Angry protests continued in Seemandhra regions on Tuesday against an impending decision on the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. With pro-unified AP crusaders, opposed to the formation of a separate Telangana, performing pujas in temples in Visakhapa
Concerned at the government’s tendency to readily waive the mandatory one-year cooling off period for the retired bureaucrats who want to take up private sector jobs, a parliamentary standing committee has suggested that they should be gi
The backbone of India’s economy in last six decades since independence, the public sector enterprises (PSEs, or PSUs) were the shining stars on Wednesday. The venue was the Le Meridien hotel in New Delhi, and on show were the best of
A) Is Amartya Sen an Indian citizen? B) If not, does he have the right to comment on who he wants, or rather does not want, as India’s prime minister. Answers: A) Matters little. B) Yes, of course. At a time when both
Sir, I hope you are fine. While talking to two Reuters journalists, Ross Colvin and Sruthi Gottipati, on July 12, 2013, you identified yourself as a ‘Hindu Nationalist’ and credited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for in
The biotech industry has lashed out at a report of a technical expert committee (TEC) appointed by the supreme court to look into the issue of genetically modified crops as it suggests the witholding of field trials until a sounder biosafety frame
While the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bihar unit is crying foul at the ruling Janata Dal (United), claiming that the former NDA partner is trying to win over several party MLAs, reports indicate not all is well within the JD(U) itself.
There is something about the olfactory organs of politicians. Either they are too sharp and sensitive or they don’t have one and just bluster their way through. If caricaturists have their hands full with West Bengal chief minister M
By virtue of being some of the largest commercial enterprises in the country, public sector undertakings (PSUs) possess the unique ability to rise above the short-term commercial interest and invest in creating national assets so as to maximise lo
The television industry is going through a bit of a rough path, it seems. As if the I&B ministry’s ruling on airing a maximum of 12 minutes worth advertisements per hour from October (please see our story
Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation of India (MMTC), a central public sector enterprise, is worth Rs 66,000 crore. One of the highest earners of foreign exchange for the country, it not only handles the export of primary products such as coal
The recent supreme court ruling on a common national entrance examination for medical courses has sparked off a heated debate. Private colleges have hailed it as the restoration of their right to conduct their admissions independently while many b
When Sunil Ajwani, 33, a finance executive and a resident of Bandra Amar Jivan Cooperative Housing Society, in the plush Mumbai suburb, objected to irregularities in redevelopment agreement executed between the managing committee of his residentia
“The English language has caused a great loss to the country. We are losing our language, our culture as there are hardly any people who speak Sanskrit now. “We have lost everything in the era of modernism
More than two years after Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan went on a dharna for fast-track clearance of Mahan coal block in Singruli district, many local people have come together under the banner of Mahan Sangharsh Samiti (MSS)
In India, the minority population is merely a vote bank for most political parties. The BJP too tried to woo them. The party is projecting Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for general elections of 2014 and is likely to announce his name sho
In all the haze, maze and daze over Narendra Modi, is the BJP losing the plot, bit by nano bit, as the next general elections inch closer? Or is the party taking a calculated risk by bidding the good governance-economic developme
In all the haze, maze and daze over Narendra Modi, is the BJP losing the plot, bit by nano bit, as the next general elections inch closer? Or is the party taking a calculated risk by bidding the good governance-economic development adieu and check
There are two possibilities arising out of what happened in the supreme court on July 18. First, there was a clairvoyant, a la Nostradamus, in the bench of the apex court. Second, there are a few too many dark chambers in the closet of the former
Britons are as ill-prepared to handle summer heat as we are for blizzards. And yet they are enduring what is being termed as the century’s fiercest summer. July temperatures have peaked at 31 degrees Celsius and around 650 lives are lost.
