For Adani, magic happened after 2014: In LS Rahul links group's rise to Modi

A belligerent Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday led a blistering opposition attack in Lok Sabha over the Hindenburg report, claiming that the meteoric rise in Gautam Adani's fortunes happened after the......

Is Tamil Nadu the new Bihar?

If the people of Tamil Nadu stop deifying their leaders and start evaluating them more objectively, the political masters too may change their wayward behaviour, argues Sudhir Bisht. In the 1980s,......

FULL TEXT: 'Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday address Members of the British Parliament in London where he promised to open more doors of cooperation between the two countries and delved on issues like......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

Prices of food items continue to rise in May, says RBI report

Prices of food items like cereals, pulses, and edible oils rose or remained steady in May, a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report said, indicating there could be another higher inflation print.......

PSBs up loan growth target as corporate demand revives

Large public sector banks (PSBs) have revised upwards their credit growth target for the current financial year. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com This is following revival of demand from the......

Budget: The joke's on the middle class

'That Modi and the BJP can continue to treat the rising and expanding middle class this way shows that they have gamed its mind quite perfectly,' argues Shekhar Gupta. Kindly note that the image......

Did the world dodge a bullet in the crash of 2008?

The flawed response to the crisis has fed a us-vs-them mentality in which the banker, the expert, the coastal entrepreneur, the immigrant, the foreigner are all villains. The crisis was not that......