Remember the metaphor “caged parrot” the supreme court used to describe the country`s premier investigative agency, the central bureau of investigation (CBI)? The apex court pitched for CBI`s autonomy when it was disgusted by the agenc
In the past two days, events in Delhi have once again evoked speculation of rift between the national leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the local leadership in Haryana over the party`s alliance with Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC).
Neelesh Shukla, 50, lives in Mathura and works with a private company in Delhi. Around 9 every morning, he takes the EMU train from the city station to begin the 140-km journey over a couple of hours. Packed like sardines is the usual phrase to de
TV journalism has its own strange ways that defy the popular wisdom. A popular anecdote – a true story at many newsrooms – goes thus: top editors at a TV channel are worried as the annual jamboree in the name of brainstorming comes clo
Perhaps the most significant element in the 72-point Fortaleza declaration of the just-concluded sixth Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit is the establishment of the Brics New Development Bank on July 15. Though t
B Ashok took over as full-time chairman of Indian Oil Corporation on Wednesday. Ashok, 57, is the first insider to head Indian Oil since March 2005. Since then, the post was held by Sarthak Behuria, who moved from Bharat Petroleum,
It’s been months since Arvind Kejriwal resigned as the Delhi chief minister. While winter gave over to spring, which, in turn, sprang summer on us, and monsoon has now officially checked in, what has remained constant all along is the clamou
Something is rotten in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s state of data collection. While the corporation’s official data for the year 2013 showed 1,393 residents of the metropolis died of tuberculosis (TB), statistics collated b
P Chandra Sekharan, the principal scientific investigator in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and a Padma Bhushan awardee, is concerned over the state of forensic departments in India. The health administration believes they are not part of hea
Recalling a personal incident in 2001 after his father-in-law died in a road accident in Mumbai, oncologist Dr Nagaraj Huilgol says the body was brought to the JJ Hospital at 11 pm and the autopsy was conducted the next afternoon (those days post-
Forensic science is the thin line that divides truth and untruth in a crime story. Its imperfection or manipulation in India often makes facts seem stranger than fiction. Nothing illustrates it better than the mystery surrounding the death of Suna
Policy reforms like setting up order of priority of defence procurement from Indian companies, higher FDI cap and liberalized industrial licensing regime would accelerate indigenisation, GC Pati, secretary, defence production, ministry of defenc
The supreme court (SC) collegium – a panel consisting of senior judges – has put its foot down for appointment of Karnataka high court (HC) judge KL Manjunath as chief justice of Punjab and Haryana HC, turning down the government
Prime minister Narendra Modi is likely to recast the planning commission on July 20, after his return from the BRICS summit on July 17, sources have indicated. However, it could not be verified why a Sunday has been chosen for the purpose.
September 2013: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chairman and managing director RS Butola showed a red flag to the proposed disinvestment in the country’s largest oil and gas operator. He warned against the wrong time for disinv
On July 5, the special AI-160 flight carrying 46 Indian nurses and 137 other Indians from strife-torn Iraq to Kochi had to make an unscheduled stop at Mumbai. The five-hour delay was but a blip in the intense hostage drama that the nurses faced in
The JSW steel plant in Salboni, West Midnapore district in West Bengal, which was the only ray of hope in the industry-weary state, is in news again, but for all the wrong reasons. On July 14, while attending a function at a nearby cement factory,
When the Ayodhya mobilisation was at its peak in the early 1990s, former prime minister VP Singh once used an analogy from hockey to describe the conduct of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “They change the rules of the game and score a goa
The budget has allocated `37,850 crore for road building. Before that, the railway budget proposed setting up a diamond quadrilateral network of high-speed trains, noting a need for a stupendous `9 lakh crore for making the project happen in reali
Come September, the Indian Super League (ISL) will take flight. Its promoters – large corporations like Reliance, IMG and Star India – say this will give a much-needed fillip to football. India stands at 154 in FIFA’s ranking of
