'They were as late as June 2023 and they did not follow it up with concrete measures immediately in terms of a secretariat or common minimum programme, working group or seat sharing etc.''They......
The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and green revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country's......
There they were, showing the world that there are still people motivated not by religious structures, not by past glories, not by hatreds deliberately stoked. These were ordinary folks doing......
'Despite being Bihar chief minister twice and an MLA for over three decades, he and my mother used to stay in a jhopri in our village.' IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pays floral tribute......
Meeting Karpoori Thakur, the twice chief minister of a volatile state like Bihar, where he was reviled and respected in equal measure, was always easy for me and anybody who sought his audience.......
Since jobs will remain scarce for the foreseeable future, an unemployment allowance should be the next big social-security initiative, suggests T N Ninan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
It is largely due to his vision and efforts that we have almost quadrupled our per capita milk availability in the last 40 years, points out Shailesh Dobhal. IMAGE: Dr Verghese Kurien cuts a cake......
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's biopic Main Atal Hoon reveals the pitfalls of making films on political figures: The maker has to be careful not to offend any followers. It often results in bland......
Hope this film will teach Indians the value of their rights and the perils of exchanging those for 'economic development' or promises of a better future by a populist leader, notes Utkarsh Mishra.......
Mouni raises the temperature... Saiee wants to kiss... Aditi bonds with Gigi... Photograph: Kind courtesy Anupam Kher/Instagram After Kangana Ranaut unveiled her look as Indira Gandhi in her......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Kangana Ranaut/Instagram Shatrughan Sinha has a few wise words about the events of the day, including Kangana Ranaut's most controversial statements about India's......
IMAGE: A COVID-19 patient waits to be allocated a bed at the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital in New Delhi, April 22, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo Kevin Pietersen has frequently......