India Needs A National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......

Govt likely to bring 3 bills to implement 'one nation, one election' plan

The government is likely to bring three bills, including two to amend the Constitution, to put in place its plan to hold simultaneous elections. Image used for representational purpose only.......

How will NDA reach magic number for simultaneous polls in Parl?

It could be a tightrope walk for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government in the present scenario to ensure the passage of constitutional amendments required to bring......

Finance Secretary TV Somanathan is new Cabinet Secy

Finance Secretary T V Somanathan was on Saturday named as the new Cabinet Secretary by the government for a tenure of two years. IMAGE: Finance Secretary T V Somanathan will be the new Cabinet......

Govt readies sweeping reforms for PSBs

The governance reforms, as an official put it, would bring in measures to track the performance of the executive-rank employees of the banks, intensively. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The......

GST rollout: CBEC to be revamped to curb tax evasion

The CBEC will itself be rechristened as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs and will supervise GST and Customs activities and provide the government policy inputs. The GST department......

Centre announces financial package for Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh has been demanding a Special Category State status from the Centre ever since the state's economic powerhouse Hyderabad, which housed several IT and pharmaceutical companies as well......

Lessons for the Finance Minister to present a transformative Budget

Structural changes to government finances could be focus of the Union Budget, says Mihir S Sharma. In a fortnight, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may well render the memory of his two previous,......

Non-Compliance from BCCI on 10/11 Lodha reforms: COA report

Former BCCI chief Thakur tenders unconditional apology to SC The Committee of Administrators (COA) has prepared its first status report as per Supreme Court directive, where they have clearly......

Parliament or BCCI? Why Anurag Thakur must quit one

An MP's is a full-time job, so is the BCCI president's.How can Anurag Thakur do justice to both, asks Sudhir Bisht. Let me begin by saying that I don't grudge the upward journey in politics and in......

FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount

IMAGE: FIFA logo outside their headquarters in Zurich. Photograph: Harold Cunningham/Getty Images The spotlight at next week's FIFA Congress will fall on the presidential election - but the real......

No club compensation for a 2022 winter World Cup: FIFA

Soccer's world governing body FIFA flexed its muscles again on Wednesday when it announced that clubs will not get compensation for losing players and suffering domestic disruption due to a 2022......