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Adhikar rally organised in Delhi on March 17 was ostensibly for demanding special status for Bihar for its rapid development, but under the garb of economics, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was playing crude politics. His main objective was to put pressure on BJP to declare a Prime Ministerial candidate other than Narendra Modi and check his national ambitions. The secondary objective was to prepare a ground to have an alliance with Congress, in case BJP does not heed his demand.

New Delhi : India voting in favour of the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violation could not pacify the Tamil parties in the country, who disrupted the proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament leading to its adjournment.

New Delhi : Ahead of the BRICS Summit slated in Durban from March 25, Egypt has sought India’s support for inclusion in the group by lauding its proposal for setting up of a development bank.

New Delhi: Encouraged by the signing of as many as eight agreements with India in various sectors, Egypt has hoped that the present relationship between the two countries can be elevated to the level of “strategic partnership.”

He was called a ‘socialist showman’ and ‘elected autocrat’, derided as a blind hater of the United States, and ridiculed as a demagogue who splurged his country’s great oil wealth on ill-conceived populist schemes, distributed largesse to undeserving regimes in the neighbourhood, ran the nation’s economy into the ground, and sharply polarised its society.

Sonia Gandhi’s completion of 15 years as the Congress president may be a matter of joy for her party men, but it is hardly a worthy cause for celebration in a democracy – even one which her son-in-law dubbed a banana republic.

Amid wide expectations with growth at a decade low, and sustained pressures from the Finance Minister, the Reserve Bank of India further eased monetary policy with a second quarter percentage cut in the repo rate to 7.50 per cent, with immediate effect. RBI had made a similar cut on January 29. These cuts are designed to help investment revival.

At a time when Punjab’s Akali-BJP government finds itself in the dock due to its non-governance, the Congress legislators’ unruly actions in the House turned the party from being an accuser into an accused.

They have taken some time to react, but now political forces supporting the BNP and other opposition parties in Bangladesh are hitting back — from Kolkata to Dhaka, they are campaigning that the move to put 1971 pro-Pak war criminals on trial is ‘anti Islamic.’

C. Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, is a highly respected economist in the country and what he says is taken as a last word. But the government’s new chief economic adviser, Raghuram Rajan, has chosen to disagree with him publicly.