Here is the text signed by more than 200 civil society activists and academics: We support cash transfers such as old age pensions, widow pensions, maternity entitlements and scholarships. In fact, many of us have been part of struggles to
Travel between Mumbai and Delhi is likely to be more comfortable as the western railway (WR) plans to start a Rajdhani type train between the busy Mumbai-Delhi corridor starting January 26. Passengers will be able to travel on confirm tickets.
Terming India’s failure in providing basic facilities such as sanitation, health and education to its people as catastrophic, Professor Amartya Sen has said it needs fixing and accountability. He has also said people’s anger is suppres
(In view of the revived debate over the naming of the victim, we are reproducing this article) It`s a very thin line between the sacred and the profane. Even those in elementary classes in jour
NTPC, India’s largest power producer, has initiated power capacity expansion programme for Maharashtra. The foundation stone for the second stage of the Mouda plant near Nagpur was laid on Friday. The plant has a capacity of 3140 MW
Delhi has been infamous as the rape capital of India as well as the crime capital of India. It is not new to failure of governance either. Yet, a gangrape in December was a trigger point, people were enraged and came out in streets to protest like
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that there is an urgent need for identifying challenges in the whole criminal justice system so that trials of cases against weaker sections, especially women, are concluded early and guilty is puni
It could well be said the sign of the times. With the republic inching closer to its 64th year, the old guard is yielding to the new. But since most Indian political parties have hardly followed democratic model jotted down by the republic’s
Haryana is creating a `hall of shame` by putting on an official website names of some 6,000 persons convicted for crimes against women. The names of those convicted in cases related to crime against women, including rape, molestation and d
Competition Commission of India said it has modified the agreement between DLF group and apartment buyers in its two projects, wherein the realty major was found to have abused its dominant position. Competition Commission of India (CCI) s
It takes an intellectual’s vision to set things straight. When quasis and pseudos failed — even after banging their heads against the wall for many days — to come up with a clear perspective on the brutalisation of society in the
As far as public hearings go, the one at Sheragada block office on December 26, regarding grievances with implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREG) scheme, wasn’t stellar. Barring possibly the fact that
Centre pleads before SC to put in place a mechanism to monitor crime against women by khap panchayats. SC says that khap panchayats can come and express their views on issues relating to inter-caste marriage before it.
Sumitra Mahato sits in a porch with her grandson who is scribbling in a Bengali alphabet book. A few minutes later her daughter-in-law also named Sumitra and is eight months pregnant arrives with a bucket of water and a metal pot on her head. The
That Indian authorities wake up late is non-news. That they wake up so late could also be deemed non-news by now. But when men deemed to be leaders wake up late anyway and eject inane words from the body part where their mouth is, it becomes a bit
A local court on Thursday directed police to investigate a complaint filed by a city-based businessman against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for allegedly making "hate speech" against a particular community.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said transformation of the agricultural sector should be the top priority of the country`s public policies including those on science and technology. He also said that complex issues related to gen
An unannounced drizzle is normal for this time of the year anywhere else. For Chandasi village of Noorserai block in Nalanda district of Bihar, this would mean a sudden change of appearance. The dusty plains meekly give way to an expanse of swamps
There’s been a reinvigorating flutter in the Trinamool Congress head office lately — a remarkable change in spirits after all the (local and national) flak it has been catching for more than a year now. And it’s all because the m
The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Centre for its failure to stop illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by multinational companies, saying the drug trials are creating "havoc" in the country and causing death of many citizens.
