If BJP president Nitin Gadkari comes to Gujarat for the election campaign, he would refocus the political debate on fugitive criminal Dawood Ibrahim. Nothing would be so embarrassing for chief minister Narendra Modi as Gadkari`s indiscretion, sinc
“We`re all in this together. That`s how we campaigned, and that`s who we are. Thank you. –bo” That’s how US President Barack Obama reacted on Twitter after news began pouring in about his victory in
The new oil and natural gas minister, M Veerappa Moily, is in a difficult position. In fact, every minister holding this portfolio is in so far as dealing with the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is concerned. Damned if you favour RIL and damned
More than 40 applications have been received by the cluster innovation centre of Delhi University (DU) for the first course under ‘meta university’. The course, which will take off in January 2013 nearly six months after its proposed d
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari survived in his post for one more day but with more leaders speaking out against him his future is more uncertain than ever. During a day that saw a series of meetings of the party top b
Among many disadvantages of being a city slicker is the level of expectation that comes almost guaranteed. A railway station, for instance, ought to have an enquiry counter. Or roads, for that matter, are thrown open to the public only after the s
Petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily has a knack to make government decisions ineffective without reversing them as he demonstrated when he was chief minister of Karnataka (though his term was cut short by the infamous "Moily tapes").
As was expected after he jumped into the political arena, Arvind Kejriwal has become the new untouchable. His résumé sounded attractive, in fact cool, as an RTI activist, only to become a hot potato in his present avatar as a politic
I am not sure whether I was Class VI or VII at the time. It was the time of the school annual day in the seventies and the title of the best debater was up for grabs. The topic for that year’s debate was, as predictable as school debate topi
Fair trade regulator CCI has rejected actor-producer Ajay Devgn`s complaint alleging abuse of dominant position by Yash Raj Films, saying that there are no violations of competition norms in the case. Ajay Devgn Films Pvt Ltd had moved the
Nitin Gadkari should resign as BJP president immediately, says Ram Jethmalani. Jethmalani claims Jaswant Singh, Yaswant Sinha and Satrughan Sinha are with him on Gadkari`s resignation. Will be happy to be expelled for making the de
“I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg one day and thank him [...] I`m talking on behalf of Egypt. [...] This revolution started online. This revolution started on Facebook. This revolution started [...] in June 2010 when hundreds of thousands
The quality of the prevalent discourse on nationalism within the Sangh Parivar has inadvertently been betrayed by BJP president Nitin Gadkari when he put at par the intelligence quotient of Swami Vivekanand and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim. As
People`s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has demanded release of activist Medha Patkar, lawyer Aradhana Bhargava and 21 others, who they allege have been illegally arrested and confined in Chhindwara Jail in Madhya Pradesh. In a letter to
The RTI Act is still safe from dilution, as the cabinet on Thursday withdrew a set of amendments it had proposed to the Act. UPA chairperson and National Advisory Council chief Sonia Gandhi’s strong opposition to the amendments is said to be
On November 1, news agency PTI reported (which was carried by several national dailies) that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has given ‘stage 1’ forest clearance (which means ‘in principle’ clearance to diver
The jury is out, and the decision has come along the lines predicted. A day after Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, and presumably also of the ruling Congress, made what is being made out to be a definitive, coming-into-his speec
