Phaneesh Murthy, the disgraced former chief executive of iGATE Corp, may lose as much as about Rs 84 crore ($15.09 million) in severance benefits after being sacked by the US-based firm for professional misconduct. Murthy, who was sacked on Tuesday for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate, however, is entitled to a post termination benefit of $6,000 per month till he and his spouse reach the age of 65. ...
11:57 PM, May 22, 2013
CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts. ...
11:41 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The union cabinet on Thursday approved the establishment of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission to conserve and restore the sites associated with the Father of the Nation. "The mission would be entrusted with the identification, collation and assessment of information on Gandhi heritage material for its management and deployment," said an official release. The mission will aim at preserving for posterity 39 core sites as well as other...
06:00 AM, May 17, 2013
An IAS aspirant committed suicide in Bangalore on Friday, upset over a "mix-up" in the Civil Services Examinations results list. ...
11:49 PM, May 14, 2013
The Supreme Court on Monday directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. ...
11:42 PM, May 13, 2013
Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...
11:24 PM, May 08, 2013
In a recent article in Wisden India sports journalist Anjali Doshi has raised serious objections about the women presenters being chosen by IPL broadcaster Set Max saying that the choice of glamorous women over sports journalists not only trivialises cricket but also stereotypes those women who report on sport. ...
11:55 PM, May 07, 2013
After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. ...
11:26 PM, May 02, 2013
CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses the question with MoS HRD Shashi Tharoor and others. ...
11:39 PM, May 01, 2013
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was on Tuesday acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, returned to India on Monday morning. Khan has accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Delhi has witnessed a surge in crime against women this year with rape cases recording 158 per cent rise while molestation and eve-teasing incidents went up by 600 and over 700 per cent, respectively. According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday, the national capital reported 463 rape cases in 2013 till April 15 as against 179 during the same period in 2012. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Admitting that the response of his force in the rape case of the five-year-old girl was "not as swift as desired", Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said "there was always a room for improvement". He, however, insisted that the Delhi Police has fulfilled all the promises it made after the December 16 gangrape case. ...
11:49 PM, Apr 22, 2013
The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The latest from Jaipur, where public apathy was captured on CCTV which showed passerby leaving a woman and her infant bleeding to death after an accident. A 26-year-old woman and her 8-month-old daughter in Jaipur died waiting for help on a busy road after their bike was hit by a speeding truck. The traumatised father and the young son who survived, stood by crying for help, only to see several ...
11:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka hit the headlines in October 2012 when he pointed to irregularities in a land deal between Sonia Gandhi's son in law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF. Khemka has always acted as a whistleblower of sorts and has been transferred 44 times, last week he was again transferred from his post for exposing a scam in the purchase of fungicides. ...
11:29 PM, Apr 15, 2013
There was uproar in the Maharashtra Assembly for the third consecutive day, the Opposition is demanding deputy CM Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial 'urine' comment. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. ...
11:31 PM, Apr 09, 2013
In 'Accidental India: A History of the Nation's Passage through Crisis and Change', noted journalist-analyst, Shankkar Aiyar, examines India's ascent through the paradigm of seven game changers: the economic liberalization of 1991, the Green Revolution of the sixties, the nationalization of banks in 1969, Operation Flood in the seventies, the mid-day meal scheme of 1982, the software revolution of the nineties, and the passing of the Right to Information Act...
03:27 PM, Apr 09, 2013
The fate of the much touted low-cost computing device Aakash looks uncertain with the government conceding that there has been a "failure" in its production. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 03, 2013
