To end the deadlock in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party has called for an all-party meeting today6 (Monday) after the Congress chose to skip th
Even the land acquisition bill remains hostage of the political parties, NITI aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya today said land acquisition is difficult in India. “By all estimates that I have seen, it will easily take abo
The union cabinet has given green signal and the ₹20,000-crore National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) will take shape by this year end. The NIIF, which may take the role of a sovereign wealth fund, is being set up
In India, during elections liquor plays an important role. Tamil Nadu may not be an exception. But the issue in the coming assembly elections could be about liquor prohibition in the state. The public debate over complete prohibition comes after o
Union home ministry is likely to hold a meeting with state police chiefs today (Saturday) to review the situation in the wake of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threat. The meeting is being held a day after the Indian authorities managed to
The Finance Ministry on Friday sought Parliament`s nod to spend an additional Rs 25,500 crore in the current fiscal, nearly half of which will be spent on capital infusion into state-owned banks to help them overcome the high bad loans situation.
Social media runs its own court, at least in this country. People woke up to the news of Yakub’s hanging on July 30. Memon soon became the new reality TV show. While TV channels were busy making a spectacle of the dead man&rsq
After failing to bring an acceptable solution to run the house even after holding all-party meetings, a determined speaker Sumitra Mahajan continued the proceedings amidst bedlam on Friday. She also warned the protesting members of action.
Bihar may have had the luxury of revenue surplus budget of Rs 11,980 crore, but the way Nitish Kumar is dishing out bonanza after bonanza to various sectors of the poll-bound state, the new government may inherit a broke Bihar. Even
The land acquisition ordinance has been the single most controversial legislative move of the Modi government, but it has not been used even once in six months, shows a study. A Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative team led by Venka
To bring awareness about dangerous consequences of borrowing money from unorganised financial sector, HDFC Bank Ltd has launched an educational video film called ‘Dhanchayat’. As part of HDFC Bank’s swachch banking
At one minute past midnight on Friday, some 50,000 residents along the India-Bangladesh border will light candles and celebrate their "new found freedom".
Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge says it is the government`s responsibility to run the House. Meanwhile, after Thursday`s unsuccessful attempt to break the parliament impasse by speaker Sumitra Mahajan, the government has con
Agroup of seven crowd around a newspaper Abu Bakr Siddique is reading. The audience is eager to turn to the sports page, but Siddique is in a mood to tease them. Though impatient they humour him, till he gives in to curiosity. Soon, however,
The government has not learnt anything even after Maggi controversy. It is equipped to do but the will is lacking. The union government has shamelessly admitted today that it has not defined what constitutes junk food. Minister of s
The consequences of political standoff in the country are real. Moody`s Analytics, an economic research unit of international rating agency Moody`s, has warned the politicians. Moody`s Analytics also said: India`s political infighting is denting b
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that the terrorists who attacked Dinanagar in Gurdaspur in Punjab came from Pakistan. They came to India via Ravi river. Analysis of the two GPS machines recovered from the three slain terrorists showed
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was laid to rest with full military honours in Rameswaram on Thursday morning. Prime minister Na
With monsoon playing hide and seek the government has taken major step to control food inflation by appointing a full-time chairman and managing director of Food Corporation of India. The FCI facilitates storage of nation’s grain output, whi
Court number 4 of the supreme court, perhaps, for the first time in its many decades of existence was flooded with too much light and numerous anxious faces at 3 in the morning. It was unprecedented; and the lawyer community does not remember anyt
