Discontent brewing in TMC camp ahead of 2021 Bengal polls

With assembly polls just months away, the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal, which was so far busy making preparations to decimate the Bharatiya Janata Party, is now facing yet another challenge......

30,000-40,000 terrorists still present in Pak: Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan has admitted that about 30,000-40,000 "armed people", who have been trained and fought in some part of Afghanistan or Kashmir, were in Pakistan and accused the previous......

The Quad Needs Wind in its Sails

'Chinese dominance reduces India's influence in South and Southeast Asia and erodes its status globally.''For a country striving to create a multipolar Asia, it would be a serious setback,' says......

Chennai floods, a wake-up call for Mumbai

Since the disastrous 2005 floods, that crippled the nation's business capital, little work has been done on disaster management and relief preparations. If ten years after the Mumbai floods, the......

Chennai floods, a wake-up call for Mumbai

Some work has been done on disaster management after the 2005 floods but, it is woefully inadequate for the country’s business capital On June 20 this year, when Mumbai got 283 mm of rain in......

Budget: Experts seek higher farm investment, market reforms

Agriculture experts on Thursday asked the government to boost investment in the sector, upgrade farm technologies and issue bonds to fund incomplete irrigation projects, besides focusing on market......

Water: By the people, of the people, for the people

Six villages in Maharashtra that are within the drought affected area have remained water secure even in an extremely bad year. A grand entry by the monsoon has raised hopes for the large number of......

Pranab Mukherjee's Budget Speech

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the BudgetSpeechof Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for......

Saturday night fever: El Clasico set to turn up heat in Miami

The match marks just the second time, and first in 35 years, that El Clasico will be played outside Spain. 'To me it represents a pivotal turning point in the ascendancy of global soccer (in the......