For a government, the task of informing and educating people about their rights and entitlements is as important as formulating and implementing these rights and entitlements. Failing to do so, the government ends up spending taxpayers’ mone
A few hours ago, the Texas (United States) senate declared the anti-abortion bill `dead`. The Bill would have been very easily passed had it not been for Wendy Davis, Texas Senator , who put up a filibuster to stop it from being voted.
The massive disaster in Uttarakhand has brought to the fore not only the old debate of ecology versus development but also thrown up questions on how both the past and present governments in the state failed to deliver in the fields of disaster ma
The financial crisis in 2008 hit the revenues of many companies in the world. But this was no deterrent on the revenue generation of the Indian companies which were indulging in fraudulent practices. A new study finds there has been a spurt of fra
The capacity building (CB) scheme seems to be doing many things at once and at times can seem overprepared. What else can explain the training conducted under the programme of chief information officers (CIO) when the creation of a formal post, as
Even as the deluge in the Ganga tributaries wreaked hell-fury on Uttarakhand, national disaster management authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy was gracing the stage at a Unicef (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund) event i
In a fresh petition filed with supreme court, the Tamil Nadu government has sought 10 thousand million cubic feet (TMC) water immediately from Karnataka. The petition has also pleaded that the apex court should immediately direct the Centr
The director of India’s premier investigation agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), is making a case for autonomy before a group of ministers (GoM), his political masters. Ranjit Sinha, the CBI director since December 20
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been in existence for close to nine decades since its formation in 1925. In this period it has come to head a maze of organisations, or affiliates, that comprise what is loosely referred to as the Sangh Pa
State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation became the only public sector undertaking to figure in the list of top ten workplaces in the country. According to the 2013 study of around 535 organisations operating in the country carried ou
It’s not every day that Kolkata, Dominique Lapierre’s City of Joy turned Left and now Mamata Banerjee’s City of Anxiety Attack Syndrome, gets a new infrastructure that can boast of being among the best in its class. Dented and da
The first thing striking about Vinod Duggal, the pointsman for Uttarakhand relief, is that he doesn’t look his soon-to-be-69 years. In fact, Duggal manages to look nearly the same as he did 20 years back when we were introduced in th
Should the central bureau of investigation (CBI) have more officers from outside (deputation from IPS and other all India services) or should it strengthen its own cadre for its efficient functioning? The debate has been as old as the esta
The railways scam just got murkier. The central bureau of investigation (CBI), which is probing the scam, claims to have uncovered another racket at the top, allegedly involving prime accused and former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal`s nephe
Even after a dismal record of performance this session, 294 MLAs and 90 MLCs in Andhra Pradesh Assembly and council will get gift vouchers from the assembly today late evening after the conclusion of the monsoon session. The session did not witnes
Amid reports of a slowing economy, depreciating rupee and weakening investor sentiment that has left everyone worrying about the direction in which the Indian economy is headed comes a report by a global consultancy, giving an interesting twist to
It took 14 years, but this morning I am debt-free. I ran seven newspapers in the GCC at different times over the last 29 years and people were kind to the chair. Among them were bankers. Sweet talking, slippery, clever guys who sent me
If this is a change of heart for the World Bank, it could not have come at a better – or worse, depending on the angle from which you look at the issue– time. As hundreds are feared dead and/or are missing in Uttarakhand, the instituti
The hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have once again been hit by the nature’s fury. According to the latest report, more than 150 people have died and between 60,000 and 70,000 are still stranded in various parts of the region
If anyone wants to explain the meaning of ``it fell like a pack of cards’’ to a child, the visuals of the building crashing and falling in the swelling waters of the Ganga in Uttarakhand in the floods at the onset of monsoon woul
