The Revenue secretary is reported to have sent a missive to the Central Board of Direct Taxes asking the board…
Slogans and elections are inseparable companions. When the Lok Sabha election of 2014 was imminent, the BJP named Mr Narendra…
History can be told through stories. So can politics. If you wish to explain the politics of India through a…
The Chief economic adviser should be glad that he lost the argument on fiscal deficit. It was a good argument…
Farmers may rejoice. The government has finally acknowledged that farmers are part of India, that the farm sector faces acute…
It is just as well that the last day of February will fall on a Monday when the budget will…
Bal Gangadhar Tilak declared “Swaraj is my birthright”. He was charged with sedition. He was an anti-national according to the…
How quickly an idea or a word or a phrase can spread across a country! In a matter of weeks,…
Parliament is the highest legislative body. The Prime Minister is the Chief Executive of the country. A statement made by…
India became independent in 1947; the Communist Party of China (CPC) proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Reservation’ for the socially and educationally backward classes in schools and colleges brought Rohith Chakravarthi Vemula to the University of…
In February 1999, Prime Minister Vajpayee visited Lahore and signed with Prime Minister Sharif the Lahore Declaration. Within three months…
Since January 2015, the price has remained range bound and, in recent weeks, has fallen further. Two days ago, brent…
The best reassurance to a nation shaken by the recent terror attacks is to notify NCTC forthwith.
Who or what is the most omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient entity in the country today? Undoubtedly, the Modi government, or…
The mid-year analysis for 2015-16 presented last week contains a string of confessions and admissions that tell us more about…
‘Criminalising’ the National Herald case, raiding a chief minister’s office and using a governor to destabilise the government in a…
Pakistan is there. It is on India’s western border (and until 1971 was also on the eastern border). It cannot…
