Subramanian Swamy believes he will be a better FM than Jaitley

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy believes he will be a better Finance Minister than the incumbent Arun Jaitley. "I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me,"......

Modi breaks the ice with Trump -- and stands to gain

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's phone call to Trump will help restore a degree of sanity to Indian statecraft and diplomacy, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com.......

Snubbed by Modi-Shah, Nitish reached out to Lalu

Nitish 'sent his emissary, Prashant Kishor, to me on five different occasions.''Kishor seemed to indicate that if I were to assure in writing my party's support to the JD-U, the latter would pull......

Exclusive! How India reached out to the Afghan Mujahideen

IMAGE: Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance fighters near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 2001. Photograph: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images 'It was a mission undertaken in darkness in every sense --......

The death of the yellow jersey

'Living in Brazil, I had internalised the football mythology of that country, the way I had learnt Mahabharata stories in my childhood.' 'The tragedy at the Maracana stadium in 1950, when a......