At a time the Kishtwar riots were rocking the Lok Sabha, an actor-turned-TDP MP used his theatrical skills to good effect to draw attention towards the Seemandhra stir. Dr Siva Prasad, representing the Chittoor Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh, tu
Adam Smith was a moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. He is best known for his second seminal book: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which strongly emphasizes on the role of ‘self-interest&rsqu
Affairs of men often proceed like a Mexican wave and all human beings are imitating animals in some respects. So, there is hardly any reason to find fault with Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his full-throated invocation of "we can&q
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took the attack to the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress party in particular when he said the party that has ruled for nearly 50 years in 66 years of an independent India cannot govern the
Senior IAS officer, Ashok Khemka, in a report submitted to the Haryana government, has alleged that Robert Vadra, son-in-law of congress chief Sonia Gandhi, used false documents and executed a series of sham transaction for the sale of a 3.5 acre
The Indian economy is the ninth-largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). According to statistics released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for 2012, on per-capita-income basis, India ranke
Transparency: Everything in public domain The real estate bill mandates that the developers get their projects registered with the real estate regulator and obtain all the necessary clearances befo
The external affairs ministry (MEA) has terminated the services of noted Chennai-based industrialist A C Muthiah as honorary counsul of the Kingdom of Belgium in Chennai. The termination letter dated July 24 [attached below] was sent
The microfinance bill, facing an uncertain fate now, will only emerge the better from collective wisdom, as the parliamentary standing committee on finance has been holding extensive consultations over it. Meanwhile, the microfinance sector needs
The story could be apocryphal but has been passed down the generations, so we will go the whole nine yards, as they say. The year was 1845, and Hyderabad was ruled by the 4th Nizam, Nasir Ud Daula. On a warm and sunny day at almost this time of th
To understand the establishment and evolution of a charismatic personality in India, we have to approach the issue from religious, historical and contemporary politics perspectives. Going by the paradigm of religion, charisma can be locat
Two minutes before your plane touches down at Agartala airport, it passes through the international border of Bangladesh, separated merely by a boundary wall. And there is a distinct feeling of entering a different time zone in reality, not metaph
Maybe a little clichéd, but the expression sums up Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar – a gentleman among chief ministers and the chief minister among gentlemen. Among the political class, he is the dhoti-clad so
Miffed at non-compliance of a directive from the department of personnel and training (DoPT), which asked ministries/departments to disclose their respective minister’s discretionary powers and frame guidelines to regulate them, the departme
Having dilly-dallied for long, parliament on Thursday finally passed the Companies Bill, which many believe will provide the necessary fillip to the way business is done in the country. The new Bill, which was passed in Lok Sabha last year
The days of filing right to information (RTI) applications to get information from the government may soon be over. The government is planning to voluntarily put all information on public domain and encourage development of applications (apps) aro
At a time malls have beaten the otherwise theme of blues in the real estate sector, one mall in south Delhi is enduring a prolonged gestation period, with the developers, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), looking at uncertain days ahead.
India’s youth power has never been on such display as in the last couple of years. Proving cynics wrong, the gen next has shown they are as much – if not more – concerned about the nation as any other generation. A
I come from a generation of Bengalis for whom the greatest pride in Indian cricket is a southpaw who batted with footwork that went from minimal to even zero at times, moved his body parts starting from the backside and down till the right foot at
In Indian ethos, poverty is often philosophised. This is best summed up by a Hindi proverb “Mann changa toh kathauti mein Ganga (if you are pure of heart, the sacred river Ganga flows in your bucket!)”. This was philosophical com
