No Hooda, no Selja at meet to review Cong's Haryana poll rout

The Congress top brass on Thursday held a review meeting on the party's shock defeat in Haryana assembly polls and decided to form a fact-finding team that will speak to all its candidates to find......

What Congress Must Do To Win Maharashtra

Convert the Haryana result into a blessing in disguise; make the calamity into an opportunity.Maharashtra was always the big ticket game in town; MVA must win it.The Congress should shift......

Why Nitish Supports '1 Nation, 1 Poll'

Nitish Kumar wants to assure the BJP that he will continue to be a part of the NDA.But he also wants to secure a larger number of seats for his party in the 2025 assembly elections in Bihar.......

'What is happening in Bangladesh can happen in India'

Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said what is happening in Bangladesh can happen in the country though "everything may look normal on the surface". IMAGE: People wave Bangladeshi flags......

Will new fiscal year be from January to December?

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday advanced the Union Budget and appointed a new committee chaired by former Chief Economic Advisor Shankar Acharya to examine the feasibility of having a......

Tarun Bajaj posted as revenue secretary in IAS reshuffle

Senior bureaucrat Tarun Bajaj was appointed revenue secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle by the Centre on Tuesday. Bajaj, a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS)......

Is it time to end a 150-year-old tradition and move to a Jan-Dec financial year?

The most serious recommendations to change the financial year came in the years preceded by deficient rainfall. The Jha committee was formed after droughts in 1979-80 and 1982-83, reports Rishika......

Tracing GST's evolution as an idea

Reform ideas do not occur overnight and evolve over the years, says M Govinda Rao. Now that the goods and services tax (GST) Constitution amendment Bill has been passed by the Rajya Sabha,......

#MeToo: 'Let The Exploitation Stop!'

'Women, come out and speak.' Illustrator: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Actor-politician Khushboo Sundar has been quite vocal about the ongoing #MeToo controversy in the Malayalam film industry. "To......

Should RRR Go To The Oscars?

Is S S Rajamouli's RRR going to the Oscars? While there is buzz surrounding RRR, sources in the know say these stories of RRR being Oscar-bound are baseless. "The committee to decide which film......

Akshay in Singham 3

Salman may direct Tiger 3... Katrina drops Vikas Bahl film..Subhash K Jha gives you all that you need to know today from Bollywood. IMAGE: Ranveer Singh, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar at the......

Uri Director on National Award: It can't get better

IMAGE: Vicky Kaushal on the sets of Uri. Photograph: Kind courtesy Vicky Kaushal/Instagram Director Aditya Dhar saw a lot of snubs and failures before his film, Uri: The Surgical Strike,......

Spotlight on Srinivasan again in BCCI Working Committee meet

The Supreme Court might have refused to grant him relief but a defiant N Srinivasan is expected to attempt a comeback as BCCI President after being forced to step aside, when the......