The ministry of social justice and empowerment said that a committee looking into the need for sub-categorization of OBC groups is expected to submit its report by 31 July. The committee, comprising four members headed by retired Supreme Court Justice G Rohini, was formed in...
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No plans for Central Cyber Police Force – Home Ministry
Ministry of Home Affairs today denied media reports that said that the center would set up a police force dedicated to fighting cyber crime. Law and order is a state subject in India, and currently cyber crimes are dealt with by state police forces. Earlier...
IDBI Bank tops list of banks with high NPAs
IDBI Bank, which is the target of an acquisition move by the Life Insurance Corporation of India, has emerged as the bank with highest proportion of bad loans among public sector banks in India. As of the end of 2017-18, IDBI Bank had a gross...
Center consults UPSC on ‘lateral entry’ for private citizens
The central government has consulted the Union Public Service Commission on the plan to recruit private citizens into the higher judiciary. The UPSC is tasked with recruiting officer-level employees of the Union. The center seems to be trying to clarify whether there is a legal...
Pending cases increase during Modi era
The number of cases pending in various high courts in India has increased during the tenure of Narendra Modi as prime minister as close to 40% of the judge positions in the higher judiciary continues to remain vacant. While there were 39.3 lakh cases pending...
IMD improves accuracy of rainfall predictions
Indian Meteorological Department, which studies and makes predictions about the weather, has significantly improved its predictive capabilities for rainfall in recent years, the government of India said. “The absolute error of the IMD’s monsoon forecasts for the seasonal rainfall over the country has shown significant...
Does Jio GigaFiber & GigaTV mark the end of Cable & DTH industry?
India’s cable company stocks have fallen by about 15%-25% since Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom company by volumes, yesterday announced the commencement of its long-awaited fiber broadband and TV service from August 15. It is feared that the company’s entry can lead to widespread shutdowns...
How WhatsApp can easily fix the Fake News problem
WhatsApp, India’s largest communication platform used by an estimated 65% of the country’s online population, has come under scrutiny for providing a conduit to distribute ‘fake news’ after multiple cases of lynchings came to light. While the company has urged ‘society and companies’ to help...
Subramanian Swamy and ‘Right Wing Liberals’ of India
One of the results of Narendra Modi coming to power at the center has been that ‘right wing’ has gained considerable acceptability as a descriptor of someone’s political ideology. In the last few years, many intellectuals, journalists and artists have openly started describing themselves as...
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh dismisses growth concerns
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh reassured investors that the IT services behemoth was not facing a growth crisis because of the replacement of traditional sourcing models with digital services. He said new age services — such as analytics, marketing, digital product design, digital system integration, cloud...
BJP, Congress score self-goals in Kerala Chengannur bye-election
Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress Party in Kerala have reason to worry from the results of Chengannur bye-election conducted on Sunday. With nearly all votes in — including those from areas considered strongholds of Congress and BJP — the Left Front candidate...
ABS Free Dish shuts down; Will Reliance Big TV benefit?
ABS Free Dish, the free DTH service run by a Bermuda-based company of the same name, has shut down its signals over India. The service used to quite popular in the southern and eastern parts of India as the only other free DTH service —...
You could soon save tax by going cashless
The Goods and Services Tax Council is planning to take up a proposal to give a discount in the tax imposed on a transaction, if the payment for the same is made in electronic mode, the government said. “An agenda note, proposing certain concession in...
BSNL on track to post biggest ever subscriber losses in FY18
India’s state-owned telecom utility Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is likely to report a decline of around 1.66 mln landline phone users in the year-ended March 2018, the highest in its history. During the first ten months of the just-concluded financial year, the company saw a...
I&B Ministry data confirms blockage of salary funds for Prasar Bharati
SALARY AID TO PB Rs cr 22.05.2017 892 27.07.2017 100 23.08.2017 198 22.09.2017 198 31.10.2017 198 01.12.2017 198 22.12.2017 205 28.02.2018 2.75 Budget Allocation Rs 2800 cr Total Released 1991.75 cr Yet to be Released 808.25 cr Data related from the information and broadcasting ministry...
Airtel, Vodafone beat Reliance Jio in on-the-ground 4G speed tests
4G operator Bharti Airtel was clearly ahead of market leader Reliance Jio and challenger Idea Cellular in on-the-ground 4G speed tests conducted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in ten cities in India this year. According to the data from these tests, Bharti Airtel...
Tamil Nadu, West Bengal & Rajasthan lead in MGNREGS employment generation
Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Rajasthan are the three states that have been the biggest beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which promises 100 days of manual labor to anyone who is interested. Tamil Nadu generated 126.04 cr days of work...
Delhi sees 309 rapes in Jan-Feb; overall crime rate drops
Delhi saw 309 cases of rape during the first two months of this year, up slightly from 307 last year, but reported cases of robbery and burglary showed a sharp decline. Overall crime rate fell as the total number of registered crimes fell to 37,953...
Delhi Police installs first 100 station CCTV cameras for Rs 44 lakh
Delhi Police, the arm of the central government that is responsible for keeping law and order and providing security to important persons in the national capital, has spent Rs 43,94,441 for installing the first 10 CCTV systems at its police stations. The system is being...
IOCL, HPCL, BPCL open to buying petrol pump land – Pradhan
State-owned oil marketing companies, Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, are open to buying the land on which their retail outlets are located to offset rising real estate prices, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. Pradhan was responding to a concern about how rising real...