India on Tuesday unveiled a "transformative" scheme called Agnipath for the recruitment of soldiers into the Army, the Navy and the Air Force largely on a short-term contractual basis with an aim......
'A country cannot be run on lines that everyone should be in agreement and those who disagree should be silenced.''If this is how they look at democracy, then I can only wish good luck to the......
Maintaining that the Constitution was bigger than any court judgement, NCP president Sharad Pawar on Monday asked the Centre to enact a law to remove the Supreme Court-mandated 50 per cent cap on......
IMAGE: Heated debate and verbal duels were witnessed between the opposition and treasury benches in Lok Sabha on vital issues like cow-lynching and mob-violence, agrarian crisis and the......
The central government has drafted a law to restrict wombs for hire, and there is much to be said on all sides, with criticism that it steps on too many hopes IMAGE: Surrogate mothers rest......
The Rajya Sabha on Thursday approved a bill to raise the foreign investment limit in the insurance sector to 74 per cent, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying while control will go to......
Banks, healthcare firms and fintech companies, among others, fear that sharing non-personal data with the government may hurt business interests. Banks also fear the threat of data misuse.......
The debate on the merits or otherwise of external benchmarks also does not answer a fundamental question raised by Viral Acharya, the former deputy governor of RBI: “The issue is - who should......
Regarding road safety, stricter provisions have been proposed for offences like juvenile driving, driving without licence, dangerous driving, drunken driving, over-speeding and overloading. The......
'In India, people save for their children's education or a daughter's marriage or for old age.''This is not America or Japan, this is India.''This is a conservative society and what we need is more......