The government is currently in the process of preparing comprehensive mobility plans for 500 cities, having population of more than 100,000, said Shankar Agarwal, secretary ministry of urban development (MoUD) on Friday. Addressing
Political parties are the life blood of our democracy. Leaders swear by their loyalties to the party. Policies for the entire nation are made on the basis of manifestos churned out by the parties’ own vision of the country or state or region
As a child, I remember accompanying my grandmother to Maarbal, a canal in Srinagar downtown that would turn into a floating vegetable market in the morning twilight. I relished the sight of brinjals, gourds, knol-knol, tomatoes and lotus stems sta
The issue of Sanjeev Chaturvedi’s removal as the central vigilance officer (CVO) of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is getting curioser and curioser. It now emerges that prime minister Narendra Modi had had a telephone co
In 1857, the then colonial rulers enacted a law and gave certain powers to the Oriental Gas Company (OGC). Among the work rights English firm got was the job of laying down pipes in Calcutta to manufacture, supply and distribute “fuel gas&rd
October 7 was a day of high drama outside the Karnataka high court that denied bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Dramatic scenes were enacted – women wailing and men rolling on the road – as the news came out of
If there is a will there is a way, and Chhattisgarh has the policy too. In a major reversal of global hardware sector trend that has seen most of the IT majors focusing on China for driving their manufacturing success stories, the state government
Social audit will be an important tool to ensure the effective implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR), Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for commerce and industry, finance and corporate affairs, said on Wednesday.
CHENNAI: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday rejected bail plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in a disproportionate assets case, quoting the supreme court`s ruling that cases involving corruption should be put on fast track.
Dr Ketan Desai, the former Medical Council of India (MCI) president who has faced corruption charges in several court cases, is now set to head the World Medical Association (WMA) for 2016. However, a final hurdle remains, and his n
Nearly six months after Narendra Modi, then the opposition BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, met Rajinikanth at the actor’s Chennai home and set the rumour mills working overtime about the superstar jumping on the Modi bandwagon, Chen
When a Doordarshan anchor referred to Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as Islamabad in the aftermath of the recent floods, she had, perhaps unknowingly, taken a leaf out of Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider. A young Haider (Shahid Kapoor) retu
Kurnool: Around the time 33 people were killed in a Dussehra stampede in Patna on Friday, an eight-year-old boy was killed and as many as 70 devotees hurt in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. Only the latter was a mock fight “Bunny”
Taking a step forward to initiate prime minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Swachh Bharat mission, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has announced that it will construct 10,000 toilets over the next one-and-a-half years. Laun
In Mahatma Gandhi’s worldview, the end never justified the means. In his very first public speech after returning to India, on the occasion of the foundation-laying ceremony for Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on February 4, 1916, he criticis
The au naturel pictures of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton floating freely in cyberspace have serious national security implications for India. Hackers dug out what was considered by close to 100 celebrities as their private, intimate and complet
Sugna Devi has probably seen many more days than 29,200 if she was 80 years old. But since none in her Rajasthan village knows her exact age – estimates hover between 80 and 90 – one can safely assume Devi has defecated in the open for
Prime minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, expressed his dream of making India open defecation-free by the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019. Eradicating open defecation is important not just because the Mahatma
My life is my message, said Gandhi. If you are a student of Gandhiana, you don’t have access to that life today, but it is encapsulated in his words, all of which are available in The Collected Works of
Electoral battles in Tamil Nadu have mostly thrown up decisive results. Considering the trend since 1967, it has been either of the two Dravida parties – the DMK or the AIADMK – coming to power. But with former chief minister a
