The Sheikh Hasina-Narendra Modi summit put India-Bangladesh ties on a firmer pitch. Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd) takes stock.
... if high oil prices persist or stock prices correct sharply.
The five-day extradition trial of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi will begin from May 11 in a part-remote setting, a UK court has ordered. Modi is fighting his extradition to India over the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case.
Hafiz Saeed, chief of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba and prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike, has openly challenged India to prove that he is a terrorist.
Nasheed, whose Maldivian Democratic Party functions from Colombo, appealed for India's help.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
'The government, through the media, is saying that everything is normal in Kashmir, but I just want them to give this in writing and let a judicial commission see it.
She will replace US Supreme Court Judge Justice Brett Kavanaugh who was nominated by President Donald Trump for the top post.
Three TMC leaders Amit Mitra, Bratya Basu and Rathin Ghosh were sworn-in virtually. Mitra is unwell and both Basu and Ghosh are recuperating from COVID-19.
energy is India's binding supply-side constraint for inclusive growth.
The British home secretary has granted permission for jeweller Nirav Modi's extradition to India. During their arguments in a London court, his lawyers claimed Modi suffers from mental illness and is a suicide risk if he was sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. A fascinating excerpt from Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan's Escaped: True Stories Of Indian Fugitives In London.
Jaishankar said that the resolution on Kashmir introduced by Jayapal in the House is not a fair characterisation of the situation in J-K. And also said that he has no interest in meeting the Congresswoman.
If the credit card is not used judiciously, it can cause havoc with one's personal finances, warns Sarbajeet K Sen.
'When the courts intervene, we are attacked for judicial activism'
'Officers have been made the scapegoat for political failure.' 'No effort has been made to find out who scuttled the prime minister's decision to introduce competitive bidding and why and at whose instance.'
'I have many times bought meals for the accused, and the police pay for it.'
The verdict was announced after the government submitted a 'new summary' to extend the service of 59-year-old Gen Bajwa.
Does Uddhav (and indeed the Sena) have the pizzazz and staying power to continue to be an actor in Maharashtra politics as a paler version of the NCP and an orange rather than saffron version of the BJP, asks Aditi Phadnis.
Software services industry may have to relook its cost structure to maintain a higher margin.
'The current crisis is one of incomes, driven by poor job growth, agrarian distress and poor investment sentiment,' notes Harsh Pati Singhania, director, JK Organisation.
'Once such conduct becomes legitimate through political and popular sanction, then the ordinary citizen will have no defences left,' warns Shyam Saran.
One of the biggest ways in which recent government actions have been seen as investor-unfriendly is New Delhi's decision to unilaterally revisit almost every Bilateral Investment Treaty it has signed with other countries, says Mihir S Sharma.
Justice P Sathasivam was on Friday sworn in as the 40th Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Good judges are going away. We need replacements. The younger lot in the bar are not willing to become judges, says the CJI.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday accused Union Home Minister P Chiadambaram of interfering with the judicial process by welcoming India Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt's statement against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on 2002 riots when the matter is sub-judice.
The former IAS officer said the main reason for not contesting the polls was to focus more on the mass contact programme.
'Police officers should be selected on merit and not on the basis of who is close to the political party in power.'
Article 370 'was not a special status. It was a special discrimination. With its abrogation we have brought Kashmiris on par with Indians', he said.
In her judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Justice Ingrid Simler concluded there are "substantial grounds" to believe that the 48-year-old fugitive diamantaire would fail to surrender as he does possess the means to "abscond".
A roster of the work for fresh cases notified under the order of the chief justice of India will come into effect from February 5 till further orders.
'For the first month, we have only had 5.5 million who have paid the tax.' '40 per cent have paid nil as tax; 95 per cent of the taxation for the first two months has come from only 400,000 assessees.' 'So even now, the tax-paying habit, of paying a marginal or negligible amount, or not paying anything at all, is quite prevalent,' reveals Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story on the alleged links between the country's powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence and Al Qaeda.
The probe agency found irregularities in loans amounting Rs 3,642 crore sanctioned by Yes Bank to the travel firm.
A five-member JIT from Pakistan reached Pathankot on Sunday to carry out a probe into the attack at the IAF base at Pathankot.
The race for VIP perks has pernicious consequences and is undermining the elite's authority
Custody and probe still on after 15 months, 800 witnesses, 160,000 pages of evidence so far.
The central bank is the money manager of the government, and not a guarantor of any debt.
'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
A defence ministry staffer, involved in the corporate espionage case, was remanded to one-day police custody.
The CJI said that after being a judge for around two decades, he had a bank balance of Rs 6.80 lakh.
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