Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P......
The political-electoral calculus favours spending thousands of crores on vanity projects like Sardar Patel's statue and the Central Vista over building up our military to handle the confrontations......
That would result in the military under-spending about Rs 80,000 crore over the financial year.Ajai Shukla reports. Military spending, minus the payroll, would probably be cut by at least......
Former finance minister P Chidambaram 'misused his official position' in granting approval to a Foreign Direct Investment proposal of INX Media and INX News Pvt Ltd in lieu of 'illegal......
The finance ministry has put in place restrictions on the entry of media persons into North Block, allowing access to only those accredited journalists who have a prior appointment with an......
Mutual funds (MFs) are betting on a turnaround in the healthcare sector to boost returns but are divided on the prospects of the information technology (IT) sector amid uncertain growth outlook.......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday defended her handling of the economy saying she has been working on measures to revive the growth from a six-year low. Sitharaman, who is not......
A V Rajwade wonders if the Modi sarkar is pursuing price stability at the cost of potential social instability in both rural and urban India. After the recent monetary policy statement, several......
Subramanian Swamy now wants Arvind Subramanian, one of the front runners for the post of the new RBI governor to be sacked. After targeting RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP leader Subramanian......
The Budget-making exercise for 2016-17 is set to start in a day or so, about two months early compared to previous years, the finance ministry said on Monday. “In consonance with the......