Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Indian immigrants in US fear deportation post DACA repeal

Thousands of people from India, who arrived in the United States illegally as children, are fearing deportation after President Donald Trump's decision to repeal the Deferred Action......

Why should the people of Bengal suffer lung cancer?

Mamata Banerjee has announced a Rs 500 crore relief package to assuage those who lost their money to the Saradha chit fund. As West Bengal is dancing on the edge of bankruptcy, this money will be......

SIMI's 'success' is a result of our secular polity

'In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no......

Hemmed in by interest rate hikes, HFCs see 19% dip in Q2 net profit

Listed housing finance companies (HFCs), as a group, posted a 3.7 per cent drop in second-quarter (Q2) profit year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 5,830 crore and 19 per cent sequentially on rise in interest......

How 1996 World Cup is back to haunt FPIs

The ruling mean FPIs cannot seek treaty protection against the new withholding tax that companies are required to deduct at source. The apex court order pertains to when the cricketing bodies of......

How to beat rising interest rates and save tax

What are FMPs and should you invest in them?Vivek Agarwal has the answers. With quantitative easing -- the introduction of new money by central banks into the financial system -- being reversed,......

Stock market riches for the poor

The government must introduce an investment scheme that works by itself, without savers having to be financial experts, says Debashis Basu. A month ago, I had pointed out how messy the bevy of......

2015 Rewind: Kohli leads new dawn of Indian cricket

- Virat Kohli emerged triumphant in Sri Lanka in his first full-fledged series as the Indian Test captain before he led India to an emphatic 3-0 series win at home against World No. 1 South Africa,......

Liverpool eye 2005 repeat

It is deja vu for Liverpool as they contemplate a second Champions League semi-final against Chelsea in two years with the prospect of a final meeting with AC Milan also on the horizon. In 2005,......