Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on finance, on Thursday asked the government to show the political will to bite the bullet by checking the alarming fiscal deficit in the union budget to
Inside the small kitchen, she deftly washes the dishes, pours water in the bowl and lets it microwave for a few minutes. She adds tea leaves into the hot water and sits down to rest. Her reverie is interrupted by a phone call. She politely answers
The supreme court had been prescient about the ghastly gang rape of December 16. In their order of April 27 last year against PIL 265 of 2011, a three-judge bench headed no less by the then chief justice had ordered all states of the union to remo
If you are a Delhiite and do not own a car, you must be among thousands who struggle to board an auto – either to avoid the rush in buses or to commute between the bus stand/metro station to home or office. So when auto drivers misbe
Despite the existence of the Geneva Convention, the inherently brutal nature is a typical characteristic of an army. In the Kargil war, there were many stories of bestiality and torture that the Pakistan army resorted to against Indian defence per
The Railway Board has rolled back a circular under which `Tatkal` ticket holders were given priority while clearing waiting lists over normal reservation ticket holders. The circular was taken back by the Railway Board after a public inter
In a rare decision just a month ahead of the Budget, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today effected an across-the-board hike in fares of all classes from midnight of January 21 to net an additional Rs 6,600 crore a year, the first such increas
Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmed is understood to have recommended President`s rule in the state by keeping the Assembly under suspended animation. The recommendation was made in his report to the Centre on the political situation in the wake
The Arjun Munda government in Jharkhand has collapsed due to `divorce` between the ruling coalition partners, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said on Wednesday and demanded that the assembly be put under suspended animation. RJD has five MLAs in the
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond to a PIL seeking annulment of certain provisions in the juvenile law, including those that spare minor convicts from life imprisonment and death penalty. "Issue notice to r
A Delhi court on Wednesday upheld a magisterial court order for in-camera proceedings in the case of December 16 gangrape of 23-year-old girl and restraining media from reporting it. District and Sessions Judge R K Gauba said there was not
Exactly a month after Akbaruddin Owaisi delivered what is being termed a hate speech in Nizamabad on December 8, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh finally arrested the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA on Tuesday evening after hemming
Accolades for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who last month won third consecutive assembly elections, keep pouring in. The state has been ranked topper in the economic freedom index, according to a new report. “Gujarat
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, facing multiple cases for his alleged "hate speech", was on Wednesday remanded to 14 day judicial custody by a magistrate in Nirmal town of Adilabad district. Akbaruddin was rep
In a fresh crackdown on YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and his associates, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday attached assets worth Rs 143.74 crore in connection with its probe in the money laundering case against him. The
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to
Editor’s note: This was written days after the December 16, 2012 gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in south Delhi. Eight months on, we revisit the article since the setting may have changed – a 22-year-old
· “Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have
Self-claimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has joined the queue of the misquoted. At a religious gathering in Jaipur on Sunday, he found fault with the gangrape victim. “Clapping cannot happen with one hand. A mistake does not happen
Now it seems a fight to the finish. The controversial, firebrand Akbaruddin Owaisi, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) floor leader in the state assembly and MLA of Chandrayangutta constituency in the old city of Hyderabad, has dared to bare the r
