BJP ends deadlock over CM choice in Maharashtra

New Delhi: The BJP in Maharashtra has...

No Bribery Charges Against Adani : Ex Attorney General

New Delhi: Senior counsel and former Attorney...

Joyeeta Basu

Iraq receives $30 billion pledge for reconstruction, India ready to help

The international community got together in Kuwait this week, at the initiative of the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to pledge...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

BJP confident OBCs have blunted Hardik factor in Gujarat

Information coming from Gujarat suggests that there may have been a massive consolidation of OBC (Other Backward Classes) votes in favour of the Bharatiya...

‘Think 2019, don’t delay reforming GST’

The twin measures of demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax have dealt a blow to trade in Gujarat, particularly to the jewellery and textile...

Congress has messed up second phase ticket distribution: Shankarsinh Vaghela

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress earlier this year and resigned from the state Assembly, has formed a new party,...

Modi-powered BJP gears up for tough Gujarat contest

Gujarat appears to have developed into a contest between the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress, ahead of the 9 and 14...

Ghatlodiya begs to differ: A Gujarat election diary

“Hum to Modi-ke aashiq hai (we all are in love with Modi),” replies a trader of paints and hardware at a shop on the...

P-5 of UNSC is a bit outdated: Finland Foreign Minister

Finland’s Foreign Minister Timo Soini, who was also that country’s Deputy Prime Minister, was in New Delhi to attend the Fifth Global Conference on...

Mukul Roy vows to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from power

Mukul Roy, one of the architects of West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC), and for long the second-in-command to Mamata Banerjee in the state and...

BJP plans a political earthquake for Mamata

Politics in West Bengal is set to undergo tectonic shifts that will impact the political future of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The BJP central...

Silence of the ‘liberals’

The silence in the “liberal” space over the spate of communal violence in West Bengal is getting deafening. “Civil” society members, who were out...

Silence of the ‘liberals’

The silence in the “liberal” space over the spate of communal violence in West Bengal is getting deafening. “Civil” society members, who were out...

Silence of the ‘liberals’

The silence in the “liberal” space over the spate of communal violence in West Bengal is getting deafening. “Civil” society members, who were out...

EC is right, Kejriwal needs to introspect, not throw mud

The theatre of the absurd is in town, with its varied cast of characters acting out their parts in a bizarre manner, which is...

EC is right, Kejriwal needs to introspect, not throw mud

The theatre of the absurd is in town, with its varied cast of characters acting out their parts in a bizarre manner, which is...

EC is right, Kejriwal needs to introspect, not throw mud

The theatre of the absurd is in town, with its varied cast of characters acting out their parts in a bizarre manner, which is...

Left-liberal against right only creates hatred

It’s a war out there. Every possible medium of communication—be it the mainstream media or the not-so-social media—is caught in a vortex of constant...

Left-liberal against right only creates hatred

It’s a war out there. Every possible medium of communication—be it the mainstream media or the not-so-social media—is caught in a vortex of constant...

Left-liberal against right only creates hatred

It’s a war out there. Every possible medium of communication—be it the mainstream media or the not-so-social media—is caught in a vortex of constant...

Anxiety in Bengal as radicalism gathers speed

Infiltration, demographic change and radicalisation of a section of the minority population are issues in the West Bengal elections this time, at least in...

Of brothers, rent collectors and absentee MLA: A Bengal Diary

The infectious enthusiasm to vote for Mamata Banerjee, which was so apparent in the 2011 Assembly elections in West Bengal, is missing in 2016....

CPM, Congress bank on arithmetic in Bengal

Desperation, some call it pragmatism, has driven the moribund Left and Congress in each other’s arms in West Bengal. Both are fighting for their...

‘Mamata treats clerics as mouthpieces of Muslims for the sake of votes’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s policy towards Muslims, a community that can be a deciding factor in as many as 85-100 seats, or...

BJP rising in Kashmir, will take time to peak

There was a time, not too long ago, when Altaf Thakur, a Kashmiri Muslim, was denied treatment for his child by a doctor at...

