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The Centre is encouraging electric car buyers by waiving life tax for five years.

Electric cars: Clarity needed

The company has also put out its first home car charger for $500, but clarity is still missing in the policy push...

22 Jan 2019 1:52 AM IST

Sources within the government have admitted that the difficulties being faced by successful bidders in actually managing to operationalise the coal mines have arisen mainly due to factors like delay in land acquisition, environmental clearances and long winding processes being followed by state governments where the mines are located. (Representational Images)

Crackdown on delays in Coal India projects

The government needs to tackle this problem either sector-wise or case by case.

22 Jan 2019 1:48 AM IST

Why delay over Lokpal?

The wrangling over a place for the representative of the Congress should be seen only as an excuse to put off the...

21 Jan 2019 12:04 AM IST

West Bengal CM and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee speaks during the Opposition parties mega United India rally at the historic Brigade Ground in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

A strong show of unity, but a lot still to be done

The Telugu Desam Party, a long-time BJP ally that recently severed its links with the saffron party, was a prominent...

21 Jan 2019 12:04 AM IST

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Team India on a roll

The sparkling performance of Mahendra Singh Dhoni top scorer in the three-match series settles the issue of his World...

20 Jan 2019 1:06 AM IST

Siddaramaiah (Photo: File)

BJP wants coalition govt in K'taka to fall

It serves no-one better than the BJP, if the coalition government falls and is shown up as a failed experiment.

20 Jan 2019 1:00 AM IST

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley

Budget: Follow convention

A government whose term is ending soon must not saddle its successor with bills it runs up according to its lights.

19 Jan 2019 7:22 AM IST

Men cannot throw money at dancers in dance bars. (Representational Image)

Dance bars more about livelihood than morality

The prohibition on showering dancers with money is a significant part of the court's ruling.

19 Jan 2019 7:19 AM IST

Disquiet in judiciary

There is some worry that the present CJI may not have lived up to his billing.

18 Jan 2019 7:20 AM IST

Its decision time for Brexit. Theresa May has a deal she wants the House of Commons to support.

Deal or not, Brexit is end of globalisation

The truism that no man is an island and not even an island can isolate itself applies to Britain today.

18 Jan 2019 7:18 AM IST

Caution over Bengal yatras

The rathyatras, of course, can't be rejected altogether, but it would have been ideal if religion didn't obtrude into...

17 Jan 2019 12:45 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Failure to create jobs begins to haunt govt

The government should be even more worried as rural India bore the brunt of this jobless growth, and saw 84 per cent of...

17 Jan 2019 12:42 AM IST