Where do Vijay and his TVK expect to get their votes from?Vijay has a huge fan following among women, but will they automatically become his voters like they had done for MGR's AIADMK, asks N......
Bangladesh is in turmoil, which is not good news for India, which shares a porous 4,000 km border with it. There is a danger of fundamentalism growing there, and India has to move in to reset its......
Crucial reforms in Muslim personal law, especially laws related to inheritance and adoption, need to be initiated forthwith; historically speaking, without the State's backing, hardly has any......
'Is the Agniveer scheme or their post-retirement re-employment in paramilitary forces or in the state governments the BJP's answer to the crying need on the job front?' 'Or, even Finance Minister......
'Union Budgets are often used as political instruments and that was the intention of this government too.''But while the exercise has settled two fronts, it has left open several others and this......
'Volumes in F&O trading had gone up rapidly and, in a way, the increase in STT on F&O will protect investor interest.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Foreign investors and India Inc......
The words ‘industry’, ‘industrial development’, ‘jobs’, and ‘employment’ have been ringing with higher frequency since Mamata Banerjee stepped into......
The finance minister could well be on her way to setting a record of achieving the biggest single-year reduction in the government's fiscal deficit, explains A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Finance......
Till such time that a new governance framework comes into being, the progress of reforms in health, education, land, labour, electricity and agriculture could remain fraught with problems,......
If Manmohan Singh was hobbled by allegations of sleaze and a stagnant economy, Modi faces the twin challenges of high unemployment and an uncertain and potentially volatile situation in Kashmir,......