Nitish Kumar will be the chief minister only till the time the BJP wishes, points out Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, right, who was sworn in for the 7th time on Monday,......
Given Nitish's track record as an accomplished trapeze artist who can dump the BJP overnight and embrace the RJD, he can leave the saffron party stranded should he fail to get the chief ministerial......
Paswan was a minister under six different prime ministers, hardly out of government since he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977, observes Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE: Ram Vilas Paswan, who......
'In this election, the only thing that is going to matter is which caste aligns with which coalition.' IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi at an......
As the 2019 Lok Sabha election approaches, some rare photographs from the 1996 election campaign, which saw a Bharatiya Janata Party prime minister for the first time in India's history, albeit......
Indian Railways When was the 1st Rail Budget presented?At 11.00 a.m. today (July 6), Union Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav will announce his first Railway Budget. Take the Rediff Business Quiz......
The Union government has reconstituted the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman.The reconstituted CCEA would have ten other ministers including......
It is hard not to feel a little sorry for P Chidambaram. He had to contend with a very odd set of cabinet colleagues during his tenure as finance minister in 1996. This time the colleagues are......
Although former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's name was in circulation on Thursday for the post of finance minister, there were indications that Prime Minister-designate Manmohan Singh might keep......