Dear All, It is a sad day when our organs threaten to bring down the organisations we erect. That sad day has visited upon Dhamaka. I am devastated. I can’t bear to see the painstaking work of more than a decade come unstuck over one
If Mohinder Amarnath, a brilliantly plucky cricketer and a crashing bore as a commentator, was a political pundit, he would surely have said ‘politics is a funny game’ every half an hour in the run-up to the elections. Just up the fun
Finally, after days of lull in the Reodar constituency, the campaigning for assembly elections on December 1 began on Tuesday with the rally of BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Vasundhara Raje Scindia in the Abu Road town. Addressin
Jamna, 34, has been living with her husband and their two sons in a jhuggi in Raghubir Nagar for 17 years. To earn a living, Jamna and her husband go door to door in various residential colonies of west Delhi, offering steel utensils in exchange o
Under provisions of Sec 22(A) (B) of Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 Mumbai District Suburban Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) has announced establishment of Permanent lok adalat for Mumbai. The lok adalat will settle pending and pre-litigati
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is set to develop its most promising deep-water hydrocarbon block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin with help of consultants. ONGC’s KG blocks had received interest from international players in the pa
Women in India account for a paltry 7.3 percent of total credit in the financial system. And, only 26 percent of women have accounts with financial institutions. If these figures have any use, it is to show how women have been neglected by policym
After asking people to give their suggestions over a couple of months, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the new kids on the blocks who have taken the campaigning by storm, released its manifesto for Delhi on Wednesday (November 20) afternoon. Accord
Airport Authority of India’s (AAI) paper recycling unit, run as part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR), has earned ISO certificate for recycling of paper and its utilization. AAI is the first PSU to establish a paper recycling uni
Shashi Kant Sharma, Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has urged public sector enterprises (PSEs) to consider ways and means to integrate effective preventive vigilance in the structure of the organizations. &ld
No alcoholics loitering around on the streets, no glum faces grieving about lack of amenities and unemployment and no public fights over filling up water from the common pipes. The residents of Kelabadi, a lower-middle class slum on the outskirts
Rina Massi, 49, teacher at Anganwadi school in Samardha which was set up in 2000, has been living in the village for the last 22 years and has been appointed booth-level officer in several elections. Here`s her first-person account on
Has the government violated the model code of conduct (MCC) in honouring Sachin Tendulkar with the Bharat Ratna right when the assembly election process is on in five states? That is the question an RTI activist has raised before the election comm
India’s first all women bank’s has now become a reality. In Mumbai, prime minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first branch of Bharatiya Mahila Bank. The inauguration coincided with the birth anniversary of former PM Indira Gandhi.
As the India International Trade Fair (IITF) opens up for the public from November 19th, the IITF has introduced mobile applications that will provide all information that a citizen would like to know about the fair. Citizens can access in
Want to know what makes elections in India by far the freest and fairest and why many countries in the world want to emulate India’s electoral system? Here’s how it goes on in a small Chhattisgarh village, Kelabadi. Blow up the picture a few t
A drowning person holds the straw for rescue. All the norms of the model code of conduct during elections were thrown to the wind when, perhaps, a sudden phone call from the Wankhede stadium got the prime minister to work overtime and prepare a dr
Get over it. Sachin Tendulkar never asked for it, okay. You want to give him the Bharat Ratna knock yourself out. But don`t drag the guy through the mud. Stop comparing him to Bhagat Singh and Rabindranath Tagore, Homi Bhaba and a thousand other d
Nafisha, a 15 year old girl from Rasooolpura slum, Hyderabad tells her story of how people peep at them while they defecate and bath in open. The dignity of their life being hampered due to not having toilet was something that she and her friends
Party flags fluttering on roof-tops, banners, albeit a few ones, hanging from walls, pamphlets having been distributed in households and anxiety levels soaring- Samardha was all set to host its first “visitor”, BJP’s candidate fr
