Hyderabad: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has expressed confidence that the Women’s Reservation Bill and the Delimitation Bill will be passed during the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament. He said that in the previous Parliament session, the Constitution amendment bills were defeated by the Congress, the Samajwadi Party, and the TMC. Now the NDA has a…
Why the city that once defined India’s infrastructure industry is now the cornerstone of a much larger industrial story. Shrikant Rao There was a time when understanding India’s infrastructure business required little more than a boarding pass to Hyderabad and a diary with enough blank pages. Somewhere between Begumpet, Banjara Hills and the city’s expanding…
Online Sports Desk Holders Argentina beat England 2-1 to reach the World Cup final, where they will face Spain after coming from behind to snatch victory with a stoppage-time goal from substitute Lautaro Martínez in a highly-charged encounter. Lionel Messi again proved the talisman for Argentina as he provided the pass for Enzo Fernández to…
New Delhi: A crucial meeting of top BJP leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president Nitin Nabin, was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on Wednesday. The meeting, in which BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh was also present, comes ahead of the Parliament’s session beginning next week. There was no…
Puri: The three chariots of Lord Jagannath and his sibling deities are ready to roll along Puri’s Grand Road on Thursday as the Odisha government braces for the attendance of lakhs of devotees for a possibly rain-soaked Rath Yatra. The temple town has been blanketed by a multi-layered security cover with the deployment of personnel…
New Delhi: India and the 27-nation European Union have concluded a work programme on FDI screening, with both sides exchanging best practices to further accelerate investment flows, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. Addressing the media in Brussels after the third Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting, he said the council has…
Brussels: India and Belgium on Wednesday reviewed cooperation in several areas, including economic, clean energy, defence, mobility and pharmaceutical domains, with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar holding talks with his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot. Jaishankar, who is here on a two-day visit, attended the India-Belgium Strategic Dialogue and met leaders of the European Union. The…
The courtroom is not a battlefield of faith. It is a forum where evidence, law and constitutional principles must prevail. That is precisely why the ongoing Gyanvapi dispute has become far more significant than a contest over a centuries-old structure. It is a test of whether scientific evidence will be respected when it challenges long-held…
Somewhere, a 64-year-old is doing math. Corpus built. Withdraw 4% a year. Bump it for inflation. Relax. It feels like science. It is actually folklore, and it was written in a country that is not yours. Where the number came from In 1994, an American financial planner named William Bengen tested a simple idea against…
Former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi is perfectly entitled to disagree with the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. In a democracy, former constitutional functionaries not only enjoy the freedom to express their views but are often expected to contribute to public discourse on institutions they once led. But such criticism must…
