Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had urged the centre to provide special category status to Bihar to help it tide over the financial problems

Responds to Karunanidhi's suggestion

Says measures like FDI in multi-brand retail and hiking foreign investment cap in the aviation sector will boost economic growth and restore investor confidence

Bill will provide adequate legislative framework for development and regulation of the sector

Antony, Kamal Nath take up roles played by Mukherjee, GoMs reconstituted

Arrest of a man for trying to photograph PC sends out danger signals: cops are looking to grab you at the slightest slip-up

Within hours of demitting office, additional solicitor-general Bishwajit Bhattacharyya alleges in a book how the government expected him to lose cases!

Seven issues the party should discuss during the daylong discourse at Surajkund but, well, will not

Policymakers have once again failed to link good economics with good politics. Cutting inefficient subsidies is fine, but that should have been done without pushing price rise

Manmohan's opening speech bereft of strategy: Kamal, Pawar steal thunder