The annual budget was presented on February 1 and the allocation for the Defence Ministry offers some instructive insights about how India plans to nurture its military -- that is, the three armed forces: the army, navy and air force. ....

It takes an average of 261 days for a parliamentary law to come into force, according to a report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a think-tank. ....

Every year tax payers wait with baited breath hoping for a fair and better deal from a system which has been showing hardly any mercy on them. The tax-paying community feels like the modern day oppressed class which is bearing all the brunt silently. They have no voice but they are pivotal to the system which cannot do without them. ....

Punjab may have been unfair to women in terms of its sex ratio, but the percentage of female voters was clearly higher than male voters in the just-concluded assembly elections in the state. ....

Elections for the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, Indias largest state -- 138 million voters -- start on February 11, but 40 PER CENT of its voters said they still don't know which political party they will vote for, according to a new survey conducted by by FourthLion Technologies, a data analytics and public opinion polling firm, for IndiaSpend. ....

The Union Budget for 2017-18 was easily the most anticipated one in recent times. The public was seeking the government's policy stance after its bold attack on black money with demonetisation. On a related note, the market was also looking forward to the government's response to the demonetisation-induced slowdown. ....

Some are playing musical chairs, some are behaving like jumping jacks and a few are ending up as jokers as well in this circus of great election-entertainments. ....

While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004. ....

The tradition of Jallikattu is many thousands of years old in Tamil Nadu. The recent ban on this festive event has the entire state up in arms. ....

The 2012 assembly polls were largely centred on the man of the moment, Goa's seniormost BJP leader who promised hope and change: Manohar Parrikar. ....