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Job creation improving under Modi government

The pace of job creation, that was completely destroyed during the UPA regime, is definitely showing improvement under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. As...

Expectations from Budget 2016-17

The Union Budget, to be unveiled tomorrow, is being awaited with huge expectations from every stakeholder. Here is the taxpayer and industry wish-list from...

Ladakh battling to preserve pristine environment

Ladakh, which hit the consciousness of the masses post the release of the film 3 Idiots in 2009-2010, is battling the downside of being...

Delhi police catches Old Delhi’s ‘Barati gang’

Until she got duped, Ruksana (name changed) enjoyed going to weddings. Though the celebrations, decorations and food still appeal to her, she is now...

Cows being neglected in Delhi

According to an estimate given by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), more than 10,000 cows in the national capital are being exploited by...

State govt responded late to Jat agitation

The government’s failure to respond in time coupled with the cops’ reluctance to act against the agitators during the early days of protest was...

More men going under the knife to look good

Avinash (name changed), a 27-year-old software engineer, working for a leading MNC, never felt an inferiority complex when it came to his work and...

Indians don’t realise value of freedom, sacrifice: Soldiers

Give any person Rs 10 crore and ask him to enter a building where incessant firing is going on. See if he is ready...

Juvenile Justice Board: court asks CS to appear in person

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday granted three weeks’ time to the state government to file a fresh affidavit regarding the constitution...

States have been giving reservation to Jats

Several states have been ahead as far as giving reservation to Jats in government jobs is concerned. There are about eight crore Jats in...

Sonia tells Siddaramaiah to go on revamp mode

An overhaul in Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Cabinet is on the cards after Congress president Sonia Gandhi apparently told him to make changes in...

Prabhu saves 12 lakh sheets of paper

When Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Rail Budget for 2016-17 this week, he saved as many as 12 lakh sheets of A-4 size...

Parrikar eases defence blacklisting policy

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, in a policy review meeting with senior officials of his ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Tuesday, made sweeping changes...

Dalits continue to slip out of Maya’s hands

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) may be putting up a false sense of bravado, but insiders claim that the party is knee deep in...

Jammu on the boil following Gujjar boy’s death

Communal fault-lines are becoming visible in Jammu region after some allegedly right wing men thrashed some Gujjars during a demolition drive at Sarore village...

PDP’s separatist talk may delay govt formation

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, while starting the membership drive of her party, has told her supporters she would become the Chief Minister only if...

No ‘swachh bharat’ in J&K

Jammu and Kashmir is yet to complete a survey under Swachh Bharat mission to identify individual households without toilets in the cities, prompting Governor...

Case of fraud against ex-CBI director’s son

The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked a fraud case against former CBI director K. Vijayarama Rao’s son Srinivas Kalyan, managing director of Best...

AP govt cajoles staff to relocate to Amaravati with eased work hours

The government employees of Andhra Pradesh, who will be working from the state’s new capital Amaravati, will be offered flexible schedules like five working...

TDP, TRS rivalling each other in poaching MLAs

Ahead of the elections to the Rajya Sabha in two months, the ruling parties in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have begun a massive poaching...

Indian Baja’s rallying cry in the deserts of Bikaner

A single-day yet intense rally format is something India hasn’t really seen. There have been either week long endurance rallies or something like the...

Rising from the rhizome: Gucci’s brand-new fall/winter collection

 “To inflame change, thinking has to be ‘rhizomatic.’” —G. Deleuze, F. Guattari  Rhizomatic thought has neither a centre, nor any orientation. It has to generate a...

Rock the summers with Uzbek-inspired Ikat attires

Craft Revivalist and Textile Conservationist Madhu Jain showcased her brand-new Uzbek-inspired Ikats on Thursday. The Spring-Summer Collection was launched at Ogaan at Hauz Khas Village. The...

Meagan as detective Lara Vega on Minority Report

Q. Can you talk a little about the premise behind your character?A. I play detective Laura Vega and she is all about justice. She...

Movie Review: Will Smith returns as the quintessential nice guy

 ConcussionDirector: Peter LandesmanStarring: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-RawBack in the 1960s, Dr Bennett Umalu, a brilliant neuropathologist performed the autopsy on a retired...

