They both arrived like whirlwinds after the latest round of state assembly elections in their respective states and governed with the panache of a tornado. And while anti-corruption activist and RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal jumped on to the poli
Keeping to his promise of quitting in the event parliament passes the bill to create a separate state of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy submitted his resignation to governor ESL Narasimhan on Wednesday afternoon, and it
Arvind Kejriwal may or may not have been a good chief minister, and may or may not be a “bhagoda” – literally an absconder but in this case the cuss word for anti-AAP and primarily pro-BJP commentators on Twitter – but one
The government, on Tuesday, launched “Indian version of Wikipedia”, vikaspedia.gov.in which would provide users information related to agriculture, health, education, social welfare, energy and e-governance in five languages.
Avant-garde urbanism conceptualises the city as an organic entity with an inbuilt and self-evolving consciousness. Very much like a human body. A city’s surface dotted with numerous monuments, lanes, bye-lanes, food courts, festivities and a
When union minister V Narayanasamy said that e-governance in India, which started 10 years ago, is staggering and should move faster, he was bang on. In fact, unlike most of the speakers who sounded more optimistic than their bosses on the stage,
Twenty-eight street vendors from Delhi, Patna, Jabalpur, Jaipur, and Ludhiana among other parts of India are on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital from Monday (February 17), demanding passage of the street vendors
Union finance minister P Chidambaram presented the Interim Budget for 2014-15 on February 17, 2014. Here are some of the highlights: The planned expenditure will remain unchanged at Rs. 5,55,322 crore. Fiscal and Revenue deficits a
Health secretary Keshav Desiraju was removed – in effect ‘transferred’ to the consumer affairs ministry – for not supporting Ketan Desai, the tainted former president of the medical council of India (MCI), as a crucial hand
Those who are old enough to jog their memories of the 1980s would easily recall that the anti-industry political climate of those times was an outcome of VP Singh’s rebellion against prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. During his stint as finance m
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been part of the business activity of the public corporate sector, it is the private sector that now has to play its role in this area, says Vandana Chanana, general manager CSR, GAIL (India) Ltd.
[This article appeared in the Feb 16, 2014 edition of Governance Now. It was written before Arvind Kejriwal resigned as Delhi chief minister.] The pro-transparency cum anti-corruption movement reinvented as political party, Aam Aa
While the 49 day old Kejriwal Delhi government came to a dramatic end as the Jan Lokpal bill proposal was defeated in the assembly by the Congress and the BJP, Odisha became the first state in country to enact a law for the creation of a Lokayukta
It took Alice in Wonderland longer to slide down the slippery slope than it did the aam aadmi saviour to come a cropper in his own homemade version of Blunderland. The iconic sweater unravelled into a grimy knotted ball of wool. A series o
A few days before the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) was held in the first week of February, a lesser-known three-day international festival, Sheharnama, was held in the city from January 30 to February 1. As part of the festival
Without settling the claims made under Forest Rights Act (FRA) and the 36 preconditions prescribed by the group of ministers, the government is learned to have granted stage-II forest clearance to the Mahan coal block, located at Singrauli in Madh
While Nehru Place has maintained its place under the sun, three more markets have made it to the US’ 2013 list of out-of-cycle notorious markets review. The review report, published this week, lists out online and physical markets across the
When Sushma Swaraj, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, said on Thursday (February 13) that the Congress is “solely responsible for what has happened in the house", she could have been nearer the truth than most of her party leaders
Even as citizens feel the unique identification number or the Aadhaar programme has added just another layer to the existing identification process and criteria for accessing services, a leading economist, who earlier headed the planning commissio
A quick look at the urban affairs secretary’s cv (read it here) will tell you that Dr Sudhir Krishna would know English just as well as any top civil servant in
