The Union government on Wednesday made a fervent call to defence manufacturers from around the world to invest in India, saying 100 per cent foreign direct investment is allowed in the segment.In her ...

The BJP on Tuesday clinched an electoral pact with Tamil Nadu’s ruling AIADMK, a day after party chief Amit Shah had swallowed the Shiv Sena’s repeated barbs to finalise a seat-share deal with the...

One of his key tenets of leadership Nelson Mandela had grasped from the pastoral practices of his ancestry. He used to call it leading from behind, just like herders of the African bush would daily le...

For quite some time now, the National Democratic Alliance government seems lost in imagining that the economic crisis can be wished away. The Economist has called the ruling dispensation an “incompe...

In the season of appeals, a father and his daughter have written a letter to the Prime Minister, specifically stating that it is not an appeal but “an expression of disgust, fear and anxiety”.Shre...

Who is this Gadkari, asked Mamata Banerjee. It was the summer of 2009, and Banerjee, who was then rail minister, was meeting a delegation from Karnataka led by the late Ananth Kumar. It was time to el...

Trinamul Congress MP Saugata Roy on Wednesday took potshots at Arun Jaitley during the Rafale deal debate in the Lok Sabha, questioning the finance minister’s French pronunciation and describing him...

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The Upendra Kushwaha-led RLSP’s exit from the NDA and the outcome of the Assembly elections in five states is going to add to the BJP’s headache as far as division of Lok Sabha seats in Bihar for ...

Union minister Upendra Kushwaha has managed to create a stir — not by resigning as expected but by conveying directly to Narendra Modi that the cabinet has been reduced to a “mere rubber stamp” ...