Hyderabad is spending a tense day as the state government and the police are battling a spirited opposition led by Telangana Rashtra Samiti in its bid to organise a ‘Chalo Assembly’ rally. Hundreds of leaders and pro-Telangana activist
Police arrested several leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti including 15 MLAs of the party on Friday morning as they were trying to march to the Andhra Pradesh assembly to press the demand for a separate Telangana state. Normal life in
The Osmania University campus in Hyderabad, the hotbed of agitations, turned into a war zone once again following a clash between student protesters and the police today. The refusal of permission by the police for a spontaneous rally by the stude
The rosiness of the India growth story is fading fast. Now, the World Bank joins a series of global institutions pessimistic about it. Its latest estimates eroded 0.4 percent from the one it made in January (6.1 percent) for the current fiscal yea
One of the important decisions left behind by Atal Bihari Vajpayee was replacement of Shashank, the last foreign secretary to serve his government. With a fawning Sonia Gandhi backing him, Manmohan Singh set about interviewing ten of
Acquiescing to the pressure from allies and civil society groups, the government has decided not bring in the ordinance on food security bill for now. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, finance minister P Chidambaram said the government wi
With due respect for those who lost a loved one in Jiah Khan, the actress who tragically committed suicide, and with empathy for their agony and in no way trivialising the trauma, arresting her boyfriend is difficult to warrant. Our
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
