Former union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, who seems to be in a no-man’s land in Trinamool Congress ever since he was seen to have defied Trinamool boss Mamata Banerjee while making last year’s railway budget before flinching to toe
It’s early morning Sunday and political knives are out for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar following the attack on the Mahabodhi complex. Predictably, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has been first off the block, tweeti
Some days, one wonders if this government has a political ‘death wish’. These are days when it regularly hikes petrol and diesel prices, doubles the price of natural gas (applicable in April 2014), allows FDI in multi-brand retail, and
Even though the calls are getting louder for Kumar Mangalam Birla to resign from the central board of the reserve bank of India over the `conflict of interest` (read full story
If you were anywhere around a TV screen in the last two decades, you would have stumbled upon Sony channel’s show CID. First aired 16 years ago, in 1997, this crime detective series is now the longest running TV series in India.
As in most matters, the world is split over whether or not star industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla can continue serving on the board of India’s central banker, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and remain in contention for a banking licence,
With the promulgation of the ordinance on Right to Food, the Congress strategy for the 2014 general elections is beginning to take shape. It appears to be based on three things: populism, communalism and regionalism. That is, introducing p
After two years of releasing the first draft, the union government has eventually come up with a policy on cyber security, which envisages “secured and resilient cyber space” not just for the government but also for citizens and busine
To figure out how much we the people matter in prime minister Manmohan Singh’s vision of economy, a visit to the Delhi-Gurgaon border would be ideal. From some vantage point, take a look at the airport, the metro line connecting it with the
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh will fly to Patna on Friday to meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and discuss the release of funds for laying 6,000 kilometres of roads in different districts of the state. Soon after the m
Denials notwithstanding, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and complained against the prime minister’s office (PMO) for the recent media leaks that show the Jet-Etihad deal in bad light. W
After three flip-flops within a month, the government has finally gone ahead with the ordinance route for the food security bill. More than anything else, it is this hurry which reveals the political opportunism behind this otherwise welcome legis
What should Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group and member of the central board of the Reserve Bank of India, do about the clear case of ‘conflict of interest’ that he faces now? On July 1, Aditya Birla Nuv
The Indian industry feels that the government’s decision to set up new banks will provide a major boost to its financial inclusion programme. A survey conducted by the federation of Indian chambers of commerce and industry (Ficci) says the l
Finance minister P Chidambaram held a meeting of the public sector bank (PSB) chiefs on July 3 to discuss mechanisms to strengthen recovery of bad loans or non-performing assets (NPAs). The focus will be on the top 30 NPAs and gross NPA accounts o
The CBI chargesheet in the June 2004 encounter of four alleged terrorists in Ahmedabad, filed in the Gujarat high court on Wednesday, was expected to be explosive. It was not. Speculations were rife that the agency, allegedly under the pre
The election commission (EC) has summoned the chief electoral officers (CEOs) of Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Thursday and Friday to review the prepardness for the assembly elections. The CEOs of these s
Bank of Maharashtra won seven awards at the IPE BFSI award ceremony in Mumbai recently. Some of the awards which the bank won are: best bank in public sector and best bank with most admired services while its chairman and managing director, Narend
In wrestling, the sweat-bodied opponents fighting it out under the glare of blinding spotlights always seem oblivious to the unruly audience. Their eyes are transfixed into each other’s, concentrating to pick up the slightest cue on the oppo
Suddenly, the telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) is in news. Big time. As if the idea of cutting roaming charges for cellular service and putting a 12-minute cap on advertisements on TV channels were not enough, the regulatory body&rsquo
