Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on November 8 that the pain due to demonetisation will ease within 50 days, yet within this duration the Reserve Bank of India has changed the rules at least......
'Indian politics has had three-and-a-half master narratives -- secular nationalism, Hindu nationalism, justice for lower castes and regionalism. The AAP seeks to go beyond that. Therein lies its......
Within the Congress there is growing conviction that Rahul has to be seen and projected as the face that drives social welfare programmes, reports Renu Mittal Congress leaders are toying with......
'Politics is turning into gift politics. You are distributing computers, mobiles, tablets while not focusing on production that could provide jobs so that people can sustain themselves...' 'This......
The big budget and big boom National Food Security Bill, which will be to UPA II what the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Right To Information Act were to UPA I, could not be......
In a move to cut down wastage, duplication and leakages and enhance efficiency, the Prime Minister has given a major push to transfer individual benefits from the government directly into the bank......
National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asking him to treat as 'urgent' the notification of minimum wages under the National Rural......
Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......
Purulia district in West Bengal, where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had said, people are worse off than those in Orissa's poorest Kalahandi area, has since turned the corner. The district has......
The purpose of the rural job scheme is being defeated as, in this drought year, focus on providing work and timely wages is lost in other things, economist and activist Jean Dreze tells Sreelatha......