After two years of releasing the first draft, the union government has eventually come up with a policy on cyber security, which envisages “secured and resilient cyber space” not just for the government but also for citizens and busine
To figure out how much we the people matter in prime minister Manmohan Singh’s vision of economy, a visit to the Delhi-Gurgaon border would be ideal. From some vantage point, take a look at the airport, the metro line connecting it with the
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh will fly to Patna on Friday to meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and discuss the release of funds for laying 6,000 kilometres of roads in different districts of the state. Soon after the m
Denials notwithstanding, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and complained against the prime minister’s office (PMO) for the recent media leaks that show the Jet-Etihad deal in bad light. W
After three flip-flops within a month, the government has finally gone ahead with the ordinance route for the food security bill. More than anything else, it is this hurry which reveals the political opportunism behind this otherwise welcome legis
What should Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group and member of the central board of the Reserve Bank of India, do about the clear case of ‘conflict of interest’ that he faces now? On July 1, Aditya Birla Nuv
The Indian industry feels that the government’s decision to set up new banks will provide a major boost to its financial inclusion programme. A survey conducted by the federation of Indian chambers of commerce and industry (Ficci) says the l
Finance minister P Chidambaram held a meeting of the public sector bank (PSB) chiefs on July 3 to discuss mechanisms to strengthen recovery of bad loans or non-performing assets (NPAs). The focus will be on the top 30 NPAs and gross NPA accounts o
The CBI chargesheet in the June 2004 encounter of four alleged terrorists in Ahmedabad, filed in the Gujarat high court on Wednesday, was expected to be explosive. It was not. Speculations were rife that the agency, allegedly under the pre
The election commission (EC) has summoned the chief electoral officers (CEOs) of Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Thursday and Friday to review the prepardness for the assembly elections. The CEOs of these s
Bank of Maharashtra won seven awards at the IPE BFSI award ceremony in Mumbai recently. Some of the awards which the bank won are: best bank in public sector and best bank with most admired services while its chairman and managing director, Narend
In wrestling, the sweat-bodied opponents fighting it out under the glare of blinding spotlights always seem oblivious to the unruly audience. Their eyes are transfixed into each other’s, concentrating to pick up the slightest cue on the oppo
Suddenly, the telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) is in news. Big time. As if the idea of cutting roaming charges for cellular service and putting a 12-minute cap on advertisements on TV channels were not enough, the regulatory body&rsquo
The death of a worker in a freak fire accident marred festivities meant to felicitate newly-appointed union minister of state Kavuri Sambasiva Rao in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. An auto trolley carrying fire-crackers and tailing a minister’s
The government launched the national cyber security policy (NCSP) 2013 today. "This is a framework document about what our vision and strategy on cyber security," union communications and information technology minister Kapil Sib
Meeting for the second time in seven years, the prime minister-led committee on national e-governance plan (NeGP) reviewed the central plan on Monday. The committee directed the department of electronics and information technology (DeitY) to formu
The much-hyped application procedure for procuring new banking licences in the country came to an end on Monday evening as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that 26 corporate houses sent in their applications. The apex bank receive
Indian Railways now provides enough options for you to avoid the queue at the booking counter. The latest is the SMS ticketing service which targets the 80 percent mobile phone population in India. Railways has launched the service to book
I left my home in the Gambia, a small and peaceful coastal country in West Africa, in end September 2011 and came to India to pursue my degree in journalism and mass communication at Sharda University. I had no idea where I was going to except for
