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The Bharatiya Janata Party high command has decided not to take any punitive action against Rural Development Minister Shanta Kumar for his alleged anti-party comments in the media soon after the...

Shanta Kumar: 'Hindutva will not work in Himachal'

FormerHimachal Pradesh chief ministerShanta Kumar is confidentthe ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will win next month'sassembly election with a comfortable majority. The Unionrural...

Will BJP Be The New Congress?

Only in the event of the RSS managing to force Modi into accepting a consensual candidate, will the party not continue to 'being' the 'next Congress', observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. IMAGE:...

How History Will Remember Dr Singh

Manmohan Singh represented the finest aspects of India, asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Then prime minister Manmohan Singh with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before their meeting to...

Letter bomb hits BJP; party veteran says scams have made heads bow in shame

In the first sign of discontent in the Bharatiya Janata Party, senior leader Shanta Kumar has dropped a letter bomb demanding a 'Lokpal' in the party to tackle the cases of corruption like Vyapam...

Food subsidy bill rises 20% in April-January

While presenting the Economic Survey in the Parliament, finance minister Arun Jaitley Food said that the food subsidy bill rose 20 per cent in April-January 2014-15 at Rs 1.07 lakh...

Here's how to fix the public distribution system

Food ministry is needlessly wary of reforms The report of the Shanta Kumar committee on food management contains several cogent recommendations and these have been submitted to the Prime...

Agri Bills: Why Punjab and Haryana farmers are leading the protests

Data shows that the current system of decentralised marketing and centralised procurement helps Punjab and Haryana farmers the most, while its efficacy in other states has been poor. Experts and...

'Modi@1: It has been a good year for the economy'

The Modi government's first year was certainly better in terms of economic policy initiatives than any of the 10 under the previous government, notes Shankar Acharya In less than a fortnight the...

Few pointers that suggest Modi's Bharat is away from major reforms

To better understand what is going on, it may be useful to break up the problem into four different (but related) parts: setbacks to major reform efforts; slowdown in other reforms; inaction or...