The biotech industry has lashed out at a report of a technical expert committee (TEC) appointed by the supreme court to look into the issue of genetically modified crops as it suggests the witholding of field trials until a sounder biosafety frame
While the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bihar unit is crying foul at the ruling Janata Dal (United), claiming that the former NDA partner is trying to win over several party MLAs, reports indicate not all is well within the JD(U) itself.
There is something about the olfactory organs of politicians. Either they are too sharp and sensitive or they don’t have one and just bluster their way through. If caricaturists have their hands full with West Bengal chief minister M
By virtue of being some of the largest commercial enterprises in the country, public sector undertakings (PSUs) possess the unique ability to rise above the short-term commercial interest and invest in creating national assets so as to maximise lo
The television industry is going through a bit of a rough path, it seems. As if the I&B ministry’s ruling on airing a maximum of 12 minutes worth advertisements per hour from October (please see our story
Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation of India (MMTC), a central public sector enterprise, is worth Rs 66,000 crore. One of the highest earners of foreign exchange for the country, it not only handles the export of primary products such as coal
The recent supreme court ruling on a common national entrance examination for medical courses has sparked off a heated debate. Private colleges have hailed it as the restoration of their right to conduct their admissions independently while many b
When Sunil Ajwani, 33, a finance executive and a resident of Bandra Amar Jivan Cooperative Housing Society, in the plush Mumbai suburb, objected to irregularities in redevelopment agreement executed between the managing committee of his residentia
“The English language has caused a great loss to the country. We are losing our language, our culture as there are hardly any people who speak Sanskrit now. “We have lost everything in the era of modernism
More than two years after Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan went on a dharna for fast-track clearance of Mahan coal block in Singruli district, many local people have come together under the banner of Mahan Sangharsh Samiti (MSS)
In all the haze, maze and daze over Narendra Modi, is the BJP losing the plot, bit by nano bit, as the next general elections inch closer? Or is the party taking a calculated risk by bidding the good governance-economic developme
In all the haze, maze and daze over Narendra Modi, is the BJP losing the plot, bit by nano bit, as the next general elections inch closer? Or is the party taking a calculated risk by bidding the good governance-economic development adieu and check
There are two possibilities arising out of what happened in the supreme court on July 18. First, there was a clairvoyant, a la Nostradamus, in the bench of the apex court. Second, there are a few too many dark chambers in the closet of the former
It was no less than a constitutional crisis averted just in time. On Thursday, the cabinet secretariat and prime minister’s office were rattled for a few hours when sources in the President’s secretariat told them that President Pranab
Troubles seem only to mount for debt-ridden Hyderabad-based Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. A team of Chandigarh police arrested one of the publishing company`s former directors ina cheating case filed by a lender. Menakuru Sukumar R
A TDP MLA is in the dock following the gruesome murder of his younger brother, in an ugly fallout of panchayat poll politics in Andhra Pradesh. Yerra Jaganmohan, the brother of Jedcherla legislator Yerra Sekhar, was shot dead near the Devarakadra
Lakshmi Mittal, the embattled brown-field steel magnet has announced a pull out from Orissa. Good for him. Salaries saved on his India employees may salvage the sale of his 12-bedroom hamlet in Central London. But trust our financial media
A cap on the limit of advertising time on television has polarised the views of the broadcasters and viewers. After a tug of war for quite some time, the Indian Broadcasters Federation (IBF) reluctantly agreed to the guidelines of the ministry of
The government’s ambitious network of 1 lakh common services centres (CSC), the front ends for delivery of public services across 6 lakh villages, continues to grapple with issues of unavailability of services and viability, even as the firs
Before the public procurement bill 2012 is passed by parliament, the IT industry has urged the government to incorporate its concerns. Among others, one of the major issues concerning the industry is the unprecedented strength
