Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh is ready with a tentative list of the top leaders of BJP for the positions of general secretary and vice-president of the party. Singh has discussed the tentative list with the RSS leaders aft
Bihar, led by its chief minister Nitish Kumar, invaded the national capital today in a determined bid to change the contours of national politics in the run-up to elections 2014. Thousands of poverty-stricken faces with inadequate body mass marche
Just how the bogey of mounting deficit is being raised to reign in subsidy for the poor and even replace it with the direct-benefits transfer (DBT) while raising the subsidy for the corporate and non-corporate firms, bodies and high networth indiv
Justice RM Lodha of supreme court set a beautiful example on Friday by telling a group of lawyers who had objected to the release of the film Jolly LLB that they should not watch the film if it offends them so much. The lawye
Sachin Tendulkar sought permission from chairman of Rajya Sabha on Friday to grant him leave for the first half of union budget session as he was busy with cricket. The entire house said ‘yes’ to allow him leave. Another Rajya S
Union minster of state for home RPN Singh was the minister in waiting for president Pranab Mukherjee during his recent Mauritius visit. Singh told the president that the stay in Port Louis should have been for 3-4 days as it is a strategic locatio
Like all things slapstick, in true Bollywood fashion, the Indian government’s typical reaction is kneejerk. Here’s how they do it: some minister or ministry top babu sits in his chair, the ones with a tall backrest wrapped in a white t
The national council for teacher education (NCTE), responsible for the regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the teacher education system, is now planning to develop a regular mechanism to monitor all private institutions.
India is a unique country in terms of media ownership. There are no cross-media ownership laws, except in TV, where broadcasters and cable distribution firms cannot hold more than 20% of a DTH (direct-to-home) company and vice versa. More importan
Building a house has drained Tuna Patra off – he says as much. Patra, a migrant construction worker in Surat seven months a year and a farmhand in his village for the rest five, is painting his two-room, concrete house in Takarada village of
Odisha`s Law and Urban Development Minister Raghunath Mohanty on Friday resigned on "moral grounds" after his daughter-in-law filed a dowry case against him and his family members. The minister rushed to Naveen Nivas, residence o
While the nation’s chief executive and his external affairs minister mumble and fumble over the insult Rome has handed to India’s supreme court by refusing to return the two Italian marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen, here&r
In an expose involving the country’s biggest private banks, Cobrapost, an online magazine, on Thursday aired a documentary in which it has allegedly claimed to have captured corrupt practices of these banks with respect to money laundering.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday committed yet another faux pas in Lok Sabha by reading out twice a part of his statement on the terrorist attack in Srinagar. Members were agitated and even Shinde`s ministerial colleagues were
As a college pass-out, Jim Young Kim participated in anti-World Bank protests movement called "Fifty years is enough". At that time he did not see the bank as working on the forefront of social issues like environmental sustainability, g
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Italian Ambassador and restrained him from leaving the country without its permission, taking exception to Italian government`s refusal to send back marines charged with the killing of two fisherm
Fact 1 The order of the supreme court dated February 22, 2013, couldn’t have been kinder (please see attachment, starting with Pt. No. 9). When told by Harish Salve, counsel for the two Italian marines accused of murd
Hitting back at airlines for refusing to divulge details of airfares and availability of seats in each fare slab civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has said that the companies cannot refuse to provide information as it is in the larger public inte
Having failed to change India for the past nine years as deputy chairman of the planning commission and the main brain behind prime minister Manmohan Singh’s reformist agenda, Montek Singh Ahluwalia has finally decided to change himself. He
A breath sensor apparatus to assist physically challenged people was the highlight at the national grassroots innovation exhibition, organised annually in Delhi at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Innovations by communities and individuals are put on display a
