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Nervous government explores ways to 'manage' media

The efforts betray the nervousness of a government unable to sell its 'positive' governance narrative at home and abroad

Protesting farmer unions ready for talks only if farm laws are repealed

Protesting farmer unions asked govt to come up with a fresh proposal as the existing offer to put the three farm laws on hold for 12-18 months is not acceptable to them

Explained: How govt-Twitter fracas put IT laws, content policies in focus

Business Standard explains who can request the takedown of posts on Twitter, how they can do so, and what process the microblogging site follows before deciding to accede to the request or not

Budget 2021: FM Sitharaman proposes doubling of healthcare spending

India, which has the world's second highest coronavirus caseload after the United States, and currently spends about 1 per cent of gross domestic product on health

Budget 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman replaces Swadeshi 'bahi khata' with tablet

With the Union Budget 2021 set to be delivered in paperless form for the first time, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman replaced the Swadeshi 'bahi khata' and switched to a tablet

Budget will be in accordance with people's expectations, says Anurag Thakur

The Union Cabinet will hold a meeting at 10:15 am before the presentation

Republic Day 2021: India puts its military might, cultural heritage on show

The contingents only marched a distance of 3.5 km instead of the usual 8.5 km, and for the first time in 55 years, no foreign dignitary attended the January 26 parade

'Arnabgate' undermines the Modi govt's national security narrative

Goswami's source can be prosecuted under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act for communicating and disclosing secret information, and Goswami for receiving such information and purveying it further

We need a new Farm Act that looks at the issues afresh: Punjab FM Badal

Badal said that it remains unclear who is leading the talks from the Centre's side, and the move comes after much dilly-dallying

NDA govt committed to welfare of differently abled: Thawarchand Gehlot

The NDA governmentis committed to empower people with disabilities and bring them in mainstream of the society by providing aids and assistive devices, Thawarchand Gehlot said

The dissent of man

Book review of Voices of Dissent

Widen the net

Deep sea fisheries policy must be liberalised

Agitating farmers refuse to budge, say here for 'decisive battle'

Reject offer for talks, siege of Delhi continues

Situation getting out of hand, hold talks with farmers: Amarinder to Centre

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the voice of farmers cannot be "muzzled" and asked the BJP-led Centre to hold talks immediately with peasants to defuse the situation

India's Covid-19 caseload crosses 8.2 million-mark, recovery rate at 91.68%

India's Covid-19 caseload crossed the 8.2-million mark, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 7.5 million pushing the national recovery rate to 91.68%

Centre gets time till Dec 31 to grant permanent commission to women in Navy

The Supreme Court extended till December 31 the deadline for implementation of its judgement on grant of permanent commission to women SSC officers in Indian Navy

Railway Board restructuring gets green flag: Vinod Yadav to be first CEO

The current restructuring will be a zero-cost exercise and money will be saved by surrendering posts in the board and stopping duplication of work

Cong constitutes committee to formulate party's stand on ordinances by govt

Congress has constituted a 5-member committee to discuss and formulate the party's stand on key ordinances promulgated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central Government

RBI surplus transfer to govt lowest in last 7 years, says S C Garg

Earlier this month, the RBI board approved a surplus transfer of Rs 57,128 crore to the central government for Accounting Year 2019-20 (July-June)

Naga insurgency and the peace talks with govt: History and situation so far

In this podcast, we will discuss about India's oldest insurgency, the demands of NSCN IM and rising tension between the Naga group and the interlocutor