But many high-value deals between technology firms that have a big presence in India have escaped scrutiny because the companies involved have had few assets and low turnover. Facebook’s acquis...

Rarely have opening lines dealt such a sledgehammer punch to the collective gut: “How are you enjoying the onset of dictatorship in India? Are you enjoying it?” Rahul Gandhi, having for y...

“Rahul Gandhi is lying that he is not allowed to speak on price rise in Parliament. He doesn’t come to the House and his party walks out when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tells Parl...

The Congress on Monday questioned the Narendra Modi government’s silence on the repeated drug seizures in Gujarat and on the hooch trade that has killed dozens, asking who was patronising the dr...

According to legend, French queen Marie Antoinette (1755-93), told in the run-up to the 1789 revolution that her subjects were too poor to buy bread, had said: “Let them eat cake.” The Lo...

Narendra Modi’s criticism of the freebies culture (rewadi culture) has been interpreted in two contradictory ways. A section of observers finds the prime minister’s statement rather strang...

The Centre has dropped two proposed surveys on employment generated by professionals like doctors and lawyers at their clinics or offices and on employment generated in the transport sector. Both sur...

Droupadi Murmu assumed office on Monday as the 15th President, greeting the nation with “johar” — the preferred salutation among tribal communities of eastern India — that soug...

The Congress has planned nationwide protests on Tuesday against the Narendra Modi government’s blatant misuse of central agencies to harass political opponents as Sonia Gandhi appears before the...

India finally has its first tribal president — Draupadi Murmu, the National Democratic Alliance’s nominee for the presidential elections, sailed through smoothly. The country’s 110 m...