India is ageing fast. Over the next few decades it will turn from a ‘young’ country to an ‘old’ country. The number of the elderly persons (60+) will rise from the current 9 crore to 31.5 crore by 2050, constituting 20 perc
India is ageing fast. Over the next few decades it will turn from a ‘young’ country to an ‘old’ country. The number of the elderly persons (60+) will rise from the current 9 crore to 31.5 crore by 2050, constituting 20 perc
By claiming that according to his arithmetic the losses in the 2G spectrum allocation scam were only Rs 2,645 crore, former CAG official RP Singh has spawned two new debates. Is he a Congress pawn, as the BJP was quick to claim?
With Ujjwal Nikam, Ajmal Kasab and the biryani in news once again, this article of 2012 vintage would be of interest again. Read from the archives: It was April 29, 2009, the early days of Kasab&rsq
The Mumbai terrorist attack has left the Government with a million questions to answer to its people. Just a day after the execution of Ajmal Kasab, key terrorist involved in the Mumbai 26/ 11 terrorist attack, in Pune’s Yerwada Jail, the Go
Battle lines are being redrawn, new alliances forged and aggressive political strategies are on the anvil to rewrite the political scenario of Andhra Pradesh. After a long time, Hyderabad was agog with a political buzz that was, for once, not cent
Sometimes it becomes a tad risky to open your mouth without realising the consequences, especially if they are of the legal kind. Two things happen in such a scenario: you land in a fix, and end up with your foot right in your mouth.
The winter session of Parliament got off on a stormy note on Thursday, with the first day getting washed out over FDI in multi-brand retail even as an effort by Trinamool Congress to bring the no-confidence motion flopped due to lack of requisite
It was around 8 in the morning when TV channels started beaming reports that Ajmal Kasab, the 26/11 terrorist whose mercy petition was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, had been hanged in Pune’s Yerawada jail. The first reactions start
Politicking has begun over 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s execution, with both Congress and the BJP attempting to score political brownie points. While the Congress is trying to go on the front foot, emphasising that the execution inv
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged early this morning, was aware of the date on which he was to be executed and had been made to sign his death warrant before being moved to the Pune jail on November 19. According to off
It is not every day that you get up to genuine breaking news on TV. November 21 was one such day. Kasab executed. Justice done; one 26/11 terror attack file closed. Or so one would have thought. Till “your channel&rdqu
A powerful civil society group has moved the Supreme Court (SC) seeking audit of the accounts of India’s premier internal intelligence agencies: the Intelligence Bureau (IB for internal intelligence), the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW
The UPA-II government took its most decisive decision so far in its over three-year tenure by hanging Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab early November 21 morning, five days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attack on Mumbai. Kasab was ha
That Nitin Gadkari has become a liability for the Bharatiya Janata Party is a fact perhaps even the party president himself would think twice before contesting these days. What is becoming just as embarrassing for the party as allegations of corru
It took just two days for Shaheen Dhadha and her friend Renu to let go of the Civics lessons they learnt for a year or two in school. For them, democracy and free speech could well be just a couple of longwinded words, respectively comprising 11 a
Thirty-nine countries including India voted against a United Nations General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty. It said that every nation had the "sovereign right" to determine its own legal system.&
The arrest of two girls in Mumbai over their post on the social media site Facebook has attracted criticism from all corners. After telecom minister Kapil Sibal, minister of state for communications and information technology Milind Deora has cond
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi seems to have taken his new role as the party’s election coordination committee chief quite seriously. Within days of being appointed in the new post, the Amethi MP is learnt to have sent out a crack t
