Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

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About 3.2 million people could have died from Covid in India by September last year, six-seven times higher than reported officially, according to a study based on one independent and two......

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Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya......

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A time has thus come when state encouragement for rural students led to empowerment of the socio-economically marginalised sections of the population. It included women. Today, with greater......

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The target was for banks to sell Rs 2 trillion worth of non-performing assets to NARCL, the so-called 'bad bank', by 2021-2022.Only 10 per cent of this has been executed. Illustration: Dominic......

How Adani Saga Affects Indian Banks

While the collapse of a large financial intermediary can wreak havoc on the system because of the interconnectivity, a large business conglomerate too can play spoilsport if the banks have too much......

Sitharaman on Adani fallout: Regulators will look into it

India's economic image is not affected due to Adani Group's recent decision to pull out Rs 20,000 crore FPO (follow-on public offers) amid allegations of financial wrongdoings, Finance Minister......

Covid-19: Remittances from West Asia hit in FY21

The money sent home by Indians from West Asian countries took a beating in 2020-21 due to the pandemic. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters On the other hand, overseas Indians in advanced nations......