If Modi Wants His 3rd Term To Work...

To govern effectively, to legislate successfully, Modi must reach out to the Opposition.As long as he does not and he is showing no signs that he accepts the reality, the drift his fans are......

Why I Am Upset With Modi's Victory

Despite failing to secure a simple majority in Parliament, we will continue to see him on TV, newspapers, magazines, bill boards, vaccination certificates, railway stations, bus shelters, airports,......

Passage of Triple Talaq, RTI bills emboldened Modi sarkar to scrap Article 370

The timing for the abrogation of Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, could not have been better for the Modi government, which was emboldened to take the bold action after......

Sorry Mr Modi, Katchatheevu Isn't An Election Issue In Tamil Nadu

Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the......

Inside India's new Digital Personal Data Protection framework

A new law that defines how companies should process users' data came into force with the President giving assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act passed by Parliament in the......

DeMo will have no material effect on black money, RBI had warned

Only Rs 10,720 crore of the junked currency notes did not return to the banking system, rest 99.9 per cent was deposited raising question mark over the government's effort of curbing black money......

Demonetised notes are being shredded: RBI

Demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, which have been counted and processed for genuineness, are shredded and briquetted before being disposed of through a tendering process, the Reserve Bank of......

Rashtrapati Bhavan power bill=Rs 16 cr

Rashtrapati Bhavan, 7, Race Course Road and Parliament complex have together incurred energy bills to the tune of over Rs 16 crore (Rs 160 million) in the last fiscal, which is Rs 2 crore (Rs 20......

No clearance for National Sports Bill

The controversial Sports Bill, apparently aimed at reigning in sports federations and possibly giving the government a grip over the Board of Control for Cricket in India, failed to get Cabinet......

Top athletes back National Sports Bill

The Indian Olympic Association and the federations might be against it but the National Sports Bill has got a collective thumbs up from India's top athletes, who feel the draft has the potential to......

BCCI hopes amended Sports Bill is tabled during Budget Session

IMAGE: BCCI president Anurag Thakur and BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke speak during a press conference. Photograph: Shashank Parade/PTI. Under pressure to implement Lodha Committee Reforms as per......

'If the Sports Bill was there, we may not have had the C'wealth Games scam'

The unstated, but ongoing, war between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Sports Ministry is hotting up again, but Sports Minister Ajay Maken is not giving up easily. He has revised......

Madras HC stays CIC's notice to BCCI over RTI Act

Madras High Court has stayed the Central Information Commissioner's (CIC) proceedings on declaring the Board of Control for Cricket in India as a public authority under the RTI Act.The stay was......