Mulayam, Ustad Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna get Padma Vibhushan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......

How Lal Thanhawla saved Congress the embarrassment in Mizoram

Indian elections are puzzling, to say the least. In Rajasthan, despite rolling out several pro-poor policies -- such as free medicine and a pension scheme for the poor -- the Congress lost......

Who leaked the Pathak Committee report?

According to government sources, a lawyer with links to the Pathak Committee is alleged to have leaked its report on the Iraq oil-for-food scam to a television news channel.Sources have said that......

Exclusive! Home Secretary G K Pillai on his tenure

Union Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai is retiring on June 30 after 39 years in service. Bureaucrats in India are made of hard stuff but Pillai injected some soft power to the job by making the......

Govt doubles unemployment benefits under ESIC plan

The government has decided to double the unemployment insurance for retrenched workers in view of the large number of job losses in export-oriented units. However, the decision will benefit only a......

RBI's prescription for taming inflation

Seeking cooperation of states in containing price rise, the RBI has said efforts are needed to improve farm productivity, develop rural infrastructure and revamp PDS to address supply side issues......

Subbarao to discuss price rise with govt panel

Reserve Bank of IndiaGovernor D Subbarao will brainstorm over the issue of rise in prices at a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group on inflation later this week. The IMG, chaired by Chief......

New PlanCom might alter focus, structure of Centre's schemes

Schemes are proposed to become an amalgam of priorities laid down by statesThe new body to replace the five-decade-old  Planning Commission is expected to be structurally different from the......