Union minister for home Rajnath Singh has today said that steps would be taken to make the national population register (NPR) project to its logical conclusion. The minister reviewed the project and directed that proposals to populate the register
The Modi government is going to use information technology to not only clear the logjam of industrial projects but also to bring in transparency in the process. “We are working to digitise the process. A software programme has
It’s been a year since over 5,000 people went missing and more than 540 bodies recovered were buried in the aftermath of the Uttarakhand flashfloods. But the deprived families have still not received the promised compensation from the state
Prime minister Narendra Modi has had a great run for nearly a month. With inflation admiringly low when he took over, the stock market going through a heady run and the rupee playing stronger by the day against the dollar, Modi’s promised &l
It’s easy to simplify the implications of an extortion call in exclusively human terms as chilling and threatening. Security agencies, however, are increasingly realising that an extortion call is lot more complicated involving masking techn
There is an increase in abuse being experienced by half of the elderly population in India. According to a report published by HelpAge India on Elder Abuse in India (2014), 50% of elders surveyed were abused during this year, compared to last year
In 2009 the government came up with the idea to link records related to travel, immigration, bank and financial transactions, among others, to provide intelligence agencies real-time information about a terror suspect. Explaining the logic of Natg
If London and New York are the benchmark, where do Indian cities stand? Janaagraha, a non-profit organisation, tries to answer that. We cull out a few points from its evaluation of 21 cities from the annual survey of India’s city systems (AS
When prime minister Narendra Modi ribbed the bureaucracy’s penchant for moving at a snail’s pace at a recent book release function, all the faces in the auditorium were creased with a knowing smile. Though the message was delivered in
The maiden session of the Telangana assembly began on June 9. After a prolonged struggle for statehood, it was supposed to be an occasion to remember for the people of Hyderabad – as elsewhere in the country’s newest state. But a tragi
If good governance is anecdotally defined as BSP — bijli, sadak, pani, the capital falls short on two counts every summer. But as the mercury soared to a record-breaking 47.8 degree Celsius this year, Delhi has suffered long power outages fo
There is an information revolution taking place in Chhatna block of Bankura district of West Bengal. Rural girls and women are coming forward to learn simple ways to tackle the critical issue of hunger and malnutrition that afflict their region.
Badaun, a nondescript district of Uttar Pradesh, is neither a subversive nation like North Korea nor a militant-haven like Somalia to merit the attention of the international community. Yet it has, and UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has expresse
The Modi led NDA government has dissolved four cabinet committees including one on unique identification authority of India (UIDAI). The cabinet committee on economic affairs will now be its overseeing authority. Though UIDAI
In September 2013, a committee headed by M Damodaran, a retired IAS officer and former chief of the SEBI and IDBI, submitted a report that raised an issue, long-standing and yet pertinent. Do the regulators need to be regulated, it asked, among se
If ominous signs are anything to go by, the laudations coming in for Narendra Modi’s gesture of inviting the Saarc leaders forebode well, at least in the realm of international relations. The high-decibel discourse has been a loyal ally of M
Tucked a few yards away from the Gandhi Maidan police station in Patna, a restaurant called Mainland China is a new destination for the city`s cosmopolitan elite. Its ambience is no different from that in any restaurant of this global chain in the
With the euphoria of the BJP’s massive victory and Narendra Modi’s swearing in as 15th prime minister now almost over, and the media dissecting all possible data to near death, I decided to dig deep and find out how BJP actually outdid
Promises made by political candidates before the elections serve as barometers of their performance. When the electorate puts faith in a candidate, it should also demand accountability for the performance. Reminding the winning candidates of their
Honourable Members I am delighted to address this first session of both Houses of Parliament after the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha. Let me begin by extending warm greetings to my fellow citizens, who participated in large number
