The story appeared before Jayalalithaa got a bail in the disproportionate assets case From a cine star she became one of the most successful but controversial political figures. She never hid her national ambition
Election results are easily open to many inferences that one draws according to one`s own political assessment. The results of the Haryana and Maharashtra polls, which saw continued resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are not an except
Is it guts and glory or plain cowardice? The jury will stay out on this issue for a long time and we may never get a unanimous verdict. But the post retirement ‘kiss and tell’ publishing option in sport has now become the norm. Two boo
After surprising everyone with its debut election for the Maharashtra assembly, the Hyderabad-based Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is eager to spread its wings further. Speaking with Governance Now over phone from Hyderabad, M
Here are some takeaways from the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly election results: * Prime minister Narendra Modi continues to enjoy the kind of popularity we have not seen for decades. The only comparison seems to be Indira Gandhi
This year’s monsoon has been one of the most miserly for Punjab. Despite the late burst in September flooding certain areas, the deficit stands at 48 percent, one of the biggest shortfalls in India. But in the state, fields played host to a
It is celebration time for followers of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party chief Jayalalithaa, as she has been granted interim bail by the supreme court in the illegal assets case. The state capital erupted in
In the good old days, it used to be the pigeon which used to be the carrier of information followed by foot soldiers and then the branch of a tree, which used to be the medium of expressing thoughts, followed by the ink pen and the holder pen (G-n
A major change has taken place in the Pakistani army establishment. Five major generals have been promoted, and the ISI has a new chief. The promotions consequent to impending retirement of four corps commanders and ISI chief Zaheerul Islam gave t
No names are needed here. Recently a top academic who heads one of India’s premier educational institutions recounted an experience that painfully highlighted the yawning gap in the quality and quantity of faculty members and the number of s
In order to cement the top position, budget airline IndiGo on Wednesday placed a purchase order for 250 A320 neos planes from Airbus. The order, worth nearly $ 26 billion, is the largest single order for jets from the European planemaker.
Vinod Rai was the 11th comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India from January 2008 till May 2013. His tenure was ridden with controversies as he coughed up one audit report after another indicting the UPA government of financial irregularitie
Traffic rule violation manifold in Kolkata by Puja Bhattacharjee In 2013, 437 pe
It was early last year when a young entrepreneur and an activist had their eureka moment. Both public policy enthusiasts, Raghav Garg and Supriya Sharma were tossing, debating and ideating on how to make the youth more involved in public policy in
While Haryana voted at a brisk pace, in Maharashtra, it started on a slow note before picking up pace slightly in the latter half of the afternoon. By 3 pm, the state had seen 40-percent polling, which was expected to cross the 55-percent mark by
After two weeks of huffing and puffing, I finally went and watched ‘Haider’. At this, I want to mention that I am a Vishal Bhardwaj fan and yet I found it hard to pull myself together and go watch his much-raved-about film. At the end,
Going by early reports and indications, the going is not exactly going as per plan for the BJP, with slow polling in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai and suburbs, in the first couple of hours and reports of a surge for Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)
India on Tuesday told Pakistan that all bilateral issues, including the contentious one of Jammu and Kashmir, can be resolved only through talks, and that Islamabad’s tactic of taking it to the United Nations would not work. N
For the first time, a four-or five-cornered fight has made tomorrow’s election for the Maharashtra state assembly an extremely interesting one – perhaps the most interesting and unpredictable in recent times. While all p
“Our boys were not Tommies- they were Tariques and Tajinders too.” Referring to this repeatedly quoted comment of junior British foreign office minister Sayeeda Warsi, Raju Suyal, the great grandson of Manorath Suyal, who fought in Fla
