NEW DELHI: The National Democratic Alliance government is planning to exempt public-private partnership (PPP) projects from the need to obtain consent of affected families and the mandatory social-impact assessment, through amendments to the land…
Mumbai: It’s exactly 125 years since the first oil deposits were discovered in India. The big push to India’s oil and…
Delhi: The infamous VVIP helicopter scandal has claimed another victim. The defence ministry has ejected the European NH-90 chopper, linked to…
By Amulya Ganguli The history of communism in India is one of strategic miscalculations at the national level as a result…
By Praful Bidwai When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that “when asked…
NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry has asked Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan to provide greater flexibility to banks…
MUMBAI: Leading public sector banks have lowered some of their term deposit rates by up to 100 basis points as credit…
KOLKATA: Power shortage in India remained lower last week than during the corresponding period in previous years even as six out…
NEW DELHI: In an attempt to force local consumers such as power projects and fertilizer plants to finalize their purchase plans,…
New Delhi: The attorney-general (A-G) has recommended cancellation of a proposed defence deal for the acquisition of eight minesweeper vessels, estimated…
By S. Sethuraman Tamil Nadu political scene is now astir, with BJP and other state-level parties looking ambitiously for a…
By Ashok B Sharma A definite shift in India’s Look East Policy is underway with added emphasis on Buddha diplomacy under…
By Surojit Mahalanobis NEW DELHI: Removal of the multi-level taxing systems and inter-state checkpoints for movement of vehicles laden with goods…
NEW DELHI: The Congress has decided to back three crucial economic reform legislation that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will bring…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who prefers to cut hierarchy and have direct interaction – be it bureaucrats or students…
NEW DELHI: The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) delivered a technical knockout to 1,424 MW Adani Power over the weekend, quite…
By Harihar Swarup Can government ever find out black money deposited by Indians in foreign banks, particularly in Switzerland? Judging by…
By Barun Das Gupta The Union Cabinet has just cleared a Rs. 80,000 crore proposal for modernization of our defence forces.…
By Garga Chatterjee Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam is dead. He died last week. He was 91. In the subcontinent, many…
New Delhi: Output of core industries grew at an eight-month low of 1.9 per cent in September, down from 5.8 per…
Mumbai: The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Irda) has come out with a new product planner rule, by which an insurance company…
New Delhi: State-owned NTPC Ltd’s concerns over the revised electricity tariff norms came home to roost with India’s largest power generation…
Mumbai: Cairn India Ltd (Cairn India), the oil and gas unit of Sesa Sterlite Ltd, has initiated a polymer injection programme…
India will launch an unmanned crew module in December onboard a heavy rocket to test its re-entry into the atmosphere for…
By S. Sethuraman The American economy on an expanding phase is welcome for global growth and India’s exports if our exchange…
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The elections for 10 Rajya Sabha seats from UP next month will decide future alliances by different…
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Oommen Chandy Government has, for once, been constrained to act on an adverse verdict from the…