“Yaari hai imaan mera, yaar meri zindagi…” The lines that define friendship are also the lines that are synonymous with Pran, who passed away last week in Mumbai. Declared as the ‘villain of the millennium’,
The Uttarakhand secretariat on the busy Rajpur Road in the state capital, Dehradun, was buzzing with activity on July 9. After weeks of speculation, the much-anticipated visit from a team of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) had fina
The data lying in government files has great social and commercial value. Under the ‘open data initiative’, started by the government last year, more and more departments releasing datasets on the umbrella website, data.gov.in. From th
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 &
Two years after releasing the first draft, the union government has finally 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 businesses.
Hemant Soren, son of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren, was sworn in as the new chief minister of the state today. With his appointment, another of Jharkhand’s stint with President’s rule came to an end. President&
Testing the self-regulation mechanism of news channels for the first time, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha has revealed that eight months back he reported market manipulation to the News Broadcasting Standards Autho
Tucked away from nosy parkers a group of 20 specially trained men and women in Mumbai scour the social media platforms every day, tracking conversations and mining keywords for sentiment and topical analysis. They are members of a Social Media Lab
Even if you were a fan of Kapil Sibal or his poetry, it was a curious way for the electronics minister to be breaking a mega "investment" story. A half-page (paid!) advert on Page 17 of The Economic Times (Delhi) platform Friday
The market watchdog, securities and exchange board of India, (Sebi) today, directed a Delhi-based dairy company to wind up its five-year-old collective investment scheme with immediate effect using which it had raised around Rs 1,100 crore from th
India’s largest power producer, NTPC has appointed Manash Sarkar, managing director of Ratnagiri Gas and Power private limited, as its new executive director (Corporate Affairs and Corporate Communication) replacing A N Davey.
After nearly convincing former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to return to the BJP in a bid to shore up the party’s prospects in the southern state, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has now set his eyes on Jharkhand. Modi, the B
In India, persons deemed to be craving for too much success and riches are routinely ticked off with the “you can’t take your wealth to your grave, can you” question. But what is impossible for human beings seems like a near cert
The recently concluded Wimbledon kicked up two storms on the sexism front: BBC Radio 5 Live’s presenter John Inverdale’s comment on Marion Bartoli’s looks – or apparent lack of them – and the headlines about Andy Murr
The prime minister’s office (PMO) is seriously considering cancelling the 164 allocated coal blocks by Monday and file an affidavit before supreme court to this effect, it is learnt. The Congress core committee is set to discuss the
The juvenile who is charged with being involved in the gangrape and murderous assault on a 23-year-old medical student on December 16, 2012, and who is no more a juvenile now, can stay an accused for a fortnight more. The juvenile justice board (J
The board for reconstruction of public sector enterprises (BRPSE) has recommended closure of the two units of the sick public sector undertaking Hindustan Photo Films (HPF). The company has two manufacturing plants — the main factory at Oota
A minister in a state was last month convicted and sentenced to three years in jail after what is referred to as illegal mining. He appealed before the higher court just in time, before the supreme court came up with its latest act to clean up pol
Soon, public sector undertakings (PSUs) unable to spent their CSR funds will have to part with it as the department of public enterprises (DPE) is mulling over setting up a sustainability fund in collaboration with the World Bank. The DPE
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest move to give a booster dose to the low-cost housing sector has evoked mixed feelings among developers and real estate experts. While most have welcomed the move, some are sceptical, too. The R
