'We Are Voting For The Next Chief Minister'

A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge. IMAGE: Congress leader......

Shocking! 70-year-old woman crawls 2 km to collect pension

A 70-year-old woman in Odisha's Keonjhar district was forced to crawl nearly two kilometres from her home to the panchayat office to collect her old-age pension. IMAGE: The elderly woman said a......

A Tale Of Two Modi Decisions

Why did the political system in the country react to these two decisions of the Modi government in a diametrically opposite manner? asks A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi,......

How Modi Has Been Cut To Size

In the event of the BJP's poor performance in the assembly polls this year and in early 2025, Modi's hold will get further weakened because he will no longer remain the invincible electoral persona......

Meet Nirmalaji's Core Budget Team

The finance minister continues to be backed by the same policy team in charting out the broad strategy as in the few earlier Budgets. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman distributes halwa......

RSS and its affiliates seek I-T cut, robot tax launch in upcoming Budget

An increase in the farmer income support scheme PM Kisan Nidhi, the introduction of a 'robot tax' to fund reskilling of people who lose their jobs to artificial intelligence (AI), and a reduced......

'No Derating Due To Coalition Govt'

'Barring a temporary blip where stocks fell on verdict day, we are back to all-time highs.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The banking sector faces only one concern: The weakness in......

Fresh formal hiring at seven-month high in April, shows EPFO data

The number of fresh formal jobs generated in a month increased to a seven-month high in April, signalling a recovery in the formal labour market in the country, according to the latest monthly......