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With the Bharatiya Janata Party now openly uniting under the Modi banner and doing all but formally declaring the Gujarat chief minister as the prime...

President Pranab Mukherjee’s maiden foreign visit to Bangladesh has assumed a significance far beyond the fact that this is his first since he took...

The increase in budget allocation for the Indian defence sector for the fiscal year 2013-14, although hailed as a welcome development by the experts...

The new US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has started his tenure with a serious glitch in his diplomatic record, as a previously unseen video of him...

Union Budget 2013 is certainly a restrained, hold on operation lacking the expected flamboyance that Finance Minister P Chidambaram has been typically...

While all eyes are set on today’s Union Budget 2013-2014, to be presented by P Chidambaram after five years since he last tabled one in Parliament in...

It is unfortunate that the government of India is interested in easing the green norms that has so protected the urban environment. Now high-rise...

Pawan Kumar Bansal has walked a tightrope with his Union Rail Budget 2013-14, keeping an eye on the aspiring classes, while not quite forgetting the...

It is regrettable that, according to the World Health Organisation, over a million people in India die of indoor pollution every year. This is besides...

The plague of violence against women continues unabated, with a 25-year-old woman shot dead on Sunday night as she waited for a bus at South Delhi’s...

The rejection of the AK Pachauri Committee report on the Setusamudaram project comes as a surprise. This committee was set up by the Supreme Court to...

The arrest of seven people, including five doctors, in Kanpur, caught performing pre-natal sex-determination tests once again reminds us of the...