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
The Delhi police interrogated Raj Kundra, owner of Rajasthan Royals team of IPL on June 5. After 12 hours of interrogation, Kundra stunned everybody, more so the Delhi police, when he said he kind of loved it! Here`s the f
With the increasing complaints of panchayat secretaries turning down the demand for work under MGNREGA, the centre has directed states to start registering the demand through kiosks, telephones, and interactive voice response system (IVRS).
Notwithstanding the extreme summer heat, a large number of people from the northeast living in Delhi took to the streets and spent at least 24 hours at the Malaviya Nagar police station, protesting ‘racial tagging’ after the death of R
On the few occasions that I have had to travel to Gurgaon, transportation is the biggest challenge I faced. Travelling to your destination from the metro station is not a hassle. Every metro station has a fleet of auto rickshaws waiting at the gat
On February 5, in Dhaka, a group of online activists and bloggers assembled to protest against the verdict of the 1971 war crime tribunal. They set up camp in Shahbag, an intersection at the heart of the capital, near the university campus, and st
If Jiah Khan’s suicide has taught us anything, it is the uncertainty of life. But shorn of the philosophical touch, it’s a tale gone horribly wrong for a young aspirant in the Maximum City. While Jiah’s suicide by hanging
When I met Jiah Khan for a film interview segment I hosted as the programming head of Janmat (now Live India), I was rather surprised by the innocence sitting so cheerfully on her face, almost teasing her naughty image. Bubbly, attractive, sult
While the real estate (regulation and development) bill, cleared by the union cabinet on June 4, is a welcome step for home buyers who are perennial victims of builders’ whims, a major section of consumers still awaiting deliverance is exist
The revised draft on National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) once again failed to pass muster with many states. While Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi called it “a poorly conceived idea”, Bihar chief minister said the NCTC suffere
The union goverment may be planning a major reshuffle of governors of states. PMO and Congress insiders say that there could be many new apointees to gubernatorial posts. According to sources, such roles are being planned for party seniors
If S Sreesanth was hurling this, it would have been called a wide delivery; and a wide by a fair margin. Shorn of the cricket parlance, it can be restricted to the phrase ‘losing the plot’ – bit by small bit. That’s Delhi P
The Israeli education minister, Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, has done what I always wanted to do. Piron burst into a laughing fit over the word `penetration` during a speech about smuggling in prisons. Piron was addressing parli
Of late, the medical council of India has been in news for all the wrong reasons. The appointment of the present secretary, RP Meena, an IPS of the Odisha cadre, has created a controversy in the medical fraternity. The Indian medical association h
