Undeterred by union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh’s opposition to fresh mining in Saranda, Jharkhand — India’s largest iron ore reserve, and also its largest sal forest — union minister of state for environment a
Here is an irony that will explain a lot of paradoxes about democracy in India. The Congress party comes to power and takes a revolutionary step of opening the government up for scrutiny before citizens through the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
This is the text of reaction from Subhash Agrawal, a prominent RTI activist and one of the two applicants whose complaint led to CIC`s verdict: "This refers to welcome full-bench CIC-verdict holding political parties accountable under
The woman held as a suspected Maoist after a brief car chase in Khammam, the district bordering Chhattisgarh, on Monday was injured in the ambush on Congress leaders on May 25 and was headed for Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh for treatment, accordin
Celebrities craving publicity are often hated for creating needless controversies. But here is another breed on the flipside that is equally weird and works the other way round. Taking the celebrities to task and dragging them to court is perhaps
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is crying hoarse for resources and over fund constraints to address the environmental issues plaguing the country even as the situation deteriorates rapidly. According to a new report of The E
Himachal Pradesh will be leveraging IL&FS’ K-yan, a high-tech multimedia tool, to power education in the state. K-yan comes with a smart board and the set will be distributed by Iris Computers Limited. The tool will be used to re
After the fiasco of a meeting of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) on June 2, N Srinivasan, the cricket board’s president who decided to ‘step aside’ and not resign, justified the decision. He said, “I have n
Khammam police on Monday arrested a woman suspected to be a Maoist operative believed to have been involved in the recent bloody ambush on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh that left 27 people dead. The police believe three other persons t
To me, TM Sounderarajan goes way beyond the cinema mania that lies latent in the psyche of almost everyone. He was a phenomenon that pervaded and penetrated all aspects of post-independence Tamil Nadu. His was not just another voice in a h
So now everyone is coming out of the woodwork and slamming the IPL for being a scam and a blot on cricket. A week ago, for an interminable two months, they were telling us how the IPL is the most exciting innovation ever and just look at the crowd
One night before Super Sunday, it seemed as if Times Now, the hollering flagship of Bennett, Coleman & Company (BCCL) and their stable of newspapers, will have the vicarious pleasure of hogging credit for felling N Srinivasan. But the
In their frenzy over the BCCI’s murky affairs, undergoing plotting and cooking in Chennai on Sunday, news TV missed playing up an interesting piece of news developing in Delhi on Sunday. Arvind Kejriwal, Indian media’s darling-turned-n
Infosys, that symbol of India’s economic transformation, is in trouble; and the return of NR Narayana Murthy from his semi-retirement, as executive chairman Saturday, is a manifestation of how deep the problem might be.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in a financial crisis and needs Rs 10 crore to contest the Delhi state assembly elections due in November. The party is circulating an e-mail from its chief, anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal, seeking co
A documentary film, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, is making waves in the United States. It debuted in the Sundance film festival, will be screened at the Sydney film festival on June 12 and expected to be released widely in Ju
The corridors of the union ministries are abuzz these days with the murmurs of protest against the department of personnel and training’s (DoPT) indifference towards the growing stagnation in the ranks of middle-level bureaucracy. Th
It remains to be seen as to what the tangible outcomes of prime minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan are. It is an important visit not merely because it will give a fillip to economic ties between the two countries, though nothing tangib
“The election commission (EC) has been a part of the journey of our republic since its very inception. It has been working with great responsibility from election to election and contributing to taking the nation forward step by step, fr
The Indian Premier League, IPL, went one up on itself this season, ushering in quality batting and betting; bowling and bawling. Here we try to spot and fix the problem – that of the original ‘cricket enthusiast’.
