By Nora Chopra Rahul Gandhi will contest the party president post next year. Before July 2015, Sonia Gandhi is likely to abdicate In favour of her son and will hold the post of some…
NEW DELHI: With a decade’s existence of the Electricity Act of 2003 doing precious little in infusing efficiency and competition into…
By Kalyani Shankar The BJP is jubilant after its spectacular success in Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls this week. Coming as…
By G. Srinivasan The upcoming G-20 Heads of State meeting in Brisbane, Australia in mid-November is being convened when urgent policy…
By Ashok B Sharma What is behind Modi magic BJP sweeping the polls in Haryana and emerging as the single largest…
NEW DELHI: In order to make India a better place to do business, the government is working to cut down the…
MUMBAI: Foreign funds are buying more Indian corporate bonds as there is no sign that the $25-billion limit on government securities…
NEW DELHI — The Indian Defence Ministry — faced with a shortage of ammunition for its Russian-made T-90 tanks, coupled with…
By Amulya Ganguli As always, the electorate has sent a clear message to every party in the just concluded elections. …
By Praful Bidwai The contrast between India’s two recent science and technology (S&T) projects couldn’t have been starker. One, by delivering…
Mumbai: After years of regulatory dithering, foreign and domestic institutions might look forward to entry into the commodity derivatives market. The…
NEW DELHI: Eighty-eight infrastructure and industrial projects, involving investment of nearly Rs 3 lakh crore – which is more than the…
New Delhi: The government on Monday allowed private companies in the defence sector to sell equipment to state-run entities without prior…
By Harihar Swarup Results in assembly election in Maharashtra are on expected lines: no party got majority and the BJP…
By S. Sethuraman As the slow-grinding economy enters the second half of fiscal 2015, a tinge of optimism pervades policy-making…
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The three-day RSS national conclave, which ended in Lucknow, the city of erstwhile nawabs, on Sunday…
NEW DELHI: After announcing several labour reforms last week, the Narendra Modi government is considering allowing workers to participate in board…
New Delhi: The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) has finalised proposed foreign investment policy reforms related to composite limits…
NEW DELHI: Private power producers have raised several concerns over bidding norms for ultra mega power plants (UMPPs), particularly the design-build-finance-operate-transfer…
There were six in contention; four were dropped, and one became the Chosen One: The Rafale. In French, ‘Rafale’ poetically…
By Upendra Prasad Stung by the results of the last Lok Sabha elections and buoyed by the success in some of…
By Barun Das Gupta KOLKATA: One of the first priorities of the NDA Government on coming to power was to…
NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government made a volte face of sorts on Friday when it cited the same reasons that…
MUMBAI: At one of the customary premonetary policy meetings with industry, former Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao wanted to…
NEW DELHI: India Friday called for building the SAARC power grid so that excess power produced in one region of South…
NEW DELHI: India is likely to next month sign a deal to lay an oil pipeline to Nepal for supply of…
New Delhi: Shortly after 10 am on Friday, while the prime minister was exhorting an annual meeting of top military commanders…
By Subrata Majumder Paradoxically, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi succeeded in persuading the Japanese and Chinese investors, he failed to…