Opinion

CII has said the first step should be for the government to reduce its stake to 52% and then devise a roadmap to bring down its stake in PSU banks to 33% in three to four years.

In July last year, Minister of State for Finance, Santosh Kumar Gangawar, shared deeply disturbing figures of amounts under fraud at various public sector banks. Is it any surprise that PNB topped the list – it had the largest amount under fraud – in 2016...

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar may be in danger of being swept away by the saffron wave represented by the BJP in alliance with the Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura (IPFT) and a group of Congress turncoats who flirted with Mamata Banerjee’s Trina...

Constitutional amendments cannot be made, as a state’s period cannot be cut short by four years unless the respective assembly comes forward to dissolve itself.

The government has not lifted a finger when it comes to job creation. But in 2019, the people of India are going to lift their fingers and vote.

The total allocation for the department of empowerment of Persons with Disabilities has seen a meagre increase of 215 crores. It is disappointing considering the number of disabilities recognised under the new act has gone up from seven to 21.

The man who is unofficially running both the party and state administration, on his boss’ behalf, is IAS officer V Karthikeyan Pandian. Officially, private secretary to the CM, the Tamilian seems to wield a lot of influence in the eastern state.

Padmavati's courage, self-possession and spiritedness are in the service of male insecurity, which equates honour with the 'purity' of 'our' women. In that sense, the film typifies the worst kind of revivalism.

It should also be noted that Khilji -- instead of routinely going off on the world’s most awkward pre-Tinder dates, as suggested by the film – spent a lot of his reign in Delhi, formulating administrative, taxation and revenue reforms, which were so effec...

Nitish Kumar had tried to resurrect Gandhiji in recent period, first through a clarion call for ‘prohibition’ of liquor, and later for dowry and child marriage through two successive human chains.

While the United States used Pakistan as a strategic base for training and launching unrest in Afghanistan to hurt Soviet interests, Pakistan used the aid from the ‘big brother’ to fructify its policy of “bleed India with a thousand cuts”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath both are descending into Noida to inaugurate the Noida-Greater Noida metro link.