Pegasus scandal: Israel launches probe against NSO

Israel has launched a probe into the allegations of wrongdoing against the NSO Group in the Pegasus snooping scandal, with authorities inspecting the cybersecurity company's offices over alleged......

The 'foreign hand' in India's election 2019

How will the Modi Sarkar's likely return to power affect other nations?Sanjeev Nayyar attempts an answer. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi talked of the 'foreign hand' often. Now that poll dates......

As LoC heats up, army buys 2 rocket regiments

The defence ministry has bought two regiments of the Pinaka multi-barrelled rocket launcher for Rs 32.3 billion, reports Ajai Shukla. With tensions escalating at the Line of Control between India......

Pressing the reset button in MoD

Defence Secretary R K Mathur should take to Prime Minister Narendra Modi just five simple measures that would create or catalyse dramatic improvements across the wider defence arena, says Ajai......

India reaches Red Planet, but at home red tape binds space firms

Image: School children celebrate after the success of India's Mars mission. Photograph: Reuters Indian firms are frustrated at the slow execution of projects and lack of government support, which......

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......

Lalu's Rail Budget speech

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav made the following speech while presenting the Railway Budget for 2004-2005 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 6, 2004)."Mr Speaker Sir,I rise to present the......

Budget? What's that?

The Union Budget is the single-most important event in the economic and financial world. This year Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present the Budget on July 8.So what is the Budget? Why is it......