Sonia scripts Rahul’s return as Congress president
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has made it clear to her senior colleagues that Rahul Gandhi, and not Priyanka...
Manmohan critical of Rao, receives flak
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s observation, that the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 could have been avoided had the then Home...
Sharad Pawar emerges even stronger
It took less than a week for the Maratha strongman, Sharad Pawar to demonstrate that he continues to be the...
Pawar outplays Pawar in Maha stunt
The senior Pawar and his daughter claimed that there was a split in both the family and the party and...
Decongestion only way to save Delhi
For over a month, news regarding acute pollution in the national capital has been dominating the headlines. A blame-game has...
Pawar’s power impacts Maharashtra politics
It is not without any reason that Sharad Pawar is regarded as a master class in himself when it comes...
Lawyers-police tussle holds citizens hostage
The recent clashes in Delhi between lawyers and the police, and its aftermath, have highlighted three distinct issues, which if...
BJP should focus on Sangh’s icons
The Central government, while implementing its decision to reduce the status of Jammu and Kashmir from a full-fledged state to...
Chopra best Congress bet in Delhi
Fighting with its back to the wall in Delhi, where it has no seat in either the Assembly or Parliament,...
Both BJP and Congress get a wake-up call
NEW DELHI: The recently concluded elections to the Maharashtra and Haryana Assemblies have beyond any doubt established that political parties...
Nobody should second guess the Apex Court
There has been needless speculation regarding the Supreme Court verdict in the matter pertaining to the civil dispute in the...
Gandhis may lose SPG cover
NEW DELHI: The Gandhis—Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka—may lose their Special Protection Group (SPG) cover if the Centre accepts the recommendation...
Haryana result will impact Congress in Delhi
With the countdown having begun for the Assembly elections in both Maharashtra and Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party is all...
Centre revises SPG rules to ensure full compliance by Gandhis
Until recently, the Gandhis would travel with the SPG till their first location abroad, after which they would send the...
BJP wrests control of Gandhi’s legacy
The 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi brought to fore the political skills of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who...
Phalke award continues to elude women actors
Cine superstar, Amitabh Bachchan is, without a shadow of doubt, a worthy recipient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for...
Imran Khan seeking Taliban leadership
Recognising that Pakistan was on a verge of disintegration, Prime Minister Imran Khan has desperately been trying to assume the...
Congress leadership’s revival push is cosmetic
The Congress high command’s attempts to energise the party’s rank and file lack both commitment and direction. Earlier in the...
Elevating Selja in Haryana a Congress blunder
In his eagerness to replace Ashok Tanwar as the president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, former Chief Minister, Bhupinder...
Delhi Assembly polls may have surprises
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress continue to be in a dilemma on who should be projected as the...
Jaitley helped Modi navigate Lutyens politics
NEW DELHI: Former Finance Minister and senior BJP leader, Arun Jaitley, who passed away after prolonged illness on Saturday, was...
Arun Jaitley: BJP’s highly influential leader
I knew Arun Jaitley longer than any other journalist from the time he was residing at Model Town while studying...
Congress Syndicate outwits Indira’s grandson
The regressive move of the Congress Working Committee in reappointing Sonia Gandhi as the party president is clearly indicative of...
Modi provides healing touch to Kashmir
The Centre’s decision to change the basic structure of Jammu and Kashmir, following the abrogation of the controversial Article 370,...
