The additional Terms of Reference being worked out would likely seek a rollover of the current devolution pattern for one more year. The commission’s tenure was originally set to end in October but the President extended it to November 30 in July.
WhatsApp lawsuit reveals how private equity firms play key roles in the growth of surveillance tech companies. NSO cofounders did a classic management buyout of the company from San Francisco-based PE firm Francisco Partners. Francisco Partners was co-founded in 1999 by former TPG Capital principal Dipanjan ‘DJ’ Deb along with David Stanton, another senior TPG executive.
The spyware can monitor up to 500 phones in a year, but can only track a maximum of 50 at one go. He said it costs about $7-8 million per year to license Pegasus as per the sources on Pegasus' snooping capabilities. Allegedly the Israeli company developed a program that copied WhatsApp’s network traffic to target devices over the app’s servers.
Interestingly, although the FSA was negotiated by the RBI, the contact point for the FSA is the commerce ministry and not the central bank.
Fifty-six years after the recalibration, much of the Sangh Parivar now accepts Gandhi but there are still many who love to hate the Mahatma.
Thachil's book 'Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India' showed how the goodwill generated by the Sangh Parivar’s social service activities translated to votes for the BJP.
The idea of making healthcare a right has been a matter of debate for long.
``We are inviting economists and policymakers to the seminar. We are also inviting finance ministers from other states, including BJP-ruled states,’’ Thomas Isaac, finance minister, Kerala said.
"There is no reason why Pakistan should exist. What has been its contribution except terrorism?’’ Kumar told ET.
NK Singh-headed Finance Commission working on proposal; cabinet cleared enabling approvals on July 17.
One statistical detail captures the growth pangs of India’s anti-trust watchdog perfectly. In the nearly seven years of its functioning, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered penalties totalling about Rs 14,000 crore. Of...
First, it was a phantom factory that marred Cadbury’s India story of 67 years. This March, the Central Excise department concluded that part of its plant at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh did not exist on the...
Kishanganj: Mohammad Faraz articulates Asaduddin Owaisi’s appeal the best. “If he wins, it will be like Hyderabad.’” By he, Faraz means Hyderabad-based Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) which is contesting six assembly seats...
Many Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and leaders believe that if their party loses the Bihar state elections, one of the key reasons would be its ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s...
NEW DELHI: The statutory corporate social responsibility (CSR) norms introduced two years ago were expected to revolutionise funding of social causes, but some sections of India Inc may now be abusing these for laundering of black...
A few years ago, Vinod Joshi, the secretary of the trust that manages a small temple and ashram nestled in a picture-postcard valley called Kainchi near Nainital, got a call from Larry Brilliant, an American...
Behold, my friends, the spring has come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life....
On September 5, Kerala witnessed a socio-political inflection point—the dominant Left party Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM’s children’s wing, Balasangham, organized processions to celebrate Janmashtami, a festival venerating Lord Krishna’s birth. The CPM’s...
Social unrest of the kind seen in Gujarat could rise and spread to other states that are heavily invested in manufacturing because quality jobs are disappearing even as the number of young people searching for...
When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar hits the campaign trail later this year, it is not the caste-riven electorate he will need to really worry about. His Achilles’ heel would be his own administration which...
Lalua’ is a name uttered with much affection in Bihar. Lalua, or the chubby, floppyhaired Yadav leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, is the kind of guy Bihari men love to hang out with, accompanied by khaini,...
On September 25, the eve of his first visit to the US as India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi wrote a signed article in the Wall Street Journal titled, ‘An invitation to make in India’. It...
The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 conclusively proves that large parts of the country is hopelessly poor and more than half of the population exists on uncertain daily wages. What is really revealing in...
Big institutional changes in India often follow big crises. The balance of payment crisis of 1990 paved the way for radical changes in the financial system, including near autonomy to the central bank. Electronic stock...
The juiciest of stories circulating in Patna these days is chief minister Nitish Kumar denying former chief minister and estranged party colleague Jitan Ram Manjhi the joy of eating mangoes growing in his own backyard....
In December 2014, Rajeshwar Singh, a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and then head of the Dharm Jagran Samiti, raked up a storm when he reportedly helped convert 250 Muslims to Hinduism at...
In 1999, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was about to celebrate its first anniversary when it was hit by a broadside. Dattopant Thengadi, then a doyen of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, called Vajpayee a ‘petty...
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