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
Not long ago, V Balakrishnan, a former chief financial officer at IT giant Infosys, called the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the “most successful and exciting start-up by an IITian in the history of India”. Those were the heydays of the party,
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu still remains controversial. With the NDA-led BJP agreeing to go ahead with the project, a section of people in Tamil Nadu demanded open debate on the power plant project. M
It is not difficult to imagine that most of the funky electronic gadgets that we so love to flaunt have all been designed outside India. In fact, India is amongst the last countries in the world for generation of intellectual property rights (IPR)
Prity Soren was 14 years old when her father died of stomach cancer. Her mother toiled to bring up Prity and her siblings. The family managed from the income generated by their tea garden in Chabua (Assam) and her father’s pension. Prity gre
Clinical psychology may have many explanations for an individual’s emotional outbursts. When prime minister-designate Narendra Modi broke into sobs in parliament’s central hall on May 19, his moment of emotional catharsis was hardly un
The decision of Noida and Greater Noida authorities to ‘finally’ adopt the UP Apartment Act, 2010 has barely elicited any positive response. Instead the decision has been widely criticised for being a mockery and eyewash. Alok Kumar, p
It`s nearly four days since a 24-year-old was killed in Pune, allegedly by members of radical right-wing outfit Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS), over a Facebook post with morphed pictures of Shivaji and late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. But the compl
On Doomsday, I will say aloud, I came from the world with my heart full of hope –A landai by Zarmina, an Afghan woman who committed suicide because she was brutally beaten for writing poetry A mislea
India’s engagement with Afghanistan has a significant historical context. To institutionalise and foster this relationship post-independence, India signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Afghanistan in 1950. It has had strong diploma
On May 28, Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu, a scientist-G rank official at the national informatics centre (NIC), became its director general. Heading NIC should be quite an achievement worth celebration, except that he retired just three days later.
Life is often so cruel that it transcends logic. Nobody understood the essence of this illogicality of life better than rural development minister Gopinath Munde who died this morning while on his way to Delhi airport. He is believed to have died
Let me begin this letter with a confession - and my sincere facilitations and congratulations on the country`s mandate, and your election as prime minister, which you will be by the time this letter is published. I confess I am not a political ani
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao today took charge as the first chief minister of the newest and 29th state of the country. He was formally sworn in as the chief minister at 8:15 am at a glittering ceremony held in the prec
With a decisive election victory of BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi, economists and financial markets consider India`s prospects to be much better than earlier. The growth rate is expected to substantially improve and inflation is likely
