Vinod Rai was the 11th comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India from January 2008 till May 2013. His tenure was ridden with controversies as he coughed up one audit report after another indicting the UPA government of financial irregularitie
Traffic rule violation manifold in Kolkata by Puja Bhattacharjee In 2013, 437 pe
It was early last year when a young entrepreneur and an activist had their eureka moment. Both public policy enthusiasts, Raghav Garg and Supriya Sharma were tossing, debating and ideating on how to make the youth more involved in public policy in
While Haryana voted at a brisk pace, in Maharashtra, it started on a slow note before picking up pace slightly in the latter half of the afternoon. By 3 pm, the state had seen 40-percent polling, which was expected to cross the 55-percent mark by
After two weeks of huffing and puffing, I finally went and watched ‘Haider’. At this, I want to mention that I am a Vishal Bhardwaj fan and yet I found it hard to pull myself together and go watch his much-raved-about film. At the end,
Going by early reports and indications, the going is not exactly going as per plan for the BJP, with slow polling in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai and suburbs, in the first couple of hours and reports of a surge for Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)
India on Tuesday told Pakistan that all bilateral issues, including the contentious one of Jammu and Kashmir, can be resolved only through talks, and that Islamabad’s tactic of taking it to the United Nations would not work. N
For the first time, a four-or five-cornered fight has made tomorrow’s election for the Maharashtra state assembly an extremely interesting one – perhaps the most interesting and unpredictable in recent times. While all p
“Our boys were not Tommies- they were Tariques and Tajinders too.” Referring to this repeatedly quoted comment of junior British foreign office minister Sayeeda Warsi, Raju Suyal, the great grandson of Manorath Suyal, who fought in Fla
The pace at which mobile governance (m-gov) is growing in India is staggering. From a mere 192 departments being on board in the month of April 2013, the number has reached 1,321 departments in September 2014. It means that an average of 50 depart
All of 26, Dushyant Chautala, the great-grandson of former deputy prime minister Choudhary Devi Lal and grandson of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, is the youngest MP in the current lok sabha. Dushyant is spearhea
Did you know that as per the existing road safety law, it is mandatory to wear a seat belt in a moving car? And, it is mandatory even if you are in the rear seat? Chances are you answered ‘yes’ to the first and &l
Information and communication technology will play a major role in prime minister Narendra Modi’s rural development programme – saansad adarsh gram yojana (SAGY). Under the programme members of parliament (MPs) will now be able to a
Zalpora is a village of farmers in Sumbal tehsil to the south of Srinagar. Disconnected from the summer capital way beyond the physical separation of 30 km can justify, it lives on the periphery of urban consciousness at the best of times.
“Public private partnership is an important component of cyber security. This has been conceptualized through the establishment of the joint working group with representatives from the concerned government departments as well as the re
The first reaction to the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize was: who is Kailash Satyarthi? Few knew about him even in New Delhi, where he lives. The other winner, Malala Yousafzai, is well known around the world. She is a well known face, and
Turning India’s development model upside down – from a top-down to a bottom-up approach – prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) aimed at all-round development of villages.
Landing in Tokyo a day after Narendra Modi’s historic visit, I was keen to meet locals and ask them what they thought about India. I was also keen to chronicle the changes that the land of the rising sun had undergone since my last visit sev
The headless and non-functional information commissions and huge pendency of appeals and complaints at the Centre and in many states are some of the obstacles the Right to Information (RTI) Act is currently battling with. Just days
First it was the cities and now it’s the turn of Indian villages to undergo a makeover. Having moved a step ahead with the release of the draft concept note on the smart city scheme, the government is geared up to launch the Saansad Adarsh G
