Sri Lanka Crisis: End of the political journey of powerful Rajapaksa dynasty?"Gotabaya Rajapaksa may have been the most powerful of the Rajapaksa brothers in terms of popular support and the constitutional capacity h...
10 Jul, 2022, 03.11 PM IST
30% bed occupants in Bengaluru don’t need one: OfficialsThe patients with clout, however, decide the type of bed s/he wants, turning BBMP health authorities helpless in their fight against the pa...
04 May, 2021, 12.05 AM IST
Uddhav Thackeray asks cops not to beat people randomly on roadsHigh handedness by police forces confused by mixed signals from the political brass in the state disrupted essential services for citizens ...
26 Mar, 2020, 08.51 AM IST
Detained Kashmiri politician Bilal Sultan taken to psychiatric disease hospitalBilal Sultan, a lower rung politician, who unsuccessfully fought parliamentary by-elections from Srinagar in 2019, against winning candidat...
03 Mar, 2020, 12.23 PM IST
BBMP war on flexes worked this time because of High CourtPolitical leaders love adoration and those on the lower rungs of the party ladder see in posters an opportunity to get noticed by their net...
06 Aug, 2018, 03.51 PM IST
AIADMK, DMK take measures to up their gameWhile the AIADMK is considering personnel changes and the formation of a steering committee, the DMK is trying to reconnect with the grassr...
03 Feb, 2018, 11.07 AM IST
IT workers fora flay steep hike in top executives compensationAccording to the 2017 annual report of Infosys, payouts of at least four Infosys executives have increased by over 50 per cent in the previ...
24 May, 2017, 02.29 PM IST
Rich 'fleecing' banks, poor forced to commit suicide: Varun GandhiGandhi also said that people did not know the thoughts of today’s top leaders on key issues as winning elections had become the sole criter...
03 Sep, 2016, 03.18 AM IST
Meritocracy at risk? Talk of parity raises IAS officers' hacklesNearly 200 IAS officers have so far submitted their representations to Cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha airing concerns over the repor...
31 Oct, 2015, 01.11 PM IST
Seventh Pay Commission may bring pay parity in civil servants, officers up in armsNearly 200 IAS officers have so far submitted their representations to Cabinet secretary, airing serious concerns over the reported move.
30 Oct, 2015, 10.04 AM IST
Far more than ‘honest’ or ‘secular’ leaders, we need intelligent and competent onesIndia's big fortune of having intellectual stalwarts like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad etc at the dawn of Independence has also been its bigg...
25 Mar, 2014, 11.55 AM IST
Saradha chit fund scam: Sudipta Sen's journey from a Naxalite to the ‘king of fraud’Known as Shankar at the height of the naxal movement, he had disappeared over a decade back, only to resurface as Sudipta Sen.
25 Apr, 2013, 08.02 AM IST
- Dassault Deal fallout: Foreign aid is often salve for the conscience, helping the donor rather than recipient
The press dredged up finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s comment that the £280 million annual British aid is ‘peanuts’ . India’s opposition...
14 Feb, 2012, 09.13 AM IST
ET Awards' Agenda for Renewal 2011: Empower Indians via e-governance, says Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & MD, BioconKiran Mazumdar Shah says as long as the govt's delivery mechanism fails to meet the needs of citizens, inclusive growth will remain a dista...
23 Nov, 2011, 10.23 AM IST
- At Davos, analyst sees a bank crisis in 2015
As politicians, executives and financiers networked at parties and panels last week in Davos, Switzerland, Barrie Wilkinson was in a nearby...
01 Feb, 2011, 11.56 AM IST
- At Davos, analyst sees a bank crisis in 2015
Wilkinson, a London-based partner at consulting firm Oliver Wyman, said in an interview that the fundamentals haven’t been addressed at all.
01 Feb, 2011, 05.52 AM IST
- Annadurai's dream converted into family enterprise
UN diplomat R Kannan's book on Annadurai.
13 Apr, 2010, 04.17 AM IST