Faced a lot of bias in world of diplomacy: Lakshmi Puri

New Delhi: Former Indian diplomat Lakshmi Puri,...

‘Female politicians are targeted more on social media than men’

Female politicians agreed on the point that...

Dibyendu Mondal

Delhi Congress may get a new chief by January

Sharmistha Mukherjee and Mahabal Mishra are among the front-runners.   The Delhi Pradesh Congress, which is currently headless following Ajay Maken’s resignation in September this year,...

Delhi’s air likely to worsen

‘Rise in vehicular pollution and crop buring during Diwali period main culprits’.   Delhi’s air quality is likely to worsen further as air pollution increases due...

‘WC will be a catalyst for Qatar’s development’

Fatma Al Nuaimi, Director of Communications, Supreme Committee (SC) for Delivery and Legacy, constituted to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, spoke...

BJP in Bengal starts LS poll preparations

The party aims to win 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats from the state.   Preparations by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal...

Gambhir, Dhoni may be BJP candidates in 2019 LS polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to field celebrities such as cricketers Gautam Gambhir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and poet-turned-politician Kumar Vishwas in the...

Government mulling international UDAN

The Ministry of Civil Aviation will soon launch international flight operations on the lines of the domestic Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN (Ude Desh ka...

BJP in Bengal wooing the Matua community

The community forms 17.74% of the population and can influence votes.   With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bengal unit of the...

Experts will probe AI trouble

A Dubai-bound flight had overshot the runway at the Trichy airport.   Air India has roped in technical experts to investigate the incident that happened on...

ATM theft across states making banks lose money

Criminals can get Rs 10-15 lakh by breaking open an ATM.   Incidents of ATM thefts, robberies or burglaries being reported from states like West Bengal,...

Drug trail leads Delhi Police to Malda in West Bengal

Malda district in West Bengal has had a long connection with drugs and it seems that won’t change anytime soon. Several recent drug rackets...

Centre-state relations turning weak: Amarinder

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday expressed concern over erosion of the state’s powers, leading to a weakening of Centre-state relations in...

Elderly parents living alone need physical and psychological care: Survey

Only 11% of elderly parents living away from their children and alone in India find that the arrangements made by their children for their...

Bandh lets BJP gauge Bengal unit’s strength

The 12-hour bandh was called for ‘very strategic reasons’ and should help the party devise its strategy for the Lok Sabha polls.   The 12-hour Bengal...

‘Miffed after demotion, Congress’ Adhir eyeing BJP’

The removal of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a fierce critic of Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, from the post of president of West Bengal...

Ground reports force Didi to pursue soft Hindutva to woo the majority back

‘The BJP has come up like a saviour of the Hindus of Bengal, whereas the TMC looks like that the party is promoting the...

No takers for tech that turns waste into energy

The technology has been invented by octogenarian mechanical engineer K.S. Sivaprasad.   At a time when India is facing garbage disposal problem across the country, octogenarian...

FDI inflows rising steadily since 2014

Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into India have been witnessing a year-on-year increase since 2014, with the total FDI inflows standing at US$61...

‘Vistara is awaiting approval to fly abroad’

‘A total of 50 new narrow-body aircraft from Airbus (including 37 aircraft on lease) are scheduled for delivery to the airline between 2019 and...

Bengal BJP preparing for LS polls

Booth committee meetings, candidate selection process have begun.   The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun preparations for the 2019 Lok...

NGOs flooded with distress calls from men ‘abused’ by women

Domestic violence, matrimonial issues and harassment of men at the workplace remain the highest among cases where men are falsely implicated, Bisaria said.   More than...

Currency notes can make you sick

The currency notes contain micro-organisms breeding and living on them.   The currency notes handled by us on a daily basis harbour dozens of micro-organisms living and...

Luxury yachting is good business, courtesy Goa

The number of luxury yachts in Goa has also seen a rapid increase with the total number of such yachts reaching over 200 in...

Mamata government did not pay heed to warnings on Majerhat bridge

Warning bells over poor maintenance of the Majerhat bridge that collapsed earlier this week in Kolkata, leaving three dead and several injured, were sounded...

Delhi’s IGI airport a hub of gold smuggling

New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has become a hub of gold smuggling, with more than 100 cases registered from January to June this...

‘River interlinking is a flawed concept’

The perception that the ambitious project for interlinking of rivers would lead to reduction in floods and cater to drought-prone areas in the country...

