1996 was a watershed year in the history of Kashmir. After nine years, political leaders were returning from ‘exile’, albeit under heavy security cover. The HD Deve Gowda government in Delhi had decided to end the political vacuum in t
With assembly polls scheduled in Puducherry for this year along with Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, political activities have geared up in the union territory. While the current political scenario isn
Rohith Chakarvarthi Vemula’s suicide inside a central university campus in Hyderabad is a reminder to all Indians that some fundamentals of our nationhood are not quite right. This 27-year-old aspiring scientist was driven to death by
Here is a case for policymakers to ponder over the failure of schemes to bridge income gap in the country. India is among the top five Asia Pacific countries in terms of total private wealth held, but at the bottom in terms of per capita income.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) retained India`s growth forecast for the next two years even as it pared the global estimate citing subdued demand and diminished prospects in its latest update of the World Economic Outlook. The update releas
Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high enough standard could face deportation from Britain. “You can`t guarantee you will be able to stay if you are not improving your language,” prime minister David Cameron of UK told BBC ra
Questioning the rationale for selling of 29 per cent of valuable shares in the company which deals with strategic minerals, the supreme court today restrained the government from going ahead with any further disinvestment of Hindustan Zinc Ltd.
As the trees and bushes give way to Bada Doomartoli, a hamlet of Singhpur village in Nagri block of Ranchi, one can see a bunch of children running around playfully in the verandah of the first house. Their screeching can be heard from a distance.
Students scuffled with police on Tuesday outside union minister Bandaru Dattatreya’s residence in Hyderabad as protests erupted for the second day over the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, an incident which has triggered outr
Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on Monday distanced himself from the suicide case of Dalit PhD scholar Vemula Rohith and said his letter has nothing to do with it. A case has been registered against Dattatreya and vice chancellor of the Hyderaba
The green court is angry and today came down heavily on the central and Uttar Pradesh government over pollution in river Ganga in Varanasi and said their slogans are contrary to actions. “It is really very unfortunate that suc
The issue of public auditing of power distribution companies in Delhi has again come to life with the supreme court sending notice to three private companies. A bench headed by justice J Chelamswar asked the three discoms -- Tata Po
Since the turn of the century, the poorest half of the world’s population has received just 1 percent of the total increase in global wealth, while half of that increase has gone to the top 1 percent. The average annual income of the poorest
Oil prices hit their lowest since 2003 in early trading on Monday, as the market braced for a jump in Iranian exports after the lifting of sanctions against the country at the weekend. Iran is ready to increase its crude exports by 500,000 bpd, it
Five clocks hang on the wall behind the reception desk of the single-storey red building that is the headquarters of Gujarat International Financial-Tec City Limited (GIFTCL), touching Gandhinagar. They show time in New York, London, Dubai, Singap
“I never imagined I would score so many runs. While batting, I never keep the count of runs I make. As I continued batting and making runs, it became a world record”, says the beaming child prodigy Pranav Dhanawade, who scored record b
In a major development that moves towards revamping of the global financial architecture, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) formally opened for business today. Along with soon to be incorporated the New Development Bank of the Brazil-Rus
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has said that the Congress will support the Goods and Service Taxes bill in Parliament and help pass it in just "15 minutes" once government accepts the conditions set by his party. &qu
A new tax regime for startups will be put in place soon to give them a separate status and free them from the regulatory regime for large companies. Addressing the opening session of `Start-up India` event, finance minister Arun Jai
Startup friendly tax measures will be announced in the forthcoming budget, said finance minister Arun Jaitley at the Start Up India event this morning. Investment company SoftBank Corp.’s founder Masayoshi Son, taxi-hailing service Uber Tech
