'Toll on Mumbai trans-harbour bridge should be Rs 500, not Rs 250'

'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.' IMAGE: The Atal Setu. Photographs: Sahil Salvi Prime Minister......

Gujarat Govt Remains Election-Focused

'The new cabinet intends to create an impression in people's minds that even if it is new, it is performing from day one.' IMAGE: Union Home Minister Amit Anilchandra Shah along with Gujarat Chief......

Farmers must call off chakka jam in the national interest

The government and the farmers must come back to the negotiating table with only the interest of the country in mind, suggests Vivek Gumaste. IMAGE: Farmers protest against the farm laws at the......

Farmers' Feb 6 'chakka jam' won't take place in Delhi: Tikait

Going firm on their demand for repeal of the new agri laws, hundreds of farmers spent another night in the cold and withstood spells of drizzle on Thursday at Ghazipur, their heavily-secured......

'The economy is sending mixed signals. That is the truth'

'There are two pre-conditions for big reforms. One, a sense of crisis and second, fairly concentrated levers of power.' 'India is growing at 7.5 per cent or something close to that.''Our levers of......

Modi lists game-changing achievements, assigns 'A' grade to his govt

PM says, all macro parameters have improved significantly in his 17 months, and a 'quiet revolution' is on, transformational but barely noticed. The country's macro economic parameters, said Prime......

Bharat Bandh: Essential services most likely to be hit

Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore Essential services like banking and......

Gen-X banks must be tech-savvy, upbeat on rural expansion

Upcoming banks must have a modern approach to complete the task of financial inclusion. If the guidelines finalised by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for issuing licences for limited banking -......

Madam Chief Minister review

Madam Chief Minister falls short of being a rousing political drama, notes Moumita Bhattacharjee. Though a disclaimer says that Madam Chief Minister is a fictional story, it bears striking......

Rockers unite against Bush

In a coordinated effort to 'derail the right-wing Republican agenda by defeating George W Bush,' REM, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, the Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews Band and a host of other artists......

Yeh kya hua, kaise hua, kyun hua...

To understand Rajesh Khanna's maniacal craze, one needed to have been born in the 1960s. What you see today in television re-runs is a mere rewind into shredded fading memories. It was sheer......