State owned NDMC is expected to get a full time chairman by year end. The company has been operating without a chairman for the past 23 months after its last full-time head Rana Som retired on December 31, 2011. Steel Authority of India (SAIL) cha
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Facebook has joined hands to provide citizens the up to date candidates’ information for the upcoming state assembly elections and Lok Sabha elections to help them make an informed choice. Voters
When the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) went belly up in early August after swiping about Rs. 5,600 crore of investor money, many must have been genuinely shocked. And many others must have faked shock because they couldn’t have been
Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) was awarded the Skoch Group Renaissance Award 2013 for corporate leadership. Concor chairman and managing director Anil K Gupt received the award from finance minister P Chidambaram in the presence of planni
With the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, AICC president Sonia Gandhi has become the focal point in both Telangana and Seemandhra. But with contrasting styles marking the reactions, the angel is reduced to a demon in Seemandhra. Riled Samaikh
As tennis players and judokas practise their art and some joggers do their rounds on the lush green grounds of the Noida stadium, some two dozen men are huddled in a corner. It looks like a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) shakha because there is
Telemedicine in India is no more a hypothesis, but a proven theory. With the help of common service centres (CSCs), healthcare groups including Apollo and Medanta will offer telemedicine consultations in rural areas. CSC SPV, the nodal age
In the end, what P Chidambaram said “in a lighter vein” may be part of the reality the government is trying to push through. “In a lighter vein, I may say that sometimes CBI itself pretends to be a victim to get autonomy,”
Investment and innovation are the two major areas that need serious attention to address the present difficulties confronting the electronics industry in India, said J Satyaranayana, secretary, department of electronics and information technology
On November 10, the residents of this ghetto, situated on the foothills of a mine and housing families either employed in mines around Dalli Rajhara or menial jobs like collection and sale of firewood, questioned Mukti Guha Niyogi,
Not Ashok Ghelot, the chief minister of Rajasthan from the Congress party. Not Vasundhara Raje, his adversary from BJP, a former chief minister. Not even Rahul Gandhi, the vice-president of the Congress party. Ahead of the assembly elections on De
State owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has earned a net profit of Rs 1,180 crore in the September quarter owing to the lower price of coal and ‘exceptional gains’. According to a news report in The Business Line, SAI
Following the deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways, which will see the Gulf airline purchase a 24% stake in Jet Airways, Air India is anticipating loss of international passenger traffic due to the enhanced bilateral rights given by India t
Looking forward to garnering as much as Rs 3,900 crore, the government begins roadshows in the US for sale of its 10% stake in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Officials from the petroleum ministry and disinvestment department are looking towards har
Is the central bureau of investigation (CBI) meddling in policymaking areas as it investigates a series of scams that have embarrassed the UPA government? Prime minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram think so, even as its direc
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faces a government probe to see if it has received any foreign donations. It is ironical, because it is facing action thanks to its transparency -- which other parties don`t value much, and because it is facing this probe
As a part of image building exercise, members of film and television fraternity met Mumbai police yesterday to discuss the dignified portrayal of police and women in films. In the packed closed door meeting attended by senior police office
A kurta-clad character resembling Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, navigates through various obstacles and runs through states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh – winning the
So, the top bureaucracy of India has decided not to decide anymore. As Shailesh Pathak, a former bureaucrat and columnist aptly says in a subsequent article (read it
On a news show the Deputy Director General of UIDAI had rubbished allegations that banks continued to insist on identity and residence proofs for opening bank accounts. He cited a circular of the Reserve Bank of India which apparently said, &ldquo
