In what was perhaps the most critical meeting before full-scale war broke out, Shastri defined India's immediate war objectives to his defence minister, army, and air force chiefs: 'To defend......
A woman medico, who was India's first COVID-19 case, has tested positive again for the virus, health authorities said on Tuesday. "She is re-infected with COVID-19. Her RT-PCR is positive, antigen......
Visiting the Rezang La Memorial, one has a feeling of super-humans defending Indian territory against the Chinese onslaught, says Claude Arpi on the 60th anniversary of the heroic battle of the......
Around 900 people are still under observation in Pathanamthitta after the district administration released a route map identifying places visited by the three-member family from Ranni which......
On the title page of the Top Secret Report, Henderson-Brooks quotes the Chinese tactician Sun Tzu: 'Know yourself, know your enemy: A hundred battles, a hundred victories', says Claude Arpi,......
Reservations expressed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notwithstanding, North Block, the finance ministry headquarters, is going ahead with its plans to set up a full-fledged Debt Management......
The strongest reasons for creating an independent debt management office (DMO) are also the ones for not doing it now, says Rajeev Malik. "The fiscal consolidation achieved so far has encouraged us......
In yet another example of the growing convergence of views between North Block and Mint Road, the finance ministry has decided to freeze the long-pending proposal to have a separate debt management......
The government is planning an independent office to manage the Centre's debt through an executive order till the time a proposed Bill is passed by Parliament. The finance ministry is working on a......
'If banks don’t reduce interest rates in line with the fall in market rates, large corporations will move away'. 'If I have a big problem, I go back to my creditor and say ‘I......