The Election Commission (EC) on Friday announced that assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Delhi will take place between November 11 and December 4, 2013 and the poll results for all five states will be announ
As protests in Seemandhra region continue to gather momentum, six union ministers hailing from the region have claimed to resign in a desperate face-saving move. The ministers including union human resources development minister D Pallam Raju said
Seemandhra ministers in the centre are shooting their resignations to the prime minister in protest against the cabinet`s nod on division of the state and making path for the formation of a new Telangana state. After union minister Chiranjeevi&rsq
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch Lal Krishna Advani has launched a scathing attack on the UPA government, which seemingly bowed to the pressure of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s observations about the ordinance that would have
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
Having long dominated the national conscience for poverty and backwardness, the southwestern part of Odisha is now getting politically vibrant. There’s a new buzz word in the air – “Jai Kalahandi” – and it is making p
In spite of reporting a 10.5 per cent growth in production state owned Coal India Limited (CIL) is still six million tonne (mt) short of production target during April-September 2013. The target of the company was to increase production b
Governance Now organized safe city conclave on September 30 in the capital, where in experts came together to bring home the point that for greater public safety in urban spaces the strategy has to be multi-pronged. Besides effective policing,
There is an ill wind blowing in India which is sweeping away established institutional norms. This is a pity because the Indian political architecture is a copy of the UK system which has no constitution to guide it and works solely on the basis o
Amid growing hue and cry of states demanding special category status – Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are already dangling the support carrot to the UPA, while west Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is threatening an agitation un
Brand managers of India learnt a lesson on the relevance of Gandhi in their profession from Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. At Mumbai`s five-star hotel, Taj Lands End, Modi on Monday taught who`s who of brand building of India how to sell br
The head of the state-owned refining and marketing company has cautioned that the timing to disinvest 10 percent of government equity is not right due to the "prevailing uncertain environment". According to a news report publishe
Ever since his third electoral victory in Gujarat last December, Narendra Modi has been going places. After his formal nomination as the main opposition NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, his travel schedule has become only more hectic. In t
If you are a student and a criminal case has been filed against you, you will be rusticated. You can actually be rusticated for much less. If you are employed and arrested in a criminal case, you will be automatically suspended and might even lose
A day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released data pegging the current account deficit at 4.9 percent of GDP, the finance ministry jumped in to assuage fears saying that the CAD for the 2013-14 fiscal would not exceed the red line of 4.8 pe
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) has awarded the order to modernize its blast furnace at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant to Siemens Ltd. According to a news report in The Hindu Business Line, the modernisation is expected to boost the furna
Minister for corporate affairs Sachin Pilot says that the new policy on corporate social responsibility (CSR) would benefit both the community and organizations. He emphasized that the government was keen to adopt a very flexible approach and indu
Following the commissioning of a power plant in Tripura, the state owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India (ONGC) is planning to set up a fertiliser or power plant in Maharashtra. A senior company official said that the plant will utilise t
Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted for his role in the fodder scam, and has lost his membership of the Lok Sabha. Is it time for his political obituary? No, don’t write him off yet and – who knows – he may even emerge stronger
Indian diplomacy was at its worst last week. It conducted the PM’s visit to the US as if he was attending a seminar on economics in Neemrana. If India is a superpower (perennially waiting to happen), it came across, on the one hand, as a cou
