The 2 ways to beat Modi in 2019

According to Yashwant Sinha, a national-level pre-poll alliance of all opposition parties should be formed or a nationwide pre-poll alliance of regional parties should be made to defeat the BJP in......

Rahul Gandhi backs petition to Harvard to drop Sinha from alumni list

Congress president Rahul Gandhi supported a petition against Union minister Jayant Sinha that sought withdrawal of his Harvard alumni status after he felicitated criminals convicted of lynching.......

Time for Congress to reclaim its role as Opposition

To make its voice more credible and impactful, the Congress must articulate its alternative agenda for reforms, economic growth and a more inclusive political discourse that shuns socially......

What BJP must learn from Sinha's criticism

If Sinha's criticism gives credence to the view within the party that its members are afraid to speak up, it can do long-term damage, says A K Bhattacharya.   The decision of senior......

5 things Modi should do to fix economy

When the Indian economy tanked in 1991, it did so because it ran out of foreign exchange. Today, it is tanking because it has run out of rupees even as the foreign exchange granary is overflowing,......

'Growth in last quarter dipped... but economy will recover'

‘Challenges will come but we will stay the course. No big step can be taken if one is afraid of criticism. We will not flinch from criticism,’ says Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. With......

Why pilots are asked to give a year's notice. The 'real' reason

When the move was first thought of it was at the behest of Jet Airways, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Air India. Only Vistara and AirAsia were opposing it as they were doing the poaching, says Anjuli......

How the 'mother of all tax reforms' actually evolved

The story of India’s fledgling indirect tax regime goes back a long way before 2000. In its essence, GST is a national level system of value added taxation of goods and services, says Shankar......

Taapsee does something she's never done before!

Photograph: Kind courtesy Taapsee Pannu /Instagram Aanand L Rai gets ready to make pulp fiction, Bollywood style, in his jasoosi kahaani called Dilurba Haseena, starring......

The ULTIMATE Lata Mangeshkar playlist

Nightingale of India. Greatest Indian Singer ever. Goddess Saraswati incarnate. Hyperbole becomes Lata Mangeshkar. No amount of praise is lavish enough to describe the supremacy of her voice as it......

The Charming Faces of Vidya Sinha

Born into a film family, Vidya Sinha maintained a safe distance from Bollywood's razzle-dazzle. But when a win at the Miss Bombay beauty pageant led to modelling offers, she did not shy......

The Mission Mangal Review

Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma. An apple fell on Newton’s head, Archimedes stepped inside a bathtub and Vidya Balan fries puris to make an important......