India’s spin legend E.A.S. Prasanna on Tuesday hailed Sri Lankan record-breaking offie Muttiah Muralitharan as the greatest ever.
“He’s the best I’ve seen and by a long mile. What he has accomplished despite bearing the brunt of so many controversies is incredible,” Prasanna told this newspaper on the day.

The Centre will take a relook at its anti-Naxal strategy in a meeting with chief ministers of the Naxal-affected states on July 14. The meeting, expected to be addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will discuss the proposals placed before the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which includes appointing military advisers to the

With worries of a monsoon receding, market watchers are now waiting for the first quarter results season — which starts with Infosys next week. Analysts expect a moderation in India Inc’s performance —growth rates are expected to fall and lower margins are expected. Sectors expected to do well include metals, financial services and automobiles. Telecom and cement are expected to be the laggards during the quarter.

Minister of forest & environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh, announced the scrapping of two major hydel projects, the Pala Maneri (480 mw) and the Bhaironghati (381 mw) on the Bhagirathi river.

The policy making arm of the telecom department — the Telecom Commission will meet on Wednesday to discuss the recommendations of the Sam Pitroda panel appointed by the Prime Minister, to divest 30 per cent stake in the PSU and voluntary retire around one lakh staff.

Leader of the Opposition Partha Chatterjee on Tuesday moved a privilege motion against chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee claiming he had intentionally misled the House while making a statement on Nanoor. “In reply to RSP member Tapan Hore’s query, Mr Bhattacharjee said that Birbhum SP was transferred following the

The government has come out with a discussion paper on opening the mutli-brand retail to foreign direct investment.
Favouring opening up of the multi-brand retail to foreign investment, the discussion paper said that there was a lack of investment in the logistics of the retail chain sector d

Mr Jaganmohan Reddy tried several times to convince the Congress high command of his Odarpu yatra’s objective but to no avail. Around a week back, he had called on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by his mother, sister and wife to explain to her the reasons behind his Odarpu yatra. It was said that the Congress chief

India is working towards achieving population stabilisation. Speaking on World Population Day, Dr Abhijit Das, director of Center for Social Justice (CHSJ), said that the overall contraceptive usage has increased from 41 per cent in 1992-93 (NFHS1 — pre-ICPD) to 56 per cent in 2005-06 (NFHS 3). For rural India this increase has been from 37 per cent to 53 per cent.

The Congress managers are comfortable with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and are not at all worried about the issue-based unity of Opposition members ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning July 26.