What Is Your 2024 Game Plan, Modiji?

By keeping the Sanatana Dharma row alive and adding the Ayodhya temple consecration scheduled for January 22 and adding the free darshan promise from four polled states to the entire country, the......

Opposition leaders gather to give final shape to joint front

Top leaders of 26 opposition parties were arriving in Bengaluru on Monday for a two-day brainstorming session with a call for unity and are expected to chalk out their joint programme aimed at......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

Ela Bhatt, whose SEWA empowered unorganised women workers, passes away

Renowned women's rights activist Ela Bhatt, the founder of SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association), died in Ahmedabad on Wednesday due to age-related issues, her associates  said. Bhatt, 89,......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Infra promises are made only to be broken

I know one-line questions are not common in Parliament, but suppose I was to get a chance to ask a question to the lawmakers, who all claim that infrastructure is their top priority, here is what I......

Pranab returns to North Block after 24 years

Through all his years in Delhi politics Pranab Mukherjee likes to follow a rule - never returning to an office he has occupied in the past. So, when he was deputy chairman of the Planning......

What's your agenda on reforms, Mr Prime Minister?

Now that the trust vote has been won and Singh is indeed king, as the song goes, it may be time to ask the PM what's the economic agenda, jahanpanah? As there is a sea change between what the UPA......