Trithesh Nandan

Contributions

• At the top, govt banks set to be all-boys club!
• Lily Thomas vs the Union of India
• Bank defaulters should not be allowed to contest elections, AIBEA writes to EC
• For BJP, road to Delhi is from Varanasi this time
• In UP, politics for the folks comes in heartland one-liners!
• Telangana was always a separate entity: Madhu Goud Yaskhi
• The craft of graft, and how it grew over the years
• Bandhs tell a tale: India could see a revival of shutdowns
• Where are good netas, asks techie turned AAP leader eyeing Kanpur LS ticket
• Outsiders throng Modi rally, Lucknow locals aloof
• Mathura irked with sitting MP, BJP gaining turf
• New book on Ambedkar explores his ideas on the gamut of Indian life
• 80% brass set to retire, PSU banks look at dry days
• Looking at NPAs of women-led PSU banks
• Taking on RIL, is Kejriwal fighting on too many fronts?
• Seniors packed off to RS, Rahul signature writ large on Cong poll plans
• "As leader of the ship PM can`t say his integrity is beyond question"
• "PM should have learnt art of biting"
• In this bank, bottom-line is trust!
• Is banking system ignoring where credit is due?
• "Rotary expects India to become fully literate by 2017"
• Meet the man who forced govt to include HIV-positive people in health insurance
• PM boasts of fulfilled promises, civil society cries foul
• State finance commissions a big setback, not of much help: report
• "Higher turnout does not indicate a deepening of democracy"
• Higher voter turnout will add depth to system of governance: CEC
• PSU bank staff wage a war for wage hike
• Pappu Yadav books a query: Is pen mightier than the gun?
• "There is a little bit of India fatigue in the US"
• 4 crore `missing toilets` raise the stink
• Need to overhaul business correspondent model of financial inclusion: Canara Bank CMD
• Are Manmohan`s Russia, China trips UPA`s diplomatic policy swansong?
• India ranks 63rd on global hunger index
• Dear Omar, Salman, it`s wrong to dismiss Keran as just a `skirmish`
• In NY, another Indo-Pak talk therapy
• An officer and a writer: beyond mundane bureaucratic notes
• Will Pranab sign the Lalu ordinance to undo SC ruling?
• Women`s education in India can bring down U-5 mortality by 61 percent: UNESCO
• Retired bank staff seek better pension structure
• `STs face most discrimination in central govt jobs`
• A look at how SBI is preparing to be State Bank of World
• Need banks to finance infrastructure projects in newer ways: Rangarajan
• US can learn from India`s food security experience: Ami Bera
• Banking norms of countries should serve their own needs: UN
• Is Manmohan govt driving economy down wrong lane? UN report thinks so!
• Productive in monsoon: MPs have worked more in parliament this session!
• As fiscal blues raid, where are our smart economists?
• "In a fragmented society, scenario planning is the best"
• Pvt pharma players to `tackle` malnutrition as part of CSR
• "Has private sector solved malnutrition problem anywhere in the world?"
• In Manipur, human rights panel is just a signboard
• "Marching orders at 10 pm is not a nice feeling"
• Poonch and Nawaz Sharif`s summer test
• A look at how economists spar
• MP villagers rise against coal block, minister assures probe
• Education sector turned for-profit by business groups, politicians
• Firefighter of the saffron fold
• Sudhir Kumar Jain named CMD of Syndicate Bank
• Lancet rejects `commercial exploitation` of nutrition campaign
• Fraudulent firms` revenue grew during slowdown
• NDMA lectures as the hills crumble
• Till recently Tehri dam`s backer, World Bank now cries for green cause!
• Nature`s fury might become routine: World Bank
• Feeding the hawk: Sharif’s gambit
• Gold doesn`t glitter for India`s economy, says govt
• No money to fix environmental harms, honey!
• Jemima: a different crusader
• Poverty eradication: UN sets new deadline - 2030
• Caste discrimination a violation of human rights: UN experts
• Is new CAG too close to UPA for public comfort?
