As a young IIM graduate, starting a career in investment banking, I definitely wanted to be in Bombay, indeed the Maximum City in the mid- 80s. Alas, 25 years later, and wiser in the ways of how governance, or the lack of it, can make or break a c
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said that there was a broad consensus in the state cabinet over enacting a special law to protect journalists from attacks, but added that there should be some arrangement for looking into
Rejected by the medical board at Delhi`s Safdarjung hospital to join any branch of the civil services as he was suffering from a rare genetic disorder, 25-year-old Sukhsohit Singh on Wednesday said he was contemplating moving the supreme court to
The centre has been deriding protests against corruption as a threat to democracy. The government, including prime minister Manmohan Singh, justified the midnight raid at Baba Ramdev`s protest at New Delhi`s Ramlila Maidan as an unfortunate decisi
The Centre has finally crossed the digital barrier to adopt the new age media of SMS messages and internet advertisements to reach out to the masses. The directorate of advertising and visual publicity (DAVP) has been asked by the informat
Pakistan`s spy agency ISI was planning recruitment of retired Indian military personnel to penetrate into the system and then use them for its anti-India activities, according to LeT operative David Headley. Less than six months before the
Facing opposition flak, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday said her government has no objection to a CBI inquiry into the Lakhimpur teenaged girl`s murder case if the victim`s family wanted it. However, she said her governm
Soon the sarpanch, the ward member, mukhiya and other panchayati raj functionaries will be able to track funds flowing to panchayats online, send emails, view information on the internet and use the e-panchayat application. The panchayati
HIV/AIDS in north India is an epidemic in waiting as the number of injecting drug users (IDUs) is on a rise in this part of the country, said the civil society members working on HIV at the consultation meeting for north India here on Tuesday.
After the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) of Delhi University set an almost unachievable target of 100% for students with a non-commerce background, the principal of the college, P C Jain, told Governance Now he doesn`t find anything irra
A day after Swami Nigamanand breathed his last after fasting for more than two months at Haridwar to save the Ganga, environment minister Jairam Ramesh shrugged off the centre’s responsibility in the matter. At a conference in the c
In an apparent move to corner chief minister Narendra Modi, the Congress in Gujarat on Tuesday moved an application before the Nanavati Commission seeking direction to the police to provide wide ranging police records between February 27, 2002 and
Moving a step forward to split the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Delhi Government on Tuesday approved a bill for division of the civic agency into three smaller bodies. The bill along with a proposal for trifurcation of
Some pages from files pertaining to the controversial Adarsh Housing Society have gone missing from the city-based state headquarters of the ministry of defence, the judicial panel probing into the high-rise scam was told on Tuesday.
Police personnel in Himachal Pradesh have been asked not to mention their surnames or caste in official communications. All officials have been advised not to use their surname or caste while addressing each other in all official an
A bill seeking to empower the West Bengal government to return land in Singur to farmers was passed by the Assembly on Tuesday amidst a walkout by members of the opposition left parties. The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Developmen
In the first-ever audit of any intelligence agency in India, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a Rs 450-crore purchase scam of Israeli unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) lying as junk with the Hyderabad-based National Technical R
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday directed her ministers to find ways to tackle child labour. She directed her minister of women and child development Prof. Kiran Walia, minister of education Arvinder Singh Lovely, minister of labour and in
Defence minister A K Antony on Tuesday discounted the possibility of Kargil-type operations in Arunachal Pradesh as apprehended by a minister of the state, saying the situation on the border was under constant monitoring and changes were being upg
In the last week of April, I participated in a seminar organised by a group of civil society members. They have long been demanding that the age of children covered under the Child Labour Prohibition and Rehabilitation Act – 1986 be increase
