Question: Why did the robot score over Manmohan Singh when asked ‘who is more robotic among the two of you’? Answer: In acting robotic, the prime minister failed to press the buzzer in time.
Friends, First, let me wish you all a very happy New Year. Let me say at the outset that I do believe we are set for better times. The cycle of global economic growth is turning for the better. Many of the steps we have taken to ad
Aadhaar seems to be all controversy and no clarification. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) came up in 2009 – without any legal backup, which was to come with the passage of the National Identification Authority of India B
Many Information Technology (IT) companies are unhappy with the way e-governance projects are being executed under the public-private partnership (PPP) model. The less than satisfactory implementation of the projects and lack of timely payments, t
Something, to misquote the prince of Denmark, is strange in the state of Odisha. While chief minister Naveen Patnaik is seeking `4,59,839 crore from the newly constituted 14th finance commission for 2015-20 and making an aggressive pitch for great
All this hullabaloo is meaningless. There is no alliance, as alleged by BJP, since Congress is not part of the government. It is providing only outside support and that is only out of its own volition. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) never asked for it.
Their nightmare began more than six months ago. As the flash floods in June wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand, six small villages of Deoli Bhanigram gram sabha in Ukhimath tehsil of Rudraprayag district lost 57 men. Their widows continue to battle
Hey, Happy New Year. Symbolically, a new year ushers in a renewal, and it is in the belief that you can reinvent yourself and aspire to be the person you want to be at the start of every year that we all embark on our respective resolutions. Me to
For perhaps the first time in 11 years, the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi discusses the 2002 Gujarat riots in a blog entry. We reproduce the blog: Satyameva Jayate: Truth Alone Triumphs My dear sisters and b
Chetan Patel, a young farmer from Kosmadi village, was once happy to see the nearby city of Surat grow fast. It gave him the best of both worlds. On the one hand, he could grow sugarcane, because water has never been a problem thanks to a highly f
By ordering a probe into the snooping of a woman by Gujarat police, the union government has apparently walked into the trap laid out by Narendra Modi. There is little doubt that the whole exercise would yield nothing more than salacious de
It was five in the evening on a cold December evening. At a time when most people prefer to stay indoors – the day being a Sunday – a motley crowd of around 300 gathered around a small stage near a milk booth in Vikas Kunj, a residenti
Indicting the Odisha government for indulging in serious procedural irregularities and rampant violation of norms in the allotment of mines, the M B Shah commission has recommended a CBI probe into the multi-thousand crore scam. The steel
April 1, 2014 would usher in not only a new fiscal. It would also ring in a new dawn for nearly 2.40 million people infected with HIV/AIDS. Having been kept at an arm’s length by most sections of society, including sections of the sta
It’s a Monday morning, and Patricia, bright and fresh, is busy monitoring her catering business at her 12 food outlets across Chennai. Thanks to CCTVs, Patricia, 55, supervises the work from her home in Velachery, south Chennai. As s
The advanced version of the low cost tablet, Akaash, is all set to be a reality by January 2014. “The tenders for Akaash 4 have been floated with Directorate General for Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) and would be finalised in January 20
Kapil Sibal, union minister for communications and IT today launched a comprehensive programme in Delhi to make one person e-literate in every household. The programme has been aptly named ‘e-inclusion’ project, as digital knowledge to
“Can they hold the assembly meeting at the Ramlila Maidan?” retorted a senior BJP leader when asked if the success of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the austere lifestyle of its leader Arvind Kejriwal would set an example for the nation
First off the mark but last in the race – Odisha’s power sector is in the grip of a paradox. A power-surplus state, it is unable to provide its consumers uninterrupted supply at affordable cost. With production outstripping demand and
Barely two days after the palms of two migrant labourers were chopped off by labour contractors in Balangir exposed the shocking plight of workers in the backward Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput region of Odisha, 619 migrant workers, including women an
