CRONY CAPITALISM

The Congress party criticized the Modi government for allowing three major private telecom companies—Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea—to increase mobile service tariffs, accusing them of profiteering from 109 crore users. Congress lead...

While congratulating Rahul Gandhi on becoming the Leader of Opposition, Anurag Thakur said the Congress leader now has power with responsibility and "absentee landlordism will not work". For the last many years, Gandhi was enjoying power without res...

Modi 3.0 Cabinet 2024: Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for a third term, forming a 72-member coalition government with ease. Despite lacking a majority, BJP retains key ministries. Allies prioritized state funds over cabinet posts, whil...

The former US president, Donald Trump, recently proposed that if top US oil executives gave him $1 billion for his re-election campaign, he would repeal Joe Biden's environmental regulations and prevent new ones. This proposal was made in a moderate...

Revanth Reddy, the Chief Minister of Telangana and a Congress leader, discusses various political issues ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in an interview. He criticizes the timing of the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, alleging it as politically motivate...

Ramesh asserted that this is not only a "textbook case of crony capitalism" but a potential threat to national security. "Since PM Modi and his pet agencies can't be expected to investigate this, we reiterate our call for a JPC to look into all aspe...

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that changes were made to tender conditions to ensure Adani Group was the only feasible winner. The project had originally been awarded to a different bidder, he said.

The price of cooking gas was hiked by ₹50 per cylinder, the first increase in eight months, days after polling in Meghalaya and Nagaland ended. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge alleged the price of LPG cylinder has been raised by ₹50 and commercial...

While New Delhi aims to replicate the fundraising success overseas, it also needs to heed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims’s warning last month: Privatize to increase the efficiency of the economy, or don’t privat...

"Crony capitalism and profiteering is not consistent with ethical wealth creation. This is a mindset change required in the private sector," Subramanian said, with a specific reference to the huge gap in private sector and public sector healthcare c...

Giving his advice to the government for the revival of economy, the former finance minister said there is an immediate set of things that has to be done, including significant cash transfers must be made to bottom one-third of the population.

Kanhaiya Kumar, a former JNU students union president, appealed to people from all walks of life to lend their support to the movement launched by the farmers.

Get ready for quite a few changes over the next several months, says Ridham Desai.

It pays to be optimistic when everyone is in panic and in any adversity, only optimism will take you forward, says Madhu Kela.

Prashant Jain explains why he expects a fairly broad-based earnings growth going forward.

In DDT, if taxation burden shifts from corporates to shareholders, the companies which are paying higher dividends will definitely get re-rated. Nilesh Shah, MD, Kotak AMC.

Addressing an election rally in Dahanu segment of Maharashtra's Palghar district, he said the BJP and Shiv Sena need to be defeated to save the country and its citizens.

Not in favour of Aadhaar’s use for surveillance; discussions needed on reservations in private sector; will not force decisions without consultations.

Citing a news report, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the government of "favouritism".