'What we did for the environment has been undone by the new govt'

Image: Jairam Ramesh with his new book, Green Signals. 'This is not a Sanjay Baru or Natwar Singh type of book. It's not a memoir. It's not a book to reveal conversations, real or imaginary. This......

Exclusive! Medha Patkar: Land acquisition ordinance will destroy poor

The new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as......

Why Kejriwal can dent Modi's campaign

'AAP's real value must be measured not by the number of Lok Sabha seats it wins in the election -- which may not exceed 10 or 15 -- and not even by the number of votes it takes from the BJP, but by......

'Nitish Kumar is a one-man-show, isn't Gujarat also so?'

'We had become buffoons with Lalu. If you were a Bihari you were seen as a buffoon -- that has changed. Now there's a pride in being a Bihari.' Part I: 'We took a U-turn under Nitish Kumar' Seven......

Exclusive! 'The Modi government refuses to give anything for free'

  'The Modi government believes the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.' Coal Minister Piyush Goyal unplugged.......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

Modi's sell-off drive thwarted; more spending cuts likely

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters India will fall well short of its $9.5 billion privatisation target this year, despite a big stock market rally that has......

Indian Chamber of Commerce seeks lowering corporate tax to 25%

Indian Chamber of Commerce, in its pre-budget memorandum, has asked for corporate tax rate in India to be brought down to the global average of 25 per cent to regain the growth momentum. The......