How the Lok Sabha was disrupted

An interview by Indian Ambassador to the US Ronen Sen to rediff.com Managing Editor Aziz Haniffa in Washington on the Indo-US nuclear deal created an uproar in Parliament and led to disruptions in......

11-member committee for Katara issue

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Wednesday set up an eleven-member parliamentary committee to probe suspended BJP MP Babubhai Katara's involvement in a human trafficking case, misuse of......

READ: Full text of what Chidambaram told LS on economy

Here is the speech of Finance Minister P Chidambaram on India's economy that he delivered to Lok Sabha. Mr Chairman, Sir, I am grateful to the honorable members. I think there were 18 of them who......

Moily refutes allegations of favouring Reliance

Strongly refuting allegations of favouring Reliance Industries, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday said the proposed revision in natural gas price will apply to all companies including......

Finance ministry: Return of the Gladstonians

The global financial crisis has empowered fiscal conservatives in India, writes Sanjaya Baru. Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a finance ministry that liked to keep its Budgets balanced.......

Coffee, politics, and markets

It was perhaps just a decade ago when there were twin concerns of the Indian electorate, and the international investor: government misgovernance and corporate misbehaviour. Today, there is only......