As the new AAP government begins its work, Delhi that gave it a record verdict is full of high expectations with assured supply of drinking water topping the list of priorities. The other priorities, in descending order, are:
President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration policy and amnesty has been halted by a judge in Texas. US District Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision puts on hold Obama’s orders to stop deportation of as many as five million
A week after assault on an Indian by a police officer in Alabama, a Hindu temple has been vandalized on the eve of Mahashivratri in the US. Miscreants sprayed swastika and painted `Get Out` on one of the walls of the temple in the
As anticipated the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won the assembly by-election to the prestigious Srirangam constituency of Tamil Nadu, earlier held by the party chief J Jayalalithaa. However, the margin of winning was hu
Will J Jayalalithaa’s absence from administration affect the progress of Tamil Nadu? There is real danger of halting industrial development in TN and the first test is just over three months away. But an indication of future b
While a final word is still not out on the usefulness of Aadhaar card, various government agencies have taken steps to link it for speedy verification process and the latest to join is the passport issuing authority. With Aadhaar ca
Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that hackers have stolen approximately $1 billion from over 100 banks in 25 countries and termed it as one of the largest bank heists. It also said the "attacks remain active," and
Most pre-poll surveys and exit polls had indicated a victory for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), some indicated a big victory for the AAP, but none indicated such a massive sweep in these elections. The AAP got 67 of the 70 assembly seats while BJP man
The never-seen-before victory of political entrepreneur Arvind Kejriwal and his still wet-behind-the-ears Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is a Phoenix-like rise – unprecedented, unexpected, unimagined. Winning 67 out of 70 seats is a performance that
A week after it voted to bring a new government with record seats Delhi celebrated again on Saturday. All streets leading to the Ramlila ground were showing the story of support and love Arvind Kejriwal has among people. From the Ne
What can be seen as Delhi’s new government’s first major step in ensuring a corruption-free system , the name of the whistleblower officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi has been proposed for the head of the state’s Anti-Corruption Bure
Mega cities are difficult to govern. A monolithic administration is not responsive to citizens primarily because of its structure of layers of officials. Modern cities require a different setup to implement best practices of civic governance.
Police forces of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana got into an ugly brawl over water row between the two states. Scene at Nagarjuna Sagar dam area was quite shocking as two law enforcement forces collided over the issue. Eventually, their common
“Yeh aam aadmi ki sarkar sabki sarkar hain, agar aapne humein vote diya yah nahi diya,” said Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, after taking oath on Saturday (February 14), exactly a year after he quit. Howeve
Clever logic and smart sentences come naturally to smart alecs. If they happen to be lawyers-turned-politicians, their skills are often honed to perfection. Bihar governor Keshri Nath Tripathi easily fits this description. Tripathi
The senior most judge of the supreme court, justice TS thakur, has castigated the government for filing large number of cases in the court. According to him this "cannot be a good sign of good governance". "No one is
Days before railway minister Suresh Prabhu presents his budget, nine passengers were killed and 16 seriously injured when nine bogies of the Ernakulam-bound Express train from Bengaluru derailed on Friday morning near the border of Karnataka
With India putting pressure and the US setting in motion its internal laws into process, one of the two police officers who allegedly assaulted the 57-year-old Sureshbhai Patel in Madison, Alabama, has been arrested and FBI will be conducting a pr
In an unusually quick and angry response after recent Modi-Obama bonhomie, the government on Thursday summoned an official in the US embassy to the external affairs ministry and demanded expeditious investigation into the February 6 incident of ex
This was bound to happen. The Supreme Court has pulled up the central government for engaging in endless litigation over land acquisition issues and thus denying rightful compensation to land owners, mostly farmers. "You have e
