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Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh’s offer to resign from the cabinet and from the Rajya Sabha in view of the selection of his son Brijendra as the BJP candidate from Hisar is a welcome move. This argument of the Congress turned BJP politician from...

The Modi government is now in hot water with new revelations from France. One of France’s leading newspapers, ‘Le Monde’, has reported that France waived taxes worth 143.7 million euros to a French registered telecom subsidiary of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications in 2015. It is...

    Aakar Patel How educated does a leader have to be and what is the consequence of a lack of intellectual exposure? The Congress is making fun of the fact that Smriti Irani did not go to college. She joined a correspondence course but...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last week reduced the benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points. This was on top of a similar rate cut in February by the central bank. In response to the February policy rate cut, a number of lenders such...

Hate crimes are not only continuing but also increasing in India. The latest of them has been reported from Assam. It is reported that a man, a Moslem, was accused of transporting beef, heckled and forced to eat pork. The incident reported from Biswanath, however,...

The Income Tax (IT) Department has become super active and is on an attack mode now. While election process is on, IT sleuths are busy investigating and raiding homes and offices of leaders of different political parties. Some people connected to certain leaders of opposition...

There is some confusion about the meaning of the message sent by LK Advani to Narendra Modi through his blog. The former Deputy Prime Minister and former BJP president wrote a farewell blog a few days after his safe seat in Gandhinagar (which he has...

Closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway is inflicting more pain on an already alienated state. Reports suggest that the ban on civilian traffic on the National Highway connecting Baramulla and Udhampur on Sundays and Wednesdays till May 31 is bound to adversely affect business and cause...

Election manifestos seem to have lost their relevance over the years for the simple reason that most promises made in them by virtually all parties and their leaders often do not get mentioned at all during the following five year term and remain on paper...

It is one thing to bring to light the audacious actions of the country’s armed forces and their capabilities, and quite something else entirely to use them as props for political ends. Using the achievements of the armed forces, which often come at the cost...