Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and expressed his unhappiness over the Centre`s refusal to provide gas to the state at the same price at which it is given to Mumbai and Delhi. Also read:
This pocket-borough of Nehru-Gandhi family is gearing up to welcome Rahul Gandhi, who will arrive here on Thursday for the first time after his ascension as Congress vice president. His two-day visit was cancelled yesterday due to bad weat
Following nearly minute-to-minute progress of an arrival in the capital, with live television coverage and uber-excited anchors jotting down the journey, is usually meant for a triumphant sports team/individual, or in some cases big-time dignitari
Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan has made a strong plea to the Centre to notify the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal`s award in the gazette as stipulated by the Supreme Court. The plea was made by Vasan when he met Union Law Minister Ashwa
Conflict between the Odisha government and villagers resisting land acquisition for the Posco’s steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district has flared up once again. The state government has begun forcible land acquisition even though the national
With the six-decade-old Telangana tangle showing no signs of petering out, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have informally proposed a three-point formula to resolve the vexatious issue. According to sources, Gandhi has p
In the second volume of his biography of Chaudhary Charan Singh, noted scholar Paul Brass has given an interesting account of the role of the bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh. On the basis of written documents, letters and file notings, Brass mentions
Kaku Ram was there to reclaim his name, which the election commission had changed to ‘Nathu Ram’ in his voter identity card, triggering a unique set of problems.
The state the nation is not healthy, for the nation’s states have contracted an unnamed viral fever going strong. Symptom: cold-shouldering sing-song voices of reason/freedom, spasms of cough but no syrup against the strong arms of the radic
The Centre and several state governments on Tuesday came in for sharp criticism by the Supreme Court for their failure to file status report on the issue of missing children with the bench saying that nobody seems to be concerned about them.
Solicitor general Rohinton Nariman’s resignation from office revives the old ghosts of arbitrariness and opacity that rule the way the cases are marked to the law officers of the government, and which were so vividly brought to the light
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday asked revenue officials to beef up their tax collection efforts to achieve the budgeted target. "This was a difficult year for the economy including for revenue collection because there was le
Just as the poor response of the union government to the Delhi gangrape and the subsequent public protests received all-round censure, the move to rush in an anti-rape ordinance has spread disquiet too. Not only are the women’s organizations
Vishwaroopam row ends, Haasan agrees on 7 edits Barring the puns and play on words, that was the gist of the headline on most front pages on Sunday. The uplifting, positive tone of the line — as if meant to say ‘cheer u
Emphasizing self-regulation of content as the preferred option which is broad-based and balanced, information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari has stressed the need to create a statutory mechanism to address issues related to convergence ac
Thin beams of light stream through the holes in the asbestos ceiling of the two-room shed that serves as the anganwadi centre in Santoshpur village of Pitala panchayat in Sheragada. The mould-stained walls look desperately in need of a fresh coat
A Delhi court on Monday framed charges against sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs. 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-rela
Kashmir’s first all-girl rock-band Pragaash have received full support from netizens of the valley after media reports suggested it had decided to quit after receiving abuse and threats. Online blogs and social-media users expressed
A not-so-new turnaround by the environmentalist and author Mark Lynas has renewed the debate over genetically modified (GM) crops in India, thanks to the wide publicity that his January 3 lecture at the Oxford received here. By his own admission,
About 50 children from different parts of the country came together to talk about problems of child labor and their grievances about the non-implementation of Right to Education (RTE) at a consultation organised in the national capital on Friday.
