Modi wins historic 3rd term, but BJP misses majority mark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance getting a majority in the Lok......

Modi's Edifice Complex

To understand Modi, listen to what he does not say, suggests Prem Panicker. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Narendra D Modi, Amit A Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and J P Nadda......

MSP, hiking 50% quota, VVPAT, no Agnipath: Congress rolls out manifesto

Right to apprenticeship, legal guarantee for MSP, passing a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, a nation-wide caste census and scrapping of......

Election 2024: The Big Fights In Kerala

Kerala's election discourse operates surreptitiously.Its explicit face focuses on important national and local issues. At the same time, it seeks to secure apt communal equations to ensure votes,......

How the super rich stash money abroad

'Tax dodging through tax havens is one of the ways multinational corporations and the super-rich in India are using to evade taxes.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Paradise Papers......

How the 'mother of all tax reforms' actually evolved

The story of India’s fledgling indirect tax regime goes back a long way before 2000. In its essence, GST is a national level system of value added taxation of goods and services, says Shankar......

'Media reporting massive lay-offs is wrong'

'We are in touch independently with leading players, and they are denying it as well.''The Indian digital footprint is rising, creating new opportunities.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with......

Govt, BJP to counter anti-demonetisation campaign

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley witll spearhead the campaign with BJP President Amit Shah as its chief strategist, reports Archis Mohan. Black money is not just wads of notes Concerned at a......

Friday deadline for IOA to reply to Ministry's show-cause notice

The Sports Ministry in its notice said that under "the terms and conditions of the National Sports Development Code, 2011, recognition to a sports body may be withdrawn, inter-alia, for...not......