K'taka portfolios: Siddaramaiah keeps finance, Shivakumar gets irrigation

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allocated portfolios to ministers in his Cabinet, keeping the Finance department with himself while assigning the Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development......

SC asks Centre to consider tweaking Covid norms for Parsi funeral

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre that it may consider tweaking the protocols for the burial of bodies of COVID-19 victims in a way that essential tenets of the Zoroastrian belief are......

After the Ayodhya verdict: What Salman Khurshid wrote in his book

Indian politics, held captive in one way or the other by Ayodhya, may now well seek its emancipation from this issue, and the pursuit of welfare, asserts Congress leader Salman Khurshid in this......

Bye-laws that bar pets in apartments are illegal: Kerala HC

Bye-laws of resident associations preventing apartment owners or occupiers from keeping pets of their choice at home or accessing elevators and other common facilities are "illegal" and......

3 factors robbing the cream off dairy farmers' lives

Cheap milk prices, rising fodder cost and the difficulties in buying new cattle and selling old ones on account of cow vigilantism have cast a triple shadow on this sunshine sector in Indian......

Jaitley's fifth is a please-all Budget, almost

Jaitley said a 10 per cent tax long on capital gains exceeding Rs 1 lakh made from the sale of shares has been introduced but those made till January 31 would be grandfathered.  A 10 per cent......

Finance Minister P Chidambaram's speech

Mr. Speaker, Sir It is my privilege to present the Budget for 2007-08. I. A MID-TERM REPORT CARD ON THE ECONOMY 2. In November 2006, the UPA Government crossed the midpoint of its term of office. A......

Finance minister's Budget Speech

The following is the speech that Finance Minister Jaswant Singh made in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday while presenting the Interim Budget for 2004-05.Mr Speaker,1. I rise to present an Interim Budget,......

Aanachandam is watchable

It seems unlikely that Malayalam filmmakers will ever run out of rural themes that want to infuse city dwellers with nostalgia and guilt for losing their agrarian roots. The latest addition in this......

Aamir on horseback gets the scissors

After the recent controversy with the Indian Air Force, Aamir Khan's Rang De Basanti has met with resistance from the Animal Welfare Board. But while the IAF cleared the film after three suggested......