Twitter on Tuesday asked Karnataka High Court to overturn some government orders to remove content from the social media platform, a source familiar with the matter said, in a legal challenge which al...
The goods and services tax (GST) collections rose 56 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1.44 lakh crore in June — on a low base because of the second wave of Covid-19 last year and the transmission of ...
Political debate on creating a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India has gone on for over a century, and the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now prioritizing making the UCC a reality.
The UCC w...
Even though the fundamentals of the Indian economy are strong, the rise in divisiveness and polarisation is damaging the foundations of the nation’s growth, former World Bank chief economist Kau...
The Indian government is considering spending an additional Rs 2 trillion (lakh crore) in the 2022-23 fiscal year to cushion consumers from rising prices and fight multi-year high inflation, two gover...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will transfer a surplus of Rs 30,307 crore to the Government of India for accounting year 2021-22, sharply lower than the sum of Rs 99,122 crore for the nine months Jul...
Legal experts Wednesday termed "historic" the Supreme Court order to put on hold the "archaic" colonial-era penal law on sedition till it is re-examined by an appropriate governmen...
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act provides for the biggest welfare spending scheme by the Government of India. A pre-announced wage rate is paid under the scheme for labour pe...
Cancelled ride
Sir — Whether it is a film on Calcutta or a photograph of the city, one will be hard-pressed not to find a yellow taxi cruising down Howrah Bridge or speeding past Princep Ghat. ...