Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......
Farmer leaders on Monday went on a daylong hunger strike and their colleagues demonstrated in different parts of the country to push for a rollback of the new farm laws, as Union minister Rajnath......
If the AAP wins 20 to 40 Lok Sabha seats, which is conceivable unless it botches up on governance in Delhi, it will become a significant bloc comparable in influence to or even bigger than several......
Full text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's opening remarks at the interaction with newspaper editors: I think that there is a growing perception that this government is in siege, that we have not......
The Centre is looking to convene a meeting of the all-powerful Goods and Service Tax Council in early January. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The meeting is likely to focus on rectifying......
'We need to encourage the next generation of farmers to continue in farming' IMAGE: Sugarcane farmers taking their produce to a mandi near Nashik, Maharashtra. Photograph: Mahipal Soni/Rediff.com......
According to the government order, all factories producing essential goods and services will remain operational at full capacity. Half of the manufacturing units in Maharashtra could remain shut......
‘Traders have stocked up for upcoming festivals and will make a loss if stores remain shut now. We suffered last year. We can’t suffer again. There is no scientific basis for closing......
The problem, say experts, is not so much the use of plastic as the lack of effort to recycle and reuse it. Nine thousand tonnes. That’s how much plastic waste India generates every year.......