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
In his 33 years in Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), Mukesh D Ambani, India’s richest man and head of one the country’s biggest corporate entities, has earned numerous accolades. Several such paeans are listed on Reliance’s website
By now it’s too familiar a story to be surprising: a writer writes a book (often with years of slogging and painstaking research); someone—an individual, but often an individual claiming to represent a certain community—finds som
I have been taught over the years that the word ‘recall’ is linked to memory. But I first encountered a different meaning of the word in 1997 when I was informed that my first Maruti 800 car, bought a year earlier, was being recalled t
Admitting that financial inclusion is a tall order for the country, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan, however, did not commit on implementation of Nachiket Mor committee. Last month, the committee gave slew of measures on boosti
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said that he wants 21 lotuses (seats) from Odisha so that when he becomes the prime minister of the country he will transform it into a developed sta
The Aam Admi Party (AAP) is of the view that every voter (oops, aam aadmi) should have the inalienable right to become an IAS officer. Successive Congress governments have kept the age limit between 21 and 30. This has ensured that
A second strike of bank employees in less than two months, has hit the banking activities across country. The strike has been called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a conglomeration of nine public sector bank employees’ and
First, four bullets inspired by the JD(U)’s call against Bharat Ratna being given to living persons, borne out of their annoyance with a spate of Sachin Tendulkar endorsements: 1. There can be no logical or legal bar in stoppi
As the latest spectrum auction continues, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has plans to launch spectrum in the range of 1900-700 MHz by next year. This was announced by Dr Rahul Khullar, chairman, TRAI, at the India Digital Summit, org
Racism is caused by the misplaced belief that members of a certain race share certain common characteristics that result in that group being superior or inferior to others. For the past couple of weeks, our news sources have been screaming about i
While the IPL Chairman and Congress candidate Ranjib Biswal is confident of winning the Rajya Sabha election for the fourth seat from Odisha, the fraction in the Odisha Pradesh Congress Party makes his prospects of entering the Rajya Sabha bleak.
Change is inevitable and there is no denying that. However, when we decided to review the seven-and-a-half years of the national e-governance plan (NeGP) and the change that technology had triggered in the government sector, we began by asking the
If right to education (RTE) is the book, the story is indeed bleak still. Here’s the writing on the blackboard: even nearly four years since RTE’s implementation, there is a shortage of more than 5 lakh teachers across the country.
“Namak ki vyavastha to kar di hai, roti ki vyavastha kab karenge?” (You have made arrangements for salt but when will you arrange for breads)? A white banner bearing this demand and fluttering in the midst of a surging crowd of thousan
