'Even the President does not have the power to overrule the ECI.' A revealing excerpt from T N Seshan's Through the Broken Glass: An Autobiography. IMAGE: Then chief election commissioner T N......
'The Modi Model we see now is still the old Gujarat Model.''But with an acknowledgement that governing India is more challenging than governing Gujarat,' notes Shekhar Gupta. The Modi-Shah-BJP......
'Let us also not expect that there will be a clean break with the past much though the new government might like to think about it. In a functional democracy that is neither feasible nor desirable.......
'If the government starts playing favourites, if the government acts in a manner which is not transparent, then natural resources which belong to not just you and me, but future generations, they......
A recent speech by the chairman of the prime minister's economic advisory council, C Rangarajan, was interesting in that it directly addressed questions about the sustainability of India's high......
When it comes to running between the wickets -- which is exactly what an FM and a governor do -- Jadeja always defers to Dhoni's larger judgement of the situation and the needs of the team,......
It has become a journalistic cliche to club India and China together, based on the last four years' GDP growth in India. While many are expecting a fall in growth rate in the current year, Dr......
Coming down heavily against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for ordering an ‘unconstitutional’ FIR against him and others for raising gas prices, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily on......
The RBI governor has to convert the zero-sum game with the government from a non-cooperative one -- which his two predecessors had made it -- to a cooperative one, explains T C A Srinivasa......
North eastern states set to play Ranji Trophy next year The Committee of Administrators (COA) on Friday assured that all six north eastern states will be playing Ranji Trophy as individual units......