The much-debated and much-delayed food security initiative – seen as the Congress’s last-ditch attempt to win next elections – has finally had a partial and somewhat tentative rollout. The scheme made its debut on August
Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations special rapporteur who had come to India in the last week of April, had a frightful experience in Imphal. Addressing a press conference in the state capital, Manjoo cried while narrating the plight of the women i
Giving a fresh kiss of life to the famed Himachal apples, the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) has decided to undertake apple orchard management programme in two high-yielding districts of the state as part of its corporate social responsib
A company may have indulged in unfair trade practices and yet if it does not dominate the market, then the competition commission of India (CCI) is not the right body to take action against it. That is what the investigation report of CCI’s
Move aside ‘Mirakkel’. You are no competition to Mamata Banerjee’s whole new range of comedy series. Gone are the days of stand-up comedians with their prepared acts. As Mamata-didi plays out her fears and insecurities as chief m
The much-debated and much-delayed food security initiative – seen as the Congress’s last-ditch attempt to win next elections – finally rolls out from August 20, in Delhi and Haryana. The beginning, however, will remain half-heart
If politics is only about sloganeering, Indian parties are the greatest players of this game on the planet. Most of the top players in almost all Indian political parties love to coin catchphrases, with most phrases downright inane and of such poo
A motley crowd of waiting passengers on the dimly-lit platform number one of Bathinda junction, in south Punjab is a common sight. Every day the passengers wait for the Lalgarh-Jodhpur train, “cancer train” as they call it, which ca
A day after the markets went crashing down following controls put in place by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to curb capital outflows, the UPA government quickly put on its damage control boots on Saturday (August 17). While finance minister P Ch
At the time of its inception in 2005, the Right to Information Act generated high hopes and was rightly called the second independence of sorts for the people. Now that this powerful weapon is aimed at the political parties, to make them accountab
The onion is back to haunt India’s politicians. While the Sheila Dikshit government began selling them at Rs 50 per kg at 1,000 select points in Delhi from Saturday (Aug 17), the government, smelling the pungent stench of public discontent,
In a bid to make the railways friendlier towards specially abled passengers, Indian railways has decided to provide Braille stickers to coaches to aid visually impaired passengers. The railways plans to use stickers with metallic base with printed
Keeping in line with the target set for the quarter, national aluminium company limited (NALCO) has registered a net profit of Rs 160 crore. While announcing the results for the first quarter ending June 2013 NALCO said that there has been some de
In view of the increasing global presence of Indian PSEs SCOPE the apex body for public sector enterprises (PSEs) is organizing a programme on ‘International Taxation’ for the benefit of PSEs on August 23, 2013 at SCOPE convention cent
1947 represented an ideal world. It represented the beginning of freedom; it represented a sense of the Indian dream. It gave us a sense of exemplars and paradigms. It was a period of idealism where character building and nation building went toge
Mahesh Joshi, 55, is a postmaster in Dhasook village panchayat. He is suffering from a heart ailment and has been consulting a doctor based in Ajmer, 70 km away from his village. Every time he feels uneasy or has a slight pain in the chest, he has
Scribes and patriotic citizens of Guwahati have once again shown their defiance to the militant’s diktat on the 67th Independence Day with unfurling the national flag in a festive atmosphere. As declared in advance, they paid homage to the m
Transport troubles are all set to return for Tirumala devotees as the joint action committee of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) employees have again decided to stop bus services to the temple town from the intervening nigh
Giraffe Heroes India, an offshoot of the Giraffe Heroes Project of a US-based non-profit organisation, is inviting nominations to honour people involved in a stand-alone act of bravery or heroism in India. “I am very happy tha
A major turf war seems to have broken out between the UPA government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) whose arbitration finally rests with the supreme court. In a series of affidavits and counter-affidavits filed by the government and
