Assembly election results saw the BJP secure victories in West Bengal and Assam, while Tamil Nadu witnessed a surprising debut by Thalapath...

India has a brand new political map. A massive topple in Bengal, a twist in the Tamil Nadu potboiler, power grip in Assam and Puducherry, a...

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by actor Vijay is set to win its first Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. This mirrors the Aam Aadmi Part...

Global events like the West Asia conflict and El Nino threaten governments. Rising fertilizer prices create a fiscal and political crisis f...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu advocates for a 'population management policy,' encouraging couples to have at least two ...

Actor Vijay's new political party, TVK, is shaking up Tamil Nadu's election landscape, challenging the traditional DMK-AIADMK dominance. Wi...

The Delhi High Court denied an urgent hearing for a plea accusing political parties of electoral law violations regarding freebies before t...

In recent assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Telangana, political parties, including BJP, embraced the cult...

CEC Rajiv Kumar was not way off the mark when he said that 'freebies' announced by parties and state governments have a 'tadka' of populism...

While the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CES) in the past have had questions on freebies received by households, an attempt at imputation of...

The power of Election Commission to fight freebies has remained vague and limited. There have only been a few instances where the EC exerci...

The political slugfest that has broken out over freebies between the ruling party and the opposition comes at a time when the Supreme Court...

Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay filed additional submissions on Friday in the top court saying that registered political parties be asked to fu...

Economic impact assessment is essential before distribution of freebies, the Supreme Court has been told by a petitioner who has sought con...

On items such as stationery purchased from unregistered vendors, businesses are liable to pay GST under reverse charge, for which self-invo...

AIADMK government has spent several thousand crores on various welfare schemes with food subsidy alone costing Rs 25,000 crore.

The TN elections may be fought on welfare schemes and freebies yet again but the big question is whether voters would be influenced by the ...