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The poll season is picking up with four politically important states going to elections in the next couple of months. These are the first major...

The apex court on Monday asked Prashant Bhushan to reveal the name of the whistleblower in a sealed envelope in the guest gate scam. The court asked...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to be out to wash the sins of three former prime ministers- BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Congress satraps...

The world got to know China through silk in the ancient times. In the 4th century BC, Greece called China as ‘silk country’. Julius Caesar, the great...

Rajnath Singh is not an extraordinary leader. Though he has been BJP chief twice over – a feat that puts him on a par with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK...

If statistics tell a story, it is a grim one.In 2007, the ministry of women and child development (WCD) said there are over three million women sex...

Few years ago I had the opportunity to work very closely with the Uttarakhand government as the then chief operating officer for the 108 government...

From Uttarakhand in July to Bihar in August and now in the assembly by-elections across several states, the results show that the high tide of the...

We had a very newsy week which just went by. A former Comptroller and Auditor General showed extra-ordinary entrepreneurship of converting a...

The goras or firingis who ruled over large parts of the subcontinent for centuries often appear to browns as an undifferentiated mass. That there are...

While going through ancient names of Delhi one may come across names like Dhilli, Dhillika, Yoginipura and Mihirapuri.   Such names have been found...

It has been sometime since you took charge of the ministry. List some significant achievements of this period?I think the most significant achievement...