Law is an ass. If you have doubt, then look at the manner in which corruption cases against the high and mighty of the land are dealt with. Take for instance the manner in which the income tax appellate tribunal exonerated UP chief minister Akhile
If one is not hugely mistaken, Amitabh Bachchan used to do a TV commercial for a prickly heat powder manufactured by Boro Plus, for which the actor was the brand ambassador. It seems the actor has been left a touch prickly since then. J
Driven by rising prices of food items such as sugar, pulses and vegetables as well as clothings, retail inflation moved closer to the double digit mark at 9.75 percent in October. It was 9.73 percent in the previous month, according to the
Bishwajit Bhattacharyya retired as India’s additional solicitor-general on Friday, November 9. Hired specifically to fight on behalf of the government on all indirect taxation cases involving thousands of crores, Bhattacharyya says he spent
Prime minister Manmohan Singh is upset with his union ministers over getting into unnecessary media controversies. A senior official of the PMO on Sunday called up two union ministers V Narayanawamy and Jayanti Natarajan to convey the disp
Having braved out bucketfuls of charges, accusations and allegations on corruption and price rise for a better part of the three-and-a-half-year term of UPA-II, the Congress seems to be at a crossroads: to pull up its socks to face the nation in m
The Sayedpur village, located on NH 60, is divided into two colonies. The Muslims inhabit the larger colony which comprises 16 houses. The rest is occupied by mudis (the grocers). Upon entering the Muslim colony, my eyes fall on a canal by the sid
Seldom does one see such an overwhelming consensus on the eve of polls as is evident in Gujarat. The issue that has an overpowering influence on the electorate`s mind is Narendra Modi, the charismatic but controversial chief minister of the state.
During the meeting of Congress leaders on Friday, a strong demand was made for raising the cap of subsidised LPG cylinders from the current six to 12. Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi was the first one to speak followed by prime minister
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings on all petitions relating to the 2G spectrum allocation scam, pending before the Delhi High Court, on a CBI plea. "All proceedings pending before the Delhi High Court shall remain sta
Asking partymen to gear up for the next Lok Sabha polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday accused its opponents of attempting to grab power at any cost and called for an aggressive response to their "false propaganda". N
Arvind Kejriwal and his colleagues from the India Against Corruption (IAC) continued their series of weekly exposes, focusing this time on black money stashed in Swiss banks -- and the UPA government`s inaction to retrieve it. Citing documents, he
Point to be noted at the outset: this piece is in no way, either overtly or covertly, sponsored by any chain of eateries. With the slate clean, one can then use the words without ambiguity or self-consciousness: thank god, it’s Friday that t
The newly appointed human resource development (HRD) minister, MM Pallam Raju, got state governments to agree to expand the Right to Education (RTE) Act to cover preschools. Under the plan, children between three and six years of age will be gu
When Omita Paul cleaned her desk at North Block to move in as secretary to president Pranab Mukherjee, RTI expert Devashish Bhattacharya wondered why she isn’t called principal secretary like Pulok Chatterjee was to prime minister Manmohan S
In an apparent move to send out a message of austerity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a bus ride along with other leaders to Surajkund in Haryana where the party is having a brainstorming meeting. However,
With Kali Puja (Diwali for the uninitiated) merely a week away, ‘chanda’, or donation, collection has gained momentum, taking near-menacing proportions. On my way to Kornagarh last Saturday, we were stopped several times by local youth
The brazenness with which A Raja went about allocating 2G spectrum or Suresh Kalmadi organizing the CWG or captive coal blocks were gifted (free of cost) to a few private players is now well documented and open. All thanks to an alert and pro-acti