Fear of data theft, as over 23,000 cellphones lost globally every month

Over 50% of smartphone users in the world do not use passwords to protect their devices.   More than 23,000 mobile devices get lost or stolen...

Non cooperation: CBI’s Saradha, Rose Valley probes hit the Bengal police wall

The CBI is seeking to quiz Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and other IPS officers.   Non-cooperation from the police in Bengal, including Kolkata Police and...

Work on 2021 population census has started

Meetings with all state and Central government ministries and departments have started taking place.   The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner has initiated...

Taj Trapezium Zone officials incapable of protecting Taj: ASI

Following the Supreme Court repeatedly pulling up the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government for failing to protect the Taj Mahal, officials in the Archaeological...

Delhi Metro saw 135 suicide cases in last four years

The Delhi Metro, considered the lifeline of the national capital region, has seen over 135 suicide cases in the last four years, according to...

I’ll miss India’s vibrancy: Netherlands ambassador

Alphonsus Stoelinga’s six-year stint in India comes to an end on Sunday. He speaks to The Sunday Guardian on a range of issues.   Alphonsus Stoelinga,...

Start-ups in India are facing regulatory problems

Complaints of repeated rejections of names and lack of a trusted master database are being voiced by lawyers, chartered accountants and entrepreneurs alike.   Despite the...

‘Over 7,700 Indian nationals languishing in foreign jails’

More than 7,700 Indian nationals are languishing in various jails in about 77 countries for crimes like drug trafficking, illegal stays and  smuggling, among...

‘India quite vulnerable to cyber criminals’

Venkat Krishnapur, MD, McAfee India, talks on cybersecurity issues in India.   Venkat Krishnapur, Managing Director of McAfee India, a renowned cyber security service provider, spoke...

CISF sets up new control room to enhance Delhi Metro security

The control room connects and monitors 5,500 CCTV cameras across the Delhi Metro network to ensure swift response to incidents.   To enhance security measures in...

Man being probed for trying to enter cockpit of AI flight

Indian intelligence agencies are ascertaining whether the man arrested for forcibly trying to enter the cockpit of a Delhi-bound Air India flight from Milan...

Delhi BJP identifying ‘weak’ LS seats

‘Chandni Chowk and North East Delhi are considered weak constituencies.’   With an eye on the Lok Sabha elections due next year, the Delhi unit of...

It’ll be clean sweep for BJP in Delhi: Tiwari

Despite remaining in power for 15 years, the Congress did not do much for the people, says Manoj Tiwari.   As the pitch for the 2019...

Indian airspace witnessed over 90 near misses in three years

Increasing congestion in Indian airspace resulted in over 90 cases of “near miss” incidents between 2015 and 2018. “Near miss” incidents generally refer to cases...

E-commerce fraud on the rise

Cases of fraud in the e-commerce sector have been rising in India, even as the country emerges as the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market,...

‘Starbucks stores ensure a very customised experience’

Sumitro Ghosh, Tata Starbucks CEO, says the opportunities are tremendous in the Indian market.   Sumitro Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tata Starbucks, the 50:50...

‘Campaigning via social media will be a game changer in 2019’

Experts say that with the rising number of smartphone users in India, the number of social media users is also on the rise.   Political campaigning...

Consumer guidelines being flouted openly

National Restaurant Association of India says guidelines are not laws.   The guidelines issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs last year to make service charge...

‘Indian healthcare infra lacking for last 10 years’

Lack of infrastructure has led to the growth of substandard private medical colleges that charge exorbitant fees.   The shortage of doctors, paramedics, and public healthcare...

‘TMC hand in Bengal admission racket’

‘Students’ union leaders have created their own cartels in colleges’.   The extortion racket for admissions at various colleges across West Bengal, allegedly run by students’...

‘Some Bengal BJP seniors hand in glove with Mamata’

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from West Bengal have complained to the central leadership of the party about the “understanding” that some senior state leaders...

Law sought to tackle menace of fake news

Fake news being circulated through WhatsApp, the internet-based messaging application, across the country has taken several lives, and this has prompted cyber security experts...

Congress fears TMC trying to break it in WB

West Bengal-based Congress leaders have told the party high command that there was a strong possibility of some sitting MLAs breaking away and joining...

AAP will contest all seats in Madhya Pradesh

Undeterred by poll debacles in Gujarat and Karnataka, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is going to contest all the 230 seats in poll-bound Madhya...

Programme to educate children in Delhi’s slums

The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Delhi unit has launched the programme to educate underprivileged children.   Young members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s (BJYM) Delhi...

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