Delhi faces a severe financial crunch and the deficit is largely due to numerous welfare schemes without adequate revenue flowing in.The success of welfare schemes and electoral promises will need......
Whenever tenures of army chiefs were extended in the recent past, prime ministers were subsequently eased out of office by the same army chief, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at......
There was no let-up in nationwide protests on Monday by junior doctors over the alleged rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata, even as the Union health ministry approved 25 percent enhancement in......
'The lack of a majority isn't the issue. He has enough in 240, especially as none of his allies can pull down his coalition.' 'That's why he's started as if this were just another, normal term.......
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the appointments of new election commissioners (ECs) under a 2023 law that excluded the chief justice of India from the selection panel. IMAGE:......
While consumers feel that petrol pinches directly, diesel hurts indirectly, as it is an input in almost all the goods and services we use. Diesel, the most used retail fuel by almost all......
Indian information technology players doing business in Japan can look forward to lower taxes the next financial year. A dispute over a 20 per cent withholding tax levied by Japan seems to have......
The 41st meeting of the GST Council, to be held via video conferencing, has just one agenda for discussion -- making up for shortfall in states' revenues, sources said. The GST Council meeting on......
'The much-awaited decision could be a welcome change at a time when the Indian armed forces are crying for self-reliance and the defence industry is looking forward to more indigenisation,' notes......
'One by one we are seeing these private banks taking people's money and mismanaging it.''In the last 30 years, 30 private banks have collapsed.''Nationalise all banks so that people's money is......