Despite a large budget, the state of education in municipal schools as per the White Paper by Praja Foundation reflects sheer apathy on part of elected representatives. Though Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations’ annual education budget for
Development discourse ‘Vikas’ is a rather sanskritised term but surprisingly it was a common refrain even among the most illiterate people from the most far-flung villages of Gujarat when they discussed
In a state as split down the middle as Gujarat, where they vote for either the Congress or the BJP, or the other way round over the last three or four elections, who are these “others”? Keshubhai Patel’s Gujarat Parivartan Party
Despite a large budget, the state of education in municipal schools as per the White Paper by Praja Foundation reflects sheer apathy on part of elected representatives. Though Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations’ annual education budget for
The ruling BJP appeared set to perform a hat-trick in Gujarat while trends reversed in favour of Congress in Himachal Pradesh where it could wrest power from the saffron party. Official trends in the counting of votes that began this morni
Brazenly mocking the ongoing Operation Anaconda 2, a combing mission of the Jharkhand Police and the Central Reserve Police Force in Saranda, Maoists torched at least 14 earthmovers in Derwan, within 20 kilometres of Manoharpur block in Saranda, o
In what seemed a scene straight out of a Bollywood tragic-comedy, the Lok Sabha was witness to some drama, oodles of ugly scenes and a bigger dose of embarrassment on Wednesday after an agitating Samajwadi Party MP allegedly snatched papers from t
Politics has an uncanny tendency of repeating itself less as farce and more as tragedy. This seems to be the description of the move to provide reservation to the scheduled castes/tribes (SC/ST) for promotion in government jobs. Behind the
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday had a meeting in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a girl here during which it was decided that a drive will be launched to ensure removal of tinted glasses
The Delhi high court Bar Association is mustering support for a boycott of the court of justice Valmiki Mehta on December 19. This move has few precedents and is purportedly on account of “brusque remarks” by some judges, alleg
While there many programmes for rural poor, there is no policy to adress the needs of urban poor migrants. They constitute a large number of the population, says NC Saxena, member of national advisory council and commissioner to the supreme court.
Times Now is a news channel that understands entertainment better than most entertainment channels in India. So you have everything loud, jazzy and almost 70-mm, Dolby-like on the channel. So when the channel does something, the honchos at
The cyber security threat to national security has set the government in action mode. The government has formulated a five year plan for map
In what would be an embarrassment for the country’s cyber warriors, nearly 10,000 email IDs of senior government functionaries were compromised— that, too, on a single day — earlier this year. A
In a petition filed in the Bombay high court by Mumbai Cooperative Housing Federation, to stall the order of cooperation commissioner, Pune, Maharashtra, the court has set back the federation’s hasty election proceedings. The high co
Parliament on Tuesday witnessed outrage over the rape of a para-medic student in the capital with a united Opposition stalling the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha demanding an immediate statement by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on the issue.
For people in at least three villages of Nalanda district, the centre’s decision to put a cap on the number of subsidised LPG cylinders per household could well be a debate gathering much heat over nothing. In Saril Chak, Raitar, Kalyan Bigh
Differences cropped up among BJP MPs on the issue of providing reservation in promotion for SC and ST government employees a day after a bill in this regard was passed by the Rajya Sabha. "On the issue of reservation, yes there were d
Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed may be the key conspirator of the Mumbai terror attacks, but Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde referred to him in Parliament using honorifics like `Mr` and `Shri`. Shinde, during the course of a statement on
The Jharkhand police blamed the contractor who has undertaken road work under the Saranda Development Plan for the torching of his construction machinery at Ushariya village by Maoists on November 26 saying that the contractor violated security in
