Is Sharad Pawar Buying Insurance?

Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......

Resume work or face contempt proceedings: SC to striking Odisha lawyers

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the striking members of the bar associations in several districts of Odisha to resume work by November 16, saying their failure to do so may result in contempt......

'A fight for justice that has been dragging on for too long'

'Now, it feels like the darkness has descended again.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Gunshots. An unexpected sound. Megha Pansare and her two young sons rushed out of the house. Lying......

Activist Stan Swamy dies in custody awaiting medical bail

Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died on Monday while waiting for an interim bail on medical grounds. IMAGE: Stan Swamy was arrested by the National......

Homebuyers caught between banks and builders

N Sundaresha Subramanian, Karan Choudhury and Shreya Jai report on the sorry condition of homebuyers who invested in Jaypee Infratech and the Amrapali Group's Noida-based projects.Illustration:......

'Modi changed India's attitude towards Maritime Silk Road plan'

  China's Silk Road plan the name of which was subsequently changed to ‘Belt and Road’ project moots a maze of roads and corridors connecting China with Asia and Europe. A Chinese......

India's coolie economy

The government must undo the damage inflicted by the flawed policies of globalisation, and India should be converted into a country where entrepreneurs can thrive and the entire population can......

How India is different from China

The value of the rupee has generated a lot of discussion and analysis in the Press for the last several months; actually since mid-March, when almost to the day, the government of India gave up......

Sparse crowds at Adelaide vindicate CA's stance for day-night Tests

Officials in Australia said they were worried after a modest 23,802 turned out for the opening day of the Test series in Adelaide on Thursday, the lowest day-one attendance since the venue was......

Shift IPL matches after April 30 out of Maharashtra, HC tells BCCI

IMAGE: The groundstaff water the pitch at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Photograph: PTI In a big blow to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Bombay high court on Wednesday ordered......

Not feasible to shift matches out of Pune: BCCI tells HC

Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants are willing to contribute Rs five crore to the CM's drought relief fund. IMAGE: BCCI is facing pressure from all corners to move the IPL matches out of......