The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has criticised the Army for letting a private builder take over its land at a prime location in Mumbai by giving it a “no objection certificate" and compromising the defence security.
“The press has to be accountable to the public in whose interests it claims to be acting and must show respect for the rights of others… The answer to the question who guards the guardians, should not be ‘no-one’.”
It may have just about 200 people or thereabouts, but the five-day Jan Sansad, or the people’s assembly, at Jantar Mantar is generating enough heat in the form of issues raised and threadbare discussion on them to fire up imagination of thos
It is a warm pre-winter afternoon when I revisit the Singh brothers of Gohaldihi village. The brothers, Sapan and Indrajit, work as labourers to make ends meet, and also take care of their handicapped sister. On my last visit, Sapan had t
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to explain the circumstances under which its police arrested two girls from Palghar in Thane district for posting comments on Facebook on the November 18 shutdown for Bal Thackeray`s
I went to school back in the eighties and early nineties, when examinations and report cards were a reality of life (and a grim one, for most of us), unlike children blessed by Kapil Sibal and his policy of no exams-only grades. And one of the spe
Estranged Karnataka BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa, who is set to resign from primary membership of the party, on Friday became emotional as he recalled his long association with the party even as he trained his guns at BJP leaders for hatching a &
While plenty of variables are required to hook up with one another and go bust all together to set a political disaster in motion, almost none of these variables apply to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Machiavellian
Shweta Bhatt, the wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, on Friday announced that she will contest the state Assembly elections on a Congress ticket against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar constituency in the city.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pointed out diversion of funds of around Rs 115 crore and ineligible beneficiaries of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Only 22 of the 1,517 housing projects approved under JNN
Leaving New Delhi for the ANSA-SAR project, I was aware that Abu Road, the block I had chosen to work from, was predominantly a tribal area with 80 percent tribal population. But I had no clue about the identity of the tribe. I heard abou
Delays in disposal of second appeals and complaints under the Right to Information Act are a known fact now. But many commissions do not even acknowledge the receipt of the appeal and keep one waiting. There are very few commissions who have an ac
The four-day logjam in Lok Sabha over the FDI in retail ended on Thursday with Speaker Meira Kumar allowing a discussion on the subject under a rule that entails voting. "I have received 30 notices for discussion on FDI in multi-brand
“The Parliament which should have otherwise been functioning in its Winter Session is not doing so. Hence, here I am,” said D. Raja of the Communist Party of India, gathering chuckles in the group of about 200 to 300 people who had gat
There is little to doubt that direct cash transfer (DCT) of subsidies and other social benefits like pension and scholarships to the poor, which the UPA government is planning to roll out from January 1, is a brilliant idea. It will completely cha
The rivalry between British and French is well known and goes back to early medieval ages. A slice of it was witnessed on Tuesday when the visiting mayor of London, Boris Johnson, took a dig at the French minister Arnaud Montebourg`s unwelcome com
As many as 186 schools across five states allowed caste or gender-based discrimination over the last two years while serving midday meal to their students, according to reports collated by 41 independent monitoring institutes and submitted to the
Amid opposition`s insistence on a discussion with voting on FDI in Parliament, Government on Tuesday said it was "not concerned" over it, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserting that UPA has the numbers. "Yes, we are co
