India has much to be proud of and celebrate. But there is also much that is wrong, much that looks dangerous.Employment, current account deficit, rural distress, agricultural productivity are all......
Long before he moved to Bhubaneswar to become a politician, Naveen Patnaik was an international globe trotter, an aesthete whose company was sought out by people like Jacqueline Onassis (who edited......
Outgoing Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said he feels proud to be an Indian Muslim. IMAGE: Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad got emotional in a farewell......
'Both the governor and the President enjoy an enormous array of 'grey' powers.''All parties criticise these when in the Opposition. But why does no government dismantle them when these parties come......
The founding president of the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front completed 23 years, four months and 17 days of uninterrupted service in office on Sunday. Sikkim’s Pawan Chamling has set a new......
There are two sides to Asim Dasgupta: as the chairman of the empowered committee of state finance ministers, he is a success story. As the finance minister of West Bengal for more than two decades,......
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday turned down the Trinamool Congress' demand that the land of the unwilling farmers at Singur, acquired for the Tata Motors small car......
On May 26, 2005, the Union Cabinet approved a proposal to sell off 10 per cent equity in the profit-making public sector unit -- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.Newspaper reports suggest that the......
There were some political commentators who had questioned the Left parties decision in May not to join the Congress-led coalition to form the government at the Centre.They had then wondered why the......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram is to meet each of the Left parties separately this week to placate them over the government's decision to hike the foreign direct investment cap in the telecom......