Dear cricket fans, By the time this post is up, it would be less than a couple of hours to go for the IPL final between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. So this is not a match preview or analysis – those times
Saturday evening’s ambush by a posse of armed Naxal militants was one of the biggest in Chhattisgarh. It claimed 24 lives, including those of top state Congress leaders, and left a trail of unanswered questions. And most of them pretty probi
A day after an armed Maoist ambush left several top Chhatisgarh Congress leaders dead, the police on Sunday recovered the bullet-ridden bodies of state party president Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh, along with those of eight others, from Jir
Two senior Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh – Mahendra Karma and Udai Mudliar – were shot dead by Naxalites during a parivartan yatra in Bastar on Saturday evening. Former union minister VC Shukla was seriously injured while Nand Kumar
Kapil Sibal is a classical Indian politician. You got a problem? I got a harangue for you. That’s his style of operation. So in comes the union law minister as Indian cricket goes from crisis to crisis on Saturday, with calls now com
Ranbaxy, punished by a US court this month for quality violations in drug manufacturing, now faces heat at home. The health ministry has asked the drug controller general of India to examine the documents, dossiers and the approval given to the la
Preparations to hold state assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi are under way, with the preliminary conference of chief electoral officers of these states slated to be held in the national capital in the first we
Delhi-based RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal has criticised the central information commission (CIC) for sending back an RTI petition filed by him on a flimsy ground – that it was not legible and readable, among other. The CIC, w
Ram Manohar Lohia was far from being apt when he described Indira Gandhi as “gungi gudia (dumb doll)”. The loquacious socialist leader obviously always proved to be more than a match even for her father Jawaharlal Nehru when it
Do you talk the land you walk? In case of Uttar Pradesh, it seems so. The ancient place has always cast — history is witness — its soothing effect on its inhabitants, rendering them tolerant in face of oppression and helping them incul
While a Mumbai Police team did not find either Gurunanth Meiyappan, ‘team principal’ of IPL team Chennai Super Kings and son in law of BCCI chief and team owner N Srinivasan, at his home yesterday, and he sought to be excused for the w
While a Mumbai Police team did not find either Gurunanth Meiyappan, ‘team principal’ of IPL team Chennai Super Kings and son in law of BCCI chief and team owner N Srinivasan, at his home yesterday, and he sought to be excused for the w
The public accounts committee (PAC) will scrutinise the expenditure of funds on schemes under the rural development ministry on May 29. The PAC chairman, Murli Manohar Joshi of the BJP, has asked senior officials of the ministry to be present for
Neeraj Kumar must be a very sensitive man. A week after policemen from his team arrested three Rajasthan Royals players and a few non-cricketing men on suspicion of spot-fixing matches in IPL, the Delhi Police commissioner says he has stopped watc
Delhi’s lokayukta, justice Manmohan Sarin, has been doing a commendable job. In a series of interventions in recent months, he has shown what a lokayukta, or the proposed lokpal, can do to clean up the mess politicians often create.
In a pocket-sized outlet running along tony shops in Oshiwara-Behrampada area of Andheri West—one of Mumbai’s busiest suburbs—Alam, a young labourer from Uttar Pradesh, has come to send Rs 1,500 home to his mother’s savings
Three months ago, I resumed playing badminton after an 18-year sabbatical. When I last played, at 12, it was one of the many sports I played thanks to my naval officer father who encouraged—forced—three/four hours of play on me every d
Karimnagar district collector Smita Sabharwal has been given the Gold Award for the best e-governance project (a health and nutrition initiative for expecting mothers) by the Andhra Pradesh government. The district has also won the Platinum Award
For the record, the record books and history will show the UPA 1 and 2 governments under Manmohan Singh as one of the most dented and tainted governments, with its unique achievement being the lack of governance, as many apolitical sceptics and po
In good old days of gramophones, the most irritating moments came when you would put on an LP record without dusting it properly. As the pin got stuck in the dirt, you would hear the screeching sound as the line repeated itself, as if on the loop.
