Everywhere in India the procurement processes in the government follow the general financial rules and guidelines of the central vigilance commission. Except, it seems, in Arunachal Pradesh. Be it road or building construction or a technology proj
If you thought it’s game, set and match for the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha after cyclone Phailin left the Odisha coast, tamer than the 1999 ‘super cyclone’ but still leaving a big enough trail of destruction along with t
For the last few quarters, India has experienced two ‘strikes’ that have set it back by many years: the ‘decision-making strike’ by government officials and the ‘investment strike’ by the organised private secto
Only in India would a proposal to erect a statue in memory of Sardar Patel, who oversaw the integration of princely states into India as we know it today, create so much controversy. After all, the poor Sardar only added to the land mass of India,
This is yet another tale that should make the nation hang its collective head in shame. Days after a 27-year-old schoolteacher was assaulted and then set on fire in daylight at her hostel in Tikiri village in Rayagada district of Odisha, she succu
A writ petition in public interest under Article 32 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of writ of mandamus or any other writ, order or direction to the Union of India regarding extension in service to senior officers after superannu
Farzana Pathan will always remember December 28th of 2012. On that day the young mother received money from the government directly into her account minutes after delivering her baby in the hospital. Not only that, she was also able to withdraw he
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, after a week of the flood, had aerially surveyed and assessed the flood situation in Ganjam district badly hit by twin disasters; Phailin cyclone (October 12) and flood (October 24). The water had sinc
The month of September delivered a double whammy to the disinvestment story, as the stake sale of the two of the five biggest public sector units (PSUs) known as Maha Navratnas – Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) –
A landmark judgment by the supreme court on October 31 (the 138th birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the father of the all-India services) is the bitter medicine that politicians and babus should have co-created on their own. D
Khammam (AP): YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi’s tour of flood-hit areas in Telangana sparked off protests today. Telangana activists, protesting against YSRCP’s pro-unified state stand, tried to accost her convoy a
The elections due next year are shaping up to be the most personality-driven one since the 1989 polls that centred around VP Singh and Rajiv Gandhi. And as the hashtag – #NaMo – becomes a proper noun with each passing rally and politic
Nina Lath Gupta, a former IRS officer, was a government nominated director on the board of National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Limited. The company, a central public sector enterprise (CPSE) in the business of promoting an integrated deve
What the cyclone Phailin could not do in Odisha the subsquent floods have done. The state administration was just congratulating itself at having averted a catastrophe by timely evacuation when repeated low pressure over the coast triggere
Days after Ketan Desai, the disgraced former president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) was elected by Gujarat University to represent the state in the MCI, NRI doctor Kunal Saha, a relentless fighter against corruption in medical education a
Narendra Modi, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has revived yet another debate. On October 29, he said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel should have been the first prime minister of the country. “This country will always have one regret. Had
The information technology (IT) hardware industry in India is all set to grow from six to 18 per cent CAGR during the year 2014-18. This growth will push the GDP growth by Rs 66,300 crore; generate employment for 1,11,600 people and provide Rs 25,
Despite India`s march towards newer opportunities, generation after generation of dalit households remained restricted to manual scavenging. While a law was in place prohibiting the practice, it was rarely implemented. The government has now c
If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the Odisha power regulators are not far behind. While 25 districts of the state were sinking under water due to devastating floods following cyclone Phailin and the power sector was reeling under massive loss of clo
In a distant land at a time long, long time ago, an old monk had a dream. There’s gold buried in Unnao, he declared one fine day. Unnao, half of India thought with a sense of detachment, was the new UN building in Harare and stood fo
