For dummies, and those who just landed from the moon, India has a new chief economic adviser (CEA). This is a job held by the likes of IG Patel, Shankar Acharya and Deepak Nayyar, not to mention prime minister Manmohan Singh himself. His name is R
The Delhi government on Wednesday notified 917 unauthorised colonies as regularized. These colonies were among 1,218 which were issued provisional regularization certificates (PRCs) in 2008 just before the assembly elections. But after four years,
BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and a Bajrang Dal leader were among 32 people convicted by a special court on Wednesday in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case in which 97 people belonging to the minority comm
Appointments of more than 2500 special educators for Delhi government and MCD run schools will not happen any soon. This is because the advertisement given by the government did not mention the reservation for candidates belonging to disability gr
Putting the heat on government to withdraw operation Green Hunt, the Naxals have now opposed the Mendha Lekha model which allowed tribals to exercise rights to harvest bamboo under the Forest Rights Act, terming at as a "ploy to loot forests&
When William Blake penned his famous poem ‘Tyger’ and wondered ‘what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry’, little did he realise that in not too distant a future the mortal hand of humans would be enoug
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, saying that waging war against the country was the primary and foremost offence committed by the Pakistani terrorist.
Hitting back at the government for "lack of seriousness" and "cover up" on the coal blocks issue, BJP on Tuesday said it did not need a certificate of responsibility from Congress party. It also reminded Congress of acc
Accusing BJP of making "political bread and butter" by holding Parliament to ransom by "blackmail", a combative Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday took the battle to the opposition camp and asked the party to "stan
Parliament remained deadlocked for the sixth day on Tuesday as BJP stuck to its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the coal block allocation issue. As soon as the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha met for the day, BJP m
Finding two top officials missing from a departmental meeting, a fuming UP minister ticked off an officer asking him to shut up and calling him ill-mannered. Urban development minister Mohd Azam Khan, who had fixed a three-day meeting betw
After a day-long speculation that the UPA government may take the Bhartiya Janata Party head on by bringing a confidence motion in the Lok Sabha either next week or on Tuesday or Wednesday when prime minister Manmohan Singh is away in Iran to show
The Congress organised a detailed briefing to some 120 party MPs on the allocation of the coal blocks that have come under the critical audit of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and elaborated on the PM`s statement in parliament to empowe
The right to education is taking a beating in the states, some of which are yet to ratify the model guidelines (rules of the act) proposed by the union government. The human resource development ministry had come up with the Model Rules, 2009, of
Dubbing CAG`s computation of loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore in coal block allocation as "flawed" and "misleading", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday took the battle to the Opposition camp, blaming it for thwarting the Centre`
The logjam in Parliament entered its second week on Monday with BJP members stridently demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of coal block allocation. Both the Houses were adjourned till noon as BJP member
Facebook is whizzing with young Unmukt Chand. So is twitter. The news channels are rushing to interview even the neighbouring dog. How we uncork the champagne without caring how flat and rotten our sporting system is. Let me walk you thro
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday took potshots at prime minister Manmohan Singh and the coalition he is leading, saying that people had lost faith in them. “People have lost faith in the authority of PM,” Ku
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday sought the help of the banking community to achieve his goal of rapid and inclusive growth of the state by improving their micro-level functioning. He said banks proved to be a big hurdle in reaching o
Even after 65 years of independence 65 percent of the country’s population has remained unbanked, says Amitabh Verma, commissioner, general administration of Bihar government. What it meant is that the formal
