Delhi winter can be harsh, really harsh. All the more for a pavement dweller living on alms. The smile on the wrinkled face of Sumitra Devi, 70, will, however, never tell you the story behind her daily struggle. She lives under the sky outside the
A few days before an American-turned-Yemeni preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in a hellfire missile attack by US drones in Yemen on September 30, 2011, Indian intelligence agencies got a curious tip-off from their American counterparts. There
Governance is a complex tool to achieve political objectives. This reductionist definition may not fit into the academic description of governance. Yet it is quite apt in the Indian context. Unlike politics which requires a sustained dialogue betw
Is the central vigilance commission (CVC) and the health ministry trying to save Vineet Chaudhary, a former deputy director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) against whom several charges of corruption are pending?
Infosys back in action, read a tweet on Friday, and it indeed was back with a bang. The tech major reported net profit of Rs 3,250 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2014, up 4.9% from Rs 3,096 crore in the quarter ended September 30,
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s return from South Africa to India. Here is a brief outline of his first few days after the return. January 9: The Gandhi family arrives at the Apollo Bund
The Delhi police on January 1 filed an FIR in the case of Sundanda Pushkar’s death in mysterious circumstances a year ago, the obvious question is what prompted police to wake up? The answer is in the second report submitted by the m
Invoking Digital India, promoted by prime minister Narendra Modi, the telecom operators have asked the government to review the review the base price (Rs 3,980 crore) for popular and efficient 900 MHz airwaves for the February auction.
"100 years ago, one NRI returned to India and today one non-resident Gujarati welcomes entire overseas Indian community." This is how prime minister Narendra Modi spoke on Thursday as he inaugurated the 13th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya
Charlie Hebdo magazine’s latest cover featured a caricature of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq, who has penned a novel set in a France governed by Muslims. On Wednesday noon (Paris time) its editor Stephane Charbonnier was sho
Sangam Vihar, a large “unauthorised” colony in south Delhi, is a case study in the utter neglect of development. Water, for example, is in short supply, and residents face several problems in meeting their daily requirement of it.
After six hours of marathon discussion with the government the representatives of the five major trade unions, which had shut down production at all coalfields of Coal India Limited (CIL) for five days, agreed to call off the strike on Wednesday.
After successfully ensuring delivery of a harvested heart to a hospital in Delhi from Gurgaon for transplantation last week, the Delhi Traffic Police have taken to social media to seek the cooperation of motorists to honour the green corridor for
Banks will hold the country to ransom for a week from January 24. Likewise, public-sector unit Coal India employees have struck work since Tuesday and are threatening to stay away for 10 days even as over 40 power units have less than seven days s
Indian prisons are no longer the hellholes of the world and neither comfortable places. The jails are mostly crowded and brutality is almost a daily affair. Under these circumstances, another high court judgement to allow sex for the married coupl
Sunanda Pushkar’s death case will be handled by a Special Investigation Team , said Delhi Police Chief B S Bassi on Wednesday. A year after Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was found dead inside a hotel room, Delhi
Even with the vacuum created by the conviction of J Jayalalithaa, the DMK’s M Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu seems to be reluctant to openly hand over the party his son MK Stalin. Stalin has had worked his way up in the party and i
There are five good reasons why I am not going to the Pravasi Bharati Divas celebrations in Gandhinagar starting on Wednesday. These reasons have held their own since 2003 when this whole love affair with NRIs began. For those anglicised folks of
His book ‘Why Growth Matters’ was described by Economist magazine as a manifesto for policymakers and analysts. Understandably, its author Arvind Panagariya has been appointed by prime minister Narendra Modi as his vice chairman
Sutirtha Bhattacharya, the newly appointed chairman and managing director of Coal India Ltd (CIL), gets a frosty welcome from his staff even as the country prepares for power problems. A day after taking charge Bhattacharya faces big challenge in
