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were two great Afro-American leaders whose contributions to the advancement of the civil rights in America were immense. King even received Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for role in combating racial inequality in
Something is rotten in the state of news TV. Heaven will direct it. Nay, let`s follow it. (Exit) With due apologies to Mr Shakespeare, and Messrs Marcellus and Horatio, it’s not that easy to leave the stag
State-run explorer ONGC is all set to get a new chairman and managing director Dinesh Kumar Sarraf after prime minister Manmohan Singh cleared his name for the post on Wednesday. A proposal to extend the term of incumbent Sudhir Vasudeva by oil mi
Over the years, several agencies looking at reforming governance in India have suggested that corruption and administrative inefficiency be addressed by establishing independent authorities to inquire into complaints against public officials. The
Elections are just around the corner and the UPA is busy showcasing its achievements to win the people`s mandate once again. Stung by the trenchant criticism from the BJP about its many shortcomings, in the last few weeks before the EC announces t
The union government`s proposal to float a company to manage corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds of all the central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) has got mixed response from the fraternity. The public enterprises ministry has proposed
A non-bailable warrant has been issued by the apex court against Sahara chief Subrata Roy for not appearing in court on Wednesday despite his plea for exemption from personal appearance being rejected a day before. The police have been directed to
Gubbi taluk, in Tumkur district of Karnataka, is barely 100 kilometres from Bangalore, the desi ‘Silicon Valley’ that has given the country’s information technology sector the much-need fillip over the decades. But those 100 kilo
Okito Christophe, a 28-year-old Congolese, is short man with a soft voice; with his spectacles and semi-formals, Christophe has the air of a geek who lives a self-absorbed life. One midnight in the summer of 2012, he opened the door of his
Giving a new approach to the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), union minister of communication and information technology, Kapil Sibal said that the corporate houses need to develop a vision to serve the society at large. U
After having missed the January deadline, the Reserve Bank of India may grant licences to new banks in March as the Bimal Jalan committee submitted its recommendations to the apex bank on Tuesday. "We have submitted report (on
I say going out for a post-lunch smoke is becoming a tougher decision to make with each passing day, you say the sun is still fun. I say the coconut oil in that ugly blue plastic flip-can is starting to become semi-solid even in mor
At a town-hall convened by anchorman Rahul Kanwal of TV Today, it was instructive to hear a question addressed by former finance secretary CM Vasudeva to finance minister P Chidambaram. Seated to my immediate right, Vasudeva ever-s
Walter K Andersen is one of the pioneering scholars in the study of the Hindu right. His 1987 work, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The RSS and Hindu Revivalism (co-authored with Shridhar Damle), remains a landmark. Andersen taught comparative politic
There are two uses of the word ‘change’. The first is lofty, big and all of us know it. Let me start with the one that is not so famous, the lesser ‘change’ – the small change, the smaller denomination currency notes,
Over the past two decades, India’s foreign policy has coped quite successfully with the transition from the Cold War international system to one under the American hegemony. During this period, Indian economy has also plugged into and enormo
The overall performance of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) during 2012-13 has shown an improvement, says the public enterprises survey 2012-13. The 53rd survey brought out by the department of public enterprises under mini
They both arrived like whirlwinds after the latest round of state assembly elections in their respective states and governed with the panache of a tornado. And while anti-corruption activist and RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal jumped on to the poli
Keeping to his promise of quitting in the event parliament passes the bill to create a separate state of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy submitted his resignation to governor ESL Narasimhan on Wednesday afternoon, and it
