When the India–EU free trade agreement is ratified next year, prices of some of the biggest-selling European brands are expected to change in the first phase. As import duties are phased out over time, consumers are likely to see gradual price reductions.
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought self-reliance in technology. He rightly highlighted the disadvantages of depending on Big Tech and wished for a future where indigenous services can replace YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram. But arriving at such a future might not be easy.
In late November, India Today Group started a project, termed Divine Odyssey. Our team members visited Varanasi, Prayagraj, Naimisharanya, Mathura, and Vrindavan and witnessed how a statewide infrastructure push was making Uttar Pradesh's transformation an urgent reality.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has sprung a surprise by announcing 11 seats for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. The main question is why Akhilesh made this unilateral decision on seat sharing.
The horror of Baramulla and other parts of Kashmir predates the horror of Hamas in Israel, but the mind-set of the radical Islamist terrorists remains the same.
In Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje is still seen as a leader who faced a patriarchal set-up, challenged conventional norms, and led a public and private life on her own terms.
Amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Indian foreign ministry reiterated that India has always been in support of statehood for Palestine. However, the statement has not resonated in the Arab world, where the focus of the conversation is on PM Modi's condemnation of the Hamas attack.
A fresh rift has erupted between the BJP and JJP after Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala's statement on the recent Nuh's communal violence.
The Congress party decided to support the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in opposing the Delhi Ordinance Bill in Parliament. Will the AAP-Congress alliance work in Delhi and Punjab?
A recent report unwinds possible war scenarios involving Russia and China in the aftermath of the ongoing Ukraine war and how the United States is gradually losing its foothold as a once insurmountable defence power.
The AAP and Congress, ahead of the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru, decided to bury the hatchet as the latter confirmed that it would not support the Delhi ordinance.
Kishan Reddy, who cut his teeth in politics under the tutelage of former Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, has experience of being an MLA, MP and now a minister and has been president of the state unit twice before.
Even if the electorate in Maharashtra deliver a sympathy vote to the beleaguered Sharad Pawar, the revolt of Ajit Pawar and other top NCP leaders has opened up the possibility of the BJP-led alliance to cross threshold vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Defections to help the BJP are not limited to Maharashtra. They have happened across states. Here's the how and the why of a phenomenon that started in 2014, but merely mirroring what the Congress did when it was in power.
The circumstances of the 1978 rebellion were far different from the current split in the NCP. Though it is popularly believed Pawar backstabbed Vasantdada Patil, it is said Patil ditched the rebellion after his telephonic conversation with the late Indira Gandhi.
A Maharashtra-like coup in Bihar, or even the talk of it, will help BJP expose India's political Opposition to be fragmented beyond repair---from East to West--- ahead of 2024. In between, in Delhi, Congress and AAP are as it is fighting each other.
As Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, all eyes are now on Sharad Pawar to see how he will react to a sordid defection drama in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) that he formed on June 10, 1999
A developing country like India should have feared the harsh impact of a recession of this magnitude. Surprisingly, reports predict that India has a 0% probability of recession in 2023.
PM Modi's remarks have reignited the Uniform Civil Code debate. But what exactly is it? And can India have a UCC?
Apparently, in 2020, the Narendra Modi government had planned to issue a commemorative stamp to honour Rao on his 100th birthday but the move was shelved as the stamps got leaked before their official release.
