One of the most recent US diplomatic cables released to be released by Wikileaks has pointed to India’s deep ambitions in Afghanistan. The cable, written as a ‘scene-setter’ for the visit of influential US Senator John Kerry in February last year noted that Indians were restrained in their military co-operation with Afghanistan only because of […]
Arindam Chaudhuri, the founder of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) chain and author has brought out advertisements in national media calling for greater control over content available on the Internet. Chaudhuri, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of scrutiny by bloggers over his institute’s claims, urged the viewers […]
If you are a big corporate in India, or someone remotely connected to the Indian corporate world, it is unlikely that you don’t know Amit Mitra. The face of FICCI — India’s second largest industry association — Mitra has now decided to move on from influencing national policy to making them. Having been elected to […]
Sonia Gandhi today unveiled the strategy that the Congress and UPA will follow to counter the widespread perception that the government is beset with corruption and scams. Speaking at a Congress party event in Varanasi, the President of the party said no other government in India’s history has taken the kind of action against corrupt […]
Newly appointed chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Bannerjee has rolled out the red carpet for India’s biggest industrial house, the Tatas. She, however, stuck to her pre-election stand and promised again to redistribute the 400 of the 1000 acres of land given to the Tata Nano factory back to the farmers. Tatas are free […]
India’s main opposition party the Bharatiya Janata Party has called on the world community to ‘denuclearize’ Pakistan in the light of the increasing terrorist activity there. “It is necessary to denuclearize Pakistan not just for the safety of South Asia, but Pakistan’s own safety,” Rajiv Pratap Rudy, spokesperson for the BJP said, calling on the […]
US President and UK PM David Cameron extended their support to Pakistan in its fight against terrorism, making it clear that they don’t intend to ‘walk away’ from the beleaguered state reeling from terror attacks. “Pakistan has suffered more from terrorism than any other country. Their enemy is our enemy. We need to work with […]
The government has claimed to have rolled out 94,000 Internet-kiosks as part of its e-governance program. 1 lakh kiosks, called Common Service Centres or CSCs, were supposed to have been rolled out nearly 3-4 years ago, but have faced enormous delays. The biggest delay has been in readying government services — such as issue of […]
After the exit of Mamata Bannerjee, Trinamool Congress has recommended the name of Mukul Roy to the Rail Bhawan, according to sources. Unlike Bannerjee, however, a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal, is likely to be minister of state (junior minister) in charge of the Railways. Mamata had a thumping victory in recently concluded Bengal […]
M Karunanidhi, the leader of the DMK party whose daughter Kanimozhi was sent to jail today, had indicated that he will not take any drastic action against the Congress or its alliance. The move has come as a relief to the Congress party which was afraid of its ally dropping out of the governing United […]
The ruling Congress Party has called on Pakistan to come clean on whether its government institutions support terror or not. Responding to the revelations made by former terrorist David Headley in a Chicago court, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said Pakistan will be forced to come clean as the trial of Headley and Tahawwur Rana progresses. […]
Obama has reiterated that the US and the UK intend to forge a long term partnership with the people of Afghanistan, hinting that the two countries will stay in the region longer than anticipated. According to earlier announced time-table, the US was to start pulling out of Afghanistan by June of next year, raising concern […]
Australian cricketer and captain of the Rajasthan Royals IPL team Shane Warne has been slapped with a $50,000 (Rs 22.5 lakh) by the Indian Cricket Board for publicly criticizing a Rajasthan Cricket Board official. A special disciplinary committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), consisting of IPL chairman Chirayu Amin, Ravi […]
UP Chief Minister Mayawati has hit back strongly at the comments made by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi in Varanasi today and yesterday. In a strong, point-by-point statement read out by the UP cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar — the top state bureaucrat — Mayawati urged Sonia Gandhi to take her concerns for loss […]
After remaining absent from the telecom scene for seven years, Mukesh Ambani too has now jumped into the ongoing ‘telecom war’ over the abolition of termination charges. In doing so, Ambani’s Infotel Broadband — the holder of the only pan-India wireless broadband license — has lodged itself of the opposite side of big incumbents like […]
Though the Government and Civil Society members of the Lokpal bill drafting committee disagree on the fundamental structure of the planned institution, the civil society members can be credited with having won major concessions from the government. Among the assurances that have been secured by the civil society members from the government side include the […]
The US President Barrack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron said they will increase pressure on Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi till he leaves, though Obama was slightly less hawkish on the attacks. “The President and I agree that we should be turning up the heat on Libya.. On Britain’s party, we would be looking […]
World’s most influential activist group, Greenpeace has accused India’s telecom industry of unfairly helping itself to Rs 2,600 crore worth of fuel subsidy meant for essential services and the poor. The allegation, made in its latest report on the telecom sector, is based on estimates by the telecom regulator on how much diesel is consumed […]
A late 2008 diplomatic cable from the Islamabad embassy of the US has shed new light on the thinking inside the Pakistani establishment about Kashmir, Balochistan and the bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul in the same year. According to the cable, which described a high-level meeting between the US Assistant Secretary for South and […]
State-owned mobile and fixed line telecom operator BSNL has accused the telecom regulator of “over-reaching” the judgments of the Supreme Court and the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) by questioning the need for inclusion of capital expenditure in call costs. It said it is “shocked and surprised” at the move by the Telecom […]
