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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has drawn a response from the reticent former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The FM placed the blame for the current NPA crisis that threatens to scuttle the banking sector at the doors of the former PM. Singh, in his pointed...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to its chief YC Modi, has circulated among states a list of 125 terror suspects, believed to be working for the Bangladesh based outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen (JMB); this outfit was banned in India in May. The tentacles of terror...

Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi has been made to scurry for cover; and that too, in his own homeland of Gujarat. A man of Gandhi’s reputation has been shamed by his own countrymen by stamping him with indignity – of having committed suicide. In...

The House Committee of the Rajya Sabha, headed by Om Mathur of the BJP, has proposed that MPs be allowed to switch to private telecom service providers in place of BSNL or MTNL connections; legislators currently are entitled to annual concessions amounting to Rs 1.5...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lowered repo rate (the rate at which the central bank lends money to commercial banks) by a cumulative 135 basis points between February and October this year. This is believed to act as an antidote to the prevailing...

It requires no additional stress that India attaches great importance to its ties with Bangladesh – a nation reborn by way of a liberation struggle and eventual separation from Pakistan in the early-1970s. While an Islamic nation on the western side of the Indian border...

Afghanistan is again at the cross-roads. Presidential polls on Saturday was not trouble-free but, significantly, Taliban fighters could not stage any major attack and were satisfied with scores of minor offensives across the land-locked nation. This meant the security agencies did a commendable job. Both...

The Supreme Court collegiums’ decision to transfer Madras High Court Chief Justice Tahilramani to a smaller High Court in the North-East had created a sensation in legal circles, and a media blitz that embarrassed the apex court a few weeks ago. Disclosures that came thereafter...

Mergers have been one among the tools the incumbent government has used frequently. It has tested that twice already with public sector banks and is set for more. What is worrying is that this merger mindset is being tested armed forces also. The ministry of...

Where does the buck stop is a big question. Institutions are believed to be free in a democratic system, but it is rarely that one arm of the establishment clashes with the other. An elected government is not supreme as a court can upturn its...