Was the recent Nabha jailbreak a comment on lax security in Punjab jails? Or a sign that the separatist movement of the 1980s is dormant but alive?
The country may become militarily impressive, pile on GDP and the durbar of the ruling party may fill with the wealthy indebted to the rulers for their riches. But the spontaneous camaraderie of a free people will diminish and with it, our shared ownership of the country, warns Shyam G Menon.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
The second and final part of former cabinet secretary Naresh Chandra's interview to Sheela Bhatt.
A chartered accountant by training, Bala understands the nuances of electoral politics.
Land ordinance has done away with consent and social impact assessment.
'At this point of time, West Bengal is doing better than other states in tackling the crisis. We have a chief minister who herself has hit the streets to do what is to be done, and at the same time ensuring a proper lockdown. She is also trying day and night to set up the requisite infrastructure.'
Snooping is one of the oldest peccadilloes of man, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Detailed order, to be passed on Monday, will consider green tribunal's decisions
India will raise the issue of illegal immigration, a "major cause of concern" for the country. Nayanima Basu reports
O Paneerselvam did not even sit in Jayalalithaa's office chamber and left her seat vacant in the assembly. This time Amma is not coming back and he has a large number of challenges awaiting him.
It's not every day that you will hear about Mamta Banerjee getting married to Socialism, but that's what happened in Salem on Sunday.
The world wants to halt climate change, but do it without affecting economic growth and consumption. This fundamental contradiction is the key theme at Davos 2020.
This will add to the woes of the conglomerate that had received a show-cause notice from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) last week for alleged over-valuation of imported machinery by Rs 2,000 crore.
SP-Congress alliance is likely to consolidate Muslim vote in their favour.
The BJP leadership is understandably mulling all options on the roll-out of the GST.
For the entire UPA regime, from 2005-06 to 2013-14, the average annual farm growth according to the GDP back series data is 3.8 per cent, which too is higher than the first four years of the NDA, though these two periods aren't comparable because one spans nine years and the other four.
The government on Thursday hiked by 62 per cent the price of natural gas that is used to produce electricity, make fertilisers and turned into CNG to use as fuel in automobiles and cooking gas for household kitchens. This is the first increase in rates since April 2019 and comes on back of firming benchmark international prices but does not reflect the spurt in spot or current price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) witnessed during the last couple of weeks. The oil ministry's Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) said the rates paid for gas produced from fields given to state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) will be $2.90 per million British thermal unit for the six-month period beginning April 1.
There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
The only factor working against the AAP, and in favour of the Congress, is the infighting in the former.
Congress is still undecided about its move
Giving in to demands of the BJP, the Congress-led state government has now decided to hand over the probe to CBI
Margaret A Hamburg, the first commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) to visit India officially, will meet heads of major domestic pharma companies such as Ranbaxy, Wockhardt, Cadila Healthcare and Lupin in New Delhi.
The company will operate the IT system for five years.
Vasanthakumar, who started his career as a salesman, today owns a retail empire.
The DMK feels its genuine gestures have had no bearing on the governor's politico-administrative conduct, which is 'more political and politicised than administrative and Constitutional', observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
As electoral sails shift in the dynamic political winds of West Bengal, two factors may still change the electoral equations are how the BJP fares this time and how Muslims are going to vote. Mayank Mishra reports.
Here's everything you need to know about the Goods and Services Tax Bill.
Political observers say that except for a strong anti-incumbency sentiment, there is little that might go against the BJP.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan makes a gallant attempt to deflect accusations against the United Progressive Alliance's record in his freewheeling conversation with Business Standard's Aditi Phadnis over lunch.
Congress leaders claim The Associated Journals Limited has 761 shareholders while the company shows more than 1,000
Although the Opposition has been making a hue and cry over demonetisation, the BJP's programmes have been attracting crowds.
The commission asks for notification to be deferred; RIL's KG-D6 pricing issue may return to Cabinet
Ahead of BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation polls, BJP is reminding Shiv Sena it is not the sole claimant of intellectual property rights for Marathi Manoos and Hindutva.
RIL said it had launched 'an internal probe' into its staff's detention.
The ravines, which are sharp, steep mud hillocks, stretch over three states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, once home to several dreaded dacoits have long been the subject of several projects and government schemes to make them agriculturally viable.
Party claims people in Mysore are very enthusiastic and are looking for a change, reports Gouri Satya.
Surajeet Das Gupta explains why Mukesh Ambani's target is by no means impossible.
A visibly upset Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the House till noon. It was not immediately clear whether the paper torn was picked from the table of the Secretary General.
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