• One bank gives leg up to dreams in a UP village
• MHA babus promoted for more pension: audit
• India slack on corruption, says UN body
• Promises good, time for Nawaz to deliver to Delhi
• Rahul imprint clear in Karnataka CM`s selection
• Black money: A white man`s burden
• Cobrapost sting picks holes in ‘clean image’ of PSU banks, LIC
• Suspend banks` branch licenses: Bahal
• Cobrapost now stings PSU banks, names Andhra minister
• "India doesn`t have robust oil and gas infrastructure"
• India-China: Of tents and fear of a pitched battle
• Who will bell the CAG? How not to select Vinod Rai’s successor
• UN projects liberal estimation of India`s growth
• UN meet soon, India ill-prepared with anti-graft measures
• How about a business chamber for Muslim entrepreneurs?
• Climate change can`t fight with the rising fuel subsidies
• India suggests more parameters for HDI
• Modi’s perestroika for MEA
• Only 81 Indian firms join UN anti-graft campaign
• “Random trials are undemocratic in nature”
• Excised from career growth
• Manipur rights panel dysfunctional since 2010
• Proper sanitation can reap economic gains
• KFA now history, will banks move to fix big bad loans?
• Nepal, Bangladesh beat Kerala, AP in reducing poverty
• Get more bang for development bucks
• Kim’s personal touch – tackling TB in India
• Drug abuse survey tardy in Manipur, Maharashtra
• Budget, high on rhetoric: civil society groups
• Budget high on rhetoric: civil society groups
• “Govt engagement with think tanks not enough”
• Excise superintendents opt for mass protest
• India strong on audit, weak in involving citizens in budget process
• From Pak with war: Malik brings up new front
• More Indians behaving like middle class: Friedman
• Need for `fair governance` over `good governance`
• Cash transfer scheme gets global praise
• ‘Pre-budget meeting in mid-Jan of no use’
• State of education
• “Govt funding of NGOs a major scam”
• Lack of political will to blame for plight of Muslims
• Slow growth thing of past for India: WB
• “Government efforts are just window dressing for Muslims”
• Is Pak brutality along LoC part of pre-poll noise?
• Modi`s Gujarat is No. 1 in economic freedom, MP fastest growing
• “Lack of basic facilities a catastrophic failure”
• India ranks 94 on corruption index
• Cash transfer scheme can read Mexico lessons
• India Inc asked to shun Paris, check out UK
• I`m Jantar Mantar: An account of history`s tryst with politics
• Greenhouse gases on the rise, warns UN report
• Politics begins over Kasab hanging
• “Marching orders at 10 pm is not a nice feeling”
• Reading Obama’s lips
• Swamy & his foes; Rahul loses round one
• India`s arms acquisition process needs an overhaul: report
• Finally, good news for endangered Gangetic dolphins
• “Energy is the main constraint for a second green revolution”
• Indian women face barriers in inheriting land
• India as hungry today as it was sixteen years back
• Landless marchers force govt’s hand
• Delhi Police special cell is a group of licensed marauders: report
• More elderly women than men in India by 2050: UNFPA
• Ear to the ground
• Ear to the ground
• Revolution and rebellion in JNU
• Majority Indians lack faith in economy
• “Doha Round has to be resolved bit by bit”
• Belgium looks at investment in India
• “There is serious problem with CPM`s political direction”
• Cracks in the other Red Fort: CPM faces revolt in own backyard
• 92 percent Indian blame govt for financial mess
• UN favours call for taxing billionaires to help poor
• India preferred destination for FDI in 2011: UN
• `India’s open defecation is a global scandal`
• “No parliament is supreme. Only citizen is supreme”
• Shimla mayor, his deputy to work for 16 hrs a day
• India, China likely to face global garbage crisis by 2025
• Traffic emissions alarming in India, China: report
• The crumbling state assembly sessions
• “India is not stealing water”
• India’s growth slumps to 5.3% in the fourth quarter
• "Poor awareness about Lyngdoh Committee"
• “Citizen, not parliament, is supreme in true democracy”
• Separate planning board for Muslims suggested
• Activists plan another agitation to save Ganga
• Bt Brinjal a threat to ecological balance: Greenpeace
• Basu fears global financial crisis in 2014
• SC, ST forum accuses govt of diverting funds
• US meets an assertive India
• A little lesson in democracy – from Pakistan
• “Indian foreign policy is behaving the American way”
• "Economic growth without equality"
• Anna to PM: what`s wrong with defence?
