Three times a Congress leader gave up CM seat for party president postThe last time the party had a non-Gandhi president was in 1997 when Sitaram Kesri defeated Sharad Pawar and Rajesh Pilot. Sonia Gandhi took...
27 Sep, 2022, 07.31 PM IST
Jail was a 'torture camp' during Emergency, TN CM Stalin says in his autobiographyRecounting his entry into the Central Prison here the following arrest in 1976, Stalin in his autobiography described the jail time as a 't...
20 Mar, 2022, 05.14 PM IST
Stalin's event sets the tone for cohesion to pin down BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha pollsThe message of the event also made it clear that the DMK is poised to make concerted attempts to work towards a larger role for the party a...
28 Feb, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
Rally around to stop BJP's designs, Omar Abdullah tells like minded partiesWhen Article 370 was revoked on August 5, 2019, some of whom they had believed to be friends remained silent. Though they thought that such...
28 Feb, 2022, 10.18 PM IST
Opposition to attend M K Stalin's book launchWhile DMK ally Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will co-launch the book, other leaders are also expected to attend.
28 Feb, 2022, 12.25 AM IST
Bofors is example of case sabotaged by party with lot to hide: former CBI chief RaghavanIn his autobiography, Raghavan, who investigated the case as director of the CBI, writes scathingly about the role of the Congress but also...
21 Oct, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
Kanyakumari to Kashmir: How a few South Indians had vital links to Kashmir's modern historySouth India has a few vital links to Kashmir’s modern history, and by extension, to its destiny.
18 Aug, 2019, 03.20 PM IST
Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography has more readers in Kerala than his home state GujaratTill July this year, 620,000 copies of Mahatma's autobiography were printed in Gujarati by Navajivan Trust in comparison to 778,000 in Mala...
23 Nov, 2018, 11.07 PM IST
Tamil version of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography to be released on December 6Tamil version of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' will be released by actor-director Kamal Hassan on...
03 Dec, 2015, 03.44 PM IST
APJ Abdul Kalam: An embodiment of the new India storyHe was a President refreshingly whose messages were so attractive to the young precisely because they were so simple and straightforward.
28 Jul, 2015, 10.45 AM IST
Ghar wapsi: 100 years ago, Gandhi returned from S Africa to turn citizens into heroesHis ‘ghar wapsi’ after a ‘banwas’ of 22 years was hailed not just by urban and educated Indians who held receptions for him in Bombay.
09 Jan, 2015, 12.42 PM IST
- Rajiv Gandhi didn't consult even his cabinet on sending troops to Sri Lanka: Natwar Singh
The troops ended up fighting the now vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and returned home in March 1990 after losing nearly...
01 Aug, 2014, 12.17 PM IST
Living like Aam Aadmi: How former UPA ministers are living after 10 years in powerAs the Congress completes two months in Opposition, here is a look at how some of the leading ministers past are coping with life.
30 Jul, 2014, 05.00 AM IST
Mahatma Gandhi was a casteist: Arundhati RoyBooker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy on Thursday said it was time institutions named after the Father of the Nation were renamed.
18 Jul, 2014, 11.43 AM IST
Ex-foreign minister K Natwar Singh says Manmohan Singh given undue credit for reforms, nuclear-dealNatwar Singh was closely associated with the Nehru-Gandhi family since the days of Indira Gandhi, when he was in the PMO as an IFS officer.
28 Apr, 2014, 10.01 AM IST
From Bal Thackeray to Rahul Gandhi & Narendra Modi: How politicians’ sartorial styles have played a key role in IndiaClothing in Indian politics is evidently too serious an issue to be left out on a washing line.
12 Apr, 2014, 08.12 AM IST
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Akhila Srinivasan, the charismatic Managing Director of Shriram Life Insurance, believes in the therapeutic power of Carnatic music and yog...
03 Oct, 2006, 12.12 AM IST