'White Paper' vs 'Black Paper': Govt, Cong fire salvos at each other

A 'White Paper' versus 'Black Paper' battle erupted on Thursday as the Centre and the Congress unveiled documents and crossed swords over the handling of the Indian economy during the nearly 10......

Modi's poll pitch: Decide what kind of pradhan sevak you want

Launching his campaign to return to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the country to choose as its next 'pradhan sevak' either an honest and a hardworking man or those who are......

Modi vs Manmohan: What's the Rafale cost difference?

The Raksha Mantri was unable to address media queries about how much the Modi government was paying for 36 Rafales compared to what the UPA government had negotiated.Ajai Shukla reports. IMAGE:......

Right to Privacy and the Bhagavad Gita

The verdict in the Right to Privacy case establishes dharma, righteousness, and destroys adharma, the evil acting on behalf of the universal principal 'I' mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita,......

The noise around the land acquisition law

The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole, says Sreenivasan Jain. Labourers work along the construction site of a road at Ghilot in Rajasthan. Photograph: Adnan......

Govt open to minor changes in Insurance Bill

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government was open to accommodating minor modifications to the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, so that it could be passed in the current......

An open letter to the finance minister

The Insurance Amendment Bill must be passed urgently and without compromises, notes Sunil Mehta in an open letter to the Finance Minister Honourable finance minister, as you prepare the economic......

UPA vs NDA: Who excelled in performance?

A paper demonstrating that the UPA’s economic performance is better than the NDA’s ends up becoming a thinly veiled opinion piece, says Vivek Deheja. Economists Maitreesh Ghatak,......

Readers speak out!

Neelesh(from hyderabad):the appointment of mr. john wright has been totally wright as his name is. the wright has change the teams phase in his own wrights & written his own tunes on which the......