Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma was in the midst of a fresh row as his remark that Mulayam Singh Yadav had terrorist links paralysed Parliament, forcing government to express regret and condemn the utterances. Verma stirred a hornet`s nes
One of the first major steps that Jayanti Natarajan took after assuming charge of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in July 2011 was to dismantle the glass door her predecessor Jairam Ramesh had installed at the ministerial office in
Two incidents prove how politicians and bureaucrats treat public sector undertakings (PSUs) as their private jagirs and fiefdoms. In one case, witnessed personally, a junior (and young) cabinet minister asked his senior colleague how he could cont
Concerned over rising bad loans, Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram asked banks to take firm steps to recover loans saying the country cannot afford to have "affluent promoters and sick companies". "We wish banks take fir
An all-party meeting convened by the government on Monday failed to reach a consensus on the anti-rape Bill with leaders expressing reservations on the age of consent for sex and demanding safeguards against misuse of the proposed law. &qu
Order restraining Italian Ambassador from leaving India will continue till further orders, says SC. Italian Ambassador Daniele Mancini tells SC he has complete immunity under the Vienna Convention. All authorities shall take approp
Fifteen MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) have been suspended for a day from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Monday as they disrupted proceedings demanding adoption of a resolution on the statehood issue. The TRS members
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.
