ISLAM: Good in every situation

Regarding the maintenance of relationships between a...

MP Congress to focus on strengthening street level politics

Congress in Madhya Pradesh aims to strengthen...

CHRISTIANITY: Seeking the welfare of the city

Life is like a river; when we...

Dibyendu Mondal

‘Pranab Mukherjee has democratised the institution of Presidency’

As President Pranab Mukherjee’s term comes to an end on 24 July, he will be fondly remembered in the Raisina Hill as an able...

Senior AAP leaders await Vishwas’ resignation

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is unlikely to remove its newly appointed Rajasthan chief and poet-politician Kumar Vishwas anytime soon, but, according to sources,...

21 AAP MLAs held ‘de facto’ office of profit:EC

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi received a setback on Saturday after the Election Commission (EC) in its order stated that 21 AAP...

Ro-Ro services come to a temporary halt

Indian Railways’ Ro-Ro (Roll-on Roll-off) services have temporarily come to a halt for “technical reasons”, after a much-hyped launch in March this year. The...

13 tigers already dead in MP this year

The increasing number of tiger deaths in Madhya Pradesh over the past two years has raised serious concerns among wildlife conservationists and tiger lovers,...

Rich Indians applying for costly EB5 visas

The number of wealthy Indians applying for costly EB5 visas at US embassies is increasing every year. EB5 visas enable one to directly become a green card holder  in the...

AAP unlikely to contest Gujarat polls

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is unlikely to contest the Gujarat Assembly elections due sometime later this year, as the senior leadership in Delhi...

Gorkha Morcha will not compromise with Mamata

The unrest and turmoil that erupted in the Darjeeling hills last week, is not likely to settle down anytime soon, as leaders from the...

Bengal’s cow smuggling business is drying up

With a Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre and the party gaining in strength in West Bengal, the state is witnessing a slump...

Farmers’ anger is symptom of deeper agrarian crisis

The farmers’ protest in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh earlier this week that left six people dead is symptomatic of a larger agrarian crisis...

STF formed to remove Delhi encroachments

A joint Special Task Force (STF) has been formulated under the leadership of SDM Kotwali to remove the rampant encroachments of the  main road...

Start-up brings speed dating to India

In this age of digitisation and growth of online dating apps across the country, a start-up based in Bangalore is creating a “realtime safe...

15-member AAP team coming to Delhi to talk about Gujarat polls

A 15-member team from the Gujarat unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will come here on Tuesday with a proposal to contest the...

Pradhan spent less than Rs 50 lakh on foreign trips

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has spent less than Rs 50 lakh on the 20 foreign trips he has undertaken...

Bengal Congress miffed as Sonia, Mamata edge closer

While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Friday—their second meeting in as many weeks—to discuss the issue...

Increased Ola-Uber fares pinch Delhi commuters

Many Delhiites have started complaining that app-based cab aggregators like Ola and Uber have been increasing their fares randomly and this has made the...

Automobile bodies mark Global Road Safety Week

The 4th Global Road Safety Week, focusing on safe driving and speed management on roads, was marked last week by the Federation of Indian...

Fare hike has minimal impact on Metro ridership

The Delhi Metro’s recent increase in fares does not seem to have affected its ridership much, with only a marginal drop recorded in the...

Mamata building consensus on President candidate

As the race for the Rashtrapati Bhawan intensifies, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is holding talks with different Opposition political parties to build a consensus...

Redeveloped Chanakya complex to be opened to public soon

The much awaited redevelopment of the iconic Chanakya Cinema into a grand multiplex-cum-mall is nearing completion and is likely to be thrown open to...

AAP seeks details on EC’s EVM challenge

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has termed the Election Commission’s (EC) statement of conducting a “challenge” to prove that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) can...

AAP’s failure to appoint internal Lokpal miffs party members

The lack of an effective internal Lokpal in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has led to disgruntled party members washing their dirty linen in...

UDAN gets huge public response

The Regional Connectivity Scheme - UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik), which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month, has received...

Twitter accused of ‘left’ bias in verifying eminent accounts

Twitter users in India have raised questions about the method adopted by Twitter for verification of accounts of eminent personalities, journalists and opinion makers...

