Government
13 new faces sworn in along with Jayalalithaa in TN
23 May 2016
The oath ceremony, marking Jayalalithaa's sixth innings as CM, was held at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium in Chennai
Government all set to crack down on super-rich tax dodgers
23 May 2016
Tax authorities are now undertaking a cross-checking of income declarations with actual incomes, including bank deposits, luxury spending, stock market dealings, property ownership, etc, to bare real incomes of the rich
AIADMK, TMC stay put as BJP annexes Assam and Kerala turns Left
19 May 2016
While the Congress Party is now routed in most states and the country is almost ‘Congress-mukt’, Narenra Modi’s BJP will find it more difficult to deal with regional outfits than the Congress
Rijiju trashes Pak objections to Indian map bill
18 May 2016
BJP to gain in Assam, trouble for AIADMK in TN, say exit polls
16 May 2016
In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee is predicted to be back to power with a convincing win over Left-Congress combine
HC stays JNU action against Kanhaiya, others
14 May 2016
Malegaon blasts: NIA drops charges against Sadhvi, 5 others
14 May 2016
In a major watering-down of earlier charges in the 2008 blasts case that claimed seven lives, key accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and five others have been let off, while the charges against others have been diluted
Jail term for criminal defamation to stay: SC
13 May 2016
The Supreme Court today dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that provide for a two-year jail term for criminal defamation
Power and telephony: how things have changed
11 May 2016
A generation ago, a visiting Japanese minister was flabbergasted when asked by his Indian counterpart (through the interpreter) how many tries it took him to get through to the telephone number he was dialling! Things have certainly changed since then, writes retired IAS officer Vivek Agnihotri
SC reinstates Harish Rawat as Uttarakhand chief minister
11 May 2016
The Supreme Court has declared Congress as winner in the floor test in the Uttarakhand assembly after it won the backing of 33 of the 61 eligible legislators, and allowed Harish Rawat to resume charge as chief minister
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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