India's new response template against terror
Restraint is no longer an option. Action is. That is the message sent out by the Indian Air Force mounting the lightning attack on terror camps deep inside Pakistan on February 26.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
India's rival coalitions hunt for allies for elections
With parliamentary elections just a couple of months away, the alliance-building exercise by the two major rival camps vying for power
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Modi sees India as $10tr economy with countless startups
With fresh general elections just a couple of months away, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday laid out his vision for making India a $10-trillion economy and the third-largest in the world.
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
India's military options to tackle terror after Pulwama
It has been a week since the ghastly terror attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed, a group based in Pakistan, on a convoy of Indian paramilitary troops left 40 people dead in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
21 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Anil Ambani guilty of contempt of court in RCom-Ericsson case
India's Supreme Court yesterday held billionaire industrialist and Reliance Communication's Chairman Anil Ambani guilty of contempt of court for wilfully violating its order by not paying Rs 550-crore dues to telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson India.
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Terror Attack: Indian trade body calls for shutdown today
A pan-India traders' body has called a nationwide shutdown of business establishments today expressing solidarity with families of security personnel killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir state last Thursday.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Curtain down on 16th Lok Sabha but up on Indian poll script
The coming parliamentary polls hung all over the political circles in the Indian capital on the last day of the final session of the outgoing 16th Lok Sabha on February 13.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM
India plans to cash in on US-China trade war
India is encouraging its exporters to take advantage of the trade friction between Beijing and Washington, commerce ministry officials
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Economic diplomacy top priority: Momen
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen will pursue economic diplomacy that would enable the country to become a middle-income nation
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Indian apex court works truce
In the end, it was left to the Indian Supreme Court to bring down the political temperature which shot up furiously following the confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government in West
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Modi government's last attempt at wooing voters
The impending parliamentary elections was written large on the final budget of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its current five-year tenure.
6 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Mamata's return to the street
In the run-up to India's parliamentary elections in April-May, a big political drama is being played out in front of Central Kolkata's
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Can hearts meet and hands hold in Indian opposition alliance?
The two biggest talking points about the mega rally of anti-Bharatiya Janata Parties organised by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on January 19 were
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Priyanka in the Congress poll gambit
The biggest political news in India on January 23 was the formal induction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in politics and her appointment in the key post of general secretary of the main opposition
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM
India approves $400m currency swap for Saarc nations
India yesterday approved an amendment to a “Framework on Currency Swap Arrangement among Saarc member-countries” to incorporate a “Standby Swap” amounting to $400 million to guard against global economic volatility.
23 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Alliance signal from ground zero of India's electoral battle
Politics, so goes the old adage, is the art of the possible. More so when it is the election season in India. In the build-up to the parliamentary elections just about
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
What does the future hold for Assam?
It seems like “Yesterday Once More” in the political churn in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. First, it is the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to weed out
13 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Quota politics in Indian election season
Quota politics has taken the centre stage ahead of fresh parliamentary elections due in April-May of this year. The Lok Sabha, the lower House, and the Rajya Sabha, the upper
11 January 2019, 18:00 PM
The real on reel, without sugarcoating
It was a balmy summer evening in mid-1970s when I first got to see director Mrinal Sen at a get-together in a club set up by my friends in my locality in a south Kolkata suburb. It was at the height of the Naxalite movement and the subjects of discussion with Mrinal-da, as he was popularly called then, were films and politics.
30 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Farm loan waivers and political imperatives in India
It is election season in India and it is raining sops for farmers, the most key segment of the electorate, in the form of farm loan waivers running into thousands of crores of Rupees.
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM