Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramaniam, among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2020While Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection "When God is a Traveller" in English, Moily was named for his epic poetry titled ...
12 Mar, 2021, 07.11 PM IST
UIDAI firewalls 5,000 officials post ‘breach’Under the earlier system, state governments had authorised certain officials — both government and private operators — who had “limited” ac...
09 Jan, 2018, 08.39 AM IST
How story-telling is trumping over political analysisSethu said that in his writings he had always sought to record the inner experience of people in a particular situation through his charact...
22 Feb, 2015, 03.35 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi success result of clever shepherding of perceptions: Book"How Modi Won It: Notes From the 2014 Election" by Harish Khare is an incisive assessment of one of the most keenly- followed polls in rece...
22 Dec, 2014, 09.47 PM IST
KG basin dispute: Supreme Court appoints Australian judge Michael Kirby as arbitratorRIL had moved the top court requesting it to appoint a third arbitrator after Bharucha and Khare could not agree to a third arbitrator.
24 Sep, 2014, 02.46 AM IST
Coal Scam: CBI likely to register five new cases; chargesheet to be filed against Harish Gupta, Madhu Koda & AK BasuCVC had submitted its findings on 17 preliminary enquiries to the SC on April 30 and on the remaining eight on May 9, the sources said.
09 Jul, 2014, 03.12 AM IST
Sanjaya Baru's book on Manmohan Singh’s term assessment to be out in middle of LS pollsSingh’s media adviser in 2004-8, is set for a March-April release and is expected to be a no-holds-barred look at both terms of the UPA gov...
31 Dec, 2013, 06.18 AM IST
Gas dispute: Supreme Court declines stay on RIL's arbitration petitionJustice Nijjar said both pleas are different and RIL's arbitration petition is not connected with Dasgupta's PIL.
11 Nov, 2013, 07.50 PM IST
CAG Report: Quick media management helps centre to avert crisis on coal block policyCAG became an unlikely ally of the government as it quashed reports of losses to the exchequer from government’s coal block allocations pol...
23 Mar, 2012, 08.48 AM IST
The effect of short supply of world-class mathematicians felt in Indian R&D workWorld-class mathematicians are in short supply, and the effect is felt in Indian R&D work. Hope now rests on newish institutes that are att...
05 Feb, 2012, 03.01 AM IST
- Pankaj Pachauri appointed communication advisor to PM as Harish Khare resigns
Harish Khare, media advisor to the Prime Minister, resigned on Thursday barely hours after Pankaj Pachauri, a TV journalist, was appointed ...
20 Jan, 2012, 07.36 AM IST
- An international conspiracy is afoot to destabilise India's economic growth says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
An international conspiracy is afoot to destabilise India's economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a delegation of CPM MPs.
10 Aug, 2011, 02.22 AM IST
- PMO to provide letters between PM and Raja to RTI applicant
The PMO today said it will provide to an RTI applicant the correspondence between PM Manmohan Singh and A Raja in connection with 2G spectr...
22 Jun, 2011, 04.55 PM IST
- I-Banks eye startups with crowd funding
I-Banks like Kennis, Springboard to arrange ‘crowd funding’ for companies eyeing growth capital.
15 Feb, 2011, 03.54 AM IST
- PM takes serious view of panel findings on CWG broadcast deal
Taking a "serious view" of Shunglu Committee's findings on alleged irregularities in awarding broadcast rights of Commonwealth Games, Prime...
01 Feb, 2011, 02.03 PM IST
- PM congratulates Nitish on Bihar win
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today congratulated Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who was all set to be re-elected by a landslide win in ...
24 Nov, 2010, 02.36 PM IST
- Harish Khare appointed as PM's media adviser
Distinguished journalist and political commentator Harish Khare has been appointed as the media adviser to the Prime Minister.
20 Jun, 2009, 07.50 AM IST