The Congress party is planning to hold a brain-storming session at Surajkund on November 9, triggering speculation that the party could be bracing for an early election. According to sources, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is under tremendou
Cities are engines of growth. But, with a very few exceptions, the urban centres overflow with garbage, lack sound public transportation and a reliable power and drinkable water supply. To make things worse, the municipal corporations, which gover
Nirmal Chandel was all of 25 when her husband died, 20 years ago. For a year, like other women in the community, Nirmal was forced to stay at home and not allowed to talk to anyone. “That is how widows were treated. A few have to go through
That direct question to prime minister Manmohan Singh was one of the highlights of Arvind Kejriwal`s press conference on Wednesday, October 31. Kejriwal asked why the government was being so kind and considerate to Mukesh Ambani`s Reliance
She has been mocked for losing the “important” information and broadcasting ministry. A national daily has tried to explain Ambika Soni’s departure from the government to her decision of letting Aamir Khan use the Doordarshan pla
Heralding an open season for the Nehru-Gandhi family, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Thursday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, of floating a private company and converting a pu
Going by the way he works, Arvind Kejriwal has seemingly never wanted to be a darling of any section. It’s just chance, or perhaps lack of a goal-scoring opening, that he still is for some, at least in the media. But otherwise, the b
Wednesday, the 31st of October, 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 conglom
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday claimed S Jaipal Reddy has paid the price for "defying the country`s biggest corporate" by being shifted out of the Petroleum Ministry and said this exposed "the tentacles of big bu
The venue for activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal’s rally to highlight alleged irregularities by a trust operated by union minister Salman Khurshid and his wife turned into a battleground on Thursday afternoon as Kejriwal’s s
The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to withdraw controversial draft amendments to the Right to Information Act that had sought to restrict disclosure of file notings only to social and developmental issues. After this, all file notings c
When the freshly revamped council of ministers met for the first time today, prime minister Manmohan Singh had an opportunity to set before them the governance road map for the remaining part of the term and motivate them to deliver. He, in his ty
Holding that "high" fiscal deficit is a deterrent for domestic and foreign investments, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the government will have to overcome constraints to achieve a target of nearly USD one trillion of inv
Fifteen sailors were on Thursday rescued and a search was on for six other missing crew who were on board an oil tanker that drifted and ran aground off the city coast in high velocity winds before the landfall of cyclone `Nilam`. "Ar
Security has been stepped up in Farrukhabad on Thursday in view of protests planned by Arvind Kejriwal and his associated against alleged irregularities by the trust run by Union Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife. Congress workers have
Aam aadmi topi firmly in place, activist Arvind Kejriwal crowned former union petroleum minister S Jaipal Reddy with a martyr`s halo. His choice of headgear for industrialist Mukesh Ambani was a figurative pair of horns. The political gadfly and h
Seeking to take their campaign against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to the global level, anti nuclear activists on Wednesday sought support of the international community to their efforts for scrapping the project and making the world `nuclear f
Cyclone `Nilam` is expected to make a landfall this evening between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, bringing in heavy rains in the region, with tide levels reaching 1.5 meters. "The cyclonic storm, which lay abo
