Supreme Court On Article 370: A Landmark Judgment

We must heed what the CJI has said. Challenging every judgment of the central government is inviting chaos, asserts Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief......

Rampur bypolls: BJP woos Pasmanda Muslims to capture Azam Khan's fortress

Five months after it wrested Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan's stronghold of Rampur Lok Sabha seat, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now trying to further shore its position by wooing Pasmanda Muslim......

Police dept failure: Ajit Pawar on protest outside Sharad Pawar's house

A day after a group of striking employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation staged a fierce protest outside Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar's residence,......

How can we take on the Chinese with our defence budget?

Among the handful of countries with large defence budgets and armed forces, India is matched only by Saudi Arabia in the level of its import dependence.For revenge to be served cold, go beyond......

Who did well, who did badly?

All federal structures face a common standard problem: the uneven impact of any central government policy on the constituent units of the federation. So the dexterity with which the central......

Govt borrowings to see sharp cuts

The dependence on borrowings by central and state governments to finance their Plan expenditure will drastically come down during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2007-12) on the back of revenue......

The men behind the Budget

The finance minister's A-Team has at least four people who are familiar with the way things work in North Block. Expenditure secretary D Swarup, who has charge of the Budget division this time, was......

Maharashtra on the brink of debt trap

Maharashtra's mid-term appraisal of the tenth plan (2002-2007), submitted to the Planning Commission in Bangalore on Wednesday, has admitted that the state financial situation is acute -- a debt......