Godhra riots: HC awards life term to 11 for murder

Setting aside the trial court order acquitting the accused, the Gujarat high court on Thursday sentenced eleven persons to life imprisonment for the murder of two persons during a 2002 post-Godhra......

The Mamata and Mayawati factor

T V R Shenoy deciphers the meaning of the recent by-election results. It is hard to draw definitive conclusions from a batch of by-elections scattered across India. On the other hand, thirty-one......

Bypolls: Left crumbles, Maya stages a comeback

The Left Front, on the back foot since the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year, suffered yet another reverse when its twin citadels of West Bengal and Kerala crumbled under a determined Opposition......

When a man dances

The happy part about commuting to the tail end of Mumbai to catch an afternoon show is being allowed to watch it undisturbed. So when I turned up hot and sweaty in a cool, dim Malad theatre to......