Poll panel raps Kerala CM

The Election Commission on Friday rebuffed Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan for his reported statement that central police force (CPF) personnel would be confined to barracks during by-polls......

Graphic: Jharkhand polls in Dec, Nov

Without a popular government for almost a year, Jharkhand will go to Assembly polls in November-December staggered over nearly a month with the first phase of polling scheduled for November 27.......

Should Air Force be roped in to crush Maoists?

The Naxals fury is taking India by the storm. SG Inamdar looks into the pros and cons of deploying Air Force in the anti-Maoist operations. We have used the Air Force firepower......

Maharashtra police not to guard EVMs

The state police in poll-bound Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh will be kept away from guarding the strong rooms where the Electronic Voting Machines will be stored after polling. The......

Is the move to tax interest on EPF a good proposal?

Sandeep Shanbhag, a chartered accountant and director of Wonderland Consultants, a tax and financial advisory firm, discussed the impact of Budget proposals in a chat with Rediff.com’s......

Jobless workers buy nylon plant

They had not even dreamt of it, but it will soon come true. Workers at Garware Nylons Ltd, who lost their jobs when the company went bankrupt in 1996, today own the plant at Ahmednagar (some 120......

Number of pensioners? No one knows

The EPFO's handling of data for the country's pensioners and their vital social security statistics has come under severe criticism from a parliamentary panel which has asked the government to......

Rail tickets, weather report on SMS soon

Want to know the latest weather report or vegetable prices, or book a railway ticket? Well, all you may need to do is send an SMS. With over 130 million mobile subscribers in the country,......