Ketan Desai, a urologist from Ahmedabad who was once removed from the medical council of India (MCI) on corruption charges and continues to face a series of charge-sheets, is all set to return as head of the MCI next month. The stage has b
All I set out to do was to tweet on which news channel was showing Hunkaar Rally of Narendra Modi in Patna, and who, instead, saw more TRP in Rahul Gandhi descending on Mangolpuri in New Delhi. (I was also interested to know if Modi will use the �
Whatever we might know or not know about our bureaucracy and its working, this much is pretty well known: once an IAS officer, always an IAS officer. From probation until retirement and beyond, IAS officers enjoy the certitude of office and increm
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa tabled a resolution in the state Assembly calling on New Delhi to boycott next month`s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka. The mercurial chief minister has been pushing Manmohan Singh to boyco
As BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi take the Congress over its government’s purported kid-glove treatment of terror in the run-up to elections, especially of the variety emanating from Pakistan, the autumn in the calendar ye
As he boarded the flight back to New Delhi after what could be his last foreign trip as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh could well be right if he felt a sense of achievement. Pilloried at home for multiple scams and what the opposition calls �
The government announced on Wednesday the amount of capital to be infused in twenty public sector banks out of the total budgeted figure of Rs 14,000 crore through preferential allotment. The highest capital of Rs 2,000 crore has been given to the
A welfare board, better working conditions and fixed working hours were some of the suggestions made by Onkar Sharma, regional labour commissioner in the ministry of labour, to safeguard the rights of the workers in the waste management industry.
The investment bankers are expecting the buyback price of National Hydroelectric Power Corp`s (NHPC) to be set in the range of Rs 30-36 a share, a hefty premium of 52-80% to the current market price. This could help the government raise at least R
The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has finalised policy guidelines on exploration and exploitation of shale gas and oil by state-owned oil companies. Based on this, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) would take u
The government is all set to infuse the budgeted capital of Rs 14,000 crore in public sector banks (PSBs) and a decision on who gets how much will be finalised in a day or two. The announcement by the finance minister P Chidambaram cam
India plans to mine an additional 240 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of coal from 26 new fields in the five years to March 2022. The plan is yet to be finalised and will be presented to the prime minister Manmohan Singh, according to a news repor
The private players can indeed play a major role in institutionalising the framework for inclusive urbanisation, said the minister of state for urban development, Deepa Dasmunshi. While addressing the Euro India Summit to discuss the importance of
Hindsight may be 20/20 but it often tends to distort the past. That appears to be the case with those who are now busy demonising former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav after his conviction in the fodder scam. There have been aggres
Of all the opprobria heaped on Rahul Gandhi for intervening in the ordinance to protect honourable criminal convict-legislators by an honourable prime minister’s honourable cabinet, the one by Devil’s Advocate Karan Thapar sticks in th
In order to ensure that fresh recruits understand the overall functioning and aims of the organisation, the Delhi development authority (DDA) has organised a three-week training programme for its newly recruited lower division clerks [LDCs].
The civil aviation ministry is hopeful of privatising six airports – at Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati, ahead of Lok Sabha polls in 2014. The ministry has already initiated pre-bid consultations with prospective bi
While political parties get set to hit the campaign trail with all their might to woo the electorate in the run-up to the assembly elections in five states, they might do the polity a favour by looking at their own ranks. Several members of parlia
Are scams babu made? If a ‘competent authority’ is hell-bent on making money, generally, there is very little babus, even honest ones, can do to stop them. But many ‘scams’ are just the outcomes of poor decision-making and
Giving an indication of the cold war that had broken out between the Congress-led UPA at the Centre and the BJD government in Odisha in the post-cyclone Phailin period, there was little interaction between the union home secretary and the state mi
