The top officer of the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), the apex body of public sector enterprises (PSEs) in the country, has sought more functional and operational autonomy to PSEs. In a meeting with chief executives and
Not taken aback by the record low the value of rupee hit against the US dollar on Monday, the government has called it a “temporary phenomenon”. The finance ministry also said there is no need to panic at the fall of rupee. &ld
A day after Narendra Modi was crowned the chief engineer of BJP’s election campaign for 2014, BJP veteran, L K Advani, resigned from the three posts he had held in the party. Although the party refuses to accept the resignation, reactions ar
It appears, courting controversies at the drop of the hat is the best pastime of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams. The cash-rich board governing the functioning of one of the most popular Hindu temples is all set to kick up a new storm with ano
A day after he was overlooked by the BJP and tripped by Narendra Modi for all purposes, BJP’s veteran leader LK Advani resigned from all posts in the party. According to reports, party president Rajnath Singh has refused to accept the resign
A known opponent of Narendra Modi, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s silence on BJP’s elevation of his Gujarat counterpart as head of the national election committee is intriguing. Addressing the media in Patna on Monday afte
In a significant move, speaker of Andhra Pradesh assembly, Nadendla Manohar disqualified 15 MLAs, loyal to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, this evening. Nine of the legislators are from the Congress party while the six others belonged to the Telugu Desam Pa
The expected finally happened at Goa. A short while ago, Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh announced to national media that he has appointed Narendra Modi as the chairman of the party`s campaign committee for the 2014 general election
Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has been facing flak over a recent India-UAE agreement, allowing each other’s airlines to offer 36,670 seats a week, up from 13,300. Critics say this will benefit only Jet Airways because t
Intellectuals have often derided modernity, calling it something that brought in the fragmentation of the strong community structure in the Indian villages and families. However, My Father Baliah by YB Satyanarayana brings out the obvious emancipa
Law has prevailed over claims of ‘unscientific’ ritual – at least in this case in Andhra Pradesh. Despite several hurdles, the Bathini Goud family here started distribution of fish `prasadam` for asthma patients in Hydera
A union minister has begun writing his memoirs, and many in the top political leadership are squirming. The book, expected to be released in August 2014, will have explosive, behind-the-scene details and an insider’s account of some of the r
A few days ago, a friend posted an invite on Facebook. It was an invite from the ministry of information and broadcasting and the directorate of film festivals inviting the public for the 60th national film festival – an event open to the pu
Ever since the beginning of the spot- and match-fixing, and rampant illegal betting in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the ‘stepped aside’ president of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has given two justifications. Fir
For years treated as the rear lane of the national capital’s arterial road network, Vikas Marg is set to get a shot in the arm if a proposed project to free it of clutter fructifies. The idea, a top official of the capital’s pr
"You are either with us or against us.” Thus spake George W Bush, and the BJP`s Goa national executive seems to have become a testing ground for this doctrine pushed by the former US president. As 300-odd members of the executiv
The Congress has been leading the pack of the political whimpering and screaming after the central information commission (CIC) ruled that the six major ones among them come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. It is paradoxical, given the fa
While critics of India’s successive aviation ministers refer to Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan as ‘the Ministry of Jet Airways,’ the first visible casualty of Naresh Goyal’s deal with Etihad of the UAE has come to the fore. Ni
The Bombay high court on Friday declined to grant ad interim relief to Madhu Kapur, widow of Yes Bank founder-promoter Ashok Kapur, on a suit claiming to protect her rights in Yes Bank. She had moved the court ahead of the June 8 annual general me
CBI joint director in-charge of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, VV Lakshmi Narayana, who sent several high-profile political reputations on a tailspin, is on his way out. The top CBI sleuth in the state has been transferred to Maharashtra. T
