Hindu JanaJagruti Samiti, a loose coalition of some Hindutva organization, today sought the immediate withdrawal of charges against Satishkumar Pradhan, who was arrested over the weekend over charges including raping a truck driver. Pradhan is the head of Gau Raksha Dal (Cow Protection Force), a self-appointed group that tries to prevent people from killing cows. […]
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Kerala have committed to be 100% open-defecation free by March 2017, minister for urban development Venkaiah Naidu said at a workshop in Delhi. By the same time, the number of open defecation free cities will rise from 122 to 739 by the time, Naidu added. The Minister said that 21 lakh […]
Adding its voice to the chorus of disappointment around the decision for the Reserve Bank of India to seek a new governor, Kotak Institutional Equities said it was “baffled” by the decision. RBI governor Raghuram Rajan — one of the most effective economic reformers India has ever seen — had announced his decision to step […]
In one of the boldest steps to be taken in the direction of clean energy in India, the central government has decided to provide a 30% subsidy for rooftop solar installations in the country. The move to provide blanket subsidies is unprecedented for India, and indeed for any low-income country, and has usually been found […]
Snapdeal, one of India’s top three e-commerce firms, has distanced itself from a comment made by actor Aamir Khan on the perception that there has been a rise in intolerance in India in recent months. Khan, who features in many of Snapdeal’s ads, had said that his wife is starting to have some doubts about […]
Moody’s Analytics, a division of global ratings firm Moody’s, has warned that the current government at the center needs to start delivering on its reform promises as business confidence is starting to dip. The firm also warned that meddling in Reserve Bank of India’s powers to manage interest rates could have a bearing on India’s […]
India has extended additional Line of Credit (LOC) to the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, of USD 268.35 million for financing the extension of Lake Victoria pipeline to Tabora, Igunga and Nzega in Tanzania. The loan has been routed through Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank). The line of credit agreement was signed […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at your fingertip now. You can email him, send him a text and expect a reply from him also if possible. You have to be just the owner of a smartphone which can download “Narendra Modi App”. This new App is one more attempt by Modi to reach out […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly seems to be Manmohnized. His hyper active twitter handle has gone silent on the hottest controversy of the day and he has practically disappeared from the reach of camera, which he loves so much. His cabinet ministers are holding brief for him when the people want to know his “mann […]
Rajnath Singh will address the media today in the second half of the day, and is expected to clarify the government of India’s stand on the controversy surrounding external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. UPDATE: The two leaders defended Swaraj in the press conference. “What she did was bonafide,” said Arun Jaitley, who is also the […]
While political pundits have been busy speculating whether or not Narendra Modi is responsible for the current Lalit Modi-related troubles faced by Sushma Swaraj, main opposition party Congress is busy trying to ensure that Modi does not reap any benefits from the weakening of Swaraj. Sushma Swaraj was seen as one of the three probably […]
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 […]
Ask the majority of the supporters of AAP why they back the young political outfit and you’ll get answers that include words like change, positivity, progress, clean, liberal etc.. Most people who support the party do so for two reasons – 1) they are sick of the existing political set-up and parties, and 2) they […]
US policy-makers, think tanks, Congressional leaders across the bi-partisan line and most significantly CEOs of the top Fortune 500 companies believe that Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi and his NDA Government can deliver and transform India into a modern nation with democratic values and America Inc would like to engage with this transformation, according to […]
Every ideologically driven person — whether leftist (love everyone), or rightist (trust none) — must eventually learn to understand and incorporate the other side to become a successful leader. Looking at Narendra Modi’s actions since taking over three months, one can safely say that the Indian Prime Minister has made that transition to a large […]
To hear his well-wishers-turned-worriers, one would think it’s the end of Narendra Modi’s five year term, and he’s achieved nothing in it. Well-wishers tear at his conspicous “silence” on issues that make headlines every day, the absence of big bucks reforms in his government’s first budget, and his “fear” of making a clean break with […]
It must be one of the great ironies of Indian politics that it was a party known for its staunchly upper caste base that finally brought OBC wave to national politics. While many political observers have praised the BJP for “destroying the caste politics” of backward leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and dalit leader Kumari Mayawati, […]
Congratulations have been pouring in to Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party on their victory in the general elections 2014. Some associations, such as the real estate builders association, have used the occasion to ask for urgent reforms to be put in place to save the Indian economy. The following are some of the […]
US based TIME Magazine declared Aam Aadmi Party head Arvind Kejriwal the winner of its global poll to take reader inputs on the top 100 people who influenced the world the most past year. It rejected over 93% of Modi’s votes and over 88% of Kejriwal’s votes as fakes, before declaring the Aam Aadmi Party […]
BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi rose to the top of the TIME 100 chart on Monday after he got more than 5 lakh positive votes in a span of few hours. Modi, who had got around 50,000 yes votes from Friday to Sunday, got about 5-6 lakh yes votes starting from about 11 am […]
