A local court on Thursday directed police to investigate a complaint filed by a city-based businessman against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for allegedly making "hate speech" against a particular community.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said transformation of the agricultural sector should be the top priority of the country`s public policies including those on science and technology. He also said that complex issues related to gen
An unannounced drizzle is normal for this time of the year anywhere else. For Chandasi village of Noorserai block in Nalanda district of Bihar, this would mean a sudden change of appearance. The dusty plains meekly give way to an expanse of swamps
There’s been a reinvigorating flutter in the Trinamool Congress head office lately — a remarkable change in spirits after all the (local and national) flak it has been catching for more than a year now. And it’s all because the m
The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Centre for its failure to stop illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by multinational companies, saying the drug trials are creating "havoc" in the country and causing death of many citizens.
While the fast-track court to deal with the gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old paramedic at Saket would start proceedings today, the Saket district bar council has made it clear that not one of the 2,500 or so advocates registered with the cou
BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party government over law and order in Uttar Pradesh, saying it would not be wrong to term the prevailing situation as "anarchic". "The past ten mon
The revised anti-rape law, which is expected to be stringent and facilitate speedier justice, is unlikely to be named after the Delhi gang-rape victim as suggested by some quarters. The new law will be framed after Justice Verma Committee,
In a move that may provide relief to debt-stressed states like Bihar, the government on Wednesday said the time has come to revisit the criteria for according special category status to states. "...existing criteria (for according spe
My mother called up me the other day in Singapore to tell me that the doctors at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi had to remove the intestines of the girl who must remain unnamed I was aware of the Delhi rape case. I was following the publ
Being a journalist is not easy. Getting the opinion of those in power is tricky. One has to wait for days, weeks or months for an appointment. You will get an audience soon if they happen to be free which makes me wonder if they all are working so
Water has brought Padu Mallik home. Padu saw very little of his village, Shrambhukia, for over a decade till last year. When he first left home in search of work, he was barely out of his teens. Today, the rakish, thirty-something from Kandhamal,
A day after Union Minister Shashi Tharoor favoured naming the revised anti-rape law after Delhi gang-rape victim, her family members on Wednesday said they have no objection to it and the move would be an honour to the girl. The family mem
In a setback to the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the appointment of Justice (retd) R A Mehta as state Lokayukta by Governor Kamla Beniwal, saying it was done in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court.
History bears out the fact that the Indian elite has internalised low cunning and secrecy as its essential characteristics for the statecraft. It would be pertinent here to jog the memories of those who fell victim to structural amnesia and forgot
Editor’s Note: This was written exactly a year and a day ago – a year Manmohan Singh, incidentally the prime minister of India, mostly kept to himself. On the eve of his much-discussed press conference scheduled for January 3, we revisit the piec
In an alarming report, the NGO Greenpeace has revealed that conditions are expected to become much worse for the water-starved Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, with over 55,000 MW coal-based power plants being proposed in the belt as of 2010.
Finance minister P Chidambaram has scoffed DMk president M Karunanidhi`s suggestion that he (Chidambaram) could be a prime ministerial candidate. "I know my limitation and I stay within my limitation. That`s my serious answer and on a
Close on the heels of the Congress proposing chemical castration for rapists, main opposition BJP has also suggested maximum punishment to the accused in rape cases — either death penalty or chemical castration. “There should b
For a country whose history textbooks generate so much controversy (either allegedly too Leftish, a.k.a. the CBSE books, or purportedly too Rightish Hindu revivalist in BJP-ruled states), we learn little from history. Forget the textbooks;
