In the absence of quality higher education and none of the IITs making to world’s top research institutions, Indian students spend USD 6-7 billion (approx. Rs 45,000 crore) annually in seeking greener pastures in foreign universities with a miniscule number of them choosing to return home, said an ASSOCHAM-Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) joint […]
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 […]
A survey by ASSOCHAM and National Institute of Labour Economics Research & Development has found that India adds around 72 lakh members to its workforce every year, and the total work force will rise to 485.6 million by 2016-17 and to 495.1 million by 2019-20. The survey also found that manufacturing, construction and services including […]
25% of Valentine Day couples in a survey conducted in India by Tripadvisor expressed concern over Hindu right wing organisations’ threat that anyone found sharing love tomorrow will be forcibly married. “While 44% respondents are not concerned with regards to threats from certain organisations to take action against public couples, 25% are concerned about the […]
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 […]
The Aam Aadmi Party is all set to win around 40 seats going by the leads of 42 out of the total 70 seats. AAP is leading in 25 out of 42, with BJP leading in 12 and Congress in 3. BSP is leading in 1 seat. BJP has lost about 40% of its seats, […]
The Aam Aadmi Party was all set to win 67 seats out of Delhi’s 70 seats, according to the leads published so far, with BJP winning 3 and Congress coming up with zero seats. If BJP gets less than 7 seats, it may not qualify for Leader of Opposition post. PM Narendra Modi congratulated Arvind Kejriwal […]
The cat is in the bag, almost. The Delhi exit polls are in, and it looks like the Aam Aadmi Party will coast through to a comfortable majority in the Assembly. Now, for the tough part. THE UNCOMPROMISING LEADER The first stint for Arvind Kejriwal as CM of Delhi was relatively easier. There were clear […]
The Aam Aadmi Party made a clean sweep of Delhi, according to all the exit polls conducted so far. The AAP is seen winning between 35-45 seats, while the BJP is expected to win 22-28 seats according to the exit poll results. The absolute decimation of the Congress Party seems to have worked to AAP’s […]
Deutsche Bank said it is likely that the Reserve Bank of India would next cut policy interest rates in early March, and follow that up with more cuts through this year. It also said it was looking at the revised GDP numbers with “some degree of caution”. “The RBI will not only cut in early-March, […]
India’s most iconic cricketer of recent times, Sachin Tendulkar, has crossed the 5 mln mark in terms of twitter followers. Sachin, who uses the handle @sachin_rt, will need another 3.6 lakh followers to equal the top Indian cricketer on Twitter, Virat Kohli. Third in line is MS Dhoni, who has 3.47 mln followers, while Virender Sehwag […]
It may be banned in India, but that has not prevented India’s neighbour Bangladesh from going online in a big way with Google’s Street View. The service allows users to virtually walk along any street using their computer or mobile phone using the Google Maps app. Globally, 65 countries are on Google Street View. Google […]
According to a recent survey revealed by travel site Skyscanner, 59% of women travelers in India prefer spending more on food in preference to sight-seeing and adventure sports (18%), or even shopping (35%). “Skyscanner’s ‘Food and Spending’ survey discloses the habits of Indian travellers on the go. The survey also revealed that even though Matthi […]
Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan today kept key interest rates unchanged, even as he reduced mandatory cash-reserve requirements for banks in an effort to make more money available for lending. The broad reaction from the market – whether from corporates or financial services industry – was that the development was on expected lines. […]
Almost no one in the analyst community expects Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan to cut key interest rates during his monetary policy review tomorrow. Rajan was widely expected to cut the repo rate, at which RBI lends to the banks, tomorrow, but the governor caught the market by surprise two weeks ago with […]
The popular impression is that the political right wing is dogmatic, unreasonable etc, while the left-liberals are the people who listen to logic and reason. But is it really so? The latest ‘controversy’ over the “deleted words” from the preamble of India’s constitution forces us to rethink such notions. For those who’ve just climbed out […]
FITE said it would hold a protest in Delhi today at 1 pm against what it called unjust termination of staff by TCS. TCS had, in its earnings press conference yesterday, asserted that the company had a policy of ‘involuntary attrition’ of those who failed to keep up with performance requirements. It also said only […]
The Reserve Bank of India is very likely to start cutting India’s key interest rates early next month, CARE Ratings said after India’s December consumer inflation number came in at a manageable 5%. It was widely expected that the recent fall in consumer inflation could undergo some reversals in December and January, and the falling […]
Even as the controversy around ‘ghar vapasi’ is yet to die down, anti-caste crusader K K Sarachandra Bose is planning a different kind of ghar vapasi based on ‘caste’ – he wants everyone to become Brahmins. To this end, Bose has urged for support from top Hindu religious leaders to join him in his mission […]
