Hearsay, these days, seems to have acquired greater validity than truth. Look at the manner in which the CBI has been trying to implicate Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah in the Ishrat Jehan encounter case. All it
Our political parties, the ones that are the actual agents of democracy and in charge of this republic, are the most corrupt among 12 institutions of our country. Or that is what people perceive, going by the just-released annual opinion poll from
The government on Monday appointed Sudhir Kumar Jain as the new chairman and managing director of Syndicate bank. Jain will now be at the helm of the public sector bank for a period of five years from the date of taking charge or until further ord
As the term of the reserve bank of India’s governor Duvvuri Subbarao nears its completion in September, speculations on his likely successors have begun. The name of the next governor is likely to be announced by the first or second week of
Students from abroad have to apply for permission to stay in India at the foreign registration office (FRO) every year. This registration should be done fourteen days upon arrival in the country. Failure to do so might warrant arrest and deportati
If only the promoters/management of companies had not unduly enriched themselves at the expense of the minority shareholders and only if they had complied with laws and regulations, the birth of the institution of independent directors (IDs) would
The death toll in Secunderabad building collapse reached 11, raising the spectre of humongous loss in one of the biggest tragedies of the twin cities. The 40-year-old old building that collapsed was located on the busy RP Road, and housed the City
Former union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, who seems to be in a no-man’s land in Trinamool Congress ever since he was seen to have defied Trinamool boss Mamata Banerjee while making last year’s railway budget before flinching to toe
It’s early morning Sunday and political knives are out for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar following the attack on the Mahabodhi complex. Predictably, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has been first off the block, tweeti
Some days, one wonders if this government has a political ‘death wish’. These are days when it regularly hikes petrol and diesel prices, doubles the price of natural gas (applicable in April 2014), allows FDI in multi-brand retail, and
Even though the calls are getting louder for Kumar Mangalam Birla to resign from the central board of the reserve bank of India over the `conflict of interest` (read full story
Abhishek Kumar, 23, hanged himself to death in Patna in February this year following depression from joblessness. Sudip Singh was in his late 20s when he committed suicide after failing to repay debts. That was 2010 and he was unemployed. Even in
If you were anywhere around a TV screen in the last two decades, you would have stumbled upon Sony channel’s show CID. First aired 16 years ago, in 1997, this crime detective series is now the longest running TV series in India.
As in most matters, the world is split over whether or not star industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla can continue serving on the board of India’s central banker, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and remain in contention for a banking licence,
With the promulgation of the ordinance on Right to Food, the Congress strategy for the 2014 general elections is beginning to take shape. It appears to be based on three things: populism, communalism and regionalism. That is, introducing p
After two years of releasing the first draft, the union government has eventually 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 busine
To figure out how much we the people matter in prime minister Manmohan Singh’s vision of economy, a visit to the Delhi-Gurgaon border would be ideal. From some vantage point, take a look at the airport, the metro line connecting it with the
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh will fly to Patna on Friday to meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and discuss the release of funds for laying 6,000 kilometres of roads in different districts of the state. Soon after the m
Denials notwithstanding, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and complained against the prime minister’s office (PMO) for the recent media leaks that show the Jet-Etihad deal in bad light. W
After three flip-flops within a month, the government has finally gone ahead with the ordinance route for the food security bill. More than anything else, it is this hurry which reveals the political opportunism behind this otherwise welcome legis
