Fadnavis takes charge as CM, his first decision is...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar took charge of their new official responsibilities at the state secretariat 'Mantralaya' here after taking......

Jaishankar Campaigns For Ex-Colleague

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Taranjit Singh Sandhu were colleagues at the ministry for external affairs for many years. Sandhu served most recently as India's ambassador to the US, which Jaishankar......

'After the devastation of Covid, I had expected a higher budget for health'

'...to address the serious faultlines that had got exposed during the pandemic.''If the economy is looking up this year, we could have been allocated an increase of at least 20%.' IMAGE: A......

Helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath crashes, 7 dead

A helicopter ferrying pilgrims from Kedarnath temple to Guptkashi crashed into a hill in Rudraprayag amid dense fog on Tuesday, killing all seven people on board. IMAGE: A helicopter carrying......

Brazil BRICS summit to be Modi's first multilateral meeting

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the two-day summit of five-nation BRICS forum in Brazil next week when it is likely to give a concrete shape to establishment of a Development Bank......

Modi euphoria cools, now it's tough to retain foreign investors

  A critical test now awaits Modi on Monday when the government unveils its Budget for the year Nearly two years after Narendra Modi was elected as India's Prime Minister with an ambitious......

Wanted: An independent RBI chief to champion Indian reforms

The RBI is not statutorily independent from the government but has long enjoyed wide latitude As India seeks a new central bank chief, many investors are pushing a clear message: the successor to......

Markets riding for a fall unless budget delivers

Investors in India say the government's first full budget must find a way to boost capital spending while exercising fiscal restraint, or a subsequent sell-off in debt and equities could......