CM Soren targets Congress, makes it easy for BJP's 'Operation Lotus'

Given the dismal show of the Congress in the recently concluded assembly polls and the JMM eating into its vote bank, the possibility of Congress MLAs switching sides is not bleak, reports R......

Will 'outsider' Raghubar Das be second-time lucky?

By conventional yardsticks, Das was an audacious choice by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP president Amit Shah, like Devendra Fadnavis was in Maharashtra and Manohar Lal Khattar in......

AJSU as Jharkhand's Shiv Sena, Mahato as Uddhav?

Although the back-fence talk was that the AJSU would return to the BJP if the Jharkhand verdict was inconclusive, the AJSU’s Deosharan Bhagat rejected the hearsay. 'Jharkhand was born out of......

3 activists sent back home from Pune, kept under house arrest

Three of the five noted rights activists held for their alleged links with the Maoists were on Thursday brought back to their homes in Mumbai and Hyderabad from Pune after the Supreme Court ordered......

Aadhaar-based PDS reforms fail the last-mile test

Last-mile verification with Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication have the worst record among other options available to check PDS pilferage. So the Centre’s insistence on that option......

Jharkhand has ambitious plans to woo investors

Many of India’s states are in action mode to improve their profile and create a conducive policy environment for investments. Some have, of course, failed to move with the changing......

The new face of economic team at North Block

Jaitley’s team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats Less than two months before he presents the Union Budget for 2015-16,......

Ganguly refuses to comment on Dhoni omission from BCCI contracts

IMAGE: Mahendra Singh Dhoni at a net practice with Jharkhand’s Ranji cricket team in Ranchi. Photograph: PTI The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly,......

Mushtaq Ali T20: Pandya blitz fires Baroda past Vidarbha

IMAGE: Hardik Pandya celebrates after hitting the winning runs for Baroda. Photograph: BCCI Australia-bound Hardik Pandya enhanced his reputation as a big-hitter by firing eight sixes in an......

Ranji Trophy: Karnataka thrash Mumbai to enter knockout stage

R Vinay Kumar (3/32) and HS Sharath (3/12) shared six wickets between them on the fourth and final day to score a historic 160-run win over defending champions Mumbai in their Ranji Trophy Group A......