Bill seeking H-1B limits exemption for foreigners with US PhD ...

If one asks Chief Minister Siddaramaiah whether caste or poverty should be the base for designing the government's welfare schemes, probably he would settle for the former. He has been vehemently arguing that poverty among the Dalits and the backward class is ...

'A President who is a living embodiment of high principles can tone up the entire national fabric,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant. The Presidential sweepstakes have begun with the notification of the Election Commission of India setting the process in motion. India's President is a patently, if not blatantly, ostentatious oddity in a country whose people are yet to be assured of their basic services. He is a person invisible most of the time, cast in the cavernous cage of ...

The Chief Economic Advisor, Arvind Subramanian, speaking at the VKRV Rao Memorial Lecture raised the important issue of lack of independent thinking in the country and its detrimental impact on policy making in the government. He again mentioned it a few days ...

A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education. Even as the government has launched a high-profile drive against black money, a 1,000-page study on unaccounted incomes in India has not been made public. Produced by the think-tank National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) at the instance of the UPA government of 2012, the report was submitted to the ...

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators in the U.S. Congress reached a deal late on Sunday on around $1 trillion in federal funding that would avert a government shutdown later this week, while handing President Donald Trump a downpayment on his ...