A watershed bill to reserve one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women received the Parliamentary nod on Thursday as the Rajya Sabha voted unanimously in favour of it.......
Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Wednesday that census and delimitation will begin soon after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and appealed to the opposition for unanimous support to the women's......
Populism gains momentum during election periods, and this trend is evident in at least four states: Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
Women politicians bring to politics and policy a sensitivity that most of their male counterparts, at least until a generation back, lacked. IMAGE: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi prior to attending......
The Reserve Bank (RBI) resisted a 'raid' planned by some in the government to extract Rs 2-3 lakh crore from its balance sheet in 2018 to meet populist spending in run-up to general elections,......
In August, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das held a meeting with chief executive officers/ managing directors (CEOs/ MDs) of large non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs).......
Floating-rate mutual funds are back in demand after a year-long period of consistent outflows. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com In the past three months, investors have poured over Rs 6,100......
The target was for banks to sell Rs 2 trillion worth of non-performing assets to NARCL, the so-called 'bad bank', by 2021-2022.Only 10 per cent of this has been executed. Illustration: Dominic......
'As long as economic growth remains steady, creating jobs and generating stable incomes, the rise in home loans should not create problems.''If the growth trajectory changes course over the medium......
India's foreign exchange reserves declined $867 million to $593.04 billion in the week ended September 15, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. Photograph: Kham/Reuters In the previous reporting week,......