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Over 30 per cent of posts of chief information commissioners and information commissioners are lying vacant across the country.

Dilli Ka Babu: Information gap

The process to fill up the vacancies kick-started in the middle of the year but the appointments are yet to be made.

25 Nov 2018 3:13 AM IST

May's exit looms: No takers for Brexit deal

Britain's vote in 1972 to join the European Union was an act of accommodation to the reality of the world as it was.

24 Nov 2018 7:11 AM IST

C.C. Thampi, a well-known businessman from Kerala, who has varied business interests in Gulf countries, was questioned by sleuths from Enforcement Directorate, sources said here.

Dilli Ka Babu: Ex-babus eye netagiri

Both main parties, the BJP and the Congress are seeing ex-babus lining up to join their ranks.

18 Nov 2018 7:54 AM IST

Congress President Rahul Gandhi labelled the Rafale deal as an open and shut case. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Rahul should restore prestige of Gandhis

There will be an instant and positive change in the way Rahul Gandhi is perceived by millions if he says he is not a...

18 Nov 2018 7:39 AM IST

The respondents also believe that the top three environmental issues that affect personal health are air pollution, drinking polluted water and global warming and climate change (Photo: AFP)

Dev 360: Must religion & health be on collision course?

Polluted air also does not differentiate between the believer and non-believer, between Hindus and non-Hindus.

15 Nov 2018 7:44 AM IST

Prince Harry. (Photo: AP)

At last, in UK, India's World War I heroes get the honour they deserve

The money raised from the sale of these special commemorative flowers goes towards the welfare of soldiers.

12 Nov 2018 1:46 AM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: No extension for Hasmukh Adhia?

The next bureaucrat in line to be designated the finance secretary is expenditure secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, a...

11 Nov 2018 12:33 AM IST

In the US, the assumption and the belief is that it is the people who make the nation and the people who will bring greatness.

Free speech is critical to a nation's greatness

In India we have traditionally had a lot of freedom when it comes to expression about the nature of God and of reality.

11 Nov 2018 12:29 AM IST

So also, women who profess that they are men trapped in womens bodies would not have to undergo plastic surgery to acquire mock penises.

Cabbages & Kings: I am whatever I think I am'

My first stage play, called Mama Dragon, was commissioned by a company which named itself the Black Co-op Theatre.

10 Nov 2018 8:00 AM IST

Patients with an anxiety disorder had after meditation had sharply reduced stress hormone and inflammatory responses. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Drinking from the bliss within

Those who learn to meditate can switch their attention to the source of happiness within even in the midst of sorrow.

9 Nov 2018 7:58 AM IST

The fear is that if elections for the Assembly and Lok Sabha are held the same day, the regional parties may get further marginalised as a large number of voters might tend to vote for the same party in both the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. (Representational image)

Dilli Ka Babu: PMO preps for 2019

However, sources say that Mr Ravi is likely to be the senior-most among Mr Doval's deputies, being a 1976-batch IPS...

4 Nov 2018 2:40 AM IST

Journalist-turned-childrens author Shabnam Minwallas What Maya Saw (Harper Collins, 2017) is one among the three shortlisted under the Young Adult Books category. (Representional Image)

What sort of India do we want?

I will waste no time trying to explain to readers what sort of a writer Mr Guha is. It is pointless.

4 Nov 2018 2:28 AM IST