Politics has an uncanny tendency of repeating itself less as farce and more as tragedy. This seems to be the description of the move to provide reservation to the scheduled castes/tribes (SC/ST) for promotion in government jobs. Behind the
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday had a meeting in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a girl here during which it was decided that a drive will be launched to ensure removal of tinted glasses
The Delhi high court Bar Association is mustering support for a boycott of the court of justice Valmiki Mehta on December 19. This move has few precedents and is purportedly on account of “brusque remarks” by some judges, alleg
While there many programmes for rural poor, there is no policy to adress the needs of urban poor migrants. They constitute a large number of the population, says NC Saxena, member of national advisory council and commissioner to the supreme court.
Times Now is a news channel that understands entertainment better than most entertainment channels in India. So you have everything loud, jazzy and almost 70-mm, Dolby-like on the channel. So when the channel does something, the honchos at
The cyber security threat to national security has set the government in action mode. The government has formulated a five year plan for map
In what would be an embarrassment for the country’s cyber warriors, nearly 10,000 email IDs of senior government functionaries were compromised— that, too, on a single day — earlier this year. A
In a petition filed in the Bombay high court by Mumbai Cooperative Housing Federation, to stall the order of cooperation commissioner, Pune, Maharashtra, the court has set back the federation’s hasty election proceedings. The high co
Parliament on Tuesday witnessed outrage over the rape of a para-medic student in the capital with a united Opposition stalling the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha demanding an immediate statement by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on the issue.
For people in at least three villages of Nalanda district, the centre’s decision to put a cap on the number of subsidised LPG cylinders per household could well be a debate gathering much heat over nothing. In Saril Chak, Raitar, Kalyan Bigh
Differences cropped up among BJP MPs on the issue of providing reservation in promotion for SC and ST government employees a day after a bill in this regard was passed by the Rajya Sabha. "On the issue of reservation, yes there were d
Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed may be the key conspirator of the Mumbai terror attacks, but Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde referred to him in Parliament using honorifics like `Mr` and `Shri`. Shinde, during the course of a statement on
The Jharkhand police blamed the contractor who has undertaken road work under the Saranda Development Plan for the torching of his construction machinery at Ushariya village by Maoists on November 26 saying that the contractor violated security in
In an apparent move to counter the push for quota in promotion for SC/ST in government jobs, Samajwadi Party in Rajya Sabha on Monday demanded proportionate reservation for Muslims through a Constitutional amendment. The issue triggered an
Ganjam has to be the open defecation capital of India. Dawn and dusk are not poetry-inspiring here. These are times when entire villages descend on to the roads, unabashedly squatting with lungi, towel or saree hitched at the waist. The sight and
Every evening, by the auto stand near the government medical college in Berhampur, a police jeep stands discreetly in the shadows waiting to ambush violators of traffic laws. The helmet law goes unenforced, but riding-in-threes on motorbikes means
One of the ten single window centres for governance delivery in the remote reaches of Maoist-affected Saranda in Jharkhand, the integrated development centre (IDC) at Digha village will be up and functioning by February, the deputy commissioner of
Confident of returning to power in Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the ruling BJP would score a "hat-trick" in the state by winning the assembly polls for the third time in a row on the plank of "good governance
With the second and final phase of elections in Gujarat on today, let us focus on the hush-hush talk that found no mention in candidates’ speeches or pamphlets: the voting-eve distribution of cash and/or liquor. After the neig
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s claim that a family of five can purchase a month’s ration of rice, wheat and sugar for Rs 600 has come under fire. While the main opposition party, the BJP, has accused her of playing to the gallery with
