Why Modi's Cabinet needs talent from the outside

'Modi has the ideas for a new, hopeful India, and an idiom in which to sell optimism to voters.''But he doesn't yet have the team for it, and soon enough, questions will begin to be asked by an......

Here come the gold diggers ... again!

The Unnao gold hunt is an exercise in softening Hindu sentiments in the bigger dig for votes in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 India is the land of sages, but given that the opposite of any assumption about......

Five-state vote count: Khanduri loses to Cong candidate

Uttar Pradesh The Samajwadi Party is emerging as the single largest party in Uttar Pradesh by leading in 190 of the total 403 seats in the assembly. The Bahujan Samaj Party, which had won an......

UP results maybe chamatkari, you never know: BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party Vice-President Kalraj Mishra, who is one of the front-runners for the chief ministership of Uttar Pradesh if some miraculous results give his party the mandate, has ruled out......

India's mega power projects grind to a slow halt

With their balance sheets under stress, private companies have lost interest in power projects. At Rs 1.19 a unit, power generated from the Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Madhya Pradesh......

Panel wants more teeth for Coal India arms

In a report it gave the government last month, the group has instead recommended empowerment of the company’s subsidiaries. As the government prepares ground for overhaul of the coal mining......

Centre plans power debt recast but states yet to decide

The Union government may be planning to kick-start the next tranche of reform measures by announcing a financial restructuring scheme for power distributors this week, but all states are not......

Indonesian shock for Indian power plants

India's ambitious plans to generate an additional 180,000 Mw of power in the next seven years will face hurdles if Indonesia, the second largest supplier of thermal coal, goes ahead with plans to......