TMC and BJP brace for key Bengal bypolls

The bypolls are pivotal for TMC and...

Ignored Living Heritage of Jammu Shivaliks

A wake-up call for policymakers and historians. Grandmother...

Global South in focus, PM Modi heads for BRICS Summit

Kazan, Russia: The overarching agenda of India...

Abhinandan Mishra

BJP shocked by UP defeats

The BJP’s defeat in Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary bypolls has come as a deep shock for the party leadership who had never imagined that...

RSS goes on expansion mode

The increasing workload and the expansion plans that the RSS is working on are said to be the reasons behind increasing the number of...

Congress starts digitisation process

Congress president Rahul Gandhi is particular about digitisation of the party workers’ network and has asked the AICC to maintain online details of every...

Electoral necessities behind BJP’s latest Rajya Sabha nominations

Electoral usefulness, apart from loyalty and caste equation in their respective states, was what the BJP leadership looked into while selecting candidates for the...

Mamata’s leaders in CBI crosshairs, action soon

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to arrest key political leaders belonging to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), for their alleged...

Agencies are monitoring PC’s top babus

Retired bureaucrats, who were at top positions in the Ministry of Finance during 2007 and 2008 and played a crucial role in the clearances...

BJP’s Sanjay Paswan wants ties with Nitish severed

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Sanjay Paswan has made an appeal to his party to “gather the strength to walk...

Pak’s action against Hafiz mere eyewash

Pakistan’s “action plan” against Lashkar-e-Tayyaba chief Hafiz Saeed, formulated in the face of growing international pressure on it to erase its home-grown terror network,...

Shivraj Chouhan’s wife Sadhana may join politics

Sadhana Singh, the wife of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, is likely to assume a political role in the coming months, Bhopal...

It’s Gehlot vs Pilot as leadership issue lingers

The leadership issue in Rajasthan Congress is far from over as supporters of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot are putting pressure on the party...

Antwerp media stands by local boy Nirav

The media in the Belgian city of Antwerp, where diamond merchant Nirav Modi grew up, has taken a sympathetic approach to the “Antwerper” or...

Bank officers talk of systemic failure

Coming out in the open against the alleged victimisation of bankers in view of the financial scams, especially the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam,...

Vigilance award given to Punjab National Bank by CVC questioned

The vigilance awards given by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to government bodies and individuals for carrying out good practices to curb corruption, have...

Fugitive Economic Offenders’ Bill may spell trouble for Nirav, ilk

The troubles for absconding diamond businessman Nirav Modi are likely to escalate by several notches once Parliament re-convenes on 5 March. In all probability,...

‘PNB brass must have known about Nirav’

Officials investigating the Nirav Modi-Punjab National Bank case believe that the alleged scam involving a sum of Rs 11,400 crore, which had been going...

Rahul presses reset button on majority-minority issues

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is being accused by his detractors of practising “soft Hindutva”, as is apparent from his newfound love for temples,...

RAW entrusted with bringing back Nirav Modi

In an unprecedented action, India’s external agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has now been entrusted with the responsibility to use its resources and...

Nirav’s offices were raided by I-T last year

It is unlikely that officials in the North block, which houses the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, was unaware of...

‘Autonomy of Prasar Bharati will be respected’

Prasar Bharati chairman A. Surya Prakash has complained to the top leadership of the country that “gross, repeated and unwanted interference” from a few...

Pak increases Masood Azhar’s security

Pakistan has increased the security of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar after the terrorist group “successfully” carried out a terror attack in Sunjwan Army installation...

Special courts will fast-track trial of 1,581 politicians from 1 March

Twelve exclusive special courts, set up in 11 states, are scheduled to start hearing criminal cases against 1,581 parliamentarians and lawmakers of different states...

Differences surface within NDA, grand alliance in Bihar

The upcoming 11 March by-polls for one Lok Sabha seat (Araria) and two Assembly seats (Jahanabad and Bhabua) in Bihar, the date for which...

Gehlot may be Congress’ CM face in Rajasthan

There is a feeling among the Congress’ Rajasthan unit’s rank and file that Ashok Gehlot will be the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate in the ...

J&k govt spent Rs 11 crore on separatists’ upkeep

The Jammu and Kashmir government has spent Rs 11 crore in the last 10 years on the transportation and security of 14 Hurriyat leaders....

Pak searched and searched, failed to find spying device in Jadhav wife’s shoes

Pakistan’s security agencies have not found anything suspicious in Chetna Jadhav’s shoes that were confiscated by the Pakistani agencies when she went to Islamabad...

