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Best of the Week: Why a US power play in Caracas matters to India's oil calculus

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Best of the Week is a weekly newsletter by Siddharth Sharma/Shravani Sinha. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your inbox. The dramatic US intervention in V... Read More


Ketan Parekh, the persistent ghoul of Dalal Street

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Ketan Parekh was a serial entrepreneur of systemic rot. First penalized for his role in the 1992 securities scam, he resurfaced by the turn of the millennium with a personalized... Read More


NCP candidate externed from city limits ahead of polls

India, Jan. 10 -- A major political development has shaken the Sangli Municipal Corporation election campaign, with the police issuing an externment order against a key candidate allied with deputy ch... Read More


Mint Explainer | Why the tax department is tightening compliance now

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- When presenting the Union budget last February, the government projected a 13% growth in direct tax collections for the current financial year, banking on the strong tax buoyancy... Read More


For candidates, rules are optional ahead of polls

India, Jan. 10 -- Aspiring corporators, presumably model citizens, have dropped all pretence of being guardians of civic order. In a move worthy of seasoned encroachers, they are colonising footpaths ... Read More


At LPU convocation, V-P exhorts students to give back to society

Jalandhar, Jan. 10 -- Lovely Professional University organised its 12th convocation ceremony on Friday, with India's Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan gracing the occasion as the chief guest. The unive... Read More


Superheroes, super satire: Thanos, Iron Man and Hulk join high-voltage BMC campaign

India, Jan. 10 -- With just days to go before Mumbai votes in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on January 15, an unexpected group of campaigners has descended on the city, not on... Read More


Now NCP, Sena forge pact with AIMIM in Beed

India, Jan. 10 -- Two days after the BJP faced flak after its local leaders forged post-poll alliances with the AIMIM in municipal council elections, the party's ruling allies in the state-level Mahay... Read More


Jalandhar police lodge FIR over 'doctored' Atishi video

Jalandhar, Jan. 10 -- The Jalandhar commissionerate police on Friday registered an FIR against unidentified persons over the alleged uploading and circulation of an "edited" and "doctored" video clip ... Read More


Air pollution in focus at citizens' meet in Bandra-Khar

India, Jan. 10 -- An urgent need to improve the air we breathe took centre stage, perhaps for the first time in a civic election, at a citizens' meet on Friday. Except for the Congress-Vanchit Bahuja... Read More