The rate of crime on Indian Railways is showing a steady increase every year, statistics show. The number of reported cases involving harassment of women and children, in particular, has shown a marked increase. It must be kept in mind that only a fraction of the crimes committed on Indian Railways is actually reported. In […]
Industry association ASSOCHAM, which has members from most of the big industrial groups in India, today said the opaque nature of decision making in India should be done away with to prevent incidents like the latest ‘corporate espionage’ involving top industrial houses in India. In a statement, the association said: “One fails to understand what […]
My association with the Aam Aadmi Party predates its formation. I was among the first 500 or so people who joined the erstwhile India Against Corruption movement back in 2011 at a time when it was just another protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Over the next few months and years, I did my fair […]
HCL Infosystems, the India-focused arm of the HCL group, said it has been named in a charge sheet related to alleged irregularities in the award of a contract to supply computer hardware and related services under the National Rural Health Mission in 2009. The chargesheet has been filed in a special court in Ghaziabad, the […]
Despite repeated clarifications from the Central Government, a district consumer forum has dismissed a consumer complaint against Bharti Airtel Ltd and asked the consumer to set up arbitration against the telecom company to resolve a billing dispute of Rs 347. Arbitration panels are usually set up for heavy matters that typically involve hundreds or thousands […]
Qatar Airways said its flight QR23 from Doha to Manchester, an Airbus A330-300, was forced to land at Manchester Airport after its crew got a bomb threat. “The crew had received a threat about a possible device on board and Qatar Airways immediately took all the necessary precautions to alert British authorities,” it said. “The […]
Close to half of India’s girls are married before the age of 18, and one in five is married even before she turns 15, a report by Dasra, a philanthropic foundation, said. According to the report, India accounts for 40% of the world’s 60 million child marriages, which is the highest share globally. Pakzan Dastoor, […]
Uttar Pradesh sees the highest number of complaints of discrimination against students belonging to the scheduled castes and other backward classes, according to government data. Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for about 17% of India’s total population, accounted for 57% of the total complaints regarding discrimination against students belonging to scheduled castes and other backward classes. […]
Any entity that is using public resources in its business and sharing revenue with the government can be audited by the government auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Shashi Kant Sharma said at an event in New Delhi today. While the CAG would “not want to cross our boundaries”, the onus is on […]
India lost an estimated $225 million (Rs 1,350 crore) due to phishing attacks last year, RSA, the security division of EMC today announced in its 2013 Fraud Report. India emerged as the top Nation in APAC region in terms of phishing attack by volume closely followed by Australia and China. Globally, loss due to phishing attack rose […]
Despite a clarification by the Department of Telecom, several consumer disputes redressal fora in India continue to reject billing and service related disputes against telecom operators. The Department of Telecom had issued a clarification on February 4 this year that private telecom companies cannot be identified with the “Telegraph Authority” of India as defined in […]
A preliminary enquiry by the Kerala Forest Department has found that widespread forest fires in Kerala’s ecologically sensitive Wayanad region were likely to be man-made rather than natural. Fires were detected across the district on Sunday at the almost the same time. The area has been the hotbed of anti-environmentalist protests over the last three […]
The last two days have seen media barons pour scorn and outrage on Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party for suggesting that the media is corrupt. The Editors Guild, a kind of industry lobby, seemed to be shaken by Kejirwal’s statement that an inquiry would be ordered into corruption in media and guilty journalists […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal questioned the anti-corruption credentials of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, claiming that he found rampant corruption in Gujarat on his recent visit there. “I was shocked by the situation there. Not one job gets done there without bribes,” he said. Kejriwal said a lot of people are buying […]
In an unprecedented act, the entire staff of Kerala’s oldest TV channel have struck work, stopping the transmission of Indiavision TV. The staff put up a statement on the website of the television channel, which has since been pulled down, accusing the management of violating several codes, to the detriment of the channel. The statement […]
Real Estate major DLF Ltd has vehemently denied a report in Times Now that said that the company had been allotted 23 acres of land 3.5 km away from the Parliament of India at a throwaway price. The report, aired last night by the news channel, had claimed that even the Prime Minister’s office had […]
Investigating agencies are probing irregularities at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd in the payment of daily wages and in purchase of diesel for mobile towers in three states, the ministry of IT and communications said in a statement. The states where the irregularities have come to notice are Bihar, Karnataka and Punjab, the ministry said. “In Karnataka […]
Bringing the promise of relief to millions of suffering telecom subscribers, the Department of Telecom today clarified that private companies do not enjoy any immunity from prosecution at district consumer forums as has been argued by them so far. The Department of Telecom today said that private companies do not qualify under the definition of […]
The National Spot Exchange Ltd, caught up in allegations of rigging at its cash commodities exchange, alleged that the auditor Chokshi & Chokshi, appointed by the regulator, overstepped its terms of reference while drawing up its final report. NSEL said it was yet to get a final copy of the report, which has hit media headlines […]
