SN Misra In 1991, Dr Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo during his budget speech: “No force on earth can stop...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Budget 2017-‘18 was distinctive on some fronts: For the first time since 1924, the railway budget was...

Unfortunately, death does not seem to leave the living alone. Some even claim that the politics of martyrdom is way...

With the exit of O Panneerselvam as Chief Minister, the state of Tamil Nadu is in for a major churning....

Piyush Ranjan Rout Urban planners rarely encourage agriculture in cities as they are busy focusing on other avenues for land...

Pradeep Kumar Panda Economists tend to view budgets as gender-neutral instruments. However, budgets are not gender neutral; they are “gender...

Big-ticket infrastructure and rural spending push, boost to affordable housing, and a jaw-dropping credit line for farmers are some of...

The worst is probably yet to come. The apparent success of Jallikattu agitation in Tamil Nadu has reawakened some hitherto...

Sudha Devi Nayak A newspaper report said a woman from Brazil has been praying to a figure of ‘Elrond’, a...

It looks like the die is cast in the five states that go for assembly polls in February-March. The people’s...