A few days before the BJP’s national executive meeting in Goa, a meeting between BJP president Rajnath Singh and patriarch LK Advani at the latter’s residence in Delhi was quite tense. The moment he sought Advani’s approval for G
The Left may be Mamata Banerjee’s sworn enemy number one but that has not stopped the West Bengal chief minister from taking a lesson from the former’s favourite page: cobbling together a non-Congress, non-BJP third front. So h
There is something exceedingly odd in which the Mamata Banerjee government is handling the impending panchayat elections. Or perhaps the word is “mishandling”, and “impending” means “later rather than sooner”, a
Shortly after we hit our first wedding anniversary, the questions started. First it was family, asking us for the euphemistic ‘good news’. Then, it was ‘just curious’, well-meaning friends: “When are you guys planning
There have been many attempts in the past to write the political obituary of BJP patriarch LK Advani. But, much to the chagrin of political analysts, each time he bounces back. At the age of 85, when he registered his protest by boycotting the Goa
When Swati Prabhu, a research assistant with South Asian Forum for Human Rights, got on a Metro train at Adarsh Nagar around 9.30 am on Tuesday, something extraordinary was taking place 13 stations away at the Central Secretariat station, where sh
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday registered a case under Section 120-B read with 420 of IPC and Section 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act (PC Act, 1988) against then minister of state for coal Dasaro Narayan Rao; Navin J
I have known Vidya Charan Shukla since 1994, when I joined as a trainee reporter with an English News paper in Raipur in my first year of graduation. Since then I have spent many sit-ins, each going on for hours, with him where he spoke about his
(Editor`s note: This article was written a day after Narendra Modi was selected to head the BJP`s poll campaign for the Lok Sabha elections at the national executive meeting in Goa. We replay the article.)
Omar Abdullah has spelt out what has irked many ever since LK Advani’s anti-Narendra Modi verbal spasms began coming out in the open. Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, seemingly the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister’s b
What is it about Narendra Modi that any development related to him is either preceded or followed by a huge controversy? That this is true was acknowledged even by him in an interview with me. He had said, “Whatever Narendra Modi does &ndash
In what could be a big step forward for Shagun Gogia and her mother Madhu Kapur, the Bombay high court has directed Yes Bank Ltd to consider the nomination of Shagun, daughter of late Ashok Kapur, founder-director of the bank who died in the terro
Just as I was about to board the flight from Goa to Delhi, I heard the news of BJP patriarch LK Advani resigning from all posts of the BJP except his primary membership. The wheel seems to have come a full circle for Advani who built the party bri
The top officer of the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), the apex body of public sector enterprises (PSEs) in the country, has sought more functional and operational autonomy to PSEs. In a meeting with chief executives and
Not taken aback by the record low the value of rupee hit against the US dollar on Monday, the government has called it a “temporary phenomenon”. The finance ministry also said there is no need to panic at the fall of rupee. &ld
A day after Narendra Modi was crowned the chief engineer of BJP’s election campaign for 2014, BJP veteran, L K Advani, resigned from the three posts he had held in the party. Although the party refuses to accept the resignation, reactions ar
It appears, courting controversies at the drop of the hat is the best pastime of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams. The cash-rich board governing the functioning of one of the most popular Hindu temples is all set to kick up a new storm with ano
A day after he was overlooked by the BJP and tripped by Narendra Modi for all purposes, BJP’s veteran leader LK Advani resigned from all posts in the party. According to reports, party president Rajnath Singh has refused to accept the resign
A known opponent of Narendra Modi, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s silence on BJP’s elevation of his Gujarat counterpart as head of the national election committee is intriguing. Addressing the media in Patna on Monday afte
In a significant move, speaker of Andhra Pradesh assembly, Nadendla Manohar disqualified 15 MLAs, loyal to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, this evening. Nine of the legislators are from the Congress party while the six others belonged to the Telugu Desam Pa