• “Growing middle class is the most exciting social transformation”
• Zardari visit in three words: Ho hum, handshakes and hope
• `People`s voice must be heard on Ganga clean-up`
• "Having the a-bomb and eating grass did Pak no good"
• IDSA releases archives of India’s nuclear history
• NGOs most trusted institutions: survey
• BRICS no different from the other blocs: Report
• House in disorder
• Civil society leaders flay poverty figures
• Funds not reaching Punjab, Bihar schools on time
• NGOs move towards bridging trust deficit
• Israel ready to help India check Ganga pollution
• Untilised funds reflect government’s policy paralysis
• Farmers demand separate budget for eco fertilisers
• Drug trade through private couriers worries NCB
• NGOs fume over govt crackdown
• Indian youth disapproves of dynasty politics
• Government wakes up to CBRN risks
• Women`s participation must for economic growth
• Poor governance, corruption makes India `high risk`
• India needs to pick up pace to meet MDGs
• CO2 emission cut was never part of MDGs: Ramesh
• Women prefer mobiles over toilets: Ramesh
• Hungry generation: India’s children starve as food gets costlier
• India hints at more energy trade with Iran
• “Economics is two parts wonder drug and one part snake oil”
• BRAI bill state govts` role: Greenpeace
• Women survey for better empowerment
• Aged people the most poor: UN
• Dystopia ahead: A new strategy needed for India`s growing cities
• Green revolution running out of steam: UN panel
• NREGS work to be more eco-friendly: Ramesh
• Rly restructure roadmap in budget likely
• Negative campaign flies high
• ‘Why only Tatas, why not give sops to dalit businessman?’
• Rights watchdog criticises health care in India
• India, China will prop world economy: UN
• CVC to out new CWG scams
• MNREGS re distributes wealth: WEF
• Reading Pakistani tea leaves: what’s the worst that can happen
• Why call malnutrition `national shame` now, Mr PM?
• "India is facing a stable famine situation"
• All they want is dignity
• Dignity is in short supply and govts are responsible for it
• Dignity deficit in the world: Social Watch
• Microfinance sector needs an early warning system
• "Mr PM, you are punishing better-governed states"
• Economic superpower with malnourished belly
• ‘India matters to world food security’
• India`s nutrition security? Wait till 2043
• Scary! Nutrition security only by 2043
• Doha Round may conclude in 2014: Rahul Khullar
• Inflation likely to moderate in 2012
• Global protests, local concerns
• Amartya Sen not appalled at falling Indian rupee
• `India`s anti-poverty schemes shameful`
• "Banks’ failure brought rural indebtedness"
• "Retail FDI will boost food security"
• Inequality rampant in Indian cities
• MNREGS to prop disaster management projects
• Road map for voluntary sector in the 12th five year plan
• Forget GDP, at least graft rank is going up
• Use RETs to bring down energy deficieny: UNCTAD
• Economists to blame for the bubble-burst
• 12th plan ignores hunger: Saxena
• More than half of us are below poverty line
• MNREGS vs graft, not centre vs state
• Hazare movement a huge example for the world: Yale prof
• Malnutrition worse in Gujarat than in Orissa
• World Bank warns India of growth slowdown
• "Plan panel for private propserity"
• Stop playing the number game
• No urban planner in plan panel since 1996: Pronab Sen
• Gender justice needs political will, not GDP growth: World Bank
• Rising GDP can`t shrink gender disparities: WB
• India 67th on hunger list
• Poor literacy, employment among UP, AP Muslims
• Land row brings activists together
• Land acquisition an emotive issue: UN-HABITAT
• India`s sex ratio second-most skewed in the world: WB
• "UPA considers Muslims fools"
• Gun-deaths pile up in UP
• India ranked 56 in global competitiveness
• No funds for SCs and STs in JNNURM
• How serious is this govt about fighting corruption?
