On March 20, 2014, during the Lok Sabha election campaign, the BJP had organised a discussion over tea, ‘Chai Pe Charcha’, at Dabhadi village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region. In that meeting Narendra Modi as
With few players in the aviation sector there are bound to be charges of cartelization, especially in terms of fares. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has again taken up the issue of cartelisation and arbitrary hike in fares by commercial
J Jayalalithaa has been elected as the legislature party leader of AIADMK on Friday and governor K Rosaiah has invited her to form the ministry. She will be sworn in at 11 am on Saturday and this will be fourth time that Jayalalithaa assumes the o
A fortnight after it announced being on the verge of a shutdown, Greenpeace India on Thursday said it has opened a new bank account in order to sustain itself in the wake of a financial crunch. The new account, based in Bangalore, has attracted ov
Prime minister Narendra Modi is good with selfies. His latest selfie with Chinese premier Li Keqiang created a buzz across the world and was shared widely on social media. The selfie also prompted the
While it was in the wilderness, it was the claim of Bharatiya Janata Party’s leader that better days were coming and that one only had to wait for it to come to power. Now it has been in power for 11 months; enough time has passed for it to
There are no available templates which can make it easy to analyse the first-year performance of the Narendra Modi government. It cannot be compared with previous governments. The regimes of Rajiv Gandhi and PV Narasimha Rao were the products of p
There seems to be no attempt being made to create an atmosphere of congeniality that will go a long way in building trust that is necessary to make an administration to perform as one unit. In Delhi, the officials and politicians continue to hurl
The net neutrality issue is now with the law makers. A parliamentary committee of MPs is holding discussion on the controversial issue today (Thursday). At the meeting convened by the standing committee on information technolo
Delhi is erupting. After meeting president Pranab Mukherjee and home minister Rajnath singh on Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has written a letter to CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, saying the "power to appoint and to transfe
J Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on May 23. She will be elected as the party legislature leader on May 22. AIADMK spokesperson C R Saraswathi told reporters that chief minister O Panneerselvam would te
As India takes lead in world climate change policies, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change has drafted new emission and water consumption standards for thermal power plants. The draft notification has been publish
As the Modi government completes one year in office this month, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, who oversees nation’s monetary policies, has said that the administration had taken steps to create an environment for investment and is “sens
Minister of state for Tourism Mahesh Sharma has hailed the extension of e-visas to Chinese nationals. Sharma said on Tuesday that “It was a great vision of our prime minister that he took a lead and Chinese declared it as e-tourist visa plac
Nothing can escape without consequences and people in power pay more than the aam aadmi. As war in Delhi’s state secretariat heats up, deep distrust is building up among the officials. Forced to stem storm of revolt and non-co
Soon Ganga pollution will be treated as a criminal offense. In the effort to abate pollution, ministry of water resource, river development and Ganga rejuvenation is working on a law that will punish the one who pollutes the river.
The political reality, in former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa disproportionate assets case, is pretty clear. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government wants Jayalalithaa to be saved. BJP knows that to establish its presence in Tamil
In his first blog published on the newly launched portal of NITI Aayog on Monday, vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya had said that due to limited potential of the agriculture sector in bringing prosperity to a vast population in the long run, the cou
The powerful have to have a necessary quality, restraint. But in the Delhi drama, most lacking aspects are restraint and decency in governance. The tussle between Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor Najeeb J
Prime minister Narendra Modi seems to be building a USA in the backyard. On Tuesday, he called for unity among Asian countries and said they must work as Asians to shape the world and reform the global institutions of governance.
