Exclusive! 'Land acquisition can't be stopped for all times to come'

'If I am angry, then I do not have the right to be in the Cabinet. Whatever I have done, I have ensured that farmers' interests are protected,' Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh,......

'There is a lot of bitterness in the Sangh Parivar'

Congress leader Sachin Pilot is trying to revive a party that was decimated in the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Rajasthan. In an interview, Pilot, who was recently appointed the Pradesh Congress......

Kashmir is no more a vote puller in Pakistan

Kashmir occupies much of Pakistan's foreign policy space and remains an obsession with its security establishment and non-state actors but the issue hardly finds any mention in the campaign for......

Niti VC says, India may post 6% growth next fiscal

The Niti Aayog vice chairman noted that green shoots of recovery are already visible in multiple sectors. In 15-16 sectors, businesses are coming back to pre-COVID levels," he said. Illustration:......

Getting private funding will be an uphill task for Railways

Though the Railways is yet to declare any five-year action plan, it is clear the government is not in a position to hand-hold it for any major expansion or upgrade.The issue, however, is how far......

How real is BJP's promise to invest Rs 100 trn in infrastructure?

Long-term funding was a requirement for infrastructure projects, and asset-liability mismatch in the banking system, impacts the access to finance for infrastructure projects.One of the key......

Compliance norms for next round of airport privatisation relaxed

The airports chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are those in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati. The......