Thousands of farmers, pensioners, anganwadi workers and MNREGA beneficiaries held a mass rally and public meeting in Delhi on Tuesday to protest the NDA government`s proposed changes in legal entitlements to labour rights, employment under MNREGA,
Radio Mirchi, an FM radio channel from the Times of India group, will air a show in which Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will answer questions from the audience. This, however, will arguably be in violation of the rules for private ra
Terming any change in the monetary policy stance at present as “premature”, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the key rates unchanged in its bimonthly policy review announced on Tuesday. As widely expected, the centra
Sajjad Ghani Lone’s first brush with fame was through his marriage. Then a 33-year-old wannabe businessman, he was marrying a Pakistani woman named Asma Khan in Islamabad in November 2000. No wonder, he immediately became the cynosure of the
Minister of urban development M Venkaiah Naidu said children need to be made the focus in urban planning and development. Speaking at the national conference on building smart child-friendly cities for 21st century India in New Del
Twenty-four-year-old Bhavesh Patel moves around giving a demonstration of the screen reader Dolphin Supernova in such a sure-footed manner that no one can imagine he is totally blind. The device has a voiceover function that can be used on iPhone.
Wednesday, July 2 was the last day of Peraboyina Sampath’s life. That day, in the evening, he walked into his dusty field, gulped down some pesticide and waited for all his miseries to get over. The 32-year-old farmer worked
At the Chhattisgarh secretariat the administrative staff may not have much work by 2017. A mammoth exercise is underway to digitise the records of all 49 departments, centrally store them and send them from one office to another in few seconds at
I am not aware of the reason that prompted her to paint in oil a desolate looking temple at an almost unheard-of settlement of Bhimtal in the far off Central Himalayan region. Splashed by the waters of a virgin lake, the largest water-body in this
Special economic zones (SEZs), symbolising India’s drive for economic growth in the post-liberalisation era, have failed to perform their stated purpose of job creation, and have been reduced in many instances to fraudulent land deals, revea
When we were taught English in school we were told that a pun was no fun if it went overboard or overstayed its presence in an essay. Once in a while if it was clever and subtle enough, it could add a little flavor to the writing but generally it
Ranjit Sinha is not the first director of the central bureau of investigation (CBI) to sully the organisation’s name. He will not be the last. He has several illustrious predecessors who contributed substantially to take India’s premie
In India’s realty sector, black money is a well-known reality. In its latest expose, investigative website cobrapost.com has claimed to have pinned 35 realtors across Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hydera
With the target of opening 7.5 crore bank accounts by January 26 already met, finance minister Arun Jaitley revised the target for opening of accounts under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) from 7.5 crore to10 crore by January 26, 2015
“Thirty-two percent people in Mumbai do not feel safe. 36% people do not feel safe for women, children and senior citizens in their own localities, 36% do not feel safe while travelling from one place to the other within the city and 37% do
Ever seen an eagle turf an eaglet out of the nest purely because it was of the feminine gender? Heard of a cheetah who refused to teach his daughter how to run and hunt because he was too busy teaching his sons? Perhaps Lassie refusing the female
Sahil got a shock when the bank employee told him that one of the 20 notes of Rs 500 he had brought to deposit was a counterfeit. He was also embarrassed – at being fooled as well as being possibly taken for a criminal. He first argued that
The nation is in ferment once more. Indignation is overflowing. All good men are frothing at their mouths. The target is old and familiar – black money. The outrage is understandable. For we are the worthy citizens who pay taxes in time, to
India’s huge appetite for energy with disproportionate dependence on hydrocarbons and its consequent impact on foreign reserves puts us in an insecure position. What is the government’s overall strategy? It is n
Forty-one-year-old Roopa Vasudeva was a fun-loving and always-laughing corporate trainer at a Gurgaon company. But in April this year her world came crashing down on her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I was exactly the same age
