The Uber rape incident has brought radio taxi services under scrutiny. Women are not safe anywhere if they are alone with a man. But they need to go out and work, sometimes even at odd hours. What would the solution be then, a cab service driven o
Fifty-two-year-old Kumar has seen a lot of queues in his life. The diabetic is now happy that at least one has disappeared from his life. When he visits the Tambaram taluk government hospital at Chrompet in Chennai for his monthly check-up, he wal
Two days after 14 CRPF personnel were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh on December 1, the government at the centre formed a high-level committee to review the standard operating procedure (SOP) to fine-tune its anti-Naxal strategy. Formin
Achyuta Samanta, noted social entrepreneur and founder of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) as well as the KIIT group of institutions, has been honoured with the prestigious Gusi Peace Prize International – also called ‘A
Whistle-blower officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi has suffered further setback as his cadre transfer from Haryana to Uttarakhand
At the Panchavati hall within the precincts of the prime minister’s residence known as 7 RCR, it was the most powerful gathering of top political executives on December 7. All the chief ministers had reached the hall much before the time. Th
Outside it’s a nice, pre-winter morning. Inside incense sticks fill the air with sweet, sticky, holy smoke as the faint light from incandescent bulbs fights its way to the dark cemented floor of a south Delhi branch of State Bank of India (S
Cisco and ILFS Technologies Ltd (ITL), a technology solutions company of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to utilise the Internet of Everything (IoT) to develop digital solutions for Indi
``Mr. White Tiger,..you have to speak, after all, the country has a right to know, the people need an explanation, the nation wants to know...how did one of you dare kill an Indian citizen that too just at a stone`s throw from the iconic India gat
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPOA) is a US lobbying group of pharmaceutical companies, based in Washington, DC. In the third week of November, members of this association held an ‘Innovation Dialog’ in Delhi and Chenna
India’s population control programme suffered yet another setback recently with the death of 13 women at a government health camp in Pendari, district Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ slogan took an abrupt U-turn.
The news about the sterilisation deaths that occurred in Chhattisgarh has already disappeared into the back pages of newspapers. Blame for the catastrophe has been placed on doctors, health officials, pharma companies. Politicians, after initially
The tragedy in Chhattisgarh, to use a business lingo, rests on three verticals: the economy of intentional mis-governance, the economy of malevolent business practices and the economy of stark gender-based cultural apathy (the verticals are arrang
The disinvestment drive of the NDA government kicked off on a positive note on Friday, with offer for sale (OFS) in steel giant SAIL receiving an overwhelming response from investors. However, market experts believe that it could have resulted in
Not long ago – to be precise, just before the 2007 Gujarat assembly elections – Congress general secretary BK Hariprasad described Narendra Modi in a highly innovative figure of speech in Hindi: “Kaunsi nali mein peda hua hai, pa
Manmohan Singh had a soft corner for Japan. It had bailed out India before and during the 1991 crisis. Soon after he became finance minister, he flew to Tokyo, to thank the Japanese prime minister. I was with him. It was nice to have an entire Air
Demanding early revision of the wages for the bank staff “which is due from November 2012”, public sector bank employees continued their strike on the third day on Thursday. This is their second strike in less than a month. The l
The supreme court of India (SC) has announced setting up a special ‘Social Justice Bench’ to hold speedy hearings over cases concerning social issues. According to a press statement, issued on Wednesday, the exclusive b
Lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s ‘termite tales’ brought much needed attention on the volumes of money involved in legal representation. His failure to produce proof of expenses in the filing of his income tax (IT) returns, he clai
You have taken over a ministry full of challenges. It has just been a few months but how much progress has it seen? For me, individually, it has been a learning experience, because my experience as a layman with aviation wa
