For nonagenarian DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, retirement from active politics does not seem to be near as his younger son MK Stalin, to whom Karunanidhi wants to hand over the baton, is yet to prove his mettle to lead the party. It has bee
This is the story of a marriage. A successful union of woman power with the power of institutional banking. In several villages of Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district, otherwise famed for its Kanjivaram silk sarees, the two have come together
I was in Washington and my deputy editor at Reader’s Digest took me to a dinner party. He did not mention to the hosts who he was bringing along
The supreme court holding the Akhilesh Yadav led Uttar Pradesh government “prima facie” guilty of failing to prevent the Muzaffarnagar communal riots has underpinned the accusation being labelled on the state government ever since the
Helicopter politics preceded the electoral politics in Bihar. Chief minister Nitish Kumar became its casualty. In fact, the agency that has been providing helicopters to JD(U) all these years is primarily under contractual obligation with the BJP.
“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is facing yet another controversy – this time for its move to dilute the code of ethics for doctors. The apex body monitoring medical practice in the country proposes to reduce its own jurisdiction
BOTH OF BIHAR`S MOST important barters for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections concern first-time contestants. One is Chirag Paswan, the 32-year-old son of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan, who famously broker
Arthur Dunkel, the architect of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), would have hardly known Bihar and its charismatic leader Lalu Prasad Yadav. In the nineties, he was a household name in Vaishali district as Lalu made a villain out of the former
Last week Medha Patkar, the well-known social and politician activist who recently made news as AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai’s North East, was on a padyatra around Tagore Nagar slums in Vikhroli East. Along the way she greeted
Pooran Bhatt is famous in Kathputli Colony, and he is famous in the many countries where he has performed. But between this informal settlement and the international art circuit, he is a stranger. In fact, for the Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
Way back in 2007, when few saw a future for Narendra Modi as bright as it has turned out to be now, he used a funny one-liner in the assembly election campaign: Hun khato nathi ane khava deto nathi (neither do I eat – that is, take bribes &n
Varanasi is not an easy place to negotiate. As the city straddles the spiritual high and governance deficit, its potholed streets and traffic woes are what will greet you; and the dust on your face is what will hit you – all this amid chants
If Rahul Gandhi were to make a speech on himself, he might begin thus: Rahul Gandhi has a problem. In fact, he has several problems, like all political leaders do. No, in fact I would go to the extent of saying that his problems are like that of a
As cybercrime cases multiply in India, experts say there is a need for sensitisation of law enforcement and increase in capacity building among officials tackling such cases. In the next five years, select cops in all 14,600 police station
E-VLP-3-10-MT-12. Twenty years back this smattering mishmash of words, dashes and numbers helped love blossom between 45-year-old senior finance professional Samyak Chattopadhyay and his 43-year-old banker wife Barnali Banerjee. Both were fledging
Monitoring of the mines, especially whether they were following the clearance criteria or not, was difficult for the department of mines (DoM) due to resource limitations. According to Umesh Chandra Jena, Deputy Director, DoM, Odisha, there were h
Like most of her neighbours, Parmeelaben’s family too is in the business of recycling old clothes, collecting them door to door, and offering new steel utensils in exchange. Now in her 50s, Parmeelaben came to Delhi from a village in
In what can be dubbed the first such revelation since the spotting of aliens, it emerged this morning that Arnab Goswami, the lord of the rings and master of The Newshour, had a nightmare last night. According to highly placed sources based closed
Ranbaxy faced another setback on Friday as the supreme court issued notice to the leading drugmaker as well as the central government following a PIL that seeks cancellation of the firm’s licence and a CBI probe into the allegedly sub-standa
