A full bench of the Himachal Pradesh state information commission (SIC) has ruled that in every file noting the writer has to write his full name along with his designation. This would end the struggle to decode the names and designations of the w
Normal life continues to be disrupted for the second day in the Seemandhra regions where bandh is being observed in protest against Centre`s decision to divide Andhra Pradesh into two states. Traffic disruptions and violence has been reporte
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) and the Railways have signed an agreement for setting up a forged wheel plant at Lalgunj, UP at an investment of Rs 1,100 crore. The plant will be producing one lakh wheels a year in the first phase. Accor
Just after the 2002 communal riots, a beleaguered Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi sought advice from a former president of Singapore about how to move forward in his political career. Modi’s image then was at its nadir and Gujarat&rsquo
Allaying the concerns of the industry on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act 2013, minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh said drafting of the rules for the Act wou
Sachin Pilot, minister of corporate affairs, has assured that he is open to receiving suggestions from industry on defining the thresholds for applicability of various provisions of the Companies Act. Pilot, who was interacting with senior
Eleven years ago, in the middle of Bihar’s infamous animal husbandry scam, better known as the fodder scam, Saryu Roy, who exposed the scam in 1994 (about two years before it came to the surface in 1996), raised some deeper and wider issues
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
