Day May 27, 2016
Vinita Deshmukh While the Rs.3,500 crore Augusta Westland scandal is grabbing the headlines on and off since 2013, on Tuesday, Central Information Commissioner Divya Prakash Sinha, has given a people-friendly verdict, by directing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to… Continue Reading →
Trupti Shah, Friend ,feminist, environmentalist, human rights activist is no more with us. She left us at 9.15 p.m. May 26, 2016. She battled lung cancer that was detected in October 2014. We could not honor her last wishes to… Continue Reading →
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar‘s Art of Living organisation is yet to pay a fine imposed on an event earlier this year. (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal will take up on August 2 the arguments on plea for… Continue Reading →
Aman Sharma New Delhi: Almost everyone will have an Aadhaar number by March 2017, says UIDAI Chief Ajay Bhushan Pandey Newborns may soon start getting Aadhaar as part of the Narendra Modi government’s efforts to provide the unique identification… Continue Reading →
Raghav Ohri New Delhi: Teri hasn’t received any resignation letter from Pachauri, says governing council chairman Ashok Chawla RK Pachauri, facing trial on sexual harassment charges, didn’t resign from The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), the organisation had decided… Continue Reading →
BRIEFCASE Netherlands was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2010 after which other western countries followed. India does not have a pro-LGBT stance and criminalizes homosexuality using imprisonment as the punishment. 376 countries have anti-discrimination laws regarding employment,… Continue Reading →
DOWN TO EARTH Two years of Modi government: Reviewing performance According to a report, government allocation in most social sectors do not address critical concerns inModi Govt 2 years More needs to be done for environment, farmers’ welfare: civil society report… Continue Reading →
State pays RTI activist Rs10L for not protecting him Prafulla Marpakwar| TNN | Mumbai: In a first of its kind, the home department led by chief minister Devendra Fadanvis has paid Rs 10 lakh to an RTI activist as interim compensation for failing… Continue Reading →
Apart from violent attacks and economic uncertainty, the freedom of the media in India, is also curtailed by the sinister use of defamation and sedition laws to silence journalists MUKESH RAWAT For 42-year-old Rajdeo Ranjan, Friday, 13th May 2016, would… Continue Reading →
The one issue that 25 years of economic reforms have been unable to address is adequate job creation Anil Padmanabhan Photo: H.K. Rajashekar/India Today Group New Delhi: Few can dispute the fact that the first decade of this millennium saw the… Continue Reading →