Farzana Pathan will always remember December 28th of 2012. On that day the young mother received money from the government directly into her account minutes after delivering her baby in the hospital. Not only that, she was also able to withdraw he
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, after a week of the flood, had aerially surveyed and assessed the flood situation in Ganjam district badly hit by twin disasters; Phailin cyclone (October 12) and flood (October 24). The water had sinc
The month of September delivered a double whammy to the disinvestment story, as the stake sale of the two of the five biggest public sector units (PSUs) known as Maha Navratnas – Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) –
A landmark judgment by the supreme court on October 31 (the 138th birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the father of the all-India services) is the bitter medicine that politicians and babus should have co-created on their own. D
Khammam (AP): YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi’s tour of flood-hit areas in Telangana sparked off protests today. Telangana activists, protesting against YSRCP’s pro-unified state stand, tried to accost her convoy a
The elections due next year are shaping up to be the most personality-driven one since the 1989 polls that centred around VP Singh and Rajiv Gandhi. And as the hashtag – #NaMo – becomes a proper noun with each passing rally and politic
Nina Lath Gupta, a former IRS officer, was a government nominated director on the board of National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Limited. The company, a central public sector enterprise (CPSE) in the business of promoting an integrated deve
What the cyclone Phailin could not do in Odisha the subsquent floods have done. The state administration was just congratulating itself at having averted a catastrophe by timely evacuation when repeated low pressure over the coast triggere
Days after Ketan Desai, the disgraced former president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) was elected by Gujarat University to represent the state in the MCI, NRI doctor Kunal Saha, a relentless fighter against corruption in medical education a
Narendra Modi, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has revived yet another debate. On October 29, he said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel should have been the first prime minister of the country. “This country will always have one regret. Had
The information technology (IT) hardware industry in India is all set to grow from six to 18 per cent CAGR during the year 2014-18. This growth will push the GDP growth by Rs 66,300 crore; generate employment for 1,11,600 people and provide Rs 25,
Despite India`s march towards newer opportunities, generation after generation of dalit households remained restricted to manual scavenging. While a law was in place prohibiting the practice, it was rarely implemented. The government has now c
If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the Odisha power regulators are not far behind. While 25 districts of the state were sinking under water due to devastating floods following cyclone Phailin and the power sector was reeling under massive loss of clo
Any decision to create a separate state of Telangana needs to consider four issues – Article 371 D of the constitution, the status of Hyderabad, sharing of water and gas resources and the question of strategic establishments, according to a
Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has maintained a hawkish stance as he hiked interest rate to 7.75 percent while announcing his second monetary policy review on Tuesday. The rate hike, second in two months, comes as the econom
In the wake of the Rs 5,600 crore payment crisis at National Stock Exchange (NSEL), the Arvind Mayaram led special team has recommended doing away with spot exchanges at least till the time a proper regulatory framework is created for their operat
A loud bang rang out just behind the press enclosure around 10.30 am on Sunday at Patna`s Gandhi Maidan. I had heard many explosions of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) while covering Punjab terrorism in Uttar Pradesh`s Terai region and insurgency
In all, political parties spent Rs 136.88 crore as campaigning-related expenses for the 2008 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir, according to a statement issued by election watchdog ADR
Indian companies operate in a high corruption environment adopting different methods to dupe investors and government agencies, a study has revealed. According to Kroll’s Global Fraud Report for 2013-14, 69 percent of Indian companies report
Still struggling from the lashing received at the hands of cyclone Phalin on the evening of October 12, several villagers of Ganjam district are having to deal with a second blow in less than a fortnight as fresh flooding due to heavy rain and a spat
