Murder of Sena (UBT) leader unfortunate, detailed probe will be conducted: Ajit PawarAjit Pawar, the Maharashtra Deputy CM, condemned the murder of Abhishek Ghosalkar, a Shiv Sena leader, during a Facebook Live. The Mumbai C...
Who is Vinod Ghosalkar, whose son Abhishek was shot while on Facebook Live?Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead during a Facebook Live session on Thursday by a 'social activist' Mauris Noronha. As per Times Now, Abhish...
Manipur (Hill Areas) District Councils Act, 1971 and Article 37IC were time-tested toothless provisions: Zomi Council Steering CommitteeThe letter highlighted the representation submitted earlier by the Ojha Sanajaoba Memorial Trust (OSMT) and explained how the Memorial Trus...
Will the end of cantonments also end the cuisine created by army wives?Cantonments - a by-product of the British Raj and almost extinct today, were once home to soldiers and their wives. It was also the place w...
National Civil Services Day: Is the IAS, India's so-called steel frame, rusting?Like much else in the Indian nation-state, its civil service also came from the British Raj. It was started by the East India Company and w...
Mumbai Metro: Check for revised train timings between Andheri and DahisarThe operational hours for these two lines, with two additional services, will be extended to 10:30 pm for two months. The two additional se...
Jaipal Singh Munda was as much a flagbearer of hockey and adivasi rights as he was of societal trustOn returning to India, Jaipal saw that his people - the Munda and the tribals in general - were under a double immiseration: colonialism an...
Government housing: Occupants come and go; but what stays?Government accommodation had always varied wildly in my growing years as a diplomat's child. And after a point they really did not matter t...
IC-814 hijacker Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim shot dead in Karachi: ReportsIbrahim was shot by two unidentified attackers inside a furniture store in Karachi's Akbar Colony. He was living under the alias of Zahid A...
Lost in the Pandemic: Covid-19 is waning in India but people are still reeling from its blowThe upscale Mumbai restaurant where he used to work paid salaries for two months after the first nationwide lockdown, but then the manageme...
How plausible is a Delhi jail scene from a John Le Carré novel? Quite, actuallySenior bureaucrats, all capable and undoubtedly patriotic, were of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and therefore, British-trained and part ...
IAS officers' body drops colonial-era reference from name, rechristens it as IAS AssociationHousing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, also the President of the association, said the new name was unanimously decided ...
FPIs may quit Hong Kong, take Singapore route for India playSingapore is already the third largest source of FPI flows into India.
Five moments of global pride in 2016India won international fame on several front in 2016.
Cadreism in government offices is worse than casteism in societyThe World Bank's 2016 edition of ease of doing business rankings placed India at 130th position in a list of 189 countries it ranks below e...
Mumbai marathoner suffers heart attack, passes awayOn Sunday , he participated in the Run India Run-Total Sports and Fitness 10K Challenge.
CSAT row: Out with English? Not a prudent choiceUnder the guise of anti-elitism, the agitators have tried -and may yet succeed -in collapsing the distinction between the deserving and the...