The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed to set up Investigative Units on Crimes against Women (IUCAW) in 20 percent of the districts of each state on a 50:50 cost sharing basis with the states. Union home minister Rajnath Singh has
India’s public sector banks have received more than they sought to get at the Pune retreat. Prime minister Narendra Modi declared complete autonomy for PSBs and opened doors for reforms. Over 100 bankers had gathered at Pune to discuss and d
The relationship between the mother country and the great Indian diaspora has been ambivalent at best. With 30 million and counting Indians living in foreign lands you would think there would be a more realistic relationships by now
This is not fiction but a US government document. And it reads like this: Pakistan government and military have “ceased support” to extremist and terror groups, that they have “prevented” groups like the LeT and JeM from op
A city with high literacy rate did something new. Raigarh town in Chhattisgarh has elected 35-year-old transgender, Madhu Naresh Kinnar as its mayor in a direct election. With a population of over 2 lakh, the average literacy rate o
With nearly 55%-60% financial transactions being conducted over mobile devices this year, India has to wake up to lurking cyber criminals. An ASSOCHAM-Mahindra SSG study paints a grim picture and says that the number of cyber crimes in India may t
The Mehdi Masroor Biswas case has quite unwittingly unearthed the mother of all ironies. A distance of less than 10 kilometres separates the Bengaluru police headquarters and Indian space research organisation (ISRO) brain centre. Yet they are l
Electronic government holds the promise for a speedier, more efficient and effective governance. Better governance would mean better delivery of services more attuned to the citizen’s expectations. An effective and efficient front-end servic
Taking the tech campaigning to a next level, AAP volunteers have converted hashtag ‘mufflerman’, which began with a n
Prime minister Narendra Modi expressed his happiness to be at the 102nd session of Indian Science Congress (ISC), which he inaugurated in Mumbai on Saturday. However, he if takes a closer look at the science in India, he may feel depressed.
Prime minister Narendra Modi has no doubt hit the global sweet spot by identifying the corrosive potential of black money to slowly eat away the entrails of the painstakingly architected world economic and political system. In many ways it has alr
With public sector banks under intense pressure to reinvent the services, a big step was initiated on Friday with major stakeholders deliberating reforms “to make the banking system robust’. A retreat for banks and financial in
The Central government has approved the recommendations of M P Bezbaruah committee, which was formed in February 2014, to look into the v
They have every reason to protest. Mumbai’s rail commuter is most harassed. The ever-increasing hurdles in commuting adds to the stress of Mumbaikar. Friday’s spontaneous flare up was waiting to happen. Incidentally, railway minister S
Narendra Modi government replaced the 64-year-old `one-size-fits-all`planning commission with a new National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) to foster strategic developmental process in the country. Here are the framework and objective o
Twenty-five-year-old Marciline was surprised when her manager asked her to go home. She looked at the clock and it was not even noon. She immediately sensed that December 20 was to be her last day as an employee of Foxconn, the world’s large
After repeated protests by India, Pakistan on Thursday challenged the bail granted to Mumbai attack accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, even as the Nawaz Sharif government began to walk the talk on its anti-terror plan. The Interior Minis
The shift is both in name and objective. The government on Thursday signaled the birth of NITI Aayog, replacing the planning commission . With this the new organisation will focus on policy, which is even more basic than planning. An offic
Telecom operators can end 2014 with a prospect of getting more bandwidth at a lesser price in 2015. And the government can also hope for additional revenue, at least in principal, for the current financial year. This is the result
The government has made appointments for the top posts at four public sector banks (PSBs)and implemented its new policy of bifurcation of the post of Chairman and MD and CEO. R Koteeswaran, executive director, Bank of India ha
