The original idea was to replace the existing schemes for scheduled castes and tribes.

Maybe one of the reasons for the party to prefer Gogoi is that he combines administrative and financial acumen that is rare.

The Congress accuses the BJP of engineering defections and trying to dismiss the Congress govt in the state. The BJP says the CM has lost a majority in the assembly and must go for a vote of confidence.

'Despite almost $30 billion of funding since 2001, all the US reaps today is unmitigated hostility of a Pakistan emboldened to flaunt its China card.' 'How can the US give credence to any offers from Pakistan, which has trotted out the standard alibi of non-State actors time and again, including dreaded terror outfits being out of State control, Pakistan itself being a victim and so forth?'

The Congress chief celebrated her 69th birthday like a never-seen-before affair where she engaged with her supporters and was all smiles.

Farmer interest groups predict that unless the government corrects its agricultural pricing and procurement policy, it will face a political blowback.

The BJP senior leadership is putting together a case for Amit Shah's continuance as party president despite the humiliating defeat in the Bihar assembly election.

The BJP senior leadership is putting together a case for the continuance of Amit Shah as party president despite the humiliating defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections, says Aditi Phadnis

Although Suu Kyi has won an overwhelming victory, it is not going to be easy to translate this victory into political gains.

The soul searching on Bihar loss, backlash from party seniors are something the PM has to dwell deep upon.

Prashant Kishor, the man who put together Nitish Kumar's campaign strategy, is yet to decide whether he will make a serious political intervention in Bihar or will continue to be a professional running the Indian Political Action Committee.

Kumar will always be known as the reformer chief minister who brought governance back to Bihar.

Is Nasir Khan Janjua's appointment as Pakistan's national security advisor the first step in suborning the elected civilian government?

The attack on a Dalit family in Faridabad days before the Khattar government's first anniversary suggests that nothing has changed.

Factors such as industrial backwardness, crime, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor educational infrastructure will take a backseat to identity

"Governance, governance, governance," was what Nitish Kumar said were his three priorities when he took the helm of Bihar in 2005.

The election in Bihar will never be the same, reports Aditi Phadnis

This election has some striking resemblances to the landmark one of 1977, with sub-caste combinations and antipathies still the bedrock of measures

Should the party expand to Punjab, Bihar and other places, or should it consolidate its gains in Delhi? This was one of the questions before the party when it split sometime back. An answer is yet to emerge.

'The so-called old guard is uneasy and resentful. These are the makings of a new Congress where there will be little or no role for them. And in their opinion, it is not a Congress that will win elections,' says Aditi Phadnis.