As he approaches his superannuation in May, comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Vinod Rai knows it well that he has been the chief tormenter of the UPA government. “I can assure you that the government, if they did make a mistake appointin
While A Raja on Friday said he would give a detailed note of around 100 pages to the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam and concluded that he had “misled” the PM on the issue during his tenure a
Now, investors may breathe a little easier trading in the stock market as the new measures proposed by market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) could make the investment environment less volatile. In a bid to boost inv
While the opposition is set to raise the heat on coal blocks allocation scam, the buzz in the corridors of power is that a senior bureaucrat in the prime minister’s office (PMO) is on sticky wicket. Several senior CBI officers are l
At the stroke of the midnight hour on August 14, 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of India’s tryst with destiny, Pratapgarh—barely an hour’s drive from his hometown of Allahabad—decided to miss that date with India’s
Now that a career in politics is over, at least for the time being, former Pakistan dictator Pervez Musharraf is looking at alternative career options, it is learnt. A day after his arrest, Perv, as Musharraf is called in many quarters in
Veerendra Patil, a veteran of several political battles, had once said that the aspiration of the Congress cadre was a double-edged sword: it could bring the party to power or it could mar the party’s prospects. “Yeh pagalpan hai (this
The Delhi Police had arrested a 25-year-old man accused of kidnapping, raping and torturing a five-year-old girl in the national capital. The accused, reportedly named Manoj Kumar, was arrested from Muzzaffarpur district in Bihar on Friday night.
Salvaging its reputation partially, the Delhi Police claims to have arrested the suspect in the rape and brutalisation of a five-year-old in the national capital. The accused, identified as one Manoj Kumar, was arrested from Muzaffarpur di
While the average Mumbaikar fights with more civic issues than this time last year, and are asking more questions of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Council with each passing day, renaming of roads remains the top priority for the elected ward councilo
Good news on the economic front. With the international commodity prices and domestic inflation easing, Indian economy is expected to pick up pace. “I think the slowdown has bottomed out. We will see the growth rate picking up and ba
RP Meena, an IPS officer of Odisha cadre, is the new secretary of the Medical Council of India (MCI), the statutory body regulating medical colleges, affiliations of new colleges and registration of doctors. He was currently director in the centra
The Supreme Court today cancelled 49 leases in mines reporting maximum illegalities in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga districts of Karnataka, but allowed resumption of activity in mines with lesser illegalities as recommended by a Central Empower
A day after actor Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks time to surrender, seven other convicts including 70-year-old Zaibunnisa Anwar Kazi, were also given the same amount of time by the Supreme Court to turn themselves in to serve their remaining s
Investors approaching listed companies with complaints now have a new reason to cheer with the markets watchdog directing all these companies to redress such complaints within a month using a centralised online complaints redressal system. The reg
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has promoted three of its general managers to the post of executive directors (ED). According to a statement issued on Thursday, S Bhattacharya has been made ED, communication navigation and surve
Amid the rise and rise of Narendra Modi, the only challenge ironically comes from an ally, Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal (United). After the hat-trick in Gujarat, the clamour for Modi as PM is only growing and he has acknowledged the same, making add
The supreme court’s partial and interim stay on its own verdict on appointment of information commissioners and working of commissions has brought relief to RTI activists. The apex court’s order delivered on Tuesday has removed
The genesis of the problem with Indian politicians, as these columns and many others have said before, lies within a few inches of each other: their brain, and their mouth. Like good hand-eye coordination required of a batsman, it’s the brai
Almost a year after a task force submitted its report on monitoring of the proactive information disclosure under section 4 of the RTI Act, the government has issued a set of guidelines to all central government departments and ministries, instruc
