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
Arvind Kejriwal may or may not have been a good chief minister, and may or may not be a “bhagoda” – literally an absconder but in this case the cuss word for anti-AAP and primarily pro-BJP commentators on Twitter – but one
The government, on Tuesday, launched “Indian version of Wikipedia”, vikaspedia.gov.in which would provide users information related to agriculture, health, education, social welfare, energy and e-governance in five languages.
Avant-garde urbanism conceptualises the city as an organic entity with an inbuilt and self-evolving consciousness. Very much like a human body. A city’s surface dotted with numerous monuments, lanes, bye-lanes, food courts, festivities and a
When union minister V Narayanasamy said that e-governance in India, which started 10 years ago, is staggering and should move faster, he was bang on. In fact, unlike most of the speakers who sounded more optimistic than their bosses on the stage,
In the financial quarter ending December 2013, the non-performing assets (NPAs) of 40 listed banks, according to a new data, have plummeted to a new low of Rs. 2.4 lakh crore, worsening banks’ financial condition. “This jump of 35.2 pe
Twenty-eight street vendors from Delhi, Patna, Jabalpur, Jaipur, and Ludhiana among other parts of India are on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital from Monday (February 17), demanding passage of the street vendors
There is a common thread that connects four public sector banks – the Kolkata-based United Bank of India (UBI) and Allahabad Bank and the Mumbai-headquartered State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of India (BoI). All these banks are led by wome