Abha Singh’s book on women’s rights launched

Abha Singh, a champion of women’s rights and a noted advocate, released a book titled Stri Dasha aur Disha earlier this week in the...

CISF bolsters its force for better security

The Central Industrial Security force (CISF) will soon commission around 20,500 personnel into the force to impart greater strength to the 1.48 lakh strong...

Shell firms thriving amid slack law enforcement

Lack of effective and strict implementation of certain key provisions of the Companies Act 2013 has led to the successful functioning of several shell...

AAP should not indulge in dirty politics: Goel

Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports and former Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel spoke to The Sunday Guardian on the massive victory...

Kejriwal’s associates come under attack after poll defeats

Criticism about the style of functioning of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started to grow from both within and outside the party after...

Discrepancies in AAP MLA’s affidavit

Discrepancies in the election affidavit of Sukhpal Singh, a former Congress leader and currently an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Punjab, have come...

RTI Act not being implemented in true spirit

The Right to Information Act (RTI), which was brought in to ensure transparency in the functioning of various government departments both at the Centre...

TMC leaders miffed with Mamata over Narada handling

Disenchantment is growing among several senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) against their leadership after an FIR was registered by the Central Bureau...

Discrepancies revealed in AAP MLAs’ education

Mismatch of information on educational qualifications submitted by some Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs in their election affidavits during elections in Delhi, has come...

‘Challenge is to have skilled labour force for aerospace manufacturing’

Boeing and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) brought hundreds of young Indian engineers together here to compete in the fourth annual Boeing-IIT National...

Residents say parks in Delhi are unsafe, seek presence of guards

Following a brutal attack on a young journalist inside a DDA park in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar, serious concerns have been raised by residents about...

SBI faces protests over hiked transaction charges

The State Bank of India’s (SBI) decision to levy charges for bank transactions and impose penalty for non-maintenance of minimum balance in all savings...

Post SC order, five stars, pubs go dry, tourism, jobs may take a hit

The Supreme Court’s order banning the sale of liquor within 500 metres of national and state highways from 1 April, has left restaurants, hotels...

India lowest in organ donation

The organ donation rate in India is one of the lowest in the world and thousands of patients die for want of an organ...

UP government will augment police force to improve law, order

The newly elected Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is focusing on improving the law and order situation in the state. Accordingly, the state...

Aadhaar registrations stopped in Assam

Even as the Centre wants the ambit of Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique identification number, expanded across the country to avail almost all essential and...

Chaos outside RBI over note exchange

Chaos, confusion and anger ruled  the minds of hundreds of people who had queued up at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) office here...

Drug, alcohol addiction rampant among youngsters

The menace of drugs is a problem that is not specific to just Punjab, but, according to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment,...

Auto drivers miffed with Kejriwal government

Upset at their expectations not being met by the Arvind Kejriwal government, Delhi’s auto drivers, who once formed a strong voter base for the...

Banks flout RBI guidelines, refuse to accept ‘inked’ notes

Banks across Delhi are refusing to accept new currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 that have either scribbles or ink-marks on them,...

RSS rapidly spreading its roots in Bengal

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is witnessing “meteoric growth” in West Bengal, even as the ruling party at...

‘Star’ MPs do not attend Parliament regularly

The attendance records of many “star” Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 16th Lok Sabha are poor, according to PRS Legislative Research data. Hema Malini,...

Over 6 lakh houses sanctioned under PM scheme in two years

Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), a total number of 603,854 persons have been sanctioned houses during 2015-2016, as per information provided by...

‘Misuse’ of Section 377 sees arrest of 100 people in Delhi

Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalises homosexuality and “unnatural sex”, is being misused to settle scores. Delhi police has picked...

Opposition slams Sidhu for comedy show comment

Opposition came down heavily on Navjot Singh Sidhu, newly inducted as the Minister for Tourism and Cultural Affairs in the Punjab government, for deciding...

‘Delhi government failed to put in place street vending scheme’

Street vendors in the national capital get harassed daily by the police and the municipal corporations. This, despite a stay order from the Delhi...

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