Infosys, that symbol of India’s economic transformation, is in trouble; and the return of NR Narayana Murthy from his semi-retirement, as executive chairman Saturday, is a manifestation of how deep the problem might be.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in a financial crisis and needs Rs 10 crore to contest the Delhi state assembly elections due in November. The party is circulating an e-mail from its chief, anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal, seeking co
A documentary film, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, is making waves in the United States. It debuted in the Sundance film festival, will be screened at the Sydney film festival on June 12 and expected to be released widely in Ju
The corridors of the union ministries are abuzz these days with the murmurs of protest against the department of personnel and training’s (DoPT) indifference towards the growing stagnation in the ranks of middle-level bureaucracy. Th
It remains to be seen as to what the tangible outcomes of prime minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan are. It is an important visit not merely because it will give a fillip to economic ties between the two countries, though nothing tangib
“The election commission (EC) has been a part of the journey of our republic since its very inception. It has been working with great responsibility from election to election and contributing to taking the nation forward step by step, fr
The Indian Premier League, IPL, went one up on itself this season, ushering in quality batting and betting; bowling and bawling. Here we try to spot and fix the problem – that of the original ‘cricket enthusiast’.
To counter the problem of lack of replication of e-governance applications developed by different states, the government has launched an ‘Application Store’ (App Store) which will have all the successful e-governance applications devel
In all probability, this is a classic case of a single-sided accusation, trial, conviction and punishment. And all of them impromptu. Here’s how it goes: international online fashion retailer Asos withdraws a batch of metal-stu
Prime minister Manmohan Singh and planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia have often spoken of the neoliberal dream of taking farmers and their land away from agriculture. Nobody has worked towards that objective as zealously as
In what could be a cause of worry for the Congress party in a year that will see assembly elections in several states, the Manmohan Singh government’s performance on the economic front has hit a low in its penultimate year in office, with th
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh had an hour-long meeting with West Bengal governor MK Narayanan. Ramesh and Narayanan spoke on the Maoist issue. The rural development minister also listened to the governor’s take on Indo-Ch
A day after the media reported that noted activist Aruna Roy had quit the national advisory council (NAC), questioning the UPA government’s commitment to its professed social agenda, prominent civil society members have supported her critici
MNREGS helped the Congress win in 2009 – or so thinks the party. But it is unlikely to be of much help next year. It has helped countless people in villages, and even LK Advani praised it at the UN, but it is plagued by poor design leading t
With elections to both the state assembly and the Lok Sabha slated for next year, the Congress party received a serious jolt in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, as a senior Congress MP from the state quit the party to join the Telangana Rashtra Samiti
As a reporter, bad news and good news are, for me, primarily variants of the same noun: news. But today I was jolted by one piece of news: the untimely demise of Rituparno Ghosh, the filmmaker. For quite some time I had led myself to belie
Barring the cantankerous debates, noisy debaters and raucous anchors, not a lot has happened in the world of Indian cricket – either on or off the pitch – since the arrests of Sreesanth and the two other cricketers suspected of involve
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been discredited. The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has emerged as a spineless, conspiratorial and politicised club that lacks transparency, ethics and integrity. The names of players, including T
