Fadnavis takes charge as CM, his first decision is...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar took charge of their new official responsibilities at the state secretariat 'Mantralaya' here after taking......

Jaishankar Campaigns For Ex-Colleague

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Taranjit Singh Sandhu were colleagues at the ministry for external affairs for many years. Sandhu served most recently as India's ambassador to the US, which Jaishankar......

Helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath crashes, 7 dead

A helicopter ferrying pilgrims from Kedarnath temple to Guptkashi crashed into a hill in Rudraprayag amid dense fog on Tuesday, killing all seven people on board. IMAGE: A helicopter carrying......

'After the devastation of Covid, I had expected a higher budget for health'

'...to address the serious faultlines that had got exposed during the pandemic.''If the economy is looking up this year, we could have been allocated an increase of at least 20%.' IMAGE: A......

Modi euphoria cools, now it's tough to retain foreign investors

  A critical test now awaits Modi on Monday when the government unveils its Budget for the year Nearly two years after Narendra Modi was elected as India's Prime Minister with an ambitious......

Brazil BRICS summit to be Modi's first multilateral meeting

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the two-day summit of five-nation BRICS forum in Brazil next week when it is likely to give a concrete shape to establishment of a Development Bank......

Wanted: An independent RBI chief to champion Indian reforms

The RBI is not statutorily independent from the government but has long enjoyed wide latitude As India seeks a new central bank chief, many investors are pushing a clear message: the successor to......

Despite setbacks, India's reforms story is not over

States are actively encouraged to find solutions to reform hurdles. It took two months of courting, dozens of negotiators and final talks that ran into the early hours, but Maharashtra secured its......