Here are some takeaways from the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly election results: * Prime minister Narendra Modi continues to enjoy the kind of popularity we have not seen for decades. The only comparison seems to be Indira Gandhi
This year’s monsoon has been one of the most miserly for Punjab. Despite the late burst in September flooding certain areas, the deficit stands at 48 percent, one of the biggest shortfalls in India. But in the state, fields played host to a
It is celebration time for followers of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party chief Jayalalithaa, as she has been granted interim bail by the supreme court in the illegal assets case. The state capital erupted in
A major change has taken place in the Pakistani army establishment. Five major generals have been promoted, and the ISI has a new chief. The promotions consequent to impending retirement of four corps commanders and ISI chief Zaheerul Islam gave t
No names are needed here. Recently a top academic who heads one of India’s premier educational institutions recounted an experience that painfully highlighted the yawning gap in the quality and quantity of faculty members and the number of s
In order to cement the top position, budget airline IndiGo on Wednesday placed a purchase order for 250 A320 neos planes from Airbus. The order, worth nearly $ 26 billion, is the largest single order for jets from the European planemaker.
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.