UP police carries out 15 encounters in two days

Continuing with its war against anti-social elements in Uttar Pradesh, the UP police carried out a staggering 15 encounters in the last two days...

Group planning terror attacks in U.S.: FBI report

A radical Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Fuqraa, which also goes by the name of “Muslims of America” (MOA) and is active in America and Canada and has...

Baloch leader confirms Jadhav was picked up from Iran, sold to ISI

The elusive leader of a major rebel group fighting for the independence of Balochistan, Dr Allah Nazar Baloch has gained iconic status in Balochistan...

DRDO lab up in arms against scientist’s transfer

The employees of the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), which is regarded as one of the most distinguished labs of the Defence Research and Development...

BJP likely to drop MLAs in MP to fight anti-incumbency

The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh will drop a considerable number of its sitting MLAs and will not repeat some of the candidates who...

Cash in Sonagachi, cages in Kamathipura

Happy that business is on an all-time high, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, Asia’s biggest hub, are now seeking new flats to relocate because...

Pak copy-pasting Indian dossiers to prepare fake report

Sources in the security establishment told The Sunday Guardian that Pakistan’s ISI is actually trying to convince the international community that India is a...

Mallya may use ‘crisis’ in judiciary to escape extradition

The perceived crisis in the Indian judiciary may be used by fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya as a ground to escape extradition to India, if...

Kamal Nath’s supporters want him as Congress treasurer

The supporters of senior Congress leader and old Gandhi family loyalist Kamal Nath are hoping that the nine-time Lok Sabha MP from Chhindwara in...

RSS will get a new general secretary

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will get a new sarkaryavaha or general secretary in March after the organisation holds its internal “election”, scheduled in...

Ajit Jogi starts hosting US-style fund raising dinners

The Ajit Jogi-led Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) is raising funds for the party by holding paid dinners for its patrons and supporters, an exercise...

ISIS expanding in Pak

Pakistan witnessed more than one terror attack every day in 2017 (370 terror attacks), which included 24 suicide attacks that claimed the life of...

Sentences served, but Indian prisoners still in Pak jails

Of the 52 Indian civilians who are in Pakistani jails, 41 have already completed their prison terms but still continue to languish there. The...

Congress workers want CM faces for MP, Chhattisgarh polls

Congress workers and party functionaries have asked the party high command to announce Chief Minister faces in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, states which go...

US may name Hafiz’s Milli League as terrorist outfit

Milli Muslim League (MML), the political outfit floated by Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, is likely to be proscribed by the United States as...

Al Qaeda exhorts Pak, Bangla terrorists to fight ‘Kashmir jihad’

Al Qaeda, which had announced its “branch” in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year, has exhorted its “fighters” from Pakistan, Bangladesh and other regions...

‘Corrupt babus may make BJP’s return to power in Madhya Pradesh difficult’

The BJP may have to struggle to retain Madhya Pradesh when it goes to polls next year, courtesy the “corrupt babus” of the state,...

Mystery surrounds Kulbhushan Jadhav’s medical certificate

The medical report of Kulbhushan Jadhav, which was released by the Pakistan government, has raised questions instead of convincing the international community that the...

CBI’s 2G case became shaky from Ranjit Sinha’s time

A list of more than 120 witnesses ranging from a peon in the Department of Telecom to the group president of Reliance, and 654...

BJP in Bihar unhappy being younger brother to JDU

The Bihar unit of  the BJP is unhappy with partner Janata Dal United (JDU), barely five months after the two parties rejoined hands in...

Former senior journalist may be sent to RS by AAP

A former senior journalist who has served as a Cabinet minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government is likely to be sent to the...

‘Infiltration decreasing through India-Bangla border’

The number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals, who have been caught while trying to infiltrate into India through the 2,200 km long India-Bangladesh border in...

CBI charge-sheet against Lalu inside 45 days

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its charge-sheet “within 45 days” in the alleged corruption case related to the railway tender scam,...

India uneasy as left set to gain power in nepal

With Nepal’s Left Alliance, an alliance formed between the country’s former Maoist rebels, CPN Maoist and the Communists, CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal-Unified-Marxist–Leninist), heading...

K.C. Tyagi may replace Sharad Yadav in RS

The date for the bypoll for a Rajya Sabha seat from Bihar, which fell vacant after former JDU president Sharad Yadav’s disqualification, is likely...

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