Now that Narendra Modi is not hitting the Skype on March 23 to make that keynote address at the Wharton India Economic Forum, the debate about what the issue was all about could be addressed in a more civil, reasonable way. Ania Loomba, on
The government on Thursday gave its nod to a Bill aimed at providing time-bound delivery of services like passports, pensions and birth and death certificates, among others, to the citizens. The Right of Citizens for Time-Bound Delivery of
India has all the requirements to return to a GDP growth rate of 8 percent in the coming years, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, while highlighting that current account deficit is a big problem right now.
Three days after Narendra Modi attacked the Congress and called the prime minister a “night watchman” keeping guard for the Gandhi family, an unusually combative Manmohan Singh hit out at the BJP in Lok Sabha on Wednesday evening. Stre
Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have been ranked at the top of the Well Being Index (WBI), while southern states, Gujarat and most of the north-eastern states emerged as the most secure ones for women in the Female Security Index (FSI)
With the opposition targeting the government on alleged irregularities in the farm loan waiver scheme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday promised "stringent possible action" against defaulters, if any. The Prime Minister
No misappropriation in farm loan waiver scheme, says Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. Seek comprehensive audit by CAG on farm loan waiver scheme: Pawar.
Even as India gets its yearly rap form the United Nations for not having updated data on drug abuse (last survey was done in 2001), not much has changed. Lately, when the central government woke up to its best of intention of conducting such a sur
The Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India on March 4 rejected the German firm Bayer AG`s appeal of a ruling last year that allowed Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma to produce a cheaper generic version of Bayer’s kidney and liver
Aligarh Muslim University students on Tuesday took out a protest march against alleged rising number of crimes in the state. The students also handed over a memorandum to the district authorities, addressed to the President of India, deman
"Asking me whether you want to be Prime Minister is a wrong question," Rahul Gandhi said today. The Congress Vice-President made this suo motu remark while interacting with party MPs amid growing clamour in Congress for projectin
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday made an attempt to clear his stand on his name being propped up as the probable prime ministerial candidate. He told his partymen, "The prime minister`s post is not my priority. I believe in long-term politics."
On Sunday, March 3, Pranab Mukherjee left New Delhi for Dhaka on his first trip abroad since becoming the president. While his three-day trip was overtaken by the crisis situation in Bangladesh and the diplomatic snub from the leader of opposition
Neiphiu Rio was on Tuesday sworn in for a third straight term as Chief Minister of Nagaland along with 11 ministers by the Governor at a glittering function at the Raj Bhavan here. All the eleven ministers were from his own party, the Naga
Expressing serious concern over the implementation of Rs 52,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme, government auditor CAG on Tuesday said in several cases ineligible farmers were given benefit while deserving ones were left out. Comptroller an
The arena for the first skirmish between Congress and the BJP in the run-up to 2014 general elections, the politically volatile Karnataka is the only state where the ruling party expects to improve its tally. And it should thank a badly fractured
After Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi called prime minister Manmohan Singh as the "night watchman" of Congress, the new term coined for the PM was the much talked about topic among the MPs in the parliament corridors. Someone was he
The entire national capital will soon be under the hawk’s eye. As per an ambitious plan cleared recently by the ministry of home affairs, more than 6,000 CCTV cameras will be installed all over Delhi in the coming few months to keep a tab on
On Sunday, Swiss voters voiced their anger against corporate greed, clearing a landmark plan to boost what shareholders can do to curb executive greed. Just a day before, a CEO of a Rs1,000-crore company told me about the annual Vijay Mallya party
Suspecting foul play, relatives of those killed while allegedly making bombs in the proposed Posco steel plant area of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha on Monday refused to take the three bodies. "We had issued notice to the relatives
