Nepal takes charge of post-quake ops as toll mounts to 7,557

A day after the Nepalese government asked rescue teams from India and 33 other countries to leave the Himalayan nation, over 1,31,500 Nepali military and police personnel joined aid operations in......

The green revolution turns dusty brown

When did India's Green Revolution turn a dusty brown? Is the country's hard-earned food security in danger of vanishing as the Manmohan Singh government fiddles with quotas and nuclear deals rather......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

'Father of VAT' Amaresh Bagchi dead

Eminent economist and scholar of public finance, Amaresh Bagchi, died on Wednesday. He was 77. Bagchi, who complained of stomach pain on Tuesday, had been taken to a hospital for treatment, said a......

States seek 50% service tax pie

State governments demanded on Tuesday thatthe Union governmentshould share with them the service taxcollection on a 50:50 basis but Finance Minister P Chidambaram said any decision on the issue......

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......

States' debt swap mooted

The Twelfth Finance Commission is considering a debt-restructuring package on the lines of what the Ninth Finance Commission offered to the states. It could extend the repayment period of state......