Speaking on the indignities heaped on Devyani Khobragade by the US law enforcement agencies, BSP chief Mayawati said that the Indian government had done precious little to help her only because she was a dalit. “Whatever has happened
Simplification of travel has become extremely important in the present scenario where people are travelling more and more for personal as well as professional reasons. “We are planning to come up with a Single Permit system - north of Delhi
Banks in our country are facing a liquidity crunch thanks to the rising pile of bad loans and poor recoveries. So what do they do to keep their kitchen fire burning? They turn to customers to earn more money by levying different kinds of fee for t
As the year draws to a close, there’s a bitter sense of déjà vu in the air. Like 2012, which ended on a tragic and angry note with the gangrape and subsequent death of a paramedic in Delhi, and yet hopeful of a better new year
As prime minister Manmohan Singh went on to claim that the UPA government has always fulfilled its promises and that it does not make promises it cannot fulfil during a Congress parliamentary group on Wednesday, a Delhi based civil society group h
The Aadhaar integration has helped the Chandigarh administration to weed out bogus beneficiaries in social security payments. The savings could be to the tune of Rs 1 crore annually, says a UIDAI official working with Chandigarh regional office.
The Chandigarh police will roll out crime and criminal tracking network and systems (CCTNS) project, which aims to facilitate information sharing among police stations and higher police offices across the country, before June next year. A
The national media, and as a corollary the nation, woke up to the narcotic menace prevalent in Punjab when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi highlighted the issue a year ago. Addressing a rally in Sangrur, Punjab, in October last year, Gandhi, now the
Despite the recommendation of the national commission for women (NCW) for a CBI probe into the alleged killing of school teacher in Tikiri, Rayagada district of Odisha, the state government is trying to ignore the issue stating that the state crim
The state finance commissions (SFCs) have been considered important institutions in strengthening and financing local governing bodies (LGBs). Yet, even 20 years after the 73rd and 74th amendments to the constitution the SFCs are rudimentary bodie
Springing a surprise at the markets, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has decided to leave the interest rates unchanged at 7.75 percent in the monetary policy announcement on Wednesday maintaining that it was a wait and watch sc
To press for pay revision that has been due since November 2012, public sector bank employees are observing a nationwide strike on Wednesday. The strike has been called by the united forum of bank unions (UFBU), a consortium of various ban
Union textiles minister from Seemandhra Kavuri Sambasiva Rao faced a humiliating experience when eggs were thrown at him in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The minister representing the Eluru Lok Sabha constitue
Biotic Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd has taken sewage treatment technology to new heights: it has installed the first sewage treatment plant to come up in Leh-Ladakh. The plant, with a capacity of 125 KLD and based on MBBR technology, ca
Public sector bank employees will be observing a nationwide strike on Wednesday (December 18) after the labour department and the various banks’ union leaders failed to reach a consensus on the issue of wage revision. The stri
Chandigarh police will soon be able to track the movement of vehicles used in criminal offences on a real-time basis. This is part of a new project to bring in most of the city under CCTV surveillance and automate the process of issuance of traffi
It was the first week of June and Khetan Bhuva was about to end his eight-hour shift. Having kept an eye on the video wall all day, with the other focussed on supervising his juniors, he was looking forward to retiring for the day. Just then, an i
It’s strange what the weather can make a person do. This time in 2011, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his supporters were spewing venom against the UPA government, fighting the Congress party’s fire with firepower of the Indi
The assembly elections in five states spread over October to December will be remembered for two things. The first in chronological order is the high voter turnout in four of the five states, and the second is the spectacular debut of the Aam Aadm
More than a dozen copies of Telangana bill was torn into pieces by MLAs opposing bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, in the state assembly today. Telangana and Seemandhra MLAs got into tussle over the bill as the assembly was adjourned following ruckus
