A day after actor Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks time to surrender, seven other convicts including 70-year-old Zaibunnisa Anwar Kazi, were also given the same amount of time by the Supreme Court to turn themselves in to serve their remaining s
Investors approaching listed companies with complaints now have a new reason to cheer with the markets watchdog directing all these companies to redress such complaints within a month using a centralised online complaints redressal system. The reg
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has promoted three of its general managers to the post of executive directors (ED). According to a statement issued on Thursday, S Bhattacharya has been made ED, communication navigation and surve
Amid the rise and rise of Narendra Modi, the only challenge ironically comes from an ally, Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal (United). After the hat-trick in Gujarat, the clamour for Modi as PM is only growing and he has acknowledged the same, making add
The supreme court’s partial and interim stay on its own verdict on appointment of information commissioners and working of commissions has brought relief to RTI activists. The apex court’s order delivered on Tuesday has removed
The genesis of the problem with Indian politicians, as these columns and many others have said before, lies within a few inches of each other: their brain, and their mouth. Like good hand-eye coordination required of a batsman, it’s the brai
Almost a year after a task force submitted its report on monitoring of the proactive information disclosure under section 4 of the RTI Act, the government has issued a set of guidelines to all central government departments and ministries, instruc
If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought Narendra Modi’s decision to emerge from the ‘confines’ of Gujarat to the national stage would be a panacea ahead of the general elections, it could not have been more wrong. And
Hitting out at rich nations for bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday pitched for subsidies for clean energy saying market forces alone would not be able to finance it. Singh also voiced concer
An explosion near the Karnataka BJP office in a crowded residential area here today left five persons injured, two of them seriously.Three cars and another vehicle were damaged in the explosion, the exact nature of which was not immediately known,
While folks working with the right to information (RTI) were still reeling from the supreme court judgment on the appointment of information commissioners in the Namit Sharma case, came the prime minister’s speech on the seventh year celebra
In a dramatic turnaround, the union government has now opened up public-private partnership (PPP) projects to public scrutiny. The move comes in the way of a fresh set of guidelines issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT)
On January 16, 2013, president Pranab Mukherjee presented the Krishi Karman award to Bihar for a significant increase in production of paddy in 2011-12. The 7.2 million tons produced was 50 percent more than its previous highest yield of 4.6 milli
With most of our judicial and quasi-judicial bodies suffering from enormous delays, the system is in a way surviving on its own. Though there are some good orders and judgments, our lives are finite and if things are not done in reasonable time th
On Tuesday, a supreme court bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhanthe, while dismissing a petition by three convicts of 1993 Mumbai blasts seeking more time to surrender, said, "We have carefully gone through the review petitions and t
The supreme court has granted an extension of four weeks for surrender to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt in a case relating to the 1993 bom blasts in Bombay. Dutt was supposed to surrender by April 18 according to the court`s March 21 order. But on W
Securities and exchange board of India (SEBI), the capital markets watchdog, has imposed a penalty of Rs 40 lakh on five individuals for indulging in fraudulent trading of shares of Eltrol Limited. The regulator in orders issued on Monday
The Aligarh Muslim University Teacher’s Association (AMUTA) has noted that despite almost a year of the new university administration taken charge; teachers still do not have any idea of the outline of their vision for the university.
India is considering freeing prices of locally produced oil and natural gas from state controls in a bid to lure more foreign investment, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said here. "We are at an advanced stage -- a Cabinet paper is und
New Delhi was the scene of all action related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts case on Tuesday. While the spotlight remained primarily on actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in an Arms Act case and sentenced to five years in jail, Markanday Katju, a former Supr
