Prez Poll: What Is Mamata's Game?

Mamata Banerjee's sights are not on the next month's Presidential election. She is focusing on another election that will take place in 2024. IMAGE: Mamata Banerjee with Sharad Pawar, H D Deve......

Why Kamal Haasan made the Godse remark now

'The Godse controversy may have helped Kamal Haasan reach out to a larger audience, both inside the state and outside, coming as it does when the main campaign for elections 19 is over and only......

Shiv ji ki baraat without a groom

India is mushrooming with Deve Gowda wannabes because being a former prime minister is better than being a former chief minister, says Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata......

Can Yechury step into Surjeet's big shoes?

Yechury could play the role Harkishan Singh Surjeet had played in 1996 and 2004 to unify the opposition, writes Archis Mohan. IMAGE: Yechury’s troubles within his party, however, are far......

Truckers end strike after pact with govt

The All India Motor Transport Congress on Saturday called off their seven-day old 'indefinite' truckers strike after it reached an agreement with government on the contentious issue of service tax......

Truckers' strike may end soon

An end to the indefinite strike by truck operators, which entered the seventh day, appeared in sight with Finance Minister P Chidambaram agreeing to meet them on the issue of levy of 10 per cent......

Surjeet unhappy with UPA govt's stand on FDI

Although over the last two days, there has been intensive contact between the top leadership of the United Progressive Alliance government and the Left parties on the issue of foreign direct......

Airport privatisation hangs in limbo

Notwithstanding Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel's announcement on FDI cap of 49 per cent for Mumbai and Delhi airport privatisation, the government it seems is planning to "rethink" the......

Anupam drags Surjeet to court

Former Censor Board Chairman Anupam Kher has initiated criminal proceedings in a magistrate's court against CPI-M General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet for allegedly describing him an 'RSS......

Anupam Kher threatens legal action

Blaming Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet for his unceremonious removal as chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification, Anupam Kher has sent a legal......

Does Kher deserve the boot?

Barely a year after he was appointed chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification by the Vajpayee government, Anupam Kher was sacked on Thursday.Kher has now threatened legal action against......