Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said that he wants 21 lotuses (seats) from Odisha so that when he becomes the prime minister of the country he will transform it into a developed sta
The Aam Admi Party (AAP) is of the view that every voter (oops, aam aadmi) should have the inalienable right to become an IAS officer. Successive Congress governments have kept the age limit between 21 and 30. This has ensured that
A second strike of bank employees in less than two months, has hit the banking activities across country. The strike has been called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a conglomeration of nine public sector bank employees’ and
The Newshour Debate on NDTV on January 15 was an exception: perhaps the first time, not one but two participants clearly and comprehensibly laid bare the hypocrisy of almost all the political parties in India espousing the so called secularism. Th
First, four bullets inspired by the JD(U)’s call against Bharat Ratna being given to living persons, borne out of their annoyance with a spate of Sachin Tendulkar endorsements: 1. There can be no logical or legal bar in stoppi
The prime ministerial candidate of the BJP and Gujarat`s chief minister, Narendra Modi, is considered as a good orator. The saffron leader is known to enthral crowds through his rhetoric. The content of his speeches doesn’t excite me, though
As the latest spectrum auction continues, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has plans to launch spectrum in the range of 1900-700 MHz by next year. This was announced by Dr Rahul Khullar, chairman, TRAI, at the India Digital Summit, org
Racism is caused by the misplaced belief that members of a certain race share certain common characteristics that result in that group being superior or inferior to others. For the past couple of weeks, our news sources have been screaming about i
While the IPL Chairman and Congress candidate Ranjib Biswal is confident of winning the Rajya Sabha election for the fourth seat from Odisha, the fraction in the Odisha Pradesh Congress Party makes his prospects of entering the Rajya Sabha bleak.
In your face. For months rape was the dubious distinction for India. Now, it has been joined by another sinister cousin. The cold blooded immensely senseless killing of a student in Delhi who came from the eastern states underscores
Change is inevitable and there is no denying that. However, when we decided to review the seven-and-a-half years of the national e-governance plan (NeGP) and the change that technology had triggered in the government sector, we began by asking the
If right to education (RTE) is the book, the story is indeed bleak still. Here’s the writing on the blackboard: even nearly four years since RTE’s implementation, there is a shortage of more than 5 lakh teachers across the country.
“Namak ki vyavastha to kar di hai, roti ki vyavastha kab karenge?” (You have made arrangements for salt but when will you arrange for breads)? A white banner bearing this demand and fluttering in the midst of a surging crowd of thousan
What sort of world do we have to live in where a four-year-old has to undergo an entrance examination to get into kindergarten? And why is it so acceptable for school teachers to actually have a yardstick. You cannot have any measure of a child&rs
The war of wits over Telangana has shifted from Hyderabad to Delhi in the last two days. Prominent leaders from Andhra Pradesh including TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao have been camping in Delhi since yesterda
Yes, khaps should be banned, if you ask me. But don’t ask me, for I will say religion, too, should be banned – and for more or less the same reasons that supreme court offered while calling them kangaroo courts in 2011: "Atrocitie
For R Subrahmanyam, a joint secretary with the ministry of rural development, overseeing the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme (MNREGS), is unimaginable without the help of information technology. MNRE
Lush and serene surroundings at the Adhyatmik Nagar railway halt, located nearly 20 km away from New Delhi by the side of National Highway 24 connecting Lucknow, is a deceptive veneer that conceals a hideous social fault line. That was exposed on
Government of India’s flagship programme for universalisation of education has constantly been in news in Jammu and Kashmir for quite some time. The Sarv Shikhsha Abhiyan (SSA) had been launched with much fanfare with an objective to benefit
The only entrance to Jia Sarai – a tiny suburban sprawl in south Delhi, surrounded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus from three sides – is littered with posters. Posters of all sizes scream from the walls names of coac
