Such has been the disastrous pollution in Delhi and its environs in recent days. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal , driven to desperation, announced that schools in the city would be closed temporarily to prevent serious damage to the health...
Bangalore was India’s pride, Bangaluru, as the city is now called, is India’s shame. The orgy of violence witnessed last week, of blazing buses and buildings will be etched in the public memory for decades, a benchmark of horror never to be...
Exit poll exercises are still India’s infant industry. The preferences of media barons remain an impediment in the search for reality. There is no sign, as yet, that these futile exercises will give way to realistic projections. The true consolation...
At the close of the parliamentary session, MPs in the Rajya Sabha, in reflective mood expressed remorse at the shenanigans that had prevented the House completing the business for which they were elected. Some spoke apprehensively of the increasing...
India is truly a paradox. The behavior of some of the country’s legislators in Parliament is what the public normally associates with hooligans on the march. Much the same can be said of quite a number of its politicians. Those who witnessed...
Prior to the West Bengal Assembly elections, India’s Election Commission (which monitors these events) insisted that Kolkata Police Commissioner Kumar be removed and replaced by Soumen Mitra. It was a magic wand. The rampant hooliganism - mostly...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chided the Supreme Court of India for the huge backlog of cases awaiting settlement before the courts across the country. Chief Justice Thakur of the Supreme Court in a terse reply told him that the judiciary, nationwide,...
The Supreme Court of India has directed its spotlight on the deplorable state of human rights in the BJP-ruled State of Chhattisgarh. Tribal leaders have...
A temple fireworks display in Kerala went awry leaving over 110 people dead and hundreds more injured. Disaster struck the the precincts of the Puttingal Devi Temple at Pravur south of Kollam when an entire dump of fire crackers to mark the...
The recently released Panama Letters by a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca has set the cat among the pigeons in India and a host of other countries, including top leaders in Brazil and Argentina. The big Indian names doing the rounds include...
The curtain raiser to the West Bengal Assembler elections was the recent India-Pakistan cricket encounter at Kolkata’s fabled Eden Gardens which can accommodate...
Fallen tycoon Vijaya Mallya left India early this month for the pastoral bliss of his sumptuous abode in a Hertfordshire hamlet, some 30 miles north of London. His business empire in India, including the defunct King Fisher airline, is in a...
