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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...

The world has lost a travel company with a creditable heritage to the intense competition of the modern times. Thomas Cook is now a gone concern and its demise has left 1,50,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad and about 6 lakh travellers in all globally affected....

The resignation of Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani, who had been the Chief Justice(CJ) of Madras High Court, has been accepted by President Ram Nath Kovind, and rightly so if she is indeed in the wrong. Reports suggest that the CJ was transferred to the Meghalaya...

The Reserve Bank of India has restricted banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) from sharing the credit information of consumers with unregulated entities. According to a report, such transfer of data, without the knowledge or consent of consumers had been happening for long. It is...