Why are the poor turning Right instead of turning toward far-Left parties, ponders Pranab Bardhan.
'All great players have to call time one day but his retiring makes me sad and brings back a lot of precious memories. He deserved a grand send-off but again he is beyond that'
A petition was today filed in the Bombay high court seeking direction to the city police to register an FIR against Mumbai police chief and others over a poem in their house journal which termed last year's Azad Maidan protesters as "snakes" and "traitors" whose hands should be "chopped off".
Unfazed by strident criticism of his cousin Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray over his anti-Bihari remarks, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday sought a permit system to check the influx of Bihari migrants into Mumbai.
As Raazi hit theatres, Harinder Sikka -- author of Calling Sehmat, the book on which the film is based -- reveals the thrilling real life story of an Indian spy named Sehmat.
Sources pointed out that according to initial feedback received during the meetings, the party did not properly handle issues such as the Aam Aadmi Party government's announcement of freebies and the anti-citizenship law protest at Shaheen Bagh.
The Mumbai police were put in a spot over a poem published in its in-house journal terming last year's Azad Maidan protesters as "snakes" and "traitors" whose hands should have been "chopped off", following which it has assured to issue an unconditional apology.
The party had supported CAB in Lok Sabha. Sena MP said the govt did not give satisfactory answers to the concerns raised by the party.
'Having fared not too successfully in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the BJP can't afford to disappoint its supporters in Delhi,' says Amulya Ganguli.
National Conference leader Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday blamed the media for misconstruing his remark that ''Government of India was the real enemy of the Jammu and Kashmir'', and said that he was being victimised by some vested interests.
AITA Secretary General Bharat Oza said that Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna can reach out to the executive committee and appeal against the punishment handed to them on the ground of indiscipline.
Sartaj said that what his son did was "not in the country's interest". "We will not accept the body of an anti-national," he said.
Pakistan's embattled former ambassador to United States, Husain Haqqani, fears he will be murdered if he leaves his sanctuary in the official residence of the Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, a media report said on Wednesday.
Riyaz Bhatkal had reportedly fled with a large amount of money from the IM's coffers. Riyaz, who hails from the coastal town of Bhatkal, was in possession of Rs 38 lakh that was collected through hawala transactions and donations. The money was supposed to be used for terror operations in and around Karnataka.But the blasts near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore in April, 2010, were not a costly affair at all.
It is to Vajpayee's credit that he told Dilip Kumar to ignore Thackeray and to follow his own conscience. But the episode -- as indeed, the manner in which Dilip Kumar has been made to pay for being a Muslim throughout his life -- shames us all as Indians, says Vir Sanghvi.
"To protect AIADMK, everybody should join hands with OPS (Panneerselvam)," Madusudanan said, adding that he did not want the party to get into the hands of a single family.
The police, however, told the former chief minister that he could not be arrested as there was no case registered against him.
'I don't believe that it beholds democracies like us who claim to be the largest democracy in the world, to have such a thin skin about the possibility of foreign commentary.'
The Bharatiya Janata Party's youth wing on Tuesday termed the Congress 'more dangerous' than Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, alleging that some of its prominent leaders are 'facilitating' traitors by insulting martyrs and dividing the nation on the lines of religion. "The Congress is more dangerous for the unity of the country than Pakistan-sponsored terrorism," said BJYM national president Anurag Thakur.
A Ganesh Nadar visits Ramanathapuram in poll-bound Tamil Nadu and meets Congress MLA K Hasan Ali, whom his opponents dub as 'traitor' for being a friend to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse.
'Almost exclusively, their interest was in the work that we were doing that they thought of as being "anti-national". One of them even used that specific word,' says Aakar Patel.
The special court of Islamabad on December 17 last handed down the death penalty to 74-year-old Musharraf after six years of hearing the high-profile treason case against him. The case was filed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government in 2013.
'We have unleashed a nastiness and viciousness in ourselves that had been bottled up before.' 'This government has helped uncork it, possible forever, and to my mind that is its most significant achievement.'
Rights activist Binayak Sen, released on bail while serving a life sentence for sedition and links with Maoists, on Monday night asserted he is not a 'traitor' and said the Supreme Court observation in his case will have 'deep political implication.'
Here are some of the reactions to Pragya Singh Thakur's remarks that Godse was a deshbhakt.
Yattoo, who hailed from Budgam district of central Kashmir, had a long association with Hizbul Mujahideen and was responsible for keeping alive the prolonged unrest of 2016 following the killing of group's commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will embark on "a 1,00,000 km long yatra" on Tuesday from Jhansi in Madhya Pradesh "to awaken people about corruption and black money". The yoga guru told reporters there were "two kinds of people in this country, honest and traitors". He claimed that all honest people were with him in his fight against corruption and black money. The aim of the yatra was to awaken people on the issue of "Rs 4,00,000 crore black money stashed in foreign countries,".
'...It won't help the party run a peaceful and equitable India,' warns Vir Sanghvi.
A day before the crucial trust vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly, Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar checks out the mood in the AIADMK hq.
In Jaffrabad, Maujpur, Yamuna Vihar, Chand Bagh, Mustafabad and Bhajanpura, which were among the areas worst hit by the communal violence, there were more vehicles and people on the roads than in the last five days.
The apex court lashed out at the law enforcing agencies for allowing the 'instigators of violence' to get away and said they should act as per law without waiting for somebody's nod.
The classic Marathi movie Simhasan would be an interesting watch today as it draws a parallels to the current political turmoil in Maharashtra.
After being released on bail by the Supreme Court while serving a life sentence for sedition and links with Maoists, Binayak Sen is ready to campaign for others who have been languishing in jails over similar charges.
Countering the opposition claim that farmers across the country are agitated over the three new laws, he said that those in just one state are being misinformed and instigated.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked fishermen and people residing in coastal belts to be always vigilant and alert as "terrorists, traitors and mischief makers" would prefer to sneak into the country through the coast.
Before the event, many right-wing activists protested outside the venue. One of the protesters also hurled black ink on the poster of Shah.
A little over a week after he was warned away from the Surrey Baisakhi parade, Liberal lawmaker Ujjal Dosanjh received more threats. This time they were posted on Facebook with messages calling him 'a Sikh traitor' and posts like 'someone shoot him ASAP.'
WADA is at the heart of the biggest doping scandal in years after three Russian whistleblowers went to the media and exposed a massive systematic doping scheme in the country across many sports and involving more than 1,000 athletes.
Tension heightened in Osmania University campus on Tuesday after another student committed suicide in protest against the delay in formation of Telangana state.
Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf was on Monday indicted by a special court hearing the high treason case against him, becoming the first ever military ruler to face criminal prosecution.
