Save Constitution that BJP-RSS want to destroy: Rahul to voters

A day before the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday urged people to support his party and asserted this is an election to save democracy and the......

You Can Become Chief Minister Only if You Have The MLAs

The two main factions in Karnataka's Congress party -- one led by Siddaramaiah and the other by D K Shivakumar -- are both contenders for the chief ministership.Both groups have fought hard to get......

Subterfuge: Mamata writes to PM over GST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that depriving states of Goods and Services Tax compensation is an "attempt to undermine federalism"......

'Chandan should have remained in the BJP'

'Chandan felt he had no place in the BJP and he was wrong.' IMAGE: Journalist-politician Chandan Mitra. Photograph: PTI Photo   'I lost my closest friend -- editor Pioneer and former MP --......

GST in current form unacceptable, says Amit Mitra

According to Mitra, items such as foodgrain, vegetables, leather goods, footwear, cottage cheese, puffed and flattened rice, books and entertainment tax, among several others, should be in the......

Budget: Arun Jaitley could squeeze business to balance books

The corporate income tax breaks make up a relatively small part of $80 billion in business giveaways, the lion's share of which comes from incentives on customs and excise duties. Finance Minister......

GST: States, FinMin at loggerheads over compensation

The showdown between the Centre and states, which started with delays in the monthly payment of compensation to states for loss of revenue from the rollout of GST, escalated into shedding of the......

Can terms of reference of Finance Commissions be changed?

With the creation of the state of Telangana, additions were made to ToRs of the 14th Finance Commission to make recommendations for the newly created states after the reorganisation of Andhra......

'War is a real estate business'

'I am against any kind of violence.' IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier holds a Kalashnikov AK-12 captured from Russian troops in the Kyiv region, March 31, 2022. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters......

Review: Aarakshaka is worth a watch

Srikanth Srinivasa feels Aarakshaka will make its audience think.Director P Vasu's last two movies Aapta Mitra and Aaptarakshaka ran on clear and definite lines. With the latter being a kind of......

BCCI threatens to ban misbehaving Tiwary

Taking a serious view of his dressing room misdemeanour, the Indian Cricket Board has told Bengal player Manoj Tiwary that he will be banned from playing domestic cricket, if he will not behave......

Tiwary banned after dressing room fury

Promising batsman Manoj Tiwary was slapped a one-match ban and fine after his dressing room fury in Bengal's Vijay Hazare Trophy (East Zone) match against Jharkhand. Tiwary was adjudged leg before......

Dalmiya scripts Sourav-like comeback

Out in the wilderness for 18 months, former International Cricket Council chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, elected as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), has scripted a dreamcomeback......

Dalmiya re-elected CAB president

Jagmohan Dalmiya on Friday retained his position as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal at its 78th Annual General Meeting in Kolkata that also marked Sourav Ganguly's debut as cricket......

Greed creeping into cricket: Chitrak Mitra

Terming the IPL spot-fixing scandal as unfortunate, BCCI vice-president Chitrak Mitra said that too much of greed has crept into cricket bringing disrepute to the game. "What has happened in the......