Mahatma Gandhi was obviously a unique figure in India’s history. But it now turns out that he is in a class of his own even in the eyes of the law. Justice might be blind and everyone, high or low, technically equal before it, but there is apparently the Mahatma Exception. A two-judge bench of…
The Supreme Court today reserved its judgment on a petition filed by the editor of an in-magazine of the (All India Banks Association) which had published a satirical poem on Mahatma Gandhi but observed that it is a “collective responsibility to respect the Father of Nation”. “Is it not a collective responsibility of the nation…
Unless Akram Hussain has never heard of MF Husain, he could not not know that a painting of Lord Krishna surrounded by “gopis” in bikinis all hanging out in a bar would not go down well. The difference is MF Husain was already famous in the world of art and did not really have to…
The year was 1927 and Mohammad Hidayatullah, a young Indian from a literary family, had just been enrolled at Cambridge. He was eager to take in the drama scene, but had a problem. When he was a boy, his father had prohibited him from seeing a play called Nao Tanki. Hidayatullah mused that this may…
Maharashtra environment department will soon start online monitoring of industries and their hazardous waste disposal based on which it would take a decision on renewing licences of such units. It will also ask the industries to ensure that hazardous waste substances in their units are turned into non-hazardous material before being disposed, a senior environment…
India and the European Union (EU) forged a new digital partnership and discussed potential for collaboration in the fields of technology and innovation besides cooperation to create smart cities. The first India-EU Strategic Dialogue Series, organised by UK-based policy platform India Inc. alongside key players like Microsoft and McKinsey, focussed on ‘Delivering Smart Communities’ as…
More than three million of the world’s poorest people have been forced from their homes, land and jobs over the past decade by World Bank-funded projects, an investigation showed on Thursday as the global lender vowed to review its policies. The World Bank, which aims to end extreme poverty, has repeatedly violated its own policies…
Secretary, Information Technology Department, Saurabh Bhagat inaugurated one day workshop on National Digital Literacy Mission here today. The workshop was organised by CSC e-Governance Services India Limited in association with Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JakeGa) under the vision of ‘A collaborative approach to extend Digital Literacy to Rural Masses.’ Speaking on the occasion, Bhagat…