This can happen only in India. The government decided that millions of cable homes in dozens of cities, including the metros, or those households that received hundreds of TV channels through analogue cable, had to become digitised. But when a fri
A famous noting by a cabinet secretary aptly summed up the status of railways sometime back: “Indian Railways does not seem to be a part of the government.” The cabinet secretary, though, must be ruing the inaccuracy of
What do politicians do when caught with their pants down, metaphorically speaking of course? They feign ignorance — that is to say the pants never existed. And what do politicians do when a relative or family member is caught with his pants
Stressing that enacting laws alone are not enough to stop violence against women, a senior UN official has urged the Indian government to address structural discrimination and strengthen preventive initiatives in an effort to develop a more holist
The nation is still some distance way from a regulatory framework for its real estate sector. Urban housing and poverty alleviation secretary Arun Kumar Mishra admitted as much today at a conference on affordable housing. The real estat
When Rahul Gandhi said, "Congress can get defeated only by the Congress", his partymen had seemed surprised. Today, senior Congress leaders are ruing that their colleagues and party workers are on the verge of proving their leade
As the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) start the drive to evict residents living in illegally constructed floors of the Campa Cola compound in Mumbai’s upscale Worli area, we revisit an article we had done late April this year – when
In hindsight, Sushilkumar Shinde may have stated the truth late last year when he said even prime minister Manmohan Singh did not know about Ajmal Kasab’s hanging. “The
Last night ‘The’ Arnab Goswami dared all media persons counselling restraint. If the Boss had it his way, India would fix all b*stards in the world six times a month. Our MiGs, some as old as the pilots who we force to fly them, would
Securities market regulators from the Asia-Pacific region have created a common database that will include details of enforcement actions undertaken by the regulators. This has been done to establish greater coordination and facilitate inf
Securities market regulators from the Asia-Pacific region have created a common database that will include details of enforcement actions undertaken by the regulators. This has been done to establish greater coordination and facilitate inf
There has always been a lurking fear of the dragon in North and South Blocks on Raisina Hills, from where the country is governed. While this has been proved each time issues related to India’s border with China have come up for discus
In terms of sheer volume of trade (around $66 billion in 2012), the economic engagement between India and China has always been hailed as a successful model. Under this fierce ‘economic statecraft’, India thought it would normalise bor
I was born a year after the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, which had claimed a distant relative, an incident I was to learn much later in life. Besides the few times someone in my family would talk about it, I had no knowledge or understanding o
On April 30, president Pranab Mukherjee was in Jharkhand’s Godda district, laying the foundation stone for Jindal Steel and Power’s 1,320-MW power plant. Barely a kilometre away, at the Sundarpahari police station, more than 50
The supreme court has called for making the CBI truly independent after its chief confessed to sharing a probe report with the law minister and others. A noble objective indeed, even if it is as difficult as removing poverty. A beginning, however,
The political fraternity is caught in a storm over former additional solicitor general Harin Raval`s letter to attorney general G E vahanvati, which exposed the UPA government`s lies on interference in the CBI`s handling of the Coalgate case. Rava
Already termed as the "least productive", the 15th Lok Sabha may be headed for further trouble with new escalation in the government-opposition stand off. The budget session of the House may move towards an early closure followin
Expressing concern over the prevailing water scarcity situation in Maharashtra, Governor K Sankaranarayanan today assured people that the state government is taking all necessary steps to overcome the situation through short and long term measures
