Bureaucratic reshuffle: Coal secy shunted out; 19 new babus appointed

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup was appointed school education secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effective from Wednesday. As many as 19 new secretaries have been appointed in......

Flooded yet 'dry': The great Bihar paradox

IMAGE: A man escapes a water-logged village in Bihar. Photograph: PTI Photo. Let Bihar be damned under its contradictions of having gone ‘dry’ and then having been submerged under a......

Meet the new faces in Modi's council of ministers

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted new faces into the Union Council of Ministers keeping an eye on the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.  Union Minister of State for Environment,......

Cop in video footage on Jarawa 'human safari' identified

The Andaman and Nicobar Island police have identified one of its personnel who was allegedly involved in the controversial 'human safari' episode where members of Jarawa tribe were made to dance in......