Modi government to focus on jobs, incomes in first budget after election setbackIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to mend voter relations in the upcoming federal budget, focusing on job and income boosts amid une...
18 Jul, 2024, 01.22 PM IST
Shivraj Chouhan set for Delhi journey after PM hints at bigger role for BJP stalwartThe BJP candidate is up against Pratap Bhanu Sharma, a Congressman who won the seat in 1980 and 1984 on the back of the post-Emergency Indi...
27 Apr, 2024, 11.30 AM IST
Win some, lose some: Bharat Jodo Yatra's electoral impact unevenThe assembly polls following the yatra has thrown up a mixed 2-2 result. Karnataka and Telangana went to the Congress but it suffered crush...
03 Dec, 2023, 11.17 PM IST
MP polls: Amid speculation on BJP's CM face, emotional Chouhan tells women they will miss their 'brother'"Meri behno, aisa bhaiya tumhe milega nahi. Jab main chala jaunga, tab tumhe yaad aaunga (sisters, you will not find a brother like this. W...
02 Oct, 2023, 08.09 PM IST
Congress ropes in poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu for this year's MP Assembly pollsAssembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are scheduled by the end of this year. Kanugolu is currently spearheading the Congress' campaign in Ka...
15 Apr, 2023, 02.23 PM IST
Tough road ahead for Mallikarjun Kharge as challenges galore for CongressKharge has many things favourable going for him as he assumed the party's top spot after a high-octane election, defeating a worthy opponen...
20 Oct, 2022, 04.30 PM IST
Will he, will he not: Congress' Rahul Gandhi dilemmaMost party leaders, including those known to be close to Gandhi, are unable to say with confidence whether he would give into the demands o...
19 Aug, 2022, 03.49 PM IST
When Madhavrao Scindia staged a 'dacoity' to spook Indian cricket starsThe anecdote, on the time the cricketers had been invited to play an exhibition match in Gwalior, is recounted in senior journalist Rasheed...
21 Jun, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
One year after lockdown: When political discourse became more acerbic, battleground shifted to virtual spaceThe tone was set on March 24, 2020 itself when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation in the evening and announced a lockdown fr...
25 Mar, 2021, 12.08 PM IST
Secrets will travel with me to my grave: Ahmed Patel when asked about penning memoirAhmed Patel, who died on Wednesday at a Gurugram hospital where he was admitted with COVID-19, could have been the tell-all leader offering...
25 Nov, 2020, 07.19 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh bypolls outcome to be litmus test for three satraps from stateThe polls will have a bearing on the political future of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his predecessor Kamal Nath and BJP leader Jy...
04 Nov, 2020, 10.46 AM IST
Digvijaya Singh, Salman Khurshid and Tariq Anwar -- the comeback men in Congress rejigThe massive organisational shake-up is also being seen as having a dominant Rahul Gandhi imprint with Randeep Singh Surjewala and Jitendra ...
12 Sep, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
Chaats, kebabs and prawns, gastronome Vajpayee loved a good platterA journalist who went on trips with Vajpayee recalled how he was the "most relaxed" PM she had ever travelled with as compared to his succe...
16 Aug, 2018, 07.50 PM IST
Congress may align with BSP to oust BJP in MP: Party leader hintsMP Congress chief Kamal Nath and state assembly election committee campaign chairman Jyotiraditya Scindia would be in favour of tying-up wi...
27 May, 2018, 08.24 PM IST
Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait at AMU sparks rowIn a letter written to Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor yesterday, Aligarh MP Satish Gautam objected to the Pakistan founder's picture on the ...
01 May, 2018, 08.20 PM IST
- When Indira Gandhi mistook haathi for haath
Now a just-released book details the hilarious telephone conversation between three senior Congress leaders - Indira Gandhi, Buta Singh and...
16 Jul, 2011, 10.14 AM IST
- PM firm against left veto of N-deal
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stands firm in the face of opposition from his govt's communist partners.
09 Aug, 2007, 11.40 AM IST