Highlighting the growing importance of governance in every sphere, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairman UK Sinha urged the corporates to maintain the highest standards of governance in terms of accountability and democracy or per
For a government that’s accused of putting square pegs in round holes, the new home secretary is an exception. It isn’t enough to say that Anil Goswami, 58, is the first man from the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) cadre,
Unhappy with the government’s continued indifference to a slew of demands, the All India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF), one of the largest central government employees’ unions, has decided to start the process of calling an inde
“Masochist”, claimed a column in Business Standard, as it explained the attitude of the government to consistently attract controversies. “Mind-boggling foolishness”, said another piece uploaded on
When Syed Zafar Mehmood, who worked as officer on special duty with the Sachar committee on the socio-economic conditions of Muslims, made a PowerPoint presentation at a conclave in Gandhinagar on Saturday, it made news, because the audience inclu
A brainstorming session on June 18, inaugurated by the Karnataka chief minister and organised by the minister for rural development and panchayats and attended by more than 60 panchayati raj activists, governance experts and NGOs, was a good begin
Two members of Mahatma Gandhi’s inner circle, Swami Anand and Kaka Kalelkar, were both great prose stylists, great authorities on Indian culture and religions, and both were smitten by the Himalayas. They made a pilgrimage to the Char Dham (
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has never been in more trouble than she is in today. The deeper trouble – for the state and for society, for women in the state, in particular, and, of course, for the democratic-electoral process &
Days after a group of independent experts criticised the “commercial exploitation” of malnutrition and said the private sector should be kept out of any crusade against malnutrition, the Lancet, the renowned British medical journal, ha
As directed by Bombay high court, Yes Bank held its board meeting on Thursday to consider the nomination of Shagun Kapur, daughter of one of the bank’s co-founders. The board met in the afternoon and finished after 8 pm, it is learnt.
As we had predicted in an earlier report (West Bengal panchayat polls might just be shelved for now; June 12), West Bengal’s
With due respect to Ram Lal Anand College, I think there’s a very serious problem somewhere if our children need 100 per cent marks to get into their esteemed B Tech (Computer Science) Course. Curious to know about India’s answ
Coming as a pat on Indore Municipal Corporation’s back, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a United Nations initiative, has recognised reforms undertaken by the civic body in disbursing old-age pension, given to people above 55
The Indian judicial system has managed to safeguard and generally expand the fundamental rights of citizens. It can rightfully claim a lot of credit in ensuring that a functional democracy exists in India, despite its diversity and huge challenges
For a government, the task of informing and educating people about their rights and entitlements is as important as formulating and implementing these rights and entitlements. Failing to do so, the government ends up spending taxpayers’ mone
A few hours ago, the Texas (United States) senate declared the anti-abortion bill `dead`. The Bill would have been very easily passed had it not been for Wendy Davis, Texas Senator , who put up a filibuster to stop it from being voted.
The massive disaster in Uttarakhand has brought to the fore not only the old debate of ecology versus development but also thrown up questions on how both the past and present governments in the state failed to deliver in the fields of disaster ma
The financial crisis in 2008 hit the revenues of many companies in the world. But this was no deterrent on the revenue generation of the Indian companies which were indulging in fraudulent practices. A new study finds there has been a spurt of fra
The capacity building (CB) scheme seems to be doing many things at once and at times can seem overprepared. What else can explain the training conducted under the programme of chief information officers (CIO) when the creation of a formal post, as
Even as the deluge in the Ganga tributaries wreaked hell-fury on Uttarakhand, national disaster management authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy was gracing the stage at a Unicef (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund) event i
