The story of Indian PMs and the tiranga at Red Fort

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hoists the national flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day on Sunday, it will be the seventh time in a row for him, with only Jawahar Lal......

Govt glorified Rajiv, but ignored Shastri?

There seems to a disparity in expenditure on advertisements for remembering national icons, with the government spending nearly triple the amount for glorifying Rajiv Gandhi in two months than what......

Pressure on Pak worked for India: Sonia

In an apparent reference to Pakistan admitting that the Mumbai attacks were partly planned on its soil, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said diplomatic pressure exerted on Islamabad......

Over 600 schemes in India named after Gandhis: BJP

Attacking "glorification" of only "one-family" by the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said that if voted to power the party would review christening of more than "600 schemes" in......

PM offers duty free tariff for poor nations

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh announced on Tuesdayduty free tariff preference scheme for least developed countries. Amidappaluse from the delegates of the first Indo-African Forum in New......

Centre's economic policy disastrous: Sonia

Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government of pursuing a "disastrous" economic policy, Congress President Sonia Gandhi alleged that it was "selling" even profit-making public sector......

All about interim Budgets

Independent India's first Budget was presented by India's first finance minister, R K Shanmukham Chetty, on November 26, 1947. And that was an interim Budget! So when Finance Minister Jaswant Singh......

Players, Federations need to use stadiums built for CWG: IOA

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA), on Tuesday, demanded that the expensive stadiums built for the 2010 Commonwealth Games should be made available to the players and the Federations for......