Rishi Sunak under pressure as minister resigns amid bullying row

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing pressure from the Opposition on Wednesday as one of his close allies and embattled ministers resigned from the Cabinet pending an investigation into......

Sunak under Tory fire over Suella Braverman's reappointment

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday came under fresh pressure on the reappointment of Indian-origin Suella Braverman as home secretary after two Conservative MPs questioned his decision,......

UK Opposition protests as Braverman returns as home secretary

A combative Rishi Sunak, the newly appointed Indian-origin Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, on Wednesday strongly defended the reappointment of Suella Braverman as home secretary, days after......

Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership race to be new UK PM

United Kingdom foreign secretary Liz Truss on Monday won the hard-fought Conservative Party leadership race, beating Rishi Sunak to go on to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson -- loyalty......

Why govt banks will not be privatised

'There is a law that prevents the government from diluting its equity in the PSBs below 50 per cent.''That law has to be amended and given the parliamentary arithmetic of the political parties, it......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Modi@1: Running out of luck on the economy

After one year in power, Narendra Modi is pretty much on the back foot, even if he continues to display bravado in his public pronouncements. He knows within his heart that he has wasted a lot of......

Reforms? Forget all about them!

The real lesson of the Budget session is that Modi has the tools and the power to conduct big-bang reform if he wants -- but he doesn’t want to, notes Mihir S Sharma Incrementalism is in.......