Movie Review: Inversion of the biopic format to suit a social, personal narrative

You’ve probably heard the story of Yale social scientist Stanley Milgram, who, in 1961, conducted experiments asking subjects to administer increasingly severe electric shocks...

Economic Survey projects a growth of 7.75%, next fiscal

The Economic Survey for 2015-16 was tabled in parliament on Friday and has pegged India's growth for the next fiscal in the 7-7.75% range.Reviewing the major...

Haryana crawls to normalcy, Army takes over Munak canal

The Army on Monday took control of the Munak canal in Sonipat district of Haryana and efforts were being made to restore the water supply to...

PMO plea ignored: Rotavirus vaccine trial results must be made public immediately

The trial of the Rotavirus vaccine (called the 116E vaccine) in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, by the Christian Medical College, Vellore, and the Department of...

Government formation in J&K not likely soon

The People’s Democratic Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party have decided to initiate a structured dialogue process for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir,...

Make in India week builds Brand India

“If you expect that investments worth multi-millions will be made during this event, don’t be under that impression. This is a brand-building exercise. With...

Revenue Intelligence will verify US report that $505bn left India during UPA tenure

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has formed a 16-member team to verify a report by a US-based think tank, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), which...

Jharkhand roping in private expertise in government posts

Jharkhand has taken the lead in implementing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of roping in private expertise in key government positions.The Raghubar Das-led government...

Results of UP bypolls spell trouble for SP

The results of the three Assembly byelections in Uttar Pradesh that came in this week spell trouble for the Samajwadi Party (SP). The ruling...

Siddaramaiah-Kharge tussle continues

The results of the Karnataka Assembly bypolls announced on Tuesday have triggered a blame game between Congress leaders supporting Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and...

Jaya will not ally with BJP

AIADMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has apparently spurned the Bharatiya Janata Party’s offer of an electoral alliance for the Assembly...

Of Kerala’s liquor barons, sultry damsels and politicians

Even as another high-pitched and colorful tourism season is drawing to a close in God’s Own Country, the socio-political horizon of Kerala is experiencing...

Our way or the highway: the JNU story

The Jawaharlal Nehru University, hailed as one of the best in Asia, is also the fortress of left, often radical-left, students and teachers. Ever...

Ethanol buses may be the best solution for India’s polluted cities

For any Indian city, the picture of a bus is incomplete without the plumes of black smoke billowing out of its exhaust pipe. But...

Consumer data vendors ‘aid’ rise of cybercrime

Easy availability of consumer data across the web has led to a significant rise in cybercrimes in the country. Earlier this week, a special...

Army conducts flag march in Haryana

The Army conducted flag march in tense areas of Haryana and used choppers to reach parts of Rohtak even as incidents of violence and...

Made in India monster truck pulls large crowds

A massive 205-tonne dumper truck made in India turned to be a super-hit at the recently concluded “Make in India Week” held at the...

Congress wants GST standoff to continue in House

The Congress party is considering continuing the stalemate in Parliament in the upcoming Budget session starting on 23 February if the government does not...

App-based taxi services are fleecing customers

An MBA student Amrit Rajveer booked a cab from TaxiforSure to make his travel easier and faster but little did he know that his...

Lockheed Martin tries to sell F-16s using ‘Make in India’ pitch

Lockheed Martin, the US-based firm which manufactures the F-16 fighting falcon fighter jets, recently offered to build its flagship F-16 jet in India to...

Nepal PM arrives on six-day visit to India

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli arrived here on Friday on a six-day visit to India, his first foreign visit after assuming office in...

CBI identified 2,200 corrupt officials in 2015

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probed around 2,200 “corrupt” senior central officers in 2015, registering cases against 101 of them, the agency’s director...

Kanhaiya Kumar sent to jail till March 2

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar -- who was arrested from the JNU recently on charges of sedition -- was sent...

Patiala House court scuffle: Supreme Court to hear PIL tomorrow

The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a petition filed by a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumnus, N.D. Jaiprakash, seeking a safe and conducive atmosphere in...

Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on JNU row

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Monday attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his stand on the Jawaharlal Nehru University controversy and alleged...

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