While tax treatment of income earned from the three new gold schemes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday is attractive, the treatment of the investors by taxmen is certainly a worrisome factor, said experts....
"Now, it's gone beyond the Akademi and writers. Its become a political issue and it's the turn of the film makers to return their awards", Tiwari told IANS on the sidelines of the All India Poetry Festival jointly organised by Sahitya Akademi and the culture ministry....
Just over a year after the BJP wiped out everyone else in the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh, the panchayat polls have dealt a major blow to it and given a fresh lease of life to the BSP and the Samajwadi Party. The Congress remains where it was -- in the dumps....
Human rights activist and prominent lawyer Nandita Haksar has claimed that there is a huge gap between Kashmiris and Indians and that India and Pakistan have not taken into account the Kashmiris....
A pertinent question to ask is what constitutes intolerance? Does it mean an inappropriate legislation, denial of rights, violent incidents related to religion and other identities, irresponsible statements by government functionaries, or just even a plain disagreement with others’ point of view?...
Veteran Communist leader V.S. Achuthanandan has said the "ploy" of Kerala Chief minister Oommen Chandy and vernacular daily Malayala Manorama -- an old vigilance case against his son -- "cannot keep me silent". ...
As I write this, I spot over a dozen Chinese men outside my Beijing hotel room wearing air purifier masks on their faces - the price they paid for technology. It stirred some alarming thoughts about where India is heading, and why India has a need to rethink each of its steps towards technological advancement....
Even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to brand the Supreme Court judgment striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act and the enabling 99th constitution amendment as "tyranny of the unelected", former apex court judge Asok Kumar Ganguly said that what it did was its "duty", which it is man...
Because of his stature, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not be able to brush aside his views as those of a "Nehruvian" or a "Leftist", as it has done with regard to the protests by the 40-odd writers who are also upset, like the president, about the signs of intolerance....
With attacks by fringe Hindu outfits on writers and intellectuals for their views and assaults and murders of those with different religious and cultural practices, author Mani Rao, who has done extensive research on Hindu holy scriptures and classical texts, says Hinduism is about "love and unity" and not "divisive ideas"....
