For the second consecutive time, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao on Tuesday left the key interest rate unchanged to fight inflation, and lowered the growth projection for the current fiscal to 6.5 per cent. However, as a liquidity inducin
In the Blue Corner: “…Chinese companies were dumping their equipment, be it transformers or reactors, here. In the absence of an after-sales service infrastructure, it is very risky. Our requirement is so huge. While their rates a
Never a quitter, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal has refused to give up his crusade for "one nation, one test" he wants not only for the undergraduate admissions in engineering colleges but across all the disciplines in
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi wants Rajasthan`s Indira Canal extended all along the international border of Gujarat as a barrier against any conventional war with Pakistan. He also wants the Indian Penal Code amended to prescribe more strin
Had Prasenjit Bose not quit the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM, he would have been busy researching and preparing the party’s strategy for the monsoon session of parliament. Instead, he is relaxing at home, reading the works o
The Gajapati district administration has taken up a massive horticulture plantation drive under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) this year. Aiming at generating about 1.5 lakh mandays under the ce
Almost entire Delhi went without power for about eight hours today due to the collapse of the Northern Grid, putting people to misery on a humid day when water distribution and Metro services were largely affected. Top Delhi Power D
Most parts of North India are reeling under severe power outage since early morning today, due to collapse of Northern electricity transmission grid. The collapse of the Northern power grid impacted public transport systems includin
1. Is there, in your opinion, given the metric of audience measurement that exists today, space for socially relevant programming? The scope for socially relevant programming exists, with or without a metric for aud
Three months back, sitting with a borrowed iPad a few metres from the White Nile in Juba, I wrote on a show aiming to flow against the current. The Nile, as we know flows from south to north. Having experienced the merciless onslau
It’s July, the new admission time at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). This is when the student wings of various parties set up their tables outside the administrative block (known as ‘Pink Palace’) and in helping the newcom
T 816 - Honored to be asked to carry the Olympic Torch in London at Southwark around 10:30 AM!! A proud moment for me and country! &nbs
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who had steadfastly declined to answer questions on his alleged role in the post-Godhra violence, has refused to apologise for the riots and instead would prefer to be hanged if found guilty. &q
The indefinite fast by Team Anna against UPA government on corruption entered the second day today but questions cropped up as to whether the anti-corruption movement has lost its steam. Unlike in the past, crowds that had thronged
Noting that the Magsaysay award has transformed him into a "known warrior" from an unknown one, Kulandei Francis today said he would like to be a role model for others to emulate his village development project. The lone I
This round of agitation by Anna Hazare and his followers, it seems, is headed nowhere unless something dramatic happens in the next couple of weeks. For one, people’s response is less than enthusiastic. Most of those who are a
if Sharad Pawar wanted to take the nation`s attention away from the looming drought with his pullout drama, the Congress is one up on him. The willy Maratha is now made the head the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought the prime minister
How could things come to such a pass that the opportunity for the government to ease into the confidence of Saranda’s disaffected seems to be almost entirely lost? The pathetic state of state administration could offer an explanation.
One more person was killed in police firing during clashes between minority immigrants and Bodos in lower Assam`s Dhubri district even as fresh violence in Baksa district left four persons seriously injured today. Indefinite curfew
"Bayaasi number jaana hai.” The rickshaw-puller nods in recognition and swiftly makes his way through a road teeming with buses, cars and auto-rickshaws. Soon the rickshaw enters a residential colony in Shadi Khampur in west Delhi and d
