To counter the problem of lack of replication of e-governance applications developed by different states, the government has launched an ‘Application Store’ (App Store) which will have all the successful e-governance applications devel
In all probability, this is a classic case of a single-sided accusation, trial, conviction and punishment. And all of them impromptu. Here’s how it goes: international online fashion retailer Asos withdraws a batch of metal-stu
Prime minister Manmohan Singh and planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia have often spoken of the neoliberal dream of taking farmers and their land away from agriculture. Nobody has worked towards that objective as zealously as
In what could be a cause of worry for the Congress party in a year that will see assembly elections in several states, the Manmohan Singh government’s performance on the economic front has hit a low in its penultimate year in office, with th
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh had an hour-long meeting with West Bengal governor MK Narayanan. Ramesh and Narayanan spoke on the Maoist issue. The rural development minister also listened to the governor’s take on Indo-Ch
A day after the media reported that noted activist Aruna Roy had quit the national advisory council (NAC), questioning the UPA government’s commitment to its professed social agenda, prominent civil society members have supported her critici
MNREGS helped the Congress win in 2009 – or so thinks the party. But it is unlikely to be of much help next year. It has helped countless people in villages, and even LK Advani praised it at the UN, but it is plagued by poor design leading t
With elections to both the state assembly and the Lok Sabha slated for next year, the Congress party received a serious jolt in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, as a senior Congress MP from the state quit the party to join the Telangana Rashtra Samiti
As a reporter, bad news and good news are, for me, primarily variants of the same noun: news. But today I was jolted by one piece of news: the untimely demise of Rituparno Ghosh, the filmmaker. For quite some time I had led myself to belie
Barring the cantankerous debates, noisy debaters and raucous anchors, not a lot has happened in the world of Indian cricket – either on or off the pitch – since the arrests of Sreesanth and the two other cricketers suspected of involve
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been discredited. The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has emerged as a spineless, conspiratorial and politicised club that lacks transparency, ethics and integrity. The names of players, including T
The Dharba Valley Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh continues to fox security and intelligence agencies on many counts, but mostly on why Naxals resorted to this unprecedented step. The 4-page statement issued by the Naxals yesterday owning responsibi
Much to the chagrin of India, which has opposed raising caste–based discrimination at the international forum, a group of seven UN Special Rapporteurs in a recent statement highlighted the plight of dalits. In a joint statement, they said th
The practice of overstaying the deputation period is not only rampant among the IAS officers who often cling to their political masters and refuse to go back to their parent state (read
On the morning of May 28, Tuesday, three days after Maoists ambushed a Congress leaders’ motorcade and killed 27 people, some media houses and journalists received a four-page press note and an audio tape statement. Sent purportedly
Maoists on Tuesday morning claimed responsibility for the May 25 attack in Chhattisgarh in which 27 people, including state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and veteran party leader Mahendra Karma were killed, according to letter and audio statemen
The fate of YS Jaganmohan Reddy continues to hang fire even as the Kadapa MP completed a neat one year in detention. The CBI had arrested the beleaguered son of late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on May 27 last year in connection with the di
Seven prime ministers, a similar number of telecom ministers and several bureaucrats in the department of telecom (DoT) have aided, abetted or silently looked away as a series of scandals rocked the Indian telecom sector over the past two decades
