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Manish Tewari | Why India Urgently Needs Some Governance Reforms

Manish Tewari | Why India Urgently Needs Some Governance Reforms

The government has set up two administrative commissions, the first on January 5, 1966, under the chairpersonship of...

12 July 2025 8:48 PM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Some memories of Bangladesh: Language, culture led to deep bonds

Saeed Naqvi | Some memories of Bangladesh: Language, culture led to...

Bangladesh was created behind my back. Since I was a reporter with the Statesman, I was surprised I was being...

12 Aug 2024 1:06 AM IST

The Bombay High Courts recent decision directing tax authorities to release tax deducted at source (TDS) in the Everstone Capital-Indostar Capital deal comes as a major relief for companies operating from jurisdictions like Mauritius and Singapore.

Lawyer fined for seeking ex-PM's award revocation

The court imposed a penalty of Rs 50,000 on advocate Jaiswal for filing a frivolousâ€ petition.

23 Aug 2019 6:23 AM IST

A PM who tried but failed to stay at the helm

Controversies had followed Desai right from the time he had entered the public arena in the 1920s.

24 Jan 2020 6:29 AM IST

Cover photo of How Prime Ministers Decide, by Neerja Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Secrets & surprises: Oral testimonies of India's...

What Chowdhury unfolds is an engrossing narrative of event, turns out to be a political thriller.

20 Aug 2023 12:15 AM IST

Withdraw Morarji Desai's Bharat Ratna: Petition

Petitioner claims former Prime Minister was man of double standards.

28 Jan 2017 4:22 AM IST

Leader of the Indian freedom movement and veteran Socialist Lok Naik Jayaprakash Narain, who had retired from active politics, came back to the centre-stage, united the opposition and led the campaign against Emergency. His call for total revolution excited the campuses and the youth. The Congress led by Indira Gandhi gave in to the combined opposition assault. The Congress got only 153 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 1977 against 294 of the Janata Party.

When janta embraced the Janata experiment

What was important for us then was the ignominious demise of the hated Emergency and the dawn of a new era.

25 March 2017 1:53 AM IST

Acting President B.D. Jetty swears in Morarji Desai, leader of the Janata Party parliamentary party as Prime Minister to head the first non-Congress Union ministry on March 24, 1977. Mr Desai resigned on July 15, 1979 due to internal bickering in his party.

India's second tryst

The Janata government also initiated serious moves toward decentralised democracy by appointing a panel headed by Asok...

25 March 2017 1:47 AM IST

The Lovers by Amitava Kumar Aleph, Rs 599

Book review: Making fiction out of nothing at all

The author is a great writer, of non-fiction. Sadly, his hold over what makes for good fiction is lacking.

30 July 2017 2:38 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

BJP stooped to conquer, Congress must not follow it

The Congress was accused of concentrating too much on caste and community but not, it must be stressed, of fanning...

19 Dec 2017 12:58 AM IST

Sanjay Gandhi with his mother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, at a rally during the Emergency. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Emergency: The events that led to the dark days' of 1975-77

JP asked students to boycott classes, leave their schools and colleges for one year and work to mobilise the people for...

26 Jun 2017 1:02 AM IST

Old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes placed in an order that reads BAN in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Note ban: Legality is questionable

The law permitted withdrawal of a series of banknotes and not the scrapping of an entire denomination.

2 Dec 2016 12:18 AM IST