Delhi’s lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung today summoned Delhi police joint commissioner S K Gautam and sought a report over the police action against students during a protest outside RSS office in central Delhi`s Jhandewalan area that has sp
Actor Anupam Kher, who was to attend the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, has been denied visa by Pakistan. Kher tweeted that “has my visa been denied because I speak about India`s rich tradition of tolerance or I am a Kashmiri Pan
In a letter titled ‘Solution for Dalit problem’, written to the vice chancellor of University of Hyderabad (UoH) in December last year, Rohith Vemula gave two suggestions to support the subject line: “Please serve 10 mg of Sodium
In 1991, the Reserve Bank of India had to open its vaults and allow 67 tonnes of gold to be airlifted out of India, which was pledged with different banks abroad to raise a loan of $600 million. The money was meant to save the country from default
The Supreme Court will today hear the Congress` arguments against the imposition of President`s rule in the Arunachal Pradesh. The Congress has accused Arunachal governor JP Rajkhowa of being biased and working on the directions of the central gov
The government has constituted a technical group to monitor the situation arising out of spread of Zika virus and measures to be taken by the authorities. This step came after health minister J P Nadda today held a high level meeting of senior off
J S Deepak, who heads the prime minister’s committee on good governance, will be new telecom secretary. The IAS officer of 1982 Uttar Pradesh cadre was secretary of department of electronics and information technology, ministry of communicat
Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is the world’s largest Parsi-Zoroastrian institution. It administers affairs of the Parsi Irani Zoroastrian community. Geetanjali Minhas spoke to its newly elected chairman, Yazdi Desai, on the
At a time when the government is busy advocating a small family approach, one of its initiatives in 2013 came as a surprise to many. It advocated a scheme that encouraged a particular community to have more children. It launched the Jiyo Par
Allahabad high court`s retired judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal has appointed by the Centre to investigate the circumstances that led to the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. The judge will review the entire sequence of events and the circumstanc
The Union government on Thursday announced the names of the first 20 urban areas that will be developed as smart cities. "Implementation of smart cities plan will showcase integrated planning. The investment of Rs 50,802 crores has been propo
A mother of two, Sudha was routinely tortured by her in-laws while her husband had the least interest in working to support his family. Nine years later, an angry and frustrated Sudha left her home in Lucknow along with her sons. She came to
In a bid to remove roadblocks and resolve contentious issues that are stalling highway projects in the country, union finance minister Arun Jaitley and transport minister Nitin Gadkari today held a meeting with the bankers, contractors and the bui
In another unprecedented action the supreme court today recalled its earlier order on Uttar Pradesh lokayukta and issued a fresh order of appointment. The apex court bench comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi and Prafulla Pant appointed
The government will on Thursday announce the names of the first 20 urban areas that will be developed as smart cities. In subsequent years, the government will announce 40 cities each to be developed as Smart City. These cities will be developed t
In a bid to revive public-private-partnership (PPP) mode and attract more investments in roads projects the government today approved hybrid annuity model. The new mode will fast-track highway projects considerably. "The cabine
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to study how rapid changes in technology affect financial stability and growth.
A Good Samaritan in a road accident case has now been given a choice of becoming a police witness or not. The new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) seek to put an end to police harassment of `Good Samaritans` who choose to assist
India has signed an inter-governmental agreement on Monday to buy 36 French-built Rafale fighter planes. Prime minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India has agreed to buy 36 Rafale combat jets from France, but the financial details of the d
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has plans this year to install its compact supercomputing system, Param Shavak, in about 50 educational and research institutes. The system has already been set up at 25 institutes. Param Sh
