Here's a list of the full first-time ministers in the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
Psephologist Sandeep Shastri explains to Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com how Narendra Modi scripted the BJP's triumph.
In the first of a two-part series, Business Standard examines the impact of the upcoming summer on agriculture and drinking water supply.
BJP's overwhelming win in UP shows that 2014 was no fluke, says R Jagannathan.
The well-irrigated states of Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, western Uttar Pradesh and coastal states such as Odisha are, for the first time, feeling the effects of a poor monsoon.
'Besides electoral opportunism, a sustained vilification of AMU on one or the other pretext helps them sustain their 'everyday communalism', the new strategy of the BJP of the Narendra Damodardas Modi-Amit Anilchandra Shah era,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
There have been several instances of traders dumping fruits and vegetables outside mandis. Or of farmers dumping produce outside their villages or feeding them to their animals.
Poor rain threatens recovery in production this season, sugar prices at three-month high
These restaurants should be on your bucket list this winter!
Majority of 'Bimaru' states register faster fall in rural poverty, while pace mostly other way round for others
Made at a budget of Rs 75 crore, the film needs to make Rs 150 crore to break even and book profits.
'Yeh dil maange more' seems to be mantra for over two dozen former chief ministers of various states who are contesting upcoming Lok Sabha elections on different party tickets.
Should the party expand to Punjab, Bihar and other places, or should it consolidate its gains in Delhi? This was one of the questions before the party when it split sometime back. An answer is yet to emerge.
India's Muslims need to assert their educational and economic upliftment and political empowerment rather than be provoked by communal remarks, says Mohammad Sajjad, reflecting on the Malda riot.
'UP, Maharashtra, AP (including Telangana), Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, MP, Bihar, Karnataka and Kerala.' 'We chose these nine not only as being among the biggest, but also because in these states radical change is possible,' explains Shekhar Gupta.
Relishing mangoes this summer will cost a lot more as prices of the fruit have shot up by 50-65 per cent as supplies have been hit following unseasonal rain.
He said he hoped a day would come when people would move freely across the Line of Control.
The singer keeps Mumbai on its toes till 2 am!
Filmmaker Prakash Jha opens up about his life.
A section within the RSS feels Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani should be projected as the BJP's CM candidate in UP, says Rajeev Sharma.
Under U K Sinha, Sebi became a pan-India organisation with local offices in 16 cities
Many anticipate that by the 2021 assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP may come to power, says Mohammad Sajjad.
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