The expected finally happened at Goa. A short while ago, Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh announced to national media that he has appointed Narendra Modi as the chairman of the party`s campaign committee for the 2014 general election
Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has been facing flak over a recent India-UAE agreement, allowing each other’s airlines to offer 36,670 seats a week, up from 13,300. Critics say this will benefit only Jet Airways because t
Intellectuals have often derided modernity, calling it something that brought in the fragmentation of the strong community structure in the Indian villages and families. However, My Father Baliah by YB Satyanarayana brings out the obvious emancipa
Law has prevailed over claims of ‘unscientific’ ritual – at least in this case in Andhra Pradesh. Despite several hurdles, the Bathini Goud family here started distribution of fish `prasadam` for asthma patients in Hydera
A union minister has begun writing his memoirs, and many in the top political leadership are squirming. The book, expected to be released in August 2014, will have explosive, behind-the-scene details and an insider’s account of some of the r
A few days ago, a friend posted an invite on Facebook. It was an invite from the ministry of information and broadcasting and the directorate of film festivals inviting the public for the 60th national film festival – an event open to the pu
Ever since the beginning of the spot- and match-fixing, and rampant illegal betting in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the ‘stepped aside’ president of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has given two justifications. Fir
For years treated as the rear lane of the national capital’s arterial road network, Vikas Marg is set to get a shot in the arm if a proposed project to free it of clutter fructifies. The idea, a top official of the capital’s pr
"You are either with us or against us.” Thus spake George W Bush, and the BJP`s Goa national executive seems to have become a testing ground for this doctrine pushed by the former US president. As 300-odd members of the executiv
The Congress has been leading the pack of the political whimpering and screaming after the central information commission (CIC) ruled that the six major ones among them come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. It is paradoxical, given the fa
While critics of India’s successive aviation ministers refer to Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan as ‘the Ministry of Jet Airways,’ the first visible casualty of Naresh Goyal’s deal with Etihad of the UAE has come to the fore. Ni
The Bombay high court on Friday declined to grant ad interim relief to Madhu Kapur, widow of Yes Bank founder-promoter Ashok Kapur, on a suit claiming to protect her rights in Yes Bank. She had moved the court ahead of the June 8 annual general me
CBI joint director in-charge of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, VV Lakshmi Narayana, who sent several high-profile political reputations on a tailspin, is on his way out. The top CBI sleuth in the state has been transferred to Maharashtra. T
In an extra-ordinary attempt to curry favour with journalists travelling to Goa on board an Indigo flight to cover the two-day national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Prasad Rudy off
Time was when there used to be two categories of cabinet ministers: those who worked and those who didn’t. With the UPA in its ninth year, there are four categories of them: bitter, angry, disgusted and arrogant. That is how a senior union m
Note: This story was written for the web on June 7, when the Modi-Advani split came out in the open. With the wounds set to emerge deeper this time, we republish the article. ... It&rsqu
Down with an upset stomach, BJP patriarch LK Advani had to make a rare change in his schedule and postpone his departure for Goa on Friday to attend the party’s national executive meet. Sources said Advani was genuinely “feelin
The cloak and dagger game within the Sangh Parivar which saw the unceremonious exit of Nitin Gadkari as BJP president in February is expected to play out the act in Goa’s national executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As the party&r
Madhu Kapoor, widow of Ashok Kapoor, founder-promoter of Yes Bank Ltd, has alleged that Rana Kapoor, the chief executive officer and managing director of the bank who is married to Madhu’s sister, is attempting to deprive her and her childre
Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty, the co-owners of by now pretty much tainted Rajasthan Royals IPL team, are angry. Angry at the media following Kundra who was being interrogated by the Delhi police. Angry at the way news channels are leading the news