Rural Kashmir upbeat, will keep thronging booths

READY TO VOTE Rural, and some parts of urban Kashmir will vote, and vote with a gusto. Last Tuesday's record turnout of 71% in the...

‘Discourse has changed in Kashmir’

Separatist leader Sajjad Gani Lone's political party, People's Conference, is fighting the Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir after 27 years. Lone, the son...

My meeting with PM has united PDP, NC: Sajjad Lone

People's Conference leader Sajjad Gani Lone's recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has united" Omar Abdullah's National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic...

Mufti Saab will be CM, I’m happy as MP: Mehbooba

Mehbooba Mufti, a Member of Parliament, does not want to be Chief Minister if her People's Democratic Party comes to power in Jammu and...

Pak mobilised infantry unit during cross-border fire

Pakistan mobilised its Northern Light Infantry, an Army unit based in Gilgit, during the severe cross-border firing with India on the International Border that...

‘Pak intentionally targeted our civilian population’

Rakesh Sharma, Inspector General, Jammu Region, of the Border Security Force spoke to Joyeeta Basu about the heavy cross-border firing between Pakistani and Indian...

Shell-shocked Arnia wants to know why

Arnia still does not understand why. Why from the night of 2-3 October Pakistani shells started raining down on this semi-rural town of 25,000...

Thought leaders encourage young entrepreneurs

A clutch of international achievers with interesting life stories to tell converged on Muscat as part of the Open Minds thought leadership forum organised...

‘Red tape affects India’s tourism’

Adverse publicity over incidents of rape may not be the only reason why international tourist footfall to India has decreased, feels Tony Wheeler, the...

Jeffrey Archer chooses India for launch of new book

British author Jeffrey Archer will launch the fifth book of his Clifton Chronicles series in India in February next year, ahead of its global...

Highway gossip, sold-out media and Modi roti: A Varanasi diary

The highway gossip in Varanasi is about the "something that is going on" in Uttar Pradesh. "Kuchh to chal raha hai, andar andar," say...

Doshipura Shias want Modi and electricity

The Muslims of Doshipura, an enclave of Shia weavers in the Sunni dominated Adampur, are the latest "tourist" attraction in Varanasi for their vocal...

Race in Varanasi is for second place

If there is a race in Varanasi, it is for the second place. The winner, as locals say, was decided on 24 April, the...

It’s Modi spring in Mathura

Hope springs in Mathura at the mention of Narendra Modi. Eyes brighten, smiles break out on young and old faces. The groundswell of support...

Katheria locked in a close fight with Suman

The battle for Agra will be formidable, with the BSP and the BJP locked in a close fight in this reserved constituency. The BJP...

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Mathura's Congress workers, some of them Muslims, had a major complaint against Hema Malini: because of her, the ancient Dwarkadhish temple kept its doors...

My heart belongs to the elephant

The village of Kalwari in Fatehpur Sikri constituency is a civic nightmare. Water shortage is a major problem here; open drains cut through village...

The ‘Rani’ of Badhawar is SP candidate from Fatehpur Sikri

The Samajwadi Party candidate from Fatehpur Sikri may officially go by the name of Rani Pakshalika Singh, but is devoid of the fuss associated...

Pranab got a bridegroom’s welcome

President Pranab Mukherjee looked grim only once during his interaction with media onboard Air India One while returning from Bangladesh on Tuesday evening: when...

Dhaka mulls banning violent Jamaat

Bangladesh is considering banning the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami, the party that was part of the ruling coalition headed by Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party between...

Pranab will visit in-laws, speak in Bengali when in Dhaka

President Pranab Mukherjee will address the Bangladesh Parliament in Bengali during his 3-5 March visit to that country. This will be Mukherjee's first visit...

Mamata’s voters want Kalam as President

Mamata Banerjee knows her voters well. The evening she dropped Abdul Kalam's name on Sonia Gandhi's head as one of her choices as President,...

Rafale has an Aadhar connection

Rafale, the French medium multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA), which was selected by India for a $18 billion deal has an interesting link with...

Typhoon blew off US fighter

The Eurofighter Typhoon has emerged as the number one aircraft, ahead of Dassault's Rafale, in a Ministry of Defence evaluation for the $10 billion...

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