As India’s national carrier flies through stormy turbulence, more recently with the IPL charter plane scandal, the taxpayer wonders how a once profitable set of twin behemoths has now been morphed into a fast-ageing elephant, lumbering along
Terming it an "unintentional mistake", Israel has dropped India`s name from the list of violence hit countries it said had been "ignored" by the United Nations while the Jewish state was being condemned for its "unmistakab
India has the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia and red-tape is much worse than in China, says a survey. In the ranking of 12 countries, India has been named as having the most inefficient bureaucracy followed by Indonesia and the Phili
Re one is all that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi invested and in return he earned a mind-boggling Rs 2,000 crore investment for his state, a political coup against the Left parties and the Tatas` gratitude. Reciprocating the
The ambitious SAARC university will start functioning from a temporary campus in Jawaharlal Nehru University this year with 50 students in two Masters courses. JNU today agreed to provide its School of Physical Sciences building to
A study by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) shows that for the period 1901 to 2005 there has been an increase in the annual mean temperature by 0.5oC in the country. This rise in the temperature says the study will aff
It`s raining political victories for Mamata Banerjee and the the Trinamool, following the party`s victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Eager to keep a key ally happy, the UPA-led government at the Centre has conceded to the Trinamool dema
The United States was ready to cooperate with India in tackling the menace of Naxals if New Delhi made such a request, Robert Blake, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, said on Wednesday. “Prime Minister Manm
Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh continues to go his own way despite directives from the prime minister`s office (PMO): he has asked Madhya Pradesh to submit a detailed resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) plan for further envir
Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has detected 1,037 cases of theft of electricity during the last month and imposed Rs 3.06 crore penalty on the erring consumers. "About 50 per cent of the penalty has already been pai
Home minister P Chidambaram today asked Maoist-hit states to double the capacity of their police training institutes as also police recruitment to fight the menace of Left-wing extremism. "Most states have barely sufficient capacity t
Buoyed by the remarkable showing of her party in the civic elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today demanded immediate Assembly elections, saying that Left Front major CPI(M) has lost all right to continue in power.
Jairam Ramesh, the minister of state for environment and forests says that if environment and development have to go hand-in-hand certain trade-offs have to be made, in an interview to Business Line. He adds that people have taken environm
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today refused to take questions on the civic poll results that delivered a blow to the ruling Left Front. Asked if the results of the civic poll, widely seen as a trend-setter for next yea
A special court here today adjourned the trial in the disproportionate assets case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa to June 14. When the case came up for hearing before Judge B M Mallikarjunaiah, the counsel for Jaya
NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary, prime accused in the October 2008 serial blasts in Assam, was today remanded to 14 days police custody in Udalguri. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) leader was remanded by Udalguri Sub-divisional
Police today lathi-charged anti-Posco agitators trying to prevent the socio-economic and forest survey, which resumed after four days at the project site for the Rs 52,000 crore mega steel plant. Batons were used to disperse the agitators
India`s biotech industry "is well on its way" to become a five-billion dollar industry by this year end, Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said today. "We are well on track," Mazumdar-Shaw said during the inauguration of b
My pick of the day is this lead piece on the Comment page of Hindustan Times by historian Ramachandra Guha. He writes that the Central government has lost all credibility in Manipur. If it wants to solv
I, a first-year student of Economics Honors at the Delhi University, strongly feel that the semester system should be introduced at the under-graduate level. I would like to mention a few reasons to support my stand. When compared with the annual
