Amit Shah, BJP president, would have preferred to tread cautiously on Karnataka but gave in after an emotional Yediyurappa called him at midnight and said it was his "last chance to be Karnataka CM".

On the 24 of June 1999 the Indian Air Force dropped its first Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) in anger. The release was from a Mirage 2000 and I was privileged to have been the pilot in command. In the days that followed, I was honoured to drop four more LGBs, thus dropping 5 out of the total of 8 LGBs delivered by the Mirage 2000 in the Kargil Conflict. T...

Nitish Kumar, at the age of 68, once considered among India's sharpest politicians, has just whittled down his ambitions - he just wants to remain Chief Minister for life.

For a 12-year-old schoolboy, Armstrong's moonwalk couldn't have been worse timed. The summer vacation had given over in the middle of July and for desis, the Eagle landed- given the time difference - on a Monday. That wouldn't have been so bad if Armstrong hadn't taken hours - bloody hours - to undo the hatch and climb down the ladder. The Lunar Mo...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary (East), spent a night at a Mirzapur UP state guest house as she refused to furnish a bail bond for trying to breach peace in the area. This followed day-long dharna in Mirzapur after she was stopped from visiting the village in Sonbhadra where ten tribals were shot dead two days ago in a land disput...

Patience pays at ISRO. Hundreds of scientists spent the last three days burning the midnight oil and working in teams from cities like Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, with the Prime Minister's Office keeping an eye on the progress.

On Wednesday, the government said it would amend the 2016 insolvency law, a signature reform of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first term. Investors will cheer.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, or SEBI, has always been suspicious of the source of capital for hedge funds investing in India from Singapore or Hong Kong.

Forget the Super Over for a moment: the prior question is how did England even get to that daft tie-breaker?

The "ban" on journalists from entering the North Block, the headquarters of the finance ministry, was the talk of the town in media circles this week. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman making her side of the government secretariat out of bounds for reporters naturally made even those like us who cover the Home Ministry on the other side of the No...

After Shikhar Dhawan's injury, the Indian team eventually settled on a batting line up that consisted of three top-order batsmen, three wicketkeeper batsmen and a floating all-rounder. Two of the non-keeping wicket keepers were drafted in as replacements for two batsmen-who-could-bowl.

There is, in principle, nothing wrong with richer people paying a bit more in income tax. But when, in her budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raised the surcharges on the super-rich, those taxpayers with an annual income of more than Rs 2 crore, it was - like much else with this government - badly thought through.

To prevent the Congress from further implosion, leaders like DKS should be empowered by the Gandhi family. Will it happen? No, says a senior leader who is a mentor to DKS. According to him, the current requirement is a "puppet president" who makes such a huge mess that the Gandhis are welcomed back as saviours. Write off the upcoming state election...

We did not really need a policy document; what we need is an action document on strategy and implementation, one that identifies the few most significant issues and then details how these can be tackled.

Tax collections last year were a full 1 percentage point of GDP lower than the 7.9 per cent the government had hoped to obtain.