With crime against women rising sharply in Mumbai, police investigation must be separated from regular law and order duties and policymakers need to seriously rethink policing in the city, says a white paper on the state of policing and law and or
Godrej has completed and handed over the first production order of 40 sets of BrahMos missile air –frame assemblies to BAPL (Brahmos Aerospace Pvt ltd) Brahmos missile is a supersonic cruise missile with a flight range o
Dear All, It is a sad day when our organs threaten to bring down the organisations we erect. That sad day has visited upon Dhamaka. I am devastated. I can’t bear to see the painstaking work of more than a decade come unstuck over one
If Mohinder Amarnath, a brilliantly plucky cricketer and a crashing bore as a commentator, was a political pundit, he would surely have said ‘politics is a funny game’ every half an hour in the run-up to the elections. Just up the fun
Finally, after days of lull in the Reodar constituency, the campaigning for assembly elections on December 1 began on Tuesday with the rally of BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Vasundhara Raje Scindia in the Abu Road town. Addressin
Under provisions of Sec 22(A) (B) of Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 Mumbai District Suburban Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) has announced establishment of Permanent lok adalat for Mumbai. The lok adalat will settle pending and pre-litigati
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is set to develop its most promising deep-water hydrocarbon block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin with help of consultants. ONGC’s KG blocks had received interest from international players in the pa
After asking people to give their suggestions over a couple of months, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the new kids on the blocks who have taken the campaigning by storm, released its manifesto for Delhi on Wednesday (November 20) afternoon. Accord
Airport Authority of India’s (AAI) paper recycling unit, run as part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR), has earned ISO certificate for recycling of paper and its utilization. AAI is the first PSU to establish a paper recycling uni
Shashi Kant Sharma, Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has urged public sector enterprises (PSEs) to consider ways and means to integrate effective preventive vigilance in the structure of the organizations. &ld
No alcoholics loitering around on the streets, no glum faces grieving about lack of amenities and unemployment and no public fights over filling up water from the common pipes. The residents of Kelabadi, a lower-middle class slum on the outskirts
Has the government violated the model code of conduct (MCC) in honouring Sachin Tendulkar with the Bharat Ratna right when the assembly election process is on in five states? That is the question an RTI activist has raised before the election comm
India’s first all women bank’s has now become a reality. In Mumbai, prime minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first branch of Bharatiya Mahila Bank. The inauguration coincided with the birth anniversary of former PM Indira Gandhi.
As the India International Trade Fair (IITF) opens up for the public from November 19th, the IITF has introduced mobile applications that will provide all information that a citizen would like to know about the fair. Citizens can access in
A drowning person holds the straw for rescue. All the norms of the model code of conduct during elections were thrown to the wind when, perhaps, a sudden phone call from the Wankhede stadium got the prime minister to work overtime and prepare a dr
Nafisha, a 15 year old girl from Rasooolpura slum, Hyderabad tells her story of how people peep at them while they defecate and bath in open. The dignity of their life being hampered due to not having toilet was something that she and her friends
As politicians from across the spectrum raise the decibel level in the run-up to the elections – in fact, Chhattisgarh is voting in the second phase for its assembly polls even as we write – there is a stink they cannot escape.
Coal India’s decision to hike the charges for transporting coal from the minefields to the loading points could result in a hike of about 2 paise per unit in the price of power sold to households. According to a news report in The Ec
NTPC’s 2,100 MW Farakka thermal power station is the first plant in the country to receive its first batch of imported coal through a national waterway. According to a news report in The Hindu Business Line, the first fleet of barges
NTPC aims to collect Rs 1,750 crore through the tax free bonds which will open for investment in a fortnight. According to a news report in The Hindu Business Line, the company is yet to announce the interest rates on the bonds, they are l
