Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has indicated the political challenges posed by Brexit were the reasons he didn’t apply to head up the Bank of England. In an interview with the BBC, Rajan confirmed he hadn’t sought the position and cited the fact that central banking “has become much more political in […]
New Delhi: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote a heartfelt letter to former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s children condoling the death of the veteran leader. Ms Gandhi, in her letter to Sandip and Latika Dikshit, spoke of her relationship with their mother and praised her dedication to “transform” Delhi. She had on Saturday visited Sheila […]
After the Chandrayaan-2 launch was called off due to a technical snag on Monday, ISRO announced yesterday that they will proceed with the mission on July 22 at 2.43 pm. For our first segment, Amitabh Sinha, our resident editor in Pune who writes on issues of science and environment, joins us to talk about how […]
Just a little over a year after HD Kumaraswamy took over as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, the government has been put to the floor test under very trying circumstances.
The dispensation assumed power when 78 MLAs of Congress and 37 MLAs of Janata Dal (Secular) and one of Bahujan Samaj Party had come […]
Mumbai Dongri Building Collapse LATEST updates: The death toll has risen to five. The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has put out a statement saying that the collapsed building in Dongri did not come in its purview. BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi, who is at the site of the collapse, told reported that the incident […]