Trashing the report on 2G scam by justice Shivraj Patil, former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Tuesday accused union minister Kapil Sibal of trying to save A Raja by functioning as his advocate. "Telecom minister Kapil Sibal is an a
The Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSA) undertook before the court that a new panel sans industry insiders will be constituted to look into harmful effects of soft drinks, after the supreme court on Tuesday deemed it illegal. The court obse
It is unusual to profile a man six years after he passed away. But thanks to your editor, you see here a remembrance of Hari Dev Shourie, who in our view has few equals in his dogged representation of the faceless Indian. We have a common
The deadline for the introduction of Delhi`s bus cluster scheme has been shifted again. Now, the cluster buses can be expected on city streets by the end of February and beginning of March. The new deadline was announced on Monday, deferri
After apparently dithering on funding Delhi metro`s phase III, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to extend financial assistance to the project that envisages adding 105 kilometre to the existing 200 km network.
Delhi government has revised circle rates for registration of valuation of lands and immovable properties in the capital. The new rates will come into force with effect from February 8, 2011. “The revised rates shall be tak
With attempts at drawing the authorities` attention to their wage issues failing repeatedly, the pilots of the Indian Airlines (IA) have threatened to keep flights grounded in protest from February 11. The Indian Commercial Pilots Associat
The ropeway project in Girnar wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat which has been in limbo since September 1995 has finally been given in-principle clearance from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). However, the environment minister Jairam Ra
The rural development ministry has constituted a committee to restructure the district rural development agencies (DRDAs), the body responsible for implementing myriad rural development schemes at the district level. With the onset of a nu
The people of the country of Egypt take to the streets en masse to demand democratic elections among other rights. The world’s largest English news daily, published from the world’s largest democracy, runs an article on how corporate s
The small plastic sachets of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala scattered all over roads, parks and other places may soon become history if the environment ministry has its way. The ministry of environment and forests on Monday, while notifying the Pl
A green NGO has claimed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is not putting up compliance reports on its website. Himanshu Thakkar of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) has said that the MoEF is violating the e
Former union minister and Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar has demanded introduction of a new Nagpur-New Delhi Duranto Express and also increase in the frequency of Nagpur-Mumbai Duranto, which runs on a tri-weekly basis. Muttemwar, in a
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal may soon find himself in a soup over the S-band spectrum controversy. Sibal was a part of the space commission that cleared state run Antrix Corp`s S-band spectrum deal with Devas Multimedia in 2005. As the min
The Congress party’s presidentship has become a “family monopoly”, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) LK Advani writes in his blog dated 6th February, 2011. In his blog Advani talks about Belgaum in Karnata
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos sustainable development was a much talked about topic. Indian delegates discussed about inclusive growth and sustainable development on media. But what does sustainable development mean? Can it become a
Indian Airlines pilots, aggrived by frequent delays in remittances of salaries and a wide gap between their pay and that of the pilots of Air India, are planning a st
CBI on Friday quizzed the former telecom minister A Raja on the unified access services (UAS) licencing issue. The agency is believed to have posed sixteen questions to Raja, armed with the original files of the telecom department and the
The one-member committee of retired supreme court judge Shivraj Patil has faulted the department of telecom (DoT) for first seeking opinion of the law ministry on the procedure for the 2G spectrum allocation and then ignoring it. It also n
The coal ministry plans to circulate a note on enhancing coal production in the next cabinet meeting, asking that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) consider all coal blocks irrespective of its No-Go policy for mining in forest areas f
