The death of a worker in a freak fire accident marred festivities meant to felicitate newly-appointed union minister of state Kavuri Sambasiva Rao in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. An auto trolley carrying fire-crackers and tailing a minister’s
The government launched the national cyber security policy (NCSP) 2013 today. "This is a framework document about what our vision and strategy on cyber security," union communications and information technology minister Kapil Sib
Meeting for the second time in seven years, the prime minister-led committee on national e-governance plan (NeGP) reviewed the central plan on Monday. The committee directed the department of electronics and information technology (DeitY) to formu
The much-hyped application procedure for procuring new banking licences in the country came to an end on Monday evening as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that 26 corporate houses sent in their applications. The apex bank receive
Indian Railways now provides enough options for you to avoid the queue at the booking counter. The latest is the SMS ticketing service which targets the 80 percent mobile phone population in India. Railways has launched the service to book
I left my home in the Gambia, a small and peaceful coastal country in West Africa, in end September 2011 and came to India to pursue my degree in journalism and mass communication at Sharda University. I had no idea where I was going to except for
Highlighting the growing importance of governance in every sphere, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairman UK Sinha urged the corporates to maintain the highest standards of governance in terms of accountability and democracy or per
For a government that’s accused of putting square pegs in round holes, the new home secretary is an exception. It isn’t enough to say that Anil Goswami, 58, is the first man from the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) cadre,
Unhappy with the government’s continued indifference to a slew of demands, the All India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF), one of the largest central government employees’ unions, has decided to start the process of calling an inde
“Masochist”, claimed a column in Business Standard, as it explained the attitude of the government to consistently attract controversies. “Mind-boggling foolishness”, said another piece uploaded on
When Syed Zafar Mehmood, who worked as officer on special duty with the Sachar committee on the socio-economic conditions of Muslims, made a PowerPoint presentation at a conclave in Gandhinagar on Saturday, it made news, because the audience inclu
A brainstorming session on June 18, inaugurated by the Karnataka chief minister and organised by the minister for rural development and panchayats and attended by more than 60 panchayati raj activists, governance experts and NGOs, was a good begin
Two members of Mahatma Gandhi’s inner circle, Swami Anand and Kaka Kalelkar, were both great prose stylists, great authorities on Indian culture and religions, and both were smitten by the Himalayas. They made a pilgrimage to the Char Dham (
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has never been in more trouble than she is in today. The deeper trouble – for the state and for society, for women in the state, in particular, and, of course, for the democratic-electoral process &
Days after a group of independent experts criticised the “commercial exploitation” of malnutrition and said the private sector should be kept out of any crusade against malnutrition, the Lancet, the renowned British medical journal, ha
As directed by Bombay high court, Yes Bank held its board meeting on Thursday to consider the nomination of Shagun Kapur, daughter of one of the bank’s co-founders. The board met in the afternoon and finished after 8 pm, it is learnt.
As we had predicted in an earlier report (West Bengal panchayat polls might just be shelved for now; June 12), West Bengal’s
With due respect to Ram Lal Anand College, I think there’s a very serious problem somewhere if our children need 100 per cent marks to get into their esteemed B Tech (Computer Science) Course. Curious to know about India’s answ
Coming as a pat on Indore Municipal Corporation’s back, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a United Nations initiative, has recognised reforms undertaken by the civic body in disbursing old-age pension, given to people above 55
The Indian judicial system has managed to safeguard and generally expand the fundamental rights of citizens. It can rightfully claim a lot of credit in ensuring that a functional democracy exists in India, despite its diversity and huge challenges
