Rampur bypolls: BJP woos Pasmanda Muslims to capture Azam Khan's fortress

Five months after it wrested Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan's stronghold of Rampur Lok Sabha seat, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now trying to further shore its position by wooing Pasmanda Muslim......

Police dept failure: Ajit Pawar on protest outside Sharad Pawar's house

A day after a group of striking employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation staged a fierce protest outside Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar's residence,......

Former Union minister K C Pant passes away

Former Union Minister K C Pant, who had served under late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and switched to BJP in the late 1990s, died in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 81. The son of......

What Awaits Rajapaksas After Monday's Mayhem?

Gota has to decide if he could order elder brother Mahinda's arrest as the agent provocateur of Monday's violence.Then he has to prepare for an interim government, in which no one would now want to......

Who did well, who did badly?

All federal structures face a common standard problem: the uneven impact of any central government policy on the constituent units of the federation. So the dexterity with which the central......

The real story of Bihar's economic growth

The really disturbing numbers relate to inequality. Bihar's per capita income is a third of India's, and a fourth of Gujarat's, notes T N Ninan. Image: A flood-affected man with his bicycle moves......

Govt borrowings to see sharp cuts

The dependence on borrowings by central and state governments to finance their Plan expenditure will drastically come down during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2007-12) on the back of revenue......

The men behind the Budget

The finance minister's A-Team has at least four people who are familiar with the way things work in North Block. Expenditure secretary D Swarup, who has charge of the Budget division this time, was......