Protection from arrest to PC, son in Aircel-Maxis case extended

A Delhi Court Friday extended the interim protection from arrest granted to former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in Aircel-Maxis cases till September 3 and pulled up the......

Chidambaram sent to 4-day CBI custody till Aug 26

IMAGE: Senior Congress leader and former Union home and finance minister P Chidambaram after he was produced in a CBI court in the INX media case, in New Delhi, on Thursday. Photograph: Ravi......

Chidambaram tells party: 'Let's get it over with!'

The Supreme Court’s decision to take up the case on Friday, without granting him any interim relief, put to rest all the strategies being worked upon.  IMAGE: CBI officials take away......

Why BJP and AIADMK got swept away in TN

The DMK combine has won 37 of the 38 LS constituencies that went to polls in Tamil Nadu, and bagged 13 of the 22 assembly bypolls. What swept away the AIADMK-BJP alliance in the southern state was......

Dissenting states want full borrowing by Centre for GST

Dissenting states including Chhattisgarh and Kerala, have made it clear they are in no mood to relent. They want the Centre to borrow the entire Rs 2.35 trillion this fiscal citing bleak fiscal......

Sitharaman delivers 2.17 hr-long Budget speech, earns praises

Nirmala Sitharaman, the country's first full-time woman finance minister, on Friday delivered one of the longest Budget speeches which was peppered with Urdu, Hindi and Tamil couplets. IMAGE:......

Why the interim Budget will be different this time

There was no law that prevented the government from presenting a sixth full Budget, or something similar to it. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The 2019-20 interim Budget before the Lok Sabha......

President Ram Nath Kovind won't attend NSE's silver jubilee celebrations

Sources at the NSE as well as the President’s office rejected media reports that Kovind’s pulling out of the event had to do with reasons other than his packed itinerary this week.......