A brainstorming session on June 18, inaugurated by the Karnataka chief minister and organised by the minister for rural development and panchayats and attended by more than 60 panchayati raj activists, governance experts and NGOs, was a good begin
Two members of Mahatma Gandhi’s inner circle, Swami Anand and Kaka Kalelkar, were both great prose stylists, great authorities on Indian culture and religions, and both were smitten by the Himalayas. They made a pilgrimage to the Char Dham (
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 &
Days after a group of independent experts criticised the “commercial exploitation” of malnutrition and said the private sector should be kept out of any crusade against malnutrition, the Lancet, the renowned British medical journal, ha
As directed by Bombay high court, Yes Bank held its board meeting on Thursday to consider the nomination of Shagun Kapur, daughter of one of the bank’s co-founders. The board met in the afternoon and finished after 8 pm, it is learnt.
As we had predicted in an earlier report (West Bengal panchayat polls might just be shelved for now; June 12), West Bengal’s
With due respect to Ram Lal Anand College, I think there’s a very serious problem somewhere if our children need 100 per cent marks to get into their esteemed B Tech (Computer Science) Course. Curious to know about India’s answ
Coming as a pat on Indore Municipal Corporation’s back, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a United Nations initiative, has recognised reforms undertaken by the civic body in disbursing old-age pension, given to people above 55
The Indian judicial system has managed to safeguard and generally expand the fundamental rights of citizens. It can rightfully claim a lot of credit in ensuring that a functional democracy exists in India, despite its diversity and huge challenges
For a government, the task of informing and educating people about their rights and entitlements is as important as formulating and implementing these rights and entitlements. Failing to do so, the government ends up spending taxpayers’ mone
A few hours ago, the Texas (United States) senate declared the anti-abortion bill `dead`. The Bill would have been very easily passed had it not been for Wendy Davis, Texas Senator , who put up a filibuster to stop it from being voted.
The massive disaster in Uttarakhand has brought to the fore not only the old debate of ecology versus development but also thrown up questions on how both the past and present governments in the state failed to deliver in the fields of disaster ma
The financial crisis in 2008 hit the revenues of many companies in the world. But this was no deterrent on the revenue generation of the Indian companies which were indulging in fraudulent practices. A new study finds there has been a spurt of fra
The capacity building (CB) scheme seems to be doing many things at once and at times can seem overprepared. What else can explain the training conducted under the programme of chief information officers (CIO) when the creation of a formal post, as
Even as the deluge in the Ganga tributaries wreaked hell-fury on Uttarakhand, national disaster management authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy was gracing the stage at a Unicef (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund) event i
In a fresh petition filed with supreme court, the Tamil Nadu government has sought 10 thousand million cubic feet (TMC) water immediately from Karnataka. The petition has also pleaded that the apex court should immediately direct the Centr
The director of India’s premier investigation agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), is making a case for autonomy before a group of ministers (GoM), his political masters. Ranjit Sinha, the CBI director since December 20
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been in existence for close to nine decades since its formation in 1925. In this period it has come to head a maze of organisations, or affiliates, that comprise what is loosely referred to as the Sangh Pa
State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation became the only public sector undertaking to figure in the list of top ten workplaces in the country. According to the 2013 study of around 535 organisations operating in the country carried ou
It’s not every day that Kolkata, Dominique Lapierre’s City of Joy turned Left and now Mamata Banerjee’s City of Anxiety Attack Syndrome, gets a new infrastructure that can boast of being among the best in its class. Dented and da
