Miffed at non-compliance of a directive from the department of personnel and training (DoPT), which asked ministries/departments to disclose their respective minister’s discretionary powers and frame guidelines to regulate them, the departme
Having dilly-dallied for long, parliament on Thursday finally passed the Companies Bill, which many believe will provide the necessary fillip to the way business is done in the country. The new Bill, which was passed in Lok Sabha last year
The days of filing right to information (RTI) applications to get information from the government may soon be over. The government is planning to voluntarily put all information on public domain and encourage development of applications (apps) aro
At a time malls have beaten the otherwise theme of blues in the real estate sector, one mall in south Delhi is enduring a prolonged gestation period, with the developers, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), looking at uncertain days ahead.
India’s youth power has never been on such display as in the last couple of years. Proving cynics wrong, the gen next has shown they are as much – if not more – concerned about the nation as any other generation. A
In Indian ethos, poverty is often philosophised. This is best summed up by a Hindi proverb “Mann changa toh kathauti mein Ganga (if you are pure of heart, the sacred river Ganga flows in your bucket!)”. This was philosophical com
Anger is a wasted emotion, a dear friend instilled in my mind. So let me try not to be angry about the conduct of the leader of India`s professional army, even as he refuses to reach Poonch blaming inclement weather. But how about Gen Bikr
Despite repeated reminders from the department of personnel and training, (DoPT), more than 200 officers of the central secretariat service have not filed immovable property returns (IPR) for the last financial year. The defaulting officer
In the backdrop of allegation of illegal sand mining that surfaced in the Durga Shakti Nagpal episode, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has constituted a committee to inquire into the adverse environment impact caused by it.
We are reviving this piece by our columnist in the light of the recent killing of Indian soldiers by the Pakistani army in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. And because of the implications it has for the peace process. From our archives.
The Indian media may like to think of itself as the alpha watchdog of the country but who’s keeping a watch on it? A panel of six – union minister for information and broadcasting, Manish Tewari, chairman of the Press Council of India,
All the babble on TV over the five murders of Indian soldiers in Poonch fails to address the basic question. Indians do not retaliate. We rail and protest and do our morchas but that is about it. The enemy knows that. So it wins every time.
Problems for the Indian cricket board do not end with the alleged spot-fixing in the money-churning Indian Premier League (IPL) and the purported sham of an internal probe it conducted to give clean chits to co-owners of two IPL teams. It extends
As expected, leading political parties shied away from supporting a campaign by RTI activists opposing a move to exclude these organisations from the transparency law. Only the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Aam Aadmi Part
At a time when people of Telangana region are tantalisingly close to realising their long-standing dream of a separate state, the torchbearer of the movement, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), is more worried about the safety of its president,
Appointed as the next Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday assured that challenges facing the Indian economy will be dealt with, and that the economy will return to a positive growth track soon. There is no "
A day after MPs of several political parties closed ranks to criticise the supreme court’s recent order against introducing reservation in appointments at specialty and super-specialty levels in medical institutions, including New Delhi&rsqu
In a significant development in the infamous fodder scam, the supreme court has reserved the order on transferring the case (RC 20 A/96) from the special judge of the CBI court at Ranchi following an effective and persuasive intervention by senior
Transparency crusader Aruna Roy is right — the “opaque and hasty manner” with which the government has proposed amendments to the RTI Act to exclude parties from its ambit is a loss of a historic opportunity for the parties to be
Kanimozhi has been named as the leader of DMK in the Rajya Sabha. Her father, party chief Karunanidhi, wrote to the Upper House`s chairperson declaring her the leader of the party`s team of six members in the House. Kanimozhi is learnt to
