CBI chargesheets Hooda, others in Manesar land case

The BJP and Congress have blooded a select group of aggressive and articulate young leaders to drive their party agenda ahead of the big face-off in 2019. Who are they? Gautam Datt reports The wheel of Indian politics is spinning perhaps faster than at ...

[UK], Mar 23 (ANI): The Democracy Forum (TDF), a prominent London-based think tank, hosted a seminar titled 'Economic & Political Power of the Military: Its Impact on Democracy', at the St James' Court Hotel, London on Monday. The seminar, chaired by senior ...

Barely two weeks into his new role, 40-year-old Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma says he has realised running the government would be a tough job but asserts he is "here to take over and do my best" to spur development. In a state that faces pressing ...

'The Modi government has been taking credit for improvement in respect of the ease of doing business in India.''But when I look at the scams I cannot help feeling that it is too easy to do business with banks in India, if one is a Harshad Mehta, Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi and their tribe,' says former Union home secretary Madhav Godbole. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Close on the heels of the Vijay Mallya scam involving a number of major banks, including the country's biggest bank, ...

In February 2015, the AAP surpassed the wildest of expectations and swept the Delhi Assembly elections. The Congress, in power for three terms, got no seat. A resurgent BJP was routed in the city-state from which it ruled the country. It was the ...

The 2G judgment suggests many bureaucrats have poor application, inadequate interest and are unwilling to be active participants in the policy process, says Babu Jacob. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The recent court verdict on the decade-old 2G spectrum licensing controversy opens a window into public management in India and suggests an alarming lack of policy direction and incapacity for policy detailing. A key focus of telecom policy was to regulate licensing. In 2003 the Union ...

Just over a month into the saddle and the stamp of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sanhg (RSS) is pretty visible on the functioning of the Jairam Thakur-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Himachal Pradesh. The hill state is the latest addition to other ...

After an 11-year gap, the salaries and perks of the President, the Vice President and Governors now stand revised, rectifying the anomaly as they were being paid less than top bureaucrats and service chiefs. After Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's announcement ...

The opposition has attacked the Modi government over the National Democratic Alliance's last full-fledged budget before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Here are some of the reactions. BUDGET 2018: Full coverage   Budget is defeatist, a big letdown: Congress Terming Budget 2018-19 'defeatist' and a 'big letdown', the Congress on Thursday said the government has 'thrown in the towel' and conceded that it has failed to address key issues in the economy. The budget proposals should have ...