There are black days in history. Opaque and beyond the pale of human understanding. We know it is not a perfect world and we are imperfect people and, therefore, we do imperfect things. But these black days are not about imperfection. They fall so
With political parties getting unaccounted funds to the tune of over 70%, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has asked for a strict regulation of donations of this kind being used in the country’s electoral process. The ADR says th
The Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre hosted a show recently entitled Delivering Global Economic Resilience. The introductory performer, Angel Gurria, is director general of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Cou
Shankar Aggarwal, secretary, ministry of urban development, admitted that our country has not been managing water resources properly, but the government-planned smart cities will effectively deal with the challenge of water shortage by plugg
The disinvestment drive of the NDA government kicked off on December 5 with an offer for sale (OFS) in public sector behemoth Steel Authority of India (SAIL). The stake sale of 5% in SAIL through one-day offer was over-subscribed by more than two
A mid-December Delhi night brings up images of cold and eerily empty roads, for anybody. And for a woman out in the street, it is nothing but constant threat of rape or death. However, a group of citizens chose to challenge this fea
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
