Since Independence, Lok Sabha Speakers have been chosen by consensus. Photograph: Sansad TV If the opposition forces an election to the post of Speaker of the Lok Sabha next week, it would be the......
'...only if we sort it out with Pakistan.' IMAGE: Security personnel on the watch in Srinagar. Photograph: Umar Ganie for Rediff.com Amarjit Singh Dulat, former head of the country's external......
New Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday set up a 47-member Steering Committee that includes former prime minister Manmohan Singh and the party's ex-presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul......
Two women candidates; Lok Sabha Speakers; Chief Justices; A Chief Election Commissioner; drafters of the Constitution; the RBI's first Indian governor; a farm leader who unsuccessfully contested......
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi......
All the central trade unions have called a strike to protest the changes to the labour laws and government's inaction towards their demands The government will hold a meeting with trade union......
Be it a doctor, a financial planner or a businessman, all have high hopes from the Modi government in the upcoming Budget. Image: The masses have high hopes from the upcoming Budget......
Till the other day, the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) had made no secret of its opposition to foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. But the trade-union wing of the ruling......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the labour ministry on Friday to form a group to examine how to address the problems being faced by workers due to global economic slowdown. The direction to......
The meeting of Central Board of Trustees is likely to be stormy on Thursday with both right and left wing trade unions making up plans to demand at least 9.5 per cent EPF rate for this fiscal......
IMAGE: India's archers have never been able to go past the quarter-final hurdle at the Olympic Games. Photograph: World Archery/Instagram A different year and another Games, but for Indian......
'If we go by current form and the way the archers are performing, we can realistically look at three medals -- men's individual, men's team and mixed team.' IMAGE: Men’s recurve team of......
IMAGE: Archer Deepika Kumari will be participating in her fourth Olympic Games. Photograph: Deepika Kumari/Instagram Deepika Kumari is torn between two worlds. One where the doting mother longs to......
Dhiraj Bommadevara takes blame double misfire, experts say this 'can happen' in archery Photograph: Kind World Archery/X Rising Indian archer Dhiraj Bommadevara blamed himself for the......
IMAGE: Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and Aditi Swami won the gold medal in the women's compound event at the World Archery Championships in Berlin. Photographs: World Archery/Twitter The......