In the past five years, almost Rs. 10,000 crore has been spent on rural sanitation with not much to show for results, says a report of the Comptroller and Audit General of India (CAG). It was tabled in the parliament on Tuesday. It says the Total
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged a “political vendetta” by the ruling BJP into the National Herald case, and insisted that he will not be cowed down and will continue asking questions to put pressure on NDA at Ce
Ending months of uncertainty hanging over the anti-corruption institution due to allegations of bribery, Karnataka’s lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao has resigned. Rao has been stalling calls for stepping down following the allegations. However, he t
As many as 1003 of the total 1089 successful candidates in civil service exam (CSE), that is 92 percent of them, marked Indian administrative service (IAS) as their first choice among a host of services allocated to successful candidates – l
Boosted by the encouraging comments of US Secretary of State John Kerry, negotiators from more than 190 countries, whose mandate was to fill in the brackets on a global climate accord in just two weeks -- and whose energy was beginning to wane --
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments to set off an “energy revolution” to rein in heat-trapping carbon emissions and avert disastrous global warming. Warning that “the clock is ticking towards cli
"Humiliated" Magsaysay award winner Sanjiv Chaturvedi has written to prime minister Narendra Modi, urging him to bring to an end "culture of intolerance and untouchability being practiced against honest civil servants" and has
Being a ruling party helps, or it seems so. The Bharatiya Janata Party has declared that it had received Rs. 437 crore in the form of donations in 2014-15. This amount is twice the combined total declared by other national parties, — the Con
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is expected to meet home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday to deliberate on the proposed odd-even registration number private vehicle formula.Amid debates over the practicality of the proposed alternate-days ru
The Delhi High Court on Monday quashed a petition by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi seeking to quash a lower court`s summons in a case related to acquiring the ownership of the now-defunct National Herald newspaper
Like cricket matches, India and Pakistan shook hands in neutral Bangkok. But the opposition is not amused. The Congress has accused the government of making a “fundamental departure” in India’s stand on ties with Pakistan without
Chennai airport resumed 24-hour operations for both domestic and international flights today. Yesterday, the runway was opened for day-time domestic flights. Boarding passes are being issued manually at the airport due to power shortage.
World’s largest democracy is the second most ignorant nation in the world. India has been placed at second spot after Mexico in a survey called ‘Peril of perception’ conducted by Ipsos MORI, a London-based market research firm.
The Kejriwal government`s experiment to restrict the number of private cars on Delhi roads got a boost with supreme court`s new chief justice TS Thakur, supporting the measures to improve air quality in one of the world`s most polluted cities.
In a sudden breakthrough in the stalled Indo-Pak dialogue, the National Security Advisors of the two countries met for four hours in Bangkok on Sunday and discussed terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, and other bilateral issues and agreed to take forwar
As flood water starts to recede from parts of Chennai and other districts of Tamil Nadu, people fear outbreak of epidemics. City-based doctors feel there is a lot to be done to tackle the situation.
Public wrath is being expressed on the social media and the politicians have been gate-crashing on the issue of Delhi government`s move to curb movement of private vehicles in the capital due to bad air quality. Sensing the anger on the streets, A
Chennai is slowly limping back to normalcy but the city is still on edge as many areas witnessed heavy rains this morning. Thousands of military personnel and social activists were engaged in a major operation of supplying food, water and blankets
A key government committee has suggested a standard goods and services tax (GST) rate of 17-18%, increasing chances of a consensus on the key reform so that the constitutional amendment that it entails can get passed in the current winter session
In a major step to counter the deadly pollution levels in the national capital, the Delhi government has decided to allow odd and even number vehicles to be on the roads on alternate days, starting from January 2016. The decision, taken at a meeti
