A tale of two minorities: Why India never saw anti-Jainism like Europe's anti-semitismA comparison of Jains in India and Jews in Europe explores why one civilisation enabled coexistence while the other descended into exclusio...
23 May, 2026, 09.29 PM IST
No, the Iran war won’t ground your European holiday flightA commentary on the US-Iran conflict says European summer flights are unlikely to face major disruptions for now, despite earlier fears ove...
18 May, 2026, 09.55 AM IST
"BJP is 'Ma Ganga'...": Samik Bhattacharya on 'washing machine' label, claims TMC leaders lining up to joinWest Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya addressed accusations of his party being a 'washing machine' for defectors. He compared the BJ...
10 May, 2026, 08.28 PM IST
View: Why Indian companies don’t want to invest in IndiaIndian companies are not investing as much as the government expects them to. Despite tax cuts and infrastructure spending, businesses have...
07 May, 2026, 11.51 AM IST
The unelected guardians of Indian democracyIndia's democracy faces challenges as politicians often prioritize personal gain over public interest. However, the nation's constitution, ...
27 Jan, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
No need for candidates to disclose every movable property owned by them, rules Supreme CourtThe SC ruling is expected to put to rest the long-running debate over how much personal info an election candidate needs to share on public...
09 Apr, 2024, 01.22 PM IST
More professional cooperative banksUCBs played a vital role in spreading the reach of formal finance to the unbanked. But failures were routine, leaving many depositors at ri...
13 Jun, 2022, 12.28 AM IST
Court rejects bail plea of PDP leader Waheed ParraIn a 19-page order, the special court here rejected the argument that Parra was a budding politician and said "a perusal of the CD file tra...
23 Feb, 2021, 07.44 PM IST
MSCB projected healthy picture, didn’t mention NPAs: Nabard’s 2010 reportComplainant Surinder Mohan Arora, whose PIL in the Bombay high court resulted in the probe, alleged in his FIR that the bank’s funds were m...
27 Sep, 2019, 07.51 AM IST
View: Politics and banking both need bold reforms on NPAsIf politicians don't tell voters to pay for electricity, the power sector can't be viable.
13 Sep, 2018, 10.41 AM IST
We need to strike a balance between privacy and transparency: FM Arun JaitleyRaising questions about what constitutes privacy, he said can a bureaucrat deny information on jewellery purchased by his wife under the sh...
02 Sep, 2017, 12.32 AM IST
PM Modi knew all black money will be converted to new currency: Santosh S LadThe Congress politician-cum-businessman is the first to reveal that the modus operandi of the black market continues to operate, despite de...
26 Dec, 2016, 01.19 PM IST
Rs 5,000 crore put into Maharashtra cooperative banks in just 4 days after note banMost of the District credit cooperative banks in Maharashtra are controlled by local politicians and have been hauled up for financial mism...
15 Dec, 2016, 08.06 AM IST
Politicos, satraps look to launder black money via Jan Dhan accountsThe Jan Dhan programme was a financial inclusion mission by the government that sought to provide every household with access to banking se...
14 Nov, 2016, 12.59 AM IST
Government, SIT widen black money probe as new HSBC list emergesThe Income Tax Department is in touch with the whistle blower who apparently brought out the names of persons holding undisclosed bank acco...
10 Feb, 2015, 12.44 AM IST
RBI probing charges of money laundering, ICICI, HDFC & Axis Bank under lensThe Reserve Bank of India has begun a probe into allegations that staff at Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank encourages customers to evad...
23 Mar, 2013, 02.06 PM IST
- Now a legal hurdle for Rs 60,000 cr relief package for farmers
The government's Rs 60,000-crore debt waiver package for farmers, announced in Budget proposals on Friday, has been dragged to court as a p...
01 Mar, 2008, 08.12 PM IST