Professor Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti, a research programme of the New Delhi-based think-tank Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and one of our leading ‘election watchers’, maintains that we must not read too much
I was in Australia when my Facebook newsfeed and Twitter stream began getting inundated by news of a gruesome gangrape in Delhi. And that’s how I first heard of her in mid-December last year, 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey, brutalised by six
As the supreme court’s verdict, putting the lid back on Section 377 of IPC, flamed a cross-country rage, we tried to gauge the popular mood by trolling some Facebook fan pages and Twitter handles since very little these days is said –
Hyderabad: A fierce showdown between employees of Seemandhra and those of Telangana sparked off tension on the premises of the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat here this afternoon. Police had a tough time as the employees shouted slogans against each ot
Pitching for a level playing field and greater autonomy for public sector units, president Pranab Mukherjee said listing of PSEs will help them to improve their performance. "Much more needs to be done to provide a level playing field between
A knock at the window of my air-conditioned car shook me out of my reverie. I was mesmerized by the scale and grandeur of the swearing-in ceremony of chief minister Raman Singh in Raipur on Thursday. Sitting in the press gallery my
The Medical Council of India (MCI) this week elected a new chief after three and a half years, as Dr Jayshree Mehta was elected unopposed, but this does not mean the end of controversy. The shadow of Dr Ketan Desai, the controversial former MCI
One not widely known aspect of the South African experience of struggling for freedom and of building a post-apartheid order is that there were many other significant heroes and heroines who took that long walk to freedom, with and before Nelson M
On October 13, a day after the cyclone struck Odisha, citizens of Bhubaneswar were busy clearing the debris left in Phailin’s wake. Something unusual was going on in the state capital that day. Riding pillion on a scooter, Pradip Kumar Jena,
When finance minister P Chidambaram met the top honchos of the 26 public sector banks (PSBs) for a quarterly performance review meeting in New Delhi October 22, they discussed a whole range of concerns of the sector, like the growing non-performin
Rising cyber security threats have become a global issue and the only way to deal with them is through a joint effort of nations, union communication minister Kapil Sibal has said. “The fact of the matter is, that just as I t
For years Joy had lived in the shadows. He struggled to be himself but the laws of the land forbade him to express his true identity. He longed to wear a skirt and makeup and carry a ladies handbag but harassment from people and the police made hi
"None of the above" option, introduced by the Election Commission for the first time as per a supreme court order, has made a modest debut in the assembly polls. The option was exercised on a wide scale in Chhattisgarh, particula
The rise of the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) has transformed the election process in Delhi. It has given impetus to the issues of corruption and performance over caste and community. The Delhi election result suggests that the caste or religious identity
In politics, like in mathematics, if a complex problem is oversimplified, its comprehension becomes all the more difficult. The attempt to find out a universal truth that can unravel the mystery of the state assembly outcomes is fraught with a sim
It is a historic first for the Odisha state legislative assembly (OSLA). Leader of the opposition Bhupinder Singh is sitting on dharna in the well of the house for at least two nights beginning Saturday afternoon demanding the Odisha chief
For most, retirement is a simple enough noun. It means end of work. Period. Not for Iqbal Singh, though. For him, it was the beginning of a new phase – working to change life of many others, by providing them access to education at t
The App? ‘Safetipin’ is a safety app, which aims to provide safety-related information about different areas in a city crowd-sourced by users. In the pilot version, the app has information about 2,000 points in
At what point does eliminating a choice become a necessity? The answer lies in a corner of Gurgaon, where people on the lowest rung of economic ladder ask whether government facilities are really meant for them. “My sister-in-law was
The National Council for Teacher’s Education (NCTE) is going electronic for all its regulatory functions. The statutory body is in charge of recognising teacher training institutions in India, and is currently in charge of 16,000 training in
