Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appeared to rule out early Lok Sabha polls, saying "our aim is to go till the very end".She initially tried to steer clear of the question when asked by......
Veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, in his latest book, argues that Pranab Mukherjee should have been made Prime Minister in 2012 instead of Manmohan Singh, who was then recovering from......
The scandal surrounding Lalit Modi serves as a reminder for how similar our mainstream political parties are in resisting institutional reform. Congress workers take out a protest rally......
Aap ka paisa, aap ke haath (direct cash transfer). This is the new slogan with which the Congress hopes to woo back the aam admi, the poor, the marginalised and the weaker sections as the......
'The BJP lacks a credible mass leader who matches Mamata Banerjee's popularity.''Given the division of votes among Opposition parties, the West Bengal government's dole-giving strategy, and the......
The RBI was not party to the decision to demonetize 500 and 1,000-rupee notes, which was taken at the highest level of India's political leadership. A fascinating excerpt from Gokul Rathi's......
The United States India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) claims to represent the political voice of 2.7 million American Indians. USINPAC Chairman Sanjay Puri(below left), in an interview with......
Diesel prices will be deregulated in six months with gradual price increases, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Wednesday. "In six months, diesel sector will be deregulated," he said at the......
Work to go on in 5 of the 50 places identified in 2013; new criteria mooted for viability study The present government has decided to put on hold the previous one’s ambitious plan of......
In an otherwise agriculture- and public health-focused Union Budget 2018-19, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain technology, internet of things -- jargon that found little or no......