In September last year, soon after Trinamool Congress left the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar from...

The public angst spectacles created by Arvind Kejriwal and his cohorts since the inception of India Against Corruption movement has failed to ...

Early morning golf has regained its charms. This winter it was bad for amateur golfers like us who use the ruse of swinging the club to be in company...

In the spring of 1999, the Congress party under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi had scored a major political victory on the floor of Lok Sabha with...

Few years back a colleague covering the education beat had startled me with the input that for the past several years none from Delhi University’s St...

The man credited with the framing of our Constitution, B R Ambedkar, while defining the nature of the Indian state, had mentioned, ‘The political...

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday presented a budget in Parliament which could have been much worse given the challenges faced by the UPA-II...

Last week while on a visit to India, British prime minister David Cameron expressed regret, short of an apology, on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of...

Weighed downed by the measures of his predecessors Mamata Banerjee and Lalu Prasad Yadav and the demands of his boss, prime minister Manmohan Singh,...

The meeting between Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna and Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Bhatt, who belongs to the...

The past week was politically very significant especially on the count of the course which the principal opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

There is trouble in the offing for Congress governments in Rajasthan and at the Centre. Rajasthan High Court has taken note of what is alleged to be a...