As he gets set to surrender before TADA court in Mumbai later on Thursday, amid havans and prayers, it took exactly a month and a half for Sanjay Dutt to turn the archetypal stand-up comedian in a typical Bollywood flick from the archetypical hero
A week before India comes under the mandatory `review mechanism` at the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in Vienna, two reports released on Wednesday tore into India`s preparedness to beat corruption. The two laws specifically mentione
The two major assembly elections, of Gujarat and Karnataka, in recent times had an interesting difference. In Gujarat, Narendra Modi was bound to be the biggest vote-catcher for BJP, and it had been with that confidence that he drop
Lack of proper communication between the wings of two key ministries responsible for upkeep of a decent swathe of the local communication sector has found a hapless victim. Applications of at least 50 community radio stations (CRS) are pending for
The Maharashtra housing and development authority (MHADA) recently released a Dharavi redevelopment plan. The government expected constructive support from the residents of Dharavi, but they are upset. Corner meetings have been held, rallies
While the political circle is agog with speculation that the Congress party (read 10-Janpath) is miffed with prime minister Manmohan Singh after he agreed to run for a third term, Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are slated to dine togeth
While the political circle is agog with speculation that the Congress party (read 10-Janpath) is miffed with prime minister Manmohan Singh after he agreed to run for a third term, Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are slated to dine togeth
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has decided to publish a compendium of best practices on right to information (RTI) Act being adopted by public authorities all over the country. It has invited write-ups from people in this
Flipping channels post dinner on a Sunday night, I came across Konkona Sen Sharma’s face mouthing some dialogue on Jalsha Movies, Star TV’s Bangla movie channel. Now, Konkona is supposed to be a bright woman, not exactly your run-of-th
Come July, Delhi University (DU) will have implemented its new three-tiered, four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). The university’s executive council (EC), the highest administrative body, has given its approval to the final shape and na
Our home-grown pharma giant Ranbaxy Laboratories has been slapped a $500 million fine in the US for selling adulterated drugs. The three drugs in question were manufactured at two plants in India. The adulterated stuff could ent
The line that divides surveillance and intrusion is thin — and blurring by the day. At least in the social media sphere. Take, for example, Mumbai police’s social media lab launched on
The supreme court hauled the central bureau of investigation (CBI) over coals for letting the political executive dictate its probe report on the coal block allocation scam calling the investigating agency a “caged parrot” singing
In the recent times, with the economy registering a slow pace of growth, demand for goods and services declining and companies posting poor financial results, the problems faced by public sector banks (PSBs) for recovering their loans has only wor
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), India’s largest power generating company has achieved a growth in profit-after-tax of 68.95 percent in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2012-13. NTPC has an installed capacity
The Maharashtra government is on its way to make its offices paperless, having already implemented a digital workplace system in head offices of 16 departments located in Mantralaya – the state secretariat. The project, which would eliminate
Much before BJP patriarch LK Advani expressed his unequivocal disapproval of the party’s handling of the Karnataka crisis and criticised BS Yeddyurappa for corruption, he is believed to have ticked off the former chief minister in the strong
In 1999, it was a phone call from Pakistan’s then army chief Pervez Musharraf, returning from Colombo to Islamabad on a Pakistan International Airlines flight, that sealed then prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s fate. Troopers of the infamo
Despite the humiliation in the recent Karnataka assembly elections, a defeat wrought largely by desertion of BS Yeddyurappa from the BJP camp and forming his own party, the BJP isn’t exactly counting out a return of the former chief minister
The spin doctors are back at work. Not long after Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar — two ministers with oodles of muck on their face, the first for letting his nephew allegedly use his ministry in earning a fortune, and of course illegal
