FULL TEXT: President's address to Parliament

Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session. Honourable Members, This joint sitting of......

FULL TEXT of PM Modi's I-Day address

Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.  IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation......

All eyes on Election Commission in RK Nagar bypoll

Will the EC would make an example of the RK Nagar by-election, either by ensuring free and fair polls or by countermanding the same, asks N Sathiya Moorthy. Image: Workers readying the EVMs for......

In UP, PM Modi asks to shun casteism, silent on Dalit atrocities

Denouncing politics being played in the name of casteism and nepotism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday pitched for a Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh to promote politics of......

Highlights of Union Budget 2021-22

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out the Union Budget speech in the Lok Sabha from a tablet on Monday instead of a conventional paper document. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Jan Dhan Yojana turns 6, has 40 crore beneficiaries, says govt

More than 40.35 crore people benefited from the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) which was launched six years ago as a national mission for financial inclusion, Finance Minister Nirmala......

'It is not easy to be a gatekeeper of financial stability'

'There are deeper, underlying, forces at work and we need institutional arrangements to guard against them.' IMAGE: Dr Viral Acharya, former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor. Photograph: PTI......

India must stop being the West's digital colony

'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......