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,...
Congress revival appears a distant dream
Two momentous dates—9 August and 15 August, which are etched in the public consciousness of Indian citizens—are fast approaching, but...
Sheila’s hat-trick saga
Sheila Dikshit, perhaps, will go down in history not only as Delhi’s longest serving Chief Minister, but also as a...
Priyanka attempts to fill Rahul’s void
It is more than evident that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is attempting to emerge as the front ranking Congress leader after...
Gandhis uneasy of being let down
The delay in naming the successor of Rahul Gandhi could be on account of an inherent fear amongst the Gandhis...
Sushma, Sumitra, Shanta and Dhasmana likely to be named Governors
New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, erstwhile Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, senior BJP leaders Kalraj Mishra, Shanta...
Nusrat Jahan, a symbol of liberal India
Nusrat Jahan, the newly elected Trinamool Congress MP from Basirhat in West Bengal, appears to be emerging as the new...
Gandhis now look towards Shinde to lead the Congress
New Delhi: Discussions have reached the conclusive stage for selecting the next Congress president as Rahul Gandhi’s successor, notwithstanding the...
Pedestrianising Connaught Place is a pedestrian idea
A hare-brained scheme of pedestrianising Connaught Place appears to be the latest obsession of the Indian bureaucracy. The New Delhi...
Sonia cold to Rahul’s campaign against EVMs
New Delhi: Acting on a report submitted earlier in the week by Praveen Chakravarty, chairman of the Data Analytics Department...
Complications galore with one nation one poll
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again initiated the debate on “One Nation One Poll”, which entails coinciding the terms...
Rahul’s own team fed his PM hopes right up to poll defeat
The events during the run-up to the counting revealed that either Rahul Gandhi was of an over-trusting nature or was...
