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Decoding the Law: How Election Commissioners Can Be Removed

As opposition parties threaten to impeach Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and take action against the two election commissioners if the INDIA bloc comes to power, here is a look at......

Air India crash: Govt says black box decoding underway

The government on Thursday said a multi-disciplinary team, headed by the chief of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), is probing the Ahmedabad plane crash and data is being extracted......

Decoding Congress's social media plunge

So Congress has taken the plunge into the world of social networking. Though late in the game the party has realised the need to reach out to an estimated 8 crore people who use online networking,......

Decoded: Congress games in Tamil Nadu

Sheela Bhatt analyses the gameplan behind the Congress's decision to play hardball in Tamil Nadu, to the extent that it doesn't care if the DMK walks out of the UPA government at the Centre.The......

Decoding Congress gameplan to bring down AAP

Whether the Congress is repeating its mistake of "underestimating" the AAP and will pay for its overconfidence in banking on AAP decimating itself or whether its gambit is borne out of its......

'More a lawyer's Budget than the finance minister's'

Soon after Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget 2013 in Parliament, Trinamool Congress leader and former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi joined us for the Budget chat.An......

Why ED is the best bet for Kochars to get out of mess

The agency's poor track record in convictions is the only light at the end of a rather long tunnel for the couple, notes Shyamal Majumdar. IMAGE: Former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her......

Airtel and Jio go head to head in battle for 5G

The Big Two telecom companies have accelerated their moves towards this next-gen technology, though they have chosen very different routes to getting there, reports Surajeet Das Gupta. IMAGE:......

The government's Plan B for GST

Options include raising both excise and service tax rates in FY16 The Centre is confident of rolling out a combined goods and services tax (GST) at the national level in time to meet the April......

How are 'minorities' allowed tax benefits under HUF?

Should the Income-Tax Act have been simultaneously amended to exclude Sikhs and Jains from the definition of HUF once they were declared a minority by the government? Sanjeev Nayyar discusses the......

DECODED: What it must feel like to be Smriti Irani these days

Smriti Irani has been subjected to relentless ridicule and criticism (mostly because of her showbiz background) ever since she embarked on a political career.However, one would think it'd all stop......

Has the Indian Premier League killed the spirit of cricket?

Kolkata Knight Riders players celebrate winning IPL 7. Photograph: BCCI Has the popular Indian Premier League commercialised the game of cricket? Has it killed the actual spirit of the game?......