Himachal Pradesh votes on November 12: BJP eyes history, Congress seeks comeback, AAP wants to make a differenceAfter weeks of high-decibel campaigning by the ruling BJP and opposition Congress, it is now over to the voters in Himachal Pradesh.On Satu...
14 Nov, 2022, 10.04 PM IST
A dormant Congress is fuelling new opposition ambitionsIf Mamata Banerjee clearly overshadowed the Gandhis as the 'champion BJP slayer' of the year, keeping the Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka trio edgy, 2...
03 Jan, 2022, 09.35 AM IST
Assam's Grand Alliance in disarray with Congress' removal of AIUDF, exit by BPFThe CPM, another constituent of the Grand Alliance, has clarified that it has entered into seat sharing adjustment with the Congress during...
01 Sep, 2021, 11.48 PM IST
How India’s vaccine drive crumbled and left a country in chaosGiven India’s growing strategic importance, its wave of infections risks not only the fledgling recovery in Asia’s third-largest economy, b...
30 Apr, 2021, 12.08 PM IST
Congress 2020: Living a crisis & battling a nightmareFor Congress, life in 2020 has been worse than what the coronavirus-hit world endured. As the planet wakes up to the hope of a Covid vaccin...
29 Dec, 2020, 10.17 AM IST
Tarun Gogoi: The three-time Assam CM who broke the back of insurgencyKnown for outspokenness, Gogoi took over the reins of power in 2001, when insurgency in the state was at its peak and the economy was in di...
24 Nov, 2020, 12.24 AM IST
View: Why the protests remind us of Gandhi’s Khilafat movementWhat is remarkable about these protests is their organic nature. Muslim students took the lead. Having watched the government and Hindutva ...
12 Jan, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
Deliberated disruptions: BJP has mastered the art of accruing political dividendsBJP has mastered the art of accruing political dividends even as India passes through a turbulent stretch.
01 Sep, 2019, 03.05 PM IST
Ram Vilas Paswan remains LJP choice for Modi’s ministryRam Vilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan had been elected as Lok Sabha leader of the party.
29 May, 2019, 07.52 AM IST
What kind of leadership will lead India is the biggest issue: Amit Shah, BJP PresidentWe do not have a majority in Rajya Sabha. By 2020, we will have majority. We will also keep Citizenship Bill in our manifesto. This is our ...
01 Apr, 2019, 11.12 AM IST
All the Congress presidents: From family to foreignersOf the 15 people who led the 132-year-old party post independence, four belonged to the Gandhi-Nehru family.
11 Dec, 2017, 03.37 PM IST
Despite total control over India, here's why Modi can't take a BJP win in 2019 for grantedBJP's hegemony seems near complete with the president and possibly the veep emerging from the party, but that doesn’t make 2019 a foregone ...
23 Jul, 2017, 11.13 AM IST
View: When India is federal, why are its political parties still run by high commands?Over the long term national parties are bound to decline, never mind their periodic rise to glory, as happened with BJP in 2014.
10 Feb, 2017, 12.52 PM IST
How Mamata Banerjee is planning for opposition-mukt West BengalWith Didi’s dictate, her party men have been poaching into the Congress and Left parties to an extent of having control over the districts.
20 Aug, 2016, 10.19 AM IST
Year after most humiliating defeat, here is how Congress plans to rebuild itselfRahul Gandhi feels the Congress' revival after the crushing defeat in Lok Sabha polls is easy considering the many mistakes by the BJP gove...
28 Jun, 2015, 06.24 AM IST
Congress, BJP, AIUDF key players in AssamThe house of Asom Gana Parishad, which at one time dictated the direction of Assam politics, is in a state of disarray.
13 Mar, 2014, 12.37 PM IST
No govt possible without BJP or Cong: AdvaniAdvani rejects third front as theory & fourth front as farce.
21 Apr, 2009, 02.01 AM IST