Modi has 'hurt' self respect of Rajasthan: Gehlot

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for mentioning Rajasthan in his statement on the Manipur incident, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said he has 'hurt the self respect' of......

Rahul Gandhi backs women's reservation bill, but wants quota for OBCs too

Expressing support for the women's reservation bill in Lok Sabha, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday batted for its immediate implementation and said that the legislation is "incomplete"......

Time Has Come For Women's Reservation Bill

Women politicians bring to politics and policy a sensitivity that most of their male counterparts, at least until a generation back, lacked. IMAGE: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi prior to attending......

How 33% reservation empowered women at panchayat level

Geeta Mahanand, the sarpanch of Risama panchayat in Chhattisgarh's Durg, said she would have never come forward to contest the rural polls had there been no reservation for women in the Panchayati......

How Gadkari plans to bolster India's economy

Gadkari said that the MSME sector contributes significantly in pushing the country's economic growth and creating employment. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Bolstering country's......

Chinese model biz hubs to dot Indian countryside

Chinese and Thai model rural business hubs will soon be part of the Indian countryside.On the anvil are memoranda of understanding between panchayats and 30 public and private enterprises dealing......

Labour cess on its way

Another cess is in the offing with the Central government looking at a bill of nearly Rs 13,500 crore (Rs 135 billion)per annum for setting up a national fund to ensure social security benefits for......

BJP warns of a slowdown

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday warned of creeping recession if the government did not rein in inflation, "which was never more than 4 per cent during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's prime......