Parliament's nod to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill rendering it the government's most consequential piece of legislation in its third term, and the political heat it generated inside and outside the......
'If they aim to remain aligned with the public sentiment, as any democratic government should, then they must respond. Why else would the prime minister have cut short his visit to Saudi Arabia?......
Indian students in the United States should comply with American laws, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday following the detention of a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgetown......
Indians have topped the number of illegal immigrants from Asian countries caught at land, sea, and air checkpoints of the US since 2022. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Simrin/Wikimedia commons On......
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar challenged an American senator who said that democracy 'doesn't put food on the table' telling her that in India it does. IMAGE: External Affairs Minister S......
'Tax rate and stock markets are entirely two different things.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a post-Budget interaction programme in Visakhapatnam, March 6, 2025. Photograph: ANI......
Of the eight RBI governors who have held office since the 1991 economic liberalisation, Bimal Jalan had the longest stint and S Venkitaramanan, the shortest. Current Governor Shaktikanta Das will......
The BRICS nations on Friday underlined the need for using local currencies in international trade and financial transactions besides committing themselves to supporting rule-based open and......
Senior IAS officer and former MyGovIndia chief Gaurav Dwivedi was on Monday appointed the Chief Executive Officer of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati. A 1995-batch officer of Chhattisgarh cadre,......
As Swades turns 20, Aseem Chhabra looks back at the film that spoke to him. IMAGE: Gayatri Joshi and Shah Rukh Khan in Swades. Several years ago, I had lunch with the then finance minister of......
1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......
Now OCA takes up issue with Chinese authorities. IMAGE: Three Arunachal Pradesh athletes, competing as wushu fighters, were denied accreditation for the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Photograph:......