Observing that the tragic death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar illustrates a gap in Irish law, rights group Amnesty today asked Ireland to ensure that its domestic policy on access to abortion is in line with international human rights law.
Slamming the working style of cooperative banks, Reserve Bank governor D Subbarao said that there was urgent need to overhaul the functioning of these banks that would help country achieving financial inclusion agenda. "Governance in cooperat
While finding a house on rent is a difficult proposition in any part of the country, it takes an unabashed caste angle here in Abu Road. “So what’s your second name,” is the first question you will hear in any middle class local
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said censorship was no answer to irresponsible journalism and favoured self regulation by media. As a country, we believe in complete independence of the media from external control," Singh said
In cricketing parlance, Rahul Gandhi is a bit like Yusuf Pathan. His fans (led by Digvijay Singh) believe he is creator and destroyer rolled into one, his opponents say they are always hard-pressed to jog their memories to recall the last time he
As experts and journalists grappled with the shockingly low figure of Rs 9,407 crore that the government could generate from the auction of 2G spectrum, and put their minds to discerning if it was due to a genuine mistake by the government (in set
The UPA is sorely missing its troubleshooter-in-chief. Pranab Mukherjee’s absence is quite noticeable in the new cabinet committees and groups of ministers (GoM) constituted by the prime minister since after the ministerial reshuffle on Octo
BJP parliamentary board will finalise its strategy for opposing FDI in retail in the coming winter session of Parliament at a meeting on November 20. “The BJP parliamentary board will meet on November 20 under the chairmanship of L K
Open to handholding the stressed sectors, finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said government will work out a strategy to assist industry segments reeling under the impact of economic slowdown. "If the economy improves and grow
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday indicated that his government was not getting the required cooperation of some officials and a section of the media on improving the law and order situation in the state. "We are
Something is grossly wrong in the way someone is cooking the menu and rate-list for anganwadi centres in Nalanda district. While the idea is to provide nutritious meals to young children and nursing mothers at these centres, as part
What’s eating Tamil Nadu police? Going by the alacrity with which they detain or arrest people, at those purportedly needling politicians, or at least the Chidambaram family version of the breed, the cops in Rajnikanth land seem to be more a
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, started with a buzz in social media circuits as to who would be the next target of Arvind Kejriwal. During the day, several names were speculated upon – Anil Ambani of the ADAG Group, a mining conglomerate in Mad
The only bit of Berhampur I had seen ever (before I landed here on November 6) was the washed-out train station platform bearing that mandatory concrete signpost of yellow and black with the city`s name (Sanskritised to Brahmapur) -- in three lang
Diwali is the festival of light. It also, at times, brings to light new facts, hitherto hid in the political closet of denials and supposedly seminal noise-making. Take M Karunanidhi, for instance. It just so happened that finance minister
Extending his support to the "justful" cause of sugarcane growers in Maharashtra, social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday condemned the firing incident in Sangli district and accused the state government of turning this year`s Diwali &q
The second day of auction for 2G spectrum started at 0900 hours on Wednesday, on the back of demand for spectrum in the Bihar telelcom circle. A Department of Telecommunications official replied in the affirmative when asked if the auction
Every year there is an outbreak of Dengue in Delhi. The municipal corporations assure that the situation is in control but many people lose their life due to this disease. So is there anything wrong with the approach of authorities to handle the i
V Narayansamy, the MoS in PMO with a reputation for spouting brilliant ideas, has come out with an absolute gem: convert the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) into a three-member body to make it more transparent and professionally mor
