BJP drops Varun Gandhi in UP, but fields Maneka

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday declared 13 candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls including actor Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram in popular TV serial Ramayan, from Meerut,......

Revealed! Mo-Shah's 370 MPs Plans

The BJP's top leadership will drop its MPs found to be facing anti-incumbency, according to its internal surveys -- a pivotal tactic to ensure the party achieves its target of winning 370 seats.......

Contest One Direct Poll: Modi Tells RS MPs

The BJP could ask at least a dozen of its 92 Rajya Sabha MPs, particularly those who have served more than one term, to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supremo......

Shah, Sitharaman stand tall among ministers

Strengthening the portfolios of the home minister and the finance minister is a message that should not be missed, points out A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with......

PM forms 2 Cabinet panels to spur growth, create jobs

Economy has become a major cause of concern for the new government with GDP dropping to 5.8 per cent in the last quarter of the 2018-19. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Redif.com With the spectre of......

Under pressure, govt may water down labour reforms

Small Factories Act, Industrial Relations Code likely to be redrafted under pressure from Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh The Centre is likely to dilute provisions of two critical labour reform Bills, the......

Parties squabble over Mallya's arrest, KFA employees wait for their dues

A beleaguered Vijay Mallya may have walked free on bail within hours of his arrest but the event, which he nonchalantly dismissed as "usual Indian media hype", had rival parties claiming credit for......

In a first, FM authors a section of Economic Survey

For the first time, Subramanian said, "the Economic Survey has embraced Big Data, and we mine this data to shed new light on the flow of goods and people within India." Breaking from the......