Hours after hundreds of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh, protesting against low state-controlled sugarcane prices, descended on Delhi...
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4 CommentsHurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq — engaged in “quiet” diplomacy with New Delhi — is going to China after his travel to Pakistan later this year on Islamabad’s invitation.
10 CommentsMaoists bombed a major railway line in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district late Thursday evening, derailing the engine and several...
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North Block hopes it has found a lever to increase bank lending — money will come in (capital infusion in state-owned banks) if money goes out (loans to business).
During the last days of the 14th Lok Sabha, its speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, drew a dispiriting profile of the House. In a term of five years it had managed just 322 sittings.
Until less than a fortnight ago, the run-up to the first anniversary of the 26/11 nightmare was moving along predictable lines.
Former wrestler and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav distancing himself from Kalyan Singh has not impressed the Urdu world.
In a last ditch effort to have some strategic deliverable, India and US have hurriedly scheduled another round of talks on Friday in Washington...
The CPM on Thursday opposed any third-party intervention, either by Communist China or the US, to resolve Indo-Pak differences.
Even as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exiting its accommodative monetary policy, economist and policy doyen C Rangarajan says...
Business confidence in India has surpassed the level that prevailed before the financial crisis seized economic growth prospects...
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Jhargram in Bengal was once a bustling tourist spot. But today, Naxal attacks have hit the region’s tourism industry....
Monpas, the original inhabitants of Tawang, have worked hard to bring in visitors to their town....
Tainted by a flawed election and allegations of high-level corruption in his regime, Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Thursday for a second...
A fresh wave of terror gripped Pakistan’s northwest on Thursday when a suicide bomber struck a court complex here...
So umpires in India have started calling bowlers for chucking and it is nice to see a forgotten law being implemented!
Over four days, a total of 1,376 runs have been scored at just under four an over, with one batsman getting a big double-hundred and four others getting to three figures.
The Sino-US summit has heralded a major shift in the global power equation.
Jaithirth Rao has brought before us some blatant truths behind India’s intellectual exodus, which has made it an area of darkness.
Diabetes has seen a three-fold rise among children, but lack of awareness among parents and teachers is common....
Dr Anoop Misra and Dr Shuchee Madhusudan answers ten common questions and provides some guidelines....
Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.
Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...
Some BJP spokespersons are making the most of the seemingly never-ending fight in the party.
With the University Grants Commission likely to be closed once an overarching higher education body is created, its officials are already scurrying for cover.
'Kurbaan' raises the near-defunct issue-based cinema in Bollywood to the next level.
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How much insurance do you need? Why is a pure risk cover better than an investment-cum-insurance plan? And what are the points to keep in mind while buying a term plan?
In recent years the Indian stock markets have taken giant steps forward. Technology has made our markets among the most efficient and transparent stock markets in the world.
The sale of shares of up to 60 public sector enterprises by the Central government will have many advantages.
When you think of Amitabh Bachchan today, what is the first thing you see? It is the parcel. And the packaging. A Harlequin jacket.
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Acting in concert, developers allow brokers to corner most of the apartments in their projects. End users pay the price of this artificial scarcity by having to purchase apartments at inflated prices....
Developers complain that the draft Bill on real estate regulation will lead to overregulation and cost escalation of properties, which will be borne by home buyers. Is there any substance to their arguments or are they merely crying wolf?