• Balance between parl and public opinion ideal
• Govt sanctions prosecution only for 1.73 pc of graft cases with CVC
• "Parl should address large public sentiment effectively"
• Who does the buck stop with?
• Govt forcing cash transfer on Delhites
• "Seed liability bill needed on the lines of n-liablity"
• GM food not the panacea: Basudeb Acharya
• Centre’s minority schemes have failed completely: Survey
• A stonger CBI would have made Lokpal irrelevant: Manish Tewari
• Philosophers, not economists, needed to run India: top economist Lehmann
• FDI in India dropped in 2010: UN report
• "We do not need economists, but philosophers to run the country"
• US aiming at bigger bite of India`s clean energy pie
• Caste, religion-based inequity begins at village level
• Prices to moderate (probably in 2017): Montek
• Girl child poses a global challenge
• Left criticises govt on keeping CBI outside RTI purview
• UPA II failed to keep promises in second year too: WNTA
• Financially excluded households put India to shame
• FM hopeful of an encore of last year`s growth performance
• Team Anna writes to parties clarifying stand
• Protest parallels
• Theatre of protest
• Japan to help India in the safety of nuke reactors
• "Much depends on how active India is in bringing black money back"
• Terrorist turns activist, supports Baba`s campaign
• Why the PM should be brought under Lokpal
• How much land do developers need?
• FICCI critises NAC’s proposal on land acq
• India’s growth to moderate in 2011-12: UN
• UN puts NHRC, Balakrishnan under scanner
• World Bank’s privatisation panacea
• We have more crorepati, tainted MLAs now
• World Bank supports cash transfer for PDS
• Exporting democratic values
• Two-way mechanism to stop corruption in PPP
• Low carbon report a missed chance: Greenpeace
• ‘I am not a rubber stamp sarpanch’
• Renewable energy could form 80 pc of world energy supply by 2050
• Facebook vs. Greenpeace
• Inflation still plaguing India`s growth: ESCAP
• What China can learn from India
• Govt rushed consultations over 12th plan: NGOs
• Misgovernance nursing Al Qaeda
• Health insurance for senior citizens: industry laments govt inaction
• Women panchayat leaders raise concern over drinking water
• June 1 launch for Oxfam India`s food justice campaign
• Delhi slums say no to cash transfers
• Plan panel to present 12th plan approach to PM on April 21
• Indian Inc supports Anna Hazare
• India more engaging with LDCs: UN report
• AIDS getting feminised in India and globally: UNAIDS
• Indian industry is energy effcient: UN
• MFIs lack transparency: report
• Govt`s coal mining deliberations undemocratic: civil society
• Panel to draft microfinance regulation bill
• Regulation for microfinance sector soon: Govt
• Indian MFIs pledge support to Yunus
• AP races ahead in states` economic freedom rankings
• India lags in women`s representation in politics
• Budget a missed opportunity for the social sector: CBGA
• India a hub of designer drugs: INCB
• A budget unfriendly to children?
• Budget has little for the common man: CBGA
• No more freebies for VIPs, please!
• Countdown to budget 2011-2012
• "State budgets should be more transparent"
• Gujarat tops in budget transparency
• ImagIndia Institute launches clean India campaign
• Inflation marring India’s growth story: World Bank
• Budget for rural infra, NGOs tell government
• World Bank lauds Bihar turnaround
• Facebook as a rebel force
• "Singapore got over its water crisis, so can India"
• India`s growth fails to tackle poverty: Social Watch
• Minorities should get more budgetary provisions: CBGA
• India`s renewable energy largely untapped: World Bank
• Food price speculation a major concern: UN
• Agri, nutrition policy disconnect hitting country`s health
• "Sarpanch not just a signing authority"
• When governance fails...
• Punjab`s organic ferstilisation spending low: Greenpeace
• Police reforms stumbling on govt apathy: CHRI
• Draft revisions in Doha round favour developed countries: report
• PM calls for police reforms, four years after SC asked for it
• India "not desperate" to sign WTO deal
• Activists call for immediate release of Dr. Binayak Sen
• Power ministry adopts credits trading for energy efficiency
• South Asia has the highest vulnerable employment rate: report
• Govt announces five–pronged strategy to track black money
• Lessons in political opposition
• NHRC selections dubious, believes UN
• India ranks 15th in slush funds flow ignominy
• India to use British expertise to maintain roads
• India`s growth set to beat China`s in 2012: WB
• NGOs raise high inflation concern at pre-budget talks
• Huge inequity in healthcare delivery in India: Binayak Sen
• Governing the commons
• Involve locals to stop resource destruction: Nobel laureate
• Pune is not pedestrian-friendly: survey
• Learn from Israeli judiciary
• 10 reports that shamed India in 2010!
• Every fourth MP may have a conflict of interest: study
• India, China may face slow growth in 2011: UN
• Poll reforms to see the light of the day
• Corruption falling in public services: Survey
• China sidelines most issues but trade, UNSC
• No rivalry with India: Wen Jiabao
• Least productive session of Parl since 1985
• India`s infra woes top deterrent for MNCs
• India seeks Chinese investment in infrastructure
• Sibal moots JPC on Parl stalling by oppn
• Mining industry arming Maoists with explosives: report
• Govt to revise growth forecast next week
• Water footprint a step towards conservation: Govt
• NREGA not helping rural India: Rajasthan sarpanch
• Money and muscle ruled Bihar election
• Why does MFN status still elude India, foreign secretary asks Pakistan
• Delhi partners UN body for women`s safety
• Govt to regulate MFIs` interest rates: FM
• CAG report not final word: Mukherjee
• From independence to now, graft has cost India $462 bn
• Poor people not in the scheme of things for MFIs
• WB to fund road safety in three Indian states
• Rethink business model and rectify mistakes: govt to MFIs
• Inclusive plan for 2012-17?
• Raise development issues at G20 meet: NGOs to PM
• India hopeful of trade agreement with US
• Indo-US relations: a new lilt or still gathering silt?
• Indo-US CEOs forum bets big on infra
• US backing for India`s UNSC bid a "bounced cheque": Talbott
• An Indian village`s souring American dream
• Kentucky not chickening out of outsourcing deals with India
• N-deal does not mean Indo-US partnership: Carnegie report
• Civil society groups will help shape twelfth plan
• Walmart sees great opportunity in India
• Govt budgets remain opaque in India: CBGA
• Indo-US ties not a donor-donee relationship: US
• CNAS advocates “bold leap forward” in Indo-U.S. ties
• Separate funds for NGOs in twelfth Plan
• Rising India good for US: former White House official
• Obama`s India sojourn may not deliver: US think-tank
• Focus on projects, not industries for economic inclusion, say activists
• Agnivesh hits out at PM’s growth policies
• No chill in Indo-US relations: Summers
• Army, air force differ in defence priorities
• Mobile phone a poverty reduction tool: UNCTAD
• India`s underfed children make CWG look like an excess
• India slips further down on Global Hunger Index
• India tripled its wealth in the past decade
• Poor financing leaves 70 million Indians without houses
• Glasgow not to fail its poor: Lord Smith
• IMF pegs India`s growth at 9.7 pc in 2010
• No WB funding for dedicated freight corridors
• Tiger to outpace dragon by 2013?
• More FDI for India post CWG: govt
• Criminal record no hurdle for Bihar assembly ticket
• Clearance delays biggest hurdle for hydel growth: power ministry
• Prez to declare Games open: UK diplomats
• Prez to declare Games open: UK diplomats
• Kalmadi still not lost on India hosting Olympics
• Delhiites confident about the CWG: survey
• CWG fiasco will not affect US investment in India: US envoy
• ADB sees India growing at 8.5%
• CWG fiasco may cost India $90 billion: report
• Girls in Indian cities live in fear
• India 3rd most powerful nation: US report
• MDG summit opens, India’s report has little to cheer about
• ‘Parliament should keep eye on MDGs commitment’
• One-third drop in maternal deaths worldwide
• US wants India to follow global N-liablity norms
• Indian economy is growing, job sector is not: UNCTAD
• US downplays domestic nuke concerns, outsourcing controversy
• Outsourcing ban to figure in Indo-US talks
• Mr PM, will you do something to help our sick and dying children?
• 60% Indians don`t agree with PM on feeding the hungry
• Poverty is here to stay for long, believe urban Indians
• Manmohan has no time for country`s rivers
• Navi Mumbai airport won`t solve the problem: study
• ‘What is Mukesh Ambani doing at UN MDG advocacy group?’
• Navi Mumbai airport no long-term solution: study
• ‘PM not sure who is representing India at the UN MDGs summit’
• India`s metros cut sorry figures in global rankings
• ‘Green fund for climate adaptation may come up this year’
• "Government is itself a hurdle for tackling Naxalism"
• Govt charting new path to road safety
• Has LS been misled on safety of LPG cylinders?
• Greenpeace campaign for soil-health launched
• Non-lethal strikes could have avoided Kashmir deaths: Aiyar
• N-liability bill being scrutinised clause-by-clause: Parl committee
• Mumbai airport a high-flier in international rankings
• N-energy may not be a low-carbon option: UNCTAD
• New inflation measure likely by August
• FM happy with 8.5 pc growth
• Indian men feel more entitled to jobs over women: study
• Biting Kishenji`s bullet to take a train home during the bandh
• Habibullah on the World Bank’s Appeal Board
• Our own RTI inspires World Bank to share information
• Report warns of huge per capita water decline in India
• Punjab is getting into a stupor!
• India suffers from rising abuse of prescription drugs
• `Panel on hydro projects has a pro-dam chairman`
• India to get $9.3 billion of WB loans for 2009-10
• India nowhere near the Millennium Development goalpost
• Botswana offers agri sector JVs to India
• Organic farming a profitable venture: Greenpeace
• India still trapped in subcontinental mindset
• India, China rich list continue to grow: report
• India’s growth could be faster than projected: WB
• More nukes in Pak than in India: SIPRI
• US to provide assistance on naxal threat, if requested
• “We are taking a snapshot of the population”
• Urban migration linked with obesity, diabetes
• Decline of radiation levels in Mayapuri: Greenpeace
• Mayapuri sitting on radiation hazard zone: Greenpeace
• India to learn urban policing from New York and London: PC
• Centre to pump in more funds in Naxal-affected areas
• Shocking rise in govt banks` dues, Pranab told
• Telangana cold vibes in scorching Delhi
• India, Japan to cooperate on N-energy
• “Lack of transparency in governance exists in South Asia"
• `Why is good governance not on SAARC agenda?`
• Railways` PPPs are getting bogged down
• 20-km target a long way to go: Kamal Nath
• Indian cities needs $2.2 trillion to meet infra demands: McKinsey
• If everything in life has a purpose, what is Backward Classes Bureau doing?
• More Indians use cell phones than toilets: UN University
• Maoists top violators of human rights in India - report
• ADB sees India growing at 8.2% in 2010
• EVMs might be endangering democracy
• Rajya Sabha becomes crorepati club
• India invites US to invest in infrastructure
• US secretary`s visit to cement Indo-US financial partnership
• Educational inequality begins early - NCAER report
• Muslim groups demand job quota
• Downtrodden Muslims demand greater representation
• Gender equality a distant dream: UNDP
• "India can`t eradicate poverty by 2015"
• End of poverty still a dream
• What people want from the budget
• Nitin Gadkari slams election commission on EVMs
• Not powerful enough to do what I plan: Montek
• People tell govt: Wada Na Todo