Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe remarks on Indian fishermen has led to a major controversy. Wickremesinghe said that Indian fishermen could be shot if they intruded into the country`s waters. His remarks are being highly criticised
Prime minister Narendra Modi, who had kept silent on the entire controversy over the BBC documentary on the December 16 gangrape, has said, “Our heads hang in shame when we hear of instances of crime against women” and announced that t
A missing child is a parent’s worst nightmare. The mere thought of it sends shivers down one’s spine. Thousands of children are reported missing every day from India, yet very little is done to return the little ones to their anguished
Time magazine says “it helps to be famous in real life. But the rise of social networks has leveled the playing field, allowing unknowns to command audiences rivaling those of real-world leaders, even if by accident.” Th
Few weeks after Sri Lankan president’s visit to India and ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Lanka, Ranil Wickramesinghe, Lankan prime minister has dropped a bombshell that is going to stir up issues especially in Tamil N
There is hope in the air. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s categorical statement on plans to revive Nokia plant at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu has breathed life into lives of thousands of workers. The plant was closed in Novembe
After issuing a ban on broadcast and sharing under IT act, the government has now asked video sharing website YouTube to remove the controversial BBC documentary on Delhi gangrape as it went viral. BBC, which released the documentary on Wednesday
With an aim to bring in reforms in the coal sector, the government will soon allot linkages with greater transparency. In an interview with Governance Now, coal secretary Anil Swarup said after transparent e-auction of coal blocks,
The BBC, while declaring that it has no plans to telecast the controversial documentary on December 16, 2012 gangrape incident in India, it went ahead and broadcast it in the UK. Earlier, the documentary was scheduled for March 8, coinciding with
Arvind Kejriwal began his detoxification regime on Wednesday itself with the removal of senior AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from the party`s Political Affairs Committee (PAC). Kejriwal left for a 10-day naturopathy treatment in
The governments in India have shown remarkable inability to balance development and dissent. Procedural and bureaucratic delays are condoned without much ado but hurdles due to civil society’s opposition are crushed with iron hand.
As the lawmakers condemned the interview on Wednesday, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said that suitable steps would be taken to prevent proposed broadcast of the BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya rape
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) again surprised the nation by holding an unscheduled monetary policy review on Wednesday and reduced the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points (bps) from 7.75% to 7.5% wit
The climate change talks held under the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) in Geneva in February resulted in an important 86-page negotiating text. This text is a draft for a final agreement that parties will scr
The information technology department of Delhi government plans to hold a stakeholder consultation before it finalises a plan for making Delhi Wi-Fi enabled. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had promised to provide free Wi-Fi in his election manifes
Before the telecom companies jump into spectrum auction from Wednesday (March 4) they should pay a visit to superstar Amitabh Bachchan. For that matter the government also should hear out Bachchan before releasing their spectrum.
The railway ministry has launched a mobile phone application and one online portal to provide customers with "an effective forum to lodge complaints". These two forums can be used by passengers to register complaints as we
# The place where former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) at Rajendra Prasad ghat in Varanasi in 1986 had turned into a pungent smelling embankment by river side in Varanasi, frequently used for urination, open defe
It may not be betrayal but has all the trappings of it. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal called the letter war in his party as betrayal of people, but refused to be drawn into the infighting. Can Kejriwal ignore his party and make hims
The internal rift in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which recently formed its government in Delhi after winning 67 out of 70 assembly seats, is widening further. While, the chain of letters being released in media reports is showing gr
