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......

Will India See Return Of Two-Party Politics?

If only the Congress could rebuild on its strengths and develop a modern enough ideology, we could again be moving towards a clearer two-party political landscape, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE:......

I'll be in power by hook or crook to do good work, Nitish once said

"I shall be in power, by hook or by crook, but once I have power I will do good work," a 26-year-old Nitish Kumar is believed to have said, according to a book by a leading journalist. IMAGE: JD-U......

The sorry plight of Biharis

Left behind after election will be the Biharis with their stagnant conditions of poor education, poor health infrastructure, poverty, unemployment, divisions in society and the the aftermath of......

Former India pacer RP Singh's father dies of COVID

Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/IPL Former India pacer RP Singh lost his father Shiv Prasad Singh, who died on Wednesday in a Lucknow hospital due to COVID-19. The former skipper of the Uttar......