Nitish Kumar wins trust vote amid BJP walkout

The newly-formed “Mahagathbandhan” government in Bihar on Wednesday comfortably won the motion of confidence amid a walkout staged by MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party which was......

RSS-affiliated professors planned attack: JNUSU prez

IMAGE: JNU students' union president Aishe Ghosh speaks to media personnel during a press conference in New Delhi, on Monday. Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo Jawaharlal Nehru University......

The Importance of Smriti Irani

Being made a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs makes her an important player in BJP politics, observes Rashme Sehgal. IMAGE: Smriti Irani addresses an election rally in Assam......

Why is Modi telling us to remember something we haven't been allowed to forget?

Have we been allowed to forget Partition?Isn't Partition the reason many Hindus cannot bring themselves to trust Muslims?So many Muslims born after 1947 have told me with anguish: "How long will we......