Indira Gandhi Or Modi: Who's India's Strongest PM?

Mrs Gandhi's power ebbed and peaked with the times. Mr Modi's has almost been constant, barring the few months of hard dip after the 240 seats of 2024, points out Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime......

What Is Operation Kagar About?

During Operation Kagar, 350 Naxalites have been killed so far, including some of the movement's top leaders. IMAGE: Security forces unload the bodies of Maoists killed in Narayanpur, May 21, 2025.......

Will Sunak be re-elected? Voting begins in UK polls

The future of Rishi Sunak as Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party hangs in the balance as polling booths opened across the United Kingdom on Thursday, with millions......

UK: Brown to step down as Labour Party chief, PM

In a dramatic development, Prime Minister Gordon Brown saidhe will step aside as leader of the Labour party and as prime minister on Monday, and offered to help forge an alliance with the Liberal......

UK minister admits deadlock over visa bond scheme

UK home secretary Theresa May, the driving force behind plans to introduce a controversial 3,000 pound visa bond for visitors from certain countries including India, has admitted the scheme remains......

Indian economy is like a man with aggravated hydrocele

'The Indian economy has become like a car that has the appropriate wheels on one side -- political liberalism -- and scooter wheels -- economic illiberalism -- on the other,' points out T C A......

Why govt banks will not be privatised

'There is a law that prevents the government from diluting its equity in the PSBs below 50 per cent.''That law has to be amended and given the parliamentary arithmetic of the political parties, it......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......