Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal and over 100 supporters were detained by Delhi Police on Friday afternoon from outside chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s residence on a day his mentor, social activist Anna Hazare, was hospital
After heated discussions on the provision of primary education and the need for allotting land for scheduled caste and adivasi communities, the ongoing National Conference of Dalit Organisations here discussed the challenges and opportunities in b
A week after a government white paper on irrigation gave Ajit Pawar a clean chit, the senior NCP leader was on Friday sworn-in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister. Pawar, the nephew of NCP president and Union Minister Sharad Pawar, was sw
First, a bit of theory. Marshall McLuhan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan), a Canadian expert on communication, coined the phrase ‘the medium is the message’ in
If what you are going to read sounds too starry-eyed, it is deliberate and for good reasons. In my 20-plus years of reporting on governance and watching bureaucrats function from close quarters, I haven’t come across an officer who would be
Changi Devi Aharwal, a young woman from Madhya Pradesh, has done something that not many people from the dalit community back in her village have been able to do: she sends her little daughter to school. But the high of seeing the next gen
After calling UPA government “lame duck”, the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley termed UPA’s FDI argument “vague and flawed”. Saying that FDI in retail will kill manufacturing jobs and that the
Bouyed by its win in Lok Sabha on FDI issue, the government today said it is confident of a victory in Rajya Sabha as well though the numbers are close even as SP made it clear it will not support UPA during voting on the issue in the Upper House.
SC asks Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra to ensure functioning of benches of Green Tribunal at Bhopal, Kolkata, Pune in eight weeks. SC pulls up Centre, says working and appointment of Chairman of National G
As catchphrases like swarnim-rising-developed Gujarat charted its path toward a crescendo ahead of the assembly elections in Gujarat, Mahuva, a small taluka in Bhvanagar district, stands out. Those terms are an anathema here. Here
The latest white paper released by the NGO Praja Foundation on the state of crime in Mumbai city presents a rather black picture. Data reveals that while law and order situation has remained more or less the same for the past few years, investigat
Indians continue to live in a corruption ridden society with incidents of bribery, abuse of power and unethical dealings on the rise. In 2012, the country stood at 94 out of 176 countries surveyed by the Transparency International`s (TI) annual co
When Victor Hugo said one cannot resist an idea whose time has come, he should have written a detailed thesis on how to sell that idea to the public. For the Manmohan Singh government, if nothing else. The government could then have bought a few c
It isn’t only about the FDI in retail. The union government is facing strong opposition in virtually every attempt it is making to open up the economy to the market forces. The farmers’ agitation over the proposed decontrol of sugar in
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed by a majority ruling former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma`s petition challenging the election of senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee as President. Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, who led the 3 to 2
The Rangarajan commission report on ‘sugar sector regulation’ has garnered a lot of attention, mostly in ways that its authors would rather have not. As the sun beat down, hundreds of farmers raised the heat a few notches further at Ja
There is no flat, dreary government school building in Puruna Pitala village in Sheragada block of Odisha’s Ganjam district. Actually, there is. Only it is locked and hidden from view off the road by the new, two-storey building of sober bei
Against the backdrop of BSP and SP keeping their cards close to their chest on voting in Lok Sabha on a motion against Foreign Direct Investment, government on Wednesday said it was in touch with various parties for their support. "We
Travel was one of the biggest challenges I faced when I first came to Medinipur. Although I stay in Medinipur town but my work involves travelling to villages in Salboni block which is about 35 km from the town. I mulled over several options. I th
In his first exposé since forming the Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal has taken the attack to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and alleged that both the BJP and Congress are in cahoots to favour business houses and enter into illegal a
