The Commonwealth Games controversy may have hit the headlines last year, but replies to an RTI application by activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal have revealed that the then sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyer had raised a red flag way back in 2007. The maverick Congress leader, who has often been sidelined inside his own party due […]
Sri Sri Ravishankar, founder of the Art of Living movement and an exponent of Yoga and spiritual leader, said Baba Ramdev continues his fast inside the hospital in Haridwar. There were reports that Baba has been injected with glucose to prevent his condition from worsening. Sri Sri’s comments have added to the uncertainty about Baba’s […]
Greenpeace announced that its talks with Airtel over replacing diesel generators with solar other renewable power have broken down. The talks were announced about two weeks ago when Greenpeace activists held talks with Airtel after an abortive attempt to climb on Airtel’s headquarters and paint anti-diesel slogans across its office. “..the senior management representatives of […]
Bharti Enterprises said it will sell its entire interest in its two joint ventures with AXA, both Life and General Insurance, to Reliance Industries Ltd, controlled by Mukesh Ambani. “Currently, the financial services ventures do not fit into Bharti’s long term growth plans. Bharti intends to use the proceeds from selling off its interests in […]
The Hill Township being put up by the Lavasa Corporation literally had it coming in the last three months as it had been criticised multiple times by the expert appraisal committee (EAC) — the top advisory body within the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). Despite a seemingly conciliatory tone adopted by the EAC three […]
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) — the body of GSM telcos — has promised to come out with a clear roadmap for moving its members off diesel-powered towers, a day after environmental organization Greenpeace accused its leader Airtel of dodging its environmental obligations. Late last month, Greenpeace activists had made an attempt to […]
In this season of popular action, the POSCO site in Gobindpur in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district is emerging as the latest flash-point between the masses and the government. According to the latest reports, nearly 2000 villagers protesting the acquisition of betel farm lands have formed a human chain to prevent the district administration from acquiring their […]
BJP has warned that the Congress government is working itself into the same paranoia that gripped it just before Indira Gandhi imposed the National Emergency in 1975. Party Spokesperson pointed out that statements from the home minister — portraying peaceful protests against corruption as a threat to Parliamentary democracy and calling them political blackmail, destabilization […]
India, a country of 1,210 million people, has only 18.5 million IP addresses that it can use, the IT and telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar warned today — the World IPv6 days. Chandrasekhar pointed out that the country — which already has more than 11 million broadband users (estimated to consume around 7-8 million IP addresses) […]
A survey of hiring managers in IT companies across the country has found them to be very bullish, despite fears of an inflation-triggered slowdown. Most of the respondents believe that their employee head-count will jump by around 11-15% this year — indicating strong growth in hiring. “36% expect this figure to be as much as […]
Barely a month after taking charge as the chief minister, Mamata Bannerjee has issued an ordinance taking back 400 acres out the total 1000 acres given to Tata to build the Nano factory in Singur. The ordinance marks the carrying out of one of her biggest promises to the electorate in Bengal during the just […]
Arguably India’s most effective writer on the Mumbai underworld, journalist J Dey has been shot dead by suspected underworld operatives near his home in Powai, Mumbai. Jyotirmoy Dey, who spent most of his reporting career bringing out scintillating accounts of the goings on in the Mumbai underworld for the Indian Express in Mumbai, was working […]
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam, one of the core supporters of the UPA government at the Centre, has called for an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss latest political events. The call has come after DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, Kanimozhi, was denied bail by the Delhi High Court. Kanimozhi, close to Karunanidhi’s heart, will spend most of […]
Letsbuy.com, the online e-tailer with a reputation for bringing out the latest tech-toys to India, has launched the HTC’s first tablet — the Flyer — in India. The 7-inch Android 2.4 device has been priced at Rs 37,499 by the online retailer and has been launched in India within two weeks of its Singapore debut. […]
In a move that will have far reaching repercussions in improving India’s industrial competitiveness, the government has given in-principle approval for the radical National Manufacturing Policy. The policy, as originally set out by the ministry of industry and commerce, aims at emulating China’s spectacular success in emerging as the global manufacturing hub and aims to […]
The UP Government has filed police complaint against an inspector and two constables belonging to the Lakhimpur police station where a 14-year-old girl was found raped and murdered. Police officials said the case has been filed since the crime scene was found to be altered and modified. “Whenever any crime happens, the crime-scene must be […]
DMK Supreme M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi has appealed to the Supreme Court for bail, two days after the Delhi High Court rejected her bail. The Delhi High Court too had rejected her bail on the same grounds as it has for others in the 2G scam case — magnitude of the offence and the possibility […]
The National Commission for Women — a statutory body tasked with protecting women’s rights — seems to be going after the Mayawati’s BSP government in UP again. The Commission, which sprung into action soon after the police crack-down in Bhatta Parsaul as well — has accused Mayawati of ignoring the suffering of her people. “We […]
Baba Ramdev has said that the government has agreed to most of his demands except one or two demands. The spiritual leader however refused to abandon his fast till all the demands are met. Ramdev’s biggest demand, the abolition of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, has not been accepted by the government, according to […]
The forcible detention of Baba Ramdev and the alarmist statements made by the Congress party has prompted many to draw parallels between the current state and Indira Gandhi’s fears and paranoia before the suspension of democracy in India in 1975. Swami Agnivesh, Shanti Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal criticised the action and compared the situation to